Today, we celebrate “midsummer” in Sweden, which means that everyone will be partying, singing and dancing around a midsummer pole, eating traditional food, and getting way too drunk.

Glad midsommar!

I really need to get my sleeping abilities back. Today, I was half dead until noon, so it took a good while until I could really start working. I think it went pretty well after that though!
My plan is to finish Track 1 and Track 3 before the end of the week, and I did almost all the vocals today. But there are surely a few semi-bad things here and there that I will have to redo later. I’m sending the tracks to a friend or two to hear if there are any lines they think I could do better! (That can be a difficult thing when doing everything on my own; I’m the only person here, so I have to rely completely on my own judgment. And then change details later, if people complain!)

Oh, and my Killer Queen cover is actually up on iTunes now! So, feel free to support me by buying it from there. :)
(The current deal I have is only for iTunes, sorry about that, non-iTunes users. My album will surely be available on more services than that, like Amazon MP3, Spotify etc. And at the moment it looks like I will release the physical CDs through cdbaby.com, because no label has shown much interest so far. That’s not a disaster though, I’ll get more per sold CD this way, and I’ll be in full control of everything. I’ll just have to find the consumers by myself!)

Here’s something interesting, I thought! A few nights ago, I decided to film the sky at night time. Not really sure why, but later, I learned that it was the very night of the Summer solstice! Which means that it was the time of the year when the night is the very shortest. What a coincidence.

Up here in Gävle, Sweden, it means that it basically doesn’t get dark at all. I don’t have a very good camera, but even with the one I have, you can clearly see how light it is outside. So here’s the video I made:

And well, we usually have pretty good window blinds/curtains here, so it’s not that big of a problem when trying to sleep. It got pretty darn hot in my apartment this morning though, when the sun was beaming at my windows at 5:00am… (Yeah, I went up for a little stroll around my apartment at that time.)

Since it’s free shipping from my shop today (if you add the coupon code T-DAY2011 at the checkout), I got one too! :D (I don’t make these myself; I think they’re sent from a factory in Germany, but it’s cheaper for me since it’s my design!)
I’m thinking about using it in a future video, to show people how cool it is, haha.

Oh, and the drummer has contacted me again, so now we’re on track again! :) All is well in FreddeGredde land!

Oh, so apparently it’s the International T-Shirt Day Tomorrow. So the European shop will also have free shipping if you add the coupon code T-DAY2011 tomorrow.

And a small update about how things are going, regarding the album:

Today, I’ve been polishing and finishing everything on Track 5, so now I’m 100% finished with that one. I’m just waiting for the drummer (who’s been updating me quite slowly the last week) to send me his drum tracks for the song, and after that I’m sending it all to the sound engineer who’s helping me with mixing.

So far, I’ve completely finished Track 5, Track 6, Track 7, Track 8, Track 9, Track 10, Track 11 and Track 12. And tomorrow, I’m going to finish the album opener! So, it’s going pretty well for me, overall.

The question is what the drummer is doing. =/ Almost getting worried here.