I am very frustrated right now. My Cubase doesn´t work.  Cubase is the music program where I record all my songs. I have a job that I really need to do so I hope it will be fixed soon. I am not tecnical at all so I´m glad to have a tecnical brother. 🙂
I´ve got some new performances coming up. Some of theese jobs comes from a booking agency and some I got from contacts. They are not public, but for specially invited guests.
This Friday I had a nice meeting with Christoofer Lindberg, he works at Kotte Management. (They have artists like Eldkvarn, Micke Rickfors and tommy Nilsson) He takes care of artists, their jobs and performances and helps them to get things right and he also work with their image.
So since he was in Stockholm we met in town. We talked about the music business and what is happening right now in the music world. It´s so interesting to here him speak about his work. He seem to do a fantastic job with theese artists! That was a good meeting and we will see what happens next in the music world….
Soon I will go to sleep cause tomorrow is another day of practice. Good night you night owls! 🙂

One day you are happy – the other day your sad
one day a place you called your home – tomorrow is another home
one day you have a friend – the other day the friendship is no more
one day you are here – the other day you are gone.
Life goes through so many shades. It´s like our intire life consists of small different lifes.
That is what my new song is about.. I wrote it yesterday. Tomorrow there will be another song in another little shade of my life….

My performance this Wednesday was fine. Sofia Ullman Band played my own songs. It´s nice to perform with my brothers cause we know eachother so well that we have really fun on the stage. We make jokes out of everything. 🙂 The audience liked it too. I must say that the sound was surpricingly good, the Sound Master did a good job. I might put something out here and on You Tube, because we had a camera there. Right now I´m having a little brake a few days after all work with the music and then I have more great plans.
Watch out for pictures from my upcoming music video. I will put some pics here as soon as possible…

Sofia Ullman Band at Southside

Sofia Ullman Band is playing at Southside Pub at Wednesday 7 Marsch. (tomorrow). The adress is Hornsgatan 104 in Stockholm. We start at 21 o clock..
We will play my latest songs, pop with an r´n´b touch.
My brothers are in the band. Tim Ullman – guitar/song, Nic Ullman-Bass/song and Philip Ölund plays the drums and sings. I will play the piano and sing.
I hope to see you there. 🙂

The making of my new musicvideo took place in Linköping. We started to film at a cemetery. We had a CD-player and we put the song on repeat and played it loud so I could get the groove while I was dancing. I dance around and jumped up and down beetween some big stones. Beside the cemetery was a monastery where people go to relax and get away from the stress and loud Environment. We didn´t know that and in a second we heard an angry nun standing at the entrence scolding at us. We could not stay there but before leaving we had to get a good take. Then we walked 100 meter away and filmed by the Sea for awhile.
The sun was on it´s way down so we left the Sea to go to a Hospital.
At the Hospital we went down to the floor to film at a culvert. We had quite fun there filming me writing notes and throw them down from the highest ground and down to the floor.
The place was quite dusty and dirty. We found a garbage can with wheels on and I got into it, went down sitting in it and when it stopped I jumped up of it and started to dance.
I hope this scene will be part of the video, cause it was really fun.
Then I danced on the floor and finally I run and danced in a tunnel with strong lights before going home.

The next day we went to Norrköping. I started to dance an a small bridge, while people stared and was curious what we where doing. It was really cold so between the takes I had to get some clothes on to survive… 🙂 We walked by the water and continued the filming. I had so much adrenalin that I started to jump up on things. We ended the shots on a really sunny bridge and I played and danced by a cool  window.
We walked to some cliffs and took some pics and then I sang the song to the CD-player to get some closeups.
The last place we went to was a street in the centre of Norrköping. People were walking up and down on the streets and it started to get really cold. We filmed at one of the a streets and as I started to dance there was an Alcoholic that got really amused by the music and started to dance with me. He was really good at it, I wish all the other terrified people that stared could have joined. We had so fun! Then I continued and I got some people to get involved in the video as I walked by.
The adrenalin and excitement of recording this made me not feel the coldness outside so much but afterwards my lips were blue and we were done.
I love to be in  front of the camera, it just feels great.
Now I´m back home again.
The video will be edited and then you can see it here at the ”music” page.

