Delaware bandblog

New material in the making!

2006-09-25T22:29:00.000+02:00

No, we`re not dead...
We`re actually working hard as hell with new material.
The Dels are steamin at the moment.

We`re in a really productive mood, and it feels good. We finally feel we have the time to really sit down, listen to what we`re doing and work out the sound and feel we want. Things are changing around us for the better, and that has given us a new glow. We are also very focused on our goal. And by that I don't mean how many records we are going to sell, but where we want to take our music.
Some clues...

natural not perpetual, naked not nude, organic but don't panic,
live with no bribe and last but not least, real.

Mobile pictures from the process

Joffe working his look

Richard working out some licks

The author working his phony smile

The lights are working...

The dels are soon off to germany

2006-04-26T01:27:00.000+02:00

First i have to say that we`re sorry for beeing such lazy bastards when it comes to updating the pages! I wish we had a good excuse,but I`m afraid we dont...Besides too much work,too many kids,too little time,too many damn viruses on my computer, too many beers that needs to be emptied there is no excuse good enough....Anyways,we`re not dead!Far from it!!!
Delaware has never been better! At least we think so...
This saturday we`re playing at the working class hero in drammen.
We`re looking forward to playing a festival again. Festivals are fun.Things like changeovers (Switching the equipment on stage between every band) has do be done in a hurry,theres people everywhere,but still it`s a quite relaxing environment.
But our main focus at the moment, is our trip to germany. We can hardly wait!!Hope to see thousands of fans going crazy in munchen 17. may :D

Cheeers!!

Morty

Make your vote: Annie Lennox or Bon Jovi?

2006-02-22T12:30:00.000+01:00

We have made a little delawaremuzic-poll where we ask some questions that we want an answer to from the users of this website. No names or registration needed, just your answers. Please take a look at the poll here: http://pub15.bravenet.com/vote/vote.php?usernum=1221057569
You'll understand how to do this one, - it's easy.

Looking forward to your answers!

KnB

And the journey continues….

2006-02-21T11:57:00.000+01:00

So, here we are. One week after album release. One week of hard work and a lot of new experiences. We’ve had more attention toward us in 7 days, than in 3 years since our first album was released. Thank you Strange Ways, thank you MTG, thank you Tom, thank you Jörg Hiller/AMV, KB and fans! I guess a band needs publicity to get self esteem and to know their current position in the music jungle. Hopefully all this together will help us to create better music in the future, make us more lucrative toward bookers and make us able to tour as much as we like.
We’ve gotten mostly overwhelming reviews from the press. Both German and Norwegian, even though there have been a few bad. And that’s how it should be. Constructive criticism and praise helps a band to focus and get better at what they do.
VG-lista (Norwegian official music charts), has until now been a place where the successful and the “crème de la crème” of bands are represented. Today we hit 18th place out of 30. Not bad at all, and definitely not expected.
We’ve felt like, as they say in German, “pechvögel” up till now, but I guess we’re allowed to smile these days.

Say cheeeeees everybody!

See you soon

topp 20, tv norge

2006-02-15T22:22:00.000+01:00

Delaware er gjester hos topp 20 på nrk fredag den 17.
Samme dag kan dere se delaware på tv norge interaktiv frokost. Delaware
gjester studio og det blir live klipp fra john dee konserten

Richard

Soon off to Midem, Cannes / France

2006-01-15T01:17:00.000+01:00

Well, soon it's time to gather the pick and pack and hit the road to go to Midem on southern France.
This year of course there's ONE thing in mind, DELAWARE!!!

We have booked several interesting meetings, with festivals, promoters, guys and gals...to tell the amazing story of Delaware...
I'll promise you that a couple of blogs will be posted, maybe also with neat pictures from the convention....and maybe there will be som juicy stories...have a nice week, and keep in mind that there's only a few days to the release of "Lost In The Beauty Of Innocence"...

Tom

...last card from london...

2006-01-11T02:08:00.000+01:00

This was supposed to be aired while in london, but due to lack of non-encrypted connections in the proximity,
the goodbye-card has been delayed...
Here`s a short summary of our trip to london,the capitol of irland.

The crew was working on a tight schedule.
Joffe leading us through a tight alley.
Joffes underwear caught in a tight crack

This hole was too tight to fit my head into...

