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Rock out with your sock out

We played in Stockholm, friday. It was great! The crowd was positive and friendly and we had a really nice time up on stage and none of us in the band was disappointed afterwards. There is usually at least one who doesn’t get the feeling during the show. But not tonight, as Peder Stenberg sings. We feel confident and we’ll probably perform even better in Malmö on saturday.

Om musikaktiviteter

Snart ska vi repa in livebandet för första gången. Jag är aspeppad. Så här rankar jag musikaktiviteter i rolighetsordning.

1, Skriva låt.
2, Spela in låt.
3, Repa låt.
4, Soundchecka låt.
5, Spela låt inför publik (”live”).

Så allt blir bara tråkigare med andra ord. Rätt ovärt för mig att släppa skivor kan det tyckas. Men jag har ju inte med ryggdunk på listan, det lägger jag längst upp så klart.

The game of the name

One of the most common questions we get about this new music project concerns the name. “Why do you choose a swedish name for the band when the lyrics are in english?” people ask us. Our reply could be “Why not?” and then we could start waving our hands in front of them shouting “The air is free”. But we don’t because we’re polite. One of us in the band was recently on vacation in Italy and saw the word “municipale” everywhere. He liked it and suggested it as a band name. It was, though, a bit too long and complicated and we don’t really have any connection to Italy at all. We translated it into english, “commune” (hardly a perfect translation, but still). It didn’t do it for us since it doesn’t spell out good on paper, estheticly. See for yourself:

COMMUNE
KOMMUN

The letter “K” is so much more beautiful than “C”, don’t you agree? And the “E” is redundant and makes the number of letters uneven. So we chose the swedish version in the end.

Releaseparty

This friday, 20/11, at Debaser Slussen, Stockholm. With legendary Harvey Williams from every Sarah/Shinkansen band as support (!).

Welcome to Kommun!

Hope you like our homepage, we surely do. Here we’ll post all the news about Kommun and our adventures in the world. For example, we have a new gig. On december 5th we’re playing at Skylten in Linköping. The gig section is not updated yet, though.

Have a good weekend. And no gangs, as Mattias Alkberg wisely says.

//Kommun

Webpage coming soon…

Hold on, we’re buliding the home of swedish band KOMMUN…

Coming early November 09

Death of a CEO

No earthly law
holds you down
No paragraphs for parasites
No punishment for your crime

No moral claim
No cry for help
couldn’t make you feel ashamed
You’ve lost it with your decency

But your heart might stop
it couldn’t bear to hold you up
and all the sorrows that you brought
So it´s over, it´s over
You’re gone
and it might have been the touch of god
We might have heard the angels sing
or just laughter from the poor
and unemployed

Take as much as you can
No one will blame you
It´s not theft if you´re already rich

Your death doesn’t pay your debt and not mine
Your death doesn’t pay your debt and not mine
But I don´t care about that right now