For everyone who wants to here my latest songs: On Wednesday Sofia Ullman Band performes at Sothside Pub in Zinkennsdamm, Hornsgatan 104.
This time my brothers are joining me on the stage and also a friend. I will play the piano and sing.
We´re getting on at 21. You are so welcome! 🙂

This Saturday was the Swedish Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö. The Event Agency ”Initiativ” called me to ask if I could play at an after party for this event. so I did. They got my number through the Artist booker Claes at ”Call you net”. He is booking artists worldwide.
The airplane was cancelled for some reason so I had to take the train. I arrived around three in Malmö and after checking in at a hotel I went to the place where the event would take place, Hillton Hotel.
I did some soundcheck and preparations before the gig. There was a mic and a digital piano and beside the digital piano was a real piano that really tempted me. But I took the digital one to make sure the sound would be loud and clear with the amplifier. The guests arrived around ten and I started to play. For about 2 hours I played Eurovision Songs, pop, my own songs, ballades and others. It´s really important to save my voice when I do this kind of performances. I had sang all the week for several hours so today I didn´t sing at all before this gig.
Afterwords I felt satisfied with it and went back to my hotel.
After another cancelled plane I took the plane home Yesterday morning and now I´m at home and I got some good words from the Event Agency that hired me so it feels great.
Soon I will go to rehearsal with my band for a gig next week. Then we will play my own songs, it will be so fun!
This weekend I´m going away to record another video. Will tell you more about it later…. 🙂

After a few weeks of practising, planning, dancing and auditions I had to follow a dream I have had for awhile. One of the greatest guitarists I know has played with Abba, Electric Banana Band, Ted Gärdestad and others. I love the way he plays: He puts a lot of feeling into the strings and out comes the greatest sound of passionated tunes, often improvised. Without minding wich key to play in, cause he can play almost everything in any key. The way he composes his music is like fine art cause he uses the different chords in his very own way and often I can´t know which way the tunes will end up.

His name is Janne Schaffer.

My friend Martin knows him since he met him some years ago to follow his musical career. so Martin called and asked if we could see him and a few days later we sat on a café and listened to the stories of his touring-life. It was an adventure to hear about and at the end Janne and I gave eachother our records. I told him that I really would love to play with him. Some days later he called me and said that he liked my songs and wanted to have a ”jam” with me.

It was a great thing for me that I would get play with such a great musical model! Some days after calling me he was here in my apartment. He brought a really really big guitar amplifier and a lot of pedals. I couldn’t even lift the amplifier!  We brought all the heavy stuff from the taxi to the apartement and started to unpack it. (He had some flight patches on it becuase he flew the day before). And then we started to play. He could play anything in any key and it just felt great!

I asked if he wanted scores for the songs and he said that he likes to use his ear and just improvise it. And he did it great! we played some of my songs and some Ted Gärdestad and I had some favourites  from his record that we played. And all the time he kept impovising with a great feeling in every tune! Then (during the dinner) we listened to his latest record containing songs he composed for a film with Lasse Åberg that will come out on Christmas day. The cd contained other songs too from other films. Most of the songs composed by him but some weren’t and I could tell which of them that he had done.

Then we ended the evening and we carried away all the heavy stuff back to the taxi. It was a great night!
One of the best songs that he plays (accoring to my opinion) is ””Brusa högre lilla å” : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5_DmWPiyR8

Mum´s wedding was like a fairytale! Everybody thought that it was like a musical because my whole family sang. I sang, played the piano, and the cross flute. My brother´s sang too and played the guitar. And the bride and groom sang their vowes with their own lyrics. Afterwards we had a dinner where we continued the singing and dancing. A really great night! I am quite exhausted now. To sing at my mums wedding was the greatest thing I´ve ever done (now I can do whatever without being nervous :-). A lot of kind people came afterwords and said really kind things about it and that was really nice. Now I´m looking forward to some fun projects with the music. And like always I´m not gonna tell about anything before it happens. 🙂

On Saturday my mum will get married. It will be a wedding full of music of course since both me and my brothers are musicians. tonight we practised piano, bas, guitar, singing and parts. My mum and her coming husband will also sing so we help them with their parts too. It´s just like in the movies when the big families sing toghether. 🙂
It´s so strange that I feel quite nervous bout this (thinking of all teh performances I´ve done before) but I guess it´s because it´s my own mums wedding. I composed two of the songs and one of them is in Swedish. That´s unusual cause I almost always write lyrics in english. But I´m really looking forward to it. Wish me luck! 🙂