Scariest guys in east-london...
Evening mood from the roof
So long,or as they say in london "Au revoir"

....freezing hello from london...

2006-01-07T16:38:00.000+01:00

Our first day of shooting has just ended. It`s been a short, but still pretty cold day. Being on a rooftop with only a small thong, is not something I would recommend for shy guys. But a man`s gotta do what a man`s gotta do! The rest of the day will be dedicated to shooting animals. Not for the production of course! That would look pretty silly. Four guys in thongs with an elephant or a dog! There`s a lot of rats here you see. So we`re just gonna have a couple of beers, and then we`re off rat-hunting. The guy on the picture is named petter by the way. I think he play the drums in some band from drammen or something. We really dont care, he`s an asshole.
Cheers!

2006-01-06T17:50:00.000+01:00

The dels are now installed in a crowded couch in the east-end of london.Gathering strength for a long and hard saturday filled with cold, foggy english weather, hustlers and thiefs, beggars and hookers, laughter and beer!
Tonight is planningday, but also joffes 30. anniversary :) No more than three beers though.Early to bed, and early to rise...makes a man and woman, miss out on the nightlife...What??

Happy new year hooters and rods!

2006-01-03T02:04:00.000+01:00

....svuusshhhhh....we`ve just entered the year 2006.It`s sooo exciting... flying cars...groundbreaking technology and stuff...
Anyways...This weekend the dels are going abroad...we hope ;)
We`re shooting a video for our next single,location london.
We`ll probably stay there from friday to tuesday,but the details are
not yet figured out.We`ll probably figure it out friday morning...
I`ll try to keep you posted during the weekend.Bloggs,and maybe some photos.But this is NOT a promise!!I tend to promise more than I can keep.

From that to this: What was your favourite present this year?
Join the forum and tell us what made you cry, hug your smelly granny,
say things like "You should`n have" and made you regret wrapping up
"something-old-you-found-lying-around-in-the-garage"
telling your dad it`s an anitc.Now,do it!

The Delaware Crew Wishes You All A Merry Christmas

2005-12-23T22:16:00.000+01:00

Hi to all of you!
We're taking a few days off with familiy and friends. We'd like to thank you all for the support you've shown us and wishes you all a Merry X-mas and a Happy New Year!
Delware Band / Manager / Web Master

Hello everyone

2005-12-13T13:23:00.000+01:00

Hello everyone

Its been a while since I wrote some words in the blog. Joffe and I have been to Germany on a small promo tour. Packed days with interviews for magazines, radio and a photo shoot. We saw the German wish for single for the first time and the single will be released in end of January. Delaware will do more German radio promo sometime in January. (We will keep you informed) If you are in Norway at the moment, then you can hear wish for on national radio. In Norway wish for is just a radio single and will not
be released for sale. Hopefully we will be able to sell the German single
at our live shows here in Norway this spring.

I Richard will do a live set at café moksha here in Drammen on the 20 of December.
It will not include any Delaware songs, but all the songs in the set are
written by me.
CC is 50kr
Hope to see some familiar faces at the café

And by the way have a nice Christmas

Richard

delawaremuzic.com

Some photos from Egertorget, Oslo

2005-12-04T12:06:00.000+01:00

Here are some photos from the gig for the salvation army at Egertorget in Oslo, 02/12/2005. Bad quality photos, good quality music... According to Dagbladet (the norwegian newspaper who were responsible for the arrangement), there were 400 people watching and they gave 11.000 norwegian kroner total to the salvation army.

photo from the back stage

Delaware & The Salvation Army!

2005-11-23T22:43:00.000+01:00

Delaware will do a concert for The Salvation Army (Norway) at Egertorget in Oslo on Friday the 2nd of December. The second place winner in the Norwegian Idol, Tone Damli Aaberge, will also perform as warm up for Delaware...

Be sure to be there, the concert starts at 4 PM and will of course be one of the most important things you'll attend and support before X-mas...

For more bands during November and December on Egertorget as Street Musicians, see:
http://oslopuls.no/musikk/article1163208.ece

See you all there
Tom

Stills, sounds and videos from delaware's TV and radio performances

2005-11-11T19:11:00.000+01:00

Here are some stills from delaware's performance at NRK TV "Topp 20" on friday 11/11-2005. What a great performance! The band played two songs live, "Wish for" and "The Fourteenth" + did an interview about the past, the future and Kebab in Drammen... There are video and soundfiles from the events in the soundsection!
- Knut B/webmaster

VOTE NOW!!

