Johan Bergqvist Thoughts; scattered and collected

The Christmas season is drawing near. It’s been a weird autumn by Swedish measures, with spring-like weather and no snow anywhere – not even in the far north. It’s starting to get chillier now, but by this time everybody’s usually wearing long johns and knitted scarves to keep the cold out. I try to

I see that once again over a month has passed between blog posts… 40 days to be precise. I’ll get you up to speed soon, but now I just want to make a quick announcement. Hong Faux‘s full length debut entitled The Crown that Wears the Head was mastered yesterday by Magnus Lindberg from Cult [...]

Last week I went to the Rockbjörnen Awards ceremony (one of the bigger Swedish music awards) at the theme park Gröna Lund in Stockholm together with Karl Martindahl. It was great fun and I met some pretty interesting people, and saw some really drunk celebrities at the after party where Electric Boy

This weekend was spent in Turku, Finland with The Genuine Fakes. We got invited by a powerpop club called Flavor of the Month (named after the Posies song) and took the ferry across the Baltic Sea. It was our first gig outside of Sweden and to our surprise it was one of the best gigs [...]

So, vacation’s over. After a few weeks in the countryside it feels good to be back in the game. This week I’ve been busy in the home studio working on new songs together with Karl Martindahl. It’s been extremely productive and I’m very happy with the result. They’re pre-production demos but I feel t

After much consideration I decided NOT to move over to Mac after all. I feel so familiar in the PC environment that I don’t really see the point of making the switch – regardless of what most of my friends and colleagues have to say about it. So, I settled on the Sony VAIO VPC [...]

Today I went to a moose farm outside of Åre called Millestgården. It was an extraordinary experience and I want to recommend everyone who’s passing through Åre on skiing holiday or whatever to go there. Though Sweden’s famous for the big moose population (around 350 000 in the summer before the hunt