Quick news: video!

The other day me and drummer-man Petter had coffee + made plans for a releaseparty of "Old Dirty Hound". 

As we stepped out in the sunlight again we decided to find an abandoned street and some sidewalk-chalks...and we did find it! See the result here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA2MARXncdM

 

 

More shows will be added to the tour sched. this week (ie. june: Fusion Festival in Berlin / july: Releaseparty Helsingborg, SE...) - keep an eye open.

 

Don't forget your sunlight-time, folks..

*H

 

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moving pictures of the tour

The last part of the tour was great!
see for yourself here:




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbE-CDMfwX8

Thanks to all you wonderful people that we met.
You were brilliant.

❤Helena


What's next?

You can now pre-order the EP online!
For Europe: click the paypal button on the myspace
For US/Can: click the CDbaby button on the myspace

The digital release of "Old Dirty Hound" - April 1st!

The Tour : Part 1

Day 1
Hamburg

We arrived in the afternoon, to the Deutche-Pop to pick up 900 copies of the brand new EP!! Very very exiting
The PonyBar show was very nice, a good little spot there. And so good to meet the whole Hamburg-family again...Michael, Nils....
And we also did the BalconyTV shoot, on a tiny balcony right over reeperbahn...you can see it on balconytv.de around the 25h of march!

Day2
Hamburg

A day off.
After seeing the city centre we tried to take the underground home....we got lost and got to see all sorts of parts of the city.
Back "home" it was time to get Gustav and Olof a haircut in the kitchen, Spotifying and drinking Beck's. Later we went to Astra Stube (where we've played a few times before) and saw the band we were sharing the apartment with that night - The Skeletons from NYC. Really cool!
check them out here: www.myspace.com/theskeletons
After that, whisky and discussions about life, pretentious?

Day3
Hannover

Leaving Hamburg in a hurry, and no time for good-byes....but I do hate good-byes..
Hannover, a new city, a new venue, new great people to meet.
Bronco's is a really cool little bar, and the owner Mike is so sweet. Hope to be back soon.
Right before the show someone was patting me on my back...I turned around and there was..Nando from Bremen!! He'd come by train to watch the show and surprise us - An unexpected and happy surprise!
The show was awesome, even better as we went up again late late at night and did a few more songs on demand :)

Day4
Bremen

Always such a good feeling to walk into Eisen.
And this time we knew we had the next day off too.
After a longs fun concert Olof ended it all by walking up on stage to give a little speech about the new EP. He's a very sweet guy, and a true bassplayerperson.....

Day5
Bremen

Waking up in Nando's caste-like new apartment, with a beautiful breakfast on the table...
Nando went to have cake with his sister who had her birthday while we were jamming in his kitchen. Great acoustics in there!
Then off to Eisen to see the St Pauli/Rostock game. One Happy Nando as Pauli won!
We had a fun night out with Nando and Basti and the rest of the neighbourhood crew: mojitos and kuemmerling at the place we used to have breakfast at (they don't serve that anymore) and back to eisen for a while to try the 15-year old rum from Cuba and then end the night at the nightclub next door before having one last veggie hotdog..


Enjoy the new song: "Misery" also from the new EP "Old Dirty Hound"!
❤Helena

finally..!!

I DO have news that makes me happy....

• My EP "Old Dirty Hound" is now all done!

1. Fragile Me, Fragile you
2. Misery
3. Soothing Escapades
4. Bow Low
5. Pink Bubbles
6. You Could Much Rather Push Than Pull

Thank you for giving me the inspiration and support!

Produced by HelenaArlock and GustavHaggrenRecorded in ARTin Studios, Helsingborg, Sweden by GustavHaggren and MartinPerssonMixed and mastered by GustavHaggrenAll songs written by HelenaArlock© HelenaArlock / RedOlivePublishing 2009Cover by HelenaArlock | Photo by Gustav Haggren

• The EP will be released

in Sweden in April - on the new label RedOlive.I am very proud to announce this!

• More shows added to the Germany Tour:

Mar 2 Balcony TV Hamburg
Mar 2 PonyBar Hamburg
Mar 4 Bronco’s Hannover
Mar 5 Eisen Bremen
Mar 7 Cafe Del Sol Bad Salzuflen
Mar 9 Kulturrampe Krefeld
Mar 11 Objekt5 Halle
Mar 14 Subrosa Dortmund

• A film maker will join the tour and make a documentary

David Giese, born outside of Leipzig, Germany and now living in Sweden is studying to be a documentary filmmaker and will be travelling with us to make a 1 hour long movie.

• Ideas are in motion for a music video

One of the film makers I've been in contact with regarding the documentary couldn't join the tour this time, but we decided to work together to make a music video instead. Keep you eyes open, I hope it will be ready in time for the swedish release.


Until next time,

*HelenaArlock

New song up #2

#2 is now up

Soothing Escapades

Recorded in ARTin Studios, Helsingborg Sweden & Helena's appartement a late night
by
Gustav Haggren and Helena Arlock.
2008

Helena Arlock: vocals, nord lead, cello
Petter Bengtsson: drums
Gustav Haggren: bass
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We are rehearsing to do a show in Malmö at the 30th of Jan - Emergenza @ Bodoni, Bergsgatan, Malmö, SE
Or actually not quite this week that has passed - Drummer Petter Ericsson has been in France skeeing, and I'm not jealous at all...... - so these upcoming days it's going to be a bit more hectic.
Nevertheless it's been a productive week. A few more dates for the Germany Tour in March are settled:

3.02.09 BalconyTV - Hamburg
3.02.09 PonyBar - Hamburg
3.04.09 Bronco’s - Hannover
3.05.09 Eisen - Bremen
3.07.09 Cafe Del Sol - Bad Salzuflen
3.09.09 Kulturrampe - Krefeld
3.11.09 Objekt5 - Halle

I need to lay down and rest and try to get my cold to go away - hope you like the new song.
There will be more....

*H

new song - fragile me, fragile you

So here it is, the first song from the upcoming EP.

Fragile Me, Fragile You

Recorded in
ARTin Studios, Helsingborg Sweden & Helena's appartement a late night
by
Helena Arlock and Gustav Haggren.
2008

Helena Arlock: vocals, nord lead, cello, organ
Petter Bengtsson: drums
Gustav Haggren: bass, e-bow
Pancace Adolfsson: vocals

Keep your eyes and ears open - more songs will show up.. *H




















Helena & Pancake | Gustav

frosty grass and bonfires

A new year.. and it always leaves you empty, waiting to be filled with it's adventures

i spent the new years celebration in a cabin in the woods, we gathered around a bonfire outside, listening to the sound of fireworks far away and telling stories. Nice to run away like that.


The new year feels promising. I can't wait to get my EP fully done (very close now) - to go on tour again - to try out my new songs with the band...

The pictures are from the last show of 2008 in Malmö, Sweden.

You can see more of them at helenaarlock.com

All the best to you all for the year, and I hope we'll meet. Lots of love

*Helena