2005-11-02T09:51:00.000+01:00

If you follow this link ( http://www.bylarm.no/mp3catalog.php ) and do your dutie as a citizen of the world (vote), you can get //delaware to play the BY:LARM festival in Tromsø 2006.
Don't hesitate! You don't want the Mumbo Jumbo's, the Pitbull's (from Mjøndalen) or the behindsniffer's (from ytre Arna) to play instead of //delaware, would you? Go ahead, vote now and Mr. Respect and Mrs. Gratitude is inviting you to their tea-party!!

union gig

2005-10-31T20:43:00.000+01:00

I would just like to thank all of you hwo was at the union-concert..
Hopefully you had a great evening.
See you for a even moore hardcoregig next time.

Petter'n

Look at our new dancer!

2005-10-31T09:39:00.000+01:00

Delaware has got a new dancer for their future live-shows. I think this dancer has to do some singing and playing too... Have a look at this video Morty shot with his mobilephone on thursday's preprod at Union...
Discodancing!

Download the zip-file, open it and I guess you can view it with Realplayer or Apple Quicktime-player.

Photos from Union Scene 28/10-05

2005-10-29T14:44:00.000+02:00

Ronny Selnes has posted some of his great mobilephone-photos from the Delaware-gig at Union Scene yesterday on this website. Here are two of them:

Thanks for sharing these with us, Ronny!

Tired bartender needs customers...

2005-10-25T02:55:00.000+02:00

Another boring day, quiet, I think they say.

Dustbusting sucks, I`ll leave that to the waitress.
She`s happy to fight the filth.
It brings her good luck...she says...
I think...
Empty glasses,no hot asses.
C`mon, I thought it was beer to the masses!
A rubber chicken with no chicks,
Is like jimi hendrix with no hot licks.
Or a crazy guy with no ticks...
If you know what I mean. Sure you do.

Customers is what this bar lack.
I think I`ll treat myself with yet another jack...

Yo!

2005-10-23T18:19:00.000+02:00

Howdy folks! Wazza?

Mvh
Best Regards
Viele Grüsse

Jon Fredrik "Joffe" Torgersen

www.delawaremuzic.com

Some photos from Germany / popkomm

2005-10-18T10:45:00.000+02:00

(This message is from the webmaster)
Petter sent me some photos after the popkomm gig, but I have forgot to publish them on the site. Here they are...

Morty getting aggressive from waiting at the airport.
Richard is used to the aggression and doesn't seem to care...

Joffe tries to act like the popstar he is in Berlin. On the left, you see the shoulder of his bodyguard.

Morty, still waiting. He seems to have calmed down a bit, but that look does not seem friendly...
Come on. let's run!!!!

Webmaster speaking

2005-10-18T08:41:00.000+02:00

This is your webmaster speaking. Please fasten your seatbelts, because I bet we're off for a rough ride when we're giving this blog over to the bandmembers' control... This will be the norwegian band Delaware's bandblog, where the bandmembers will publish their thoughts and ideas. All about everything, I guess, but mostly about the inner life of the band. I have moved all posts from the old blog over here, but there were too many comments on the blogs, so my patience did not allow me to move them. I've added some nice photos to Petter's blog about the bands preprod before their gig at PopKomm in Berlin...
Enjoy!

Heisann Sveisann

2005-10-09T20:33:00.000+02:00

Yo..
I would like to thank you all for great replies to the lost in competition.
It was really hard to pick the winners, cause You did all really impress us.. Great stuff.
Today it’s sunday, and it’s raining in Drammen. Cold and grey... Brrrr... freeeeezing.
Hope to see some of you on the union-gig. I’ll promisse you a really great night in drammen rock city.
Right now me and kasper are going watch shrek 2 for the 100000th time. He he. Really cool movie.
See you soon.

- Petter

Hello everyone

2005-09-20T15:18:00.000+02:00

Hello everyone

On our way to Berlin we did nearly miss our flight, due to some problems with our tickets. We delayed our flight for 30 minutes and the people on board were kind of angry at us. We did a few interviews, played a show, had a few beers, and had a few hours of sleep. Our flight back home was delayed but anything else went as planned. Thanks to everyone who came to our show .Hope to see you all in the near future.

Richard