Jack Rocks is a competition for rock bands. As usual we truly rawked but powerpop and rock are two quite different genres so we did not really stand a chance in the competition against the other rock bands. The worthy winners were instead the Mando Diao-inspired rock band The Fast Forwards >> and their act was genuinely cool.

The event was really nice and we met loads of nice people so hopefully we gained a few fans anyway.

Thanks to Jack Daniels for the support and excellent arrangements.

It was nice to see some old faces and some new ones at the Jack Rocks finals yesterday. We had a blast and did a very short, intense and energetic set before we sat down in the green room and sipped on our beers and chatted with fellow musicians and new fans. These cruises are a very, very strange phenomenon - it’s not like playing at just any other club, ’cause most of the people there are absolutely and completely hammered. For any non-Swedish people that are interested in anthropological studies - take a ferry cruise!

Anyhow, the event was really great and it was a good start to the new year as well as a little warm-up show for tomorrow’s big event up in Umeå. See you there!

// Joey

Tickets for the Jack Rocks final on Jan 29 are selling out fast, so if you want to get one - get it now.

Tickets are available at: www.vikingline.se

Facebook event link: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=91239180462

// Joey F.

First of all - a huge thanks to all of you who has gone to Rockbjörnens MySpace-pris and nominated us. We really appreciate it. And if you haven’t done it yet, it’ll only take up a minute of your time.

Now on to the next thing. Last night we played in Karlstad in the Jack Rocks competition hosted by Jack Daniel’s. Johnny was unable to play with us so we rearranged a few of the songs with Tommy playing percussion instead of keyboards and managed to pull through quite alright despite the circumstances. Quite unexpectedly we won this round and qualified to the finals in January. So book a cruise at Viking Cinderella on 29 January and join the party!

// Joey