Temple Of Lola

Hey hey my my, rock ´n roll can never die, sitting here listening to Pearl Jam playing at Saturday Night Live show 1994, and they are so foooocking good. I am really looking forward to their new album and tour.

Thank you John for a lovely birthdayparty this saturday...I got drunk, and Viktor - satisfied with the dainty sandwiches? - "Sir i Ate Alot" ;)

Congrats also to Mr Ed Greene for your new video, i really like it etc etc..

Soon our new shit is out there, i think is pretty good.
 
/ Tom

Ps. We are having a show 25/3 at Kulturhuset along with Rövsvett, it would be lovely if you could be there.

One more PS. This is the band that Finland is sending to Athens in the Eurovision song contest. I think the
world is beginning to be a better place. Check them out - http://www.lordi.org/

Me and Tom just finished laying vocals on one of the new tracks, we recorded in my closet and I do mean that litterally. 
Sounds fucking awesome!
Only problem was that we had to construct a micstand by ourselves ´cause we forgot the other one in the studio. We made one using no more, no less than: a lamp, a baseballbat, a "raggsocka" and a shitload of ducttape. Yes, we will post pictures. I never thought my own closet could sound so much like a studio, but it did.....

See ya!

John

Happy New Year!
On the behalf of all the band members we wish you all the best. May the next year be the best one yet. 
Hopefully we´ll see you at the next gig!

John 

Well, x-mas is here, the end of the year is close!

Hello!

Sitting here drinkin´a nice Laphroaig Quarter Cask all by myself.  Life is good. Just got off work about an hour ago. Gettin ready to go see our good friends The Backbeats play at Waffis.
Check ´em out if you get a chance!
We´ve been recording for the last 2 weeks. The song is called O.W.B and it´s quickly becoming a favourite of mine. It´s a driving, pummeling rock song with loads of slide and some of marcus´most energtic drumming. I fucking love it!
Now it´s time to blast Hendrix ´til the neighbours go crazy...

See ya!

John

Yo yo yo...

I´m back from my visit to London an my dear friends Björn and Brenge.
I had a truly great time...Didn´t do nothin special, just hung around with the friends.
Yeah, something special did we actually do, enjoyed a musical called "Dancing In the Streets", it was a celebration of the Motown record company. All the singers were black, the band too... They sure know their stuff if i put it that way... Songs of Marvin Gay, Stevie Wonder and many more.

We also watched England-Argentina in Björns sisters boyfriends apartment, lots of beer of course, and a peak at Owens 3-2 goal...
Lots of beer in general though...

That´s  it for me, heard that The Black Crowes were to play in London, any economical contributions to help our trip are more than welcome.

Now were up to recording. For real this time. With our own stuff, and in total (almost) control of everything. It will be great to put some time in it to make it sound just as we want it so sound. With a little help from our friends of course... Sounden and Ivan...

And i almost forgot! Go watch Ivan and Chris band tomorrow (Thursday), they will rock the shit out of Högskolan in JönneJönköping.

Holy shit!

Last nights show at Almenäs källare was, how should I put this?, Energetic? Crazy? Intense?
I´ll have to go with all of the above.
Thanks to all who made it a special thing! 
Can´t really say I remember anything about the gig except that I got electrocuted after 3 songs. My right arm still feels funny but at least I got my sense of touch back now. Still couldn´t feel two of my fingers this morning. This show was probably the most fun I´ve had on stage ever! Everything went wrong and people were going nuts! That´s Rock and Roll for ya!
Next time we come, you better watch out!

...and the circus leaves town....

John
 

Hello!
What a day!
I woke up today and everything was different.
J- Södra is now playing in Superettan! Still have a hangover from last nights celebration. Still have a hard time grasping the fact. Were really close to tears after the game yesterday, one year of wishing and hoping came to an end yesterday. Many people sharing the same dream got their wish. Simply beautiful. It´s a new day, a new city, a better city. 

DVD Coming soon!
Yes we will be releasing a DVD soon. The show at Gårdsbandsfestivalen was taped and were planning on taping this weekends upcoming gig too. Make something nice out of it along with some bonusmaterial and sell it to you guys cheap as hell.

Snow is falling outside my window.
I guess that dreadful time of year is here: Winter. On one hand I really hate this time a year, on the other I really like it cause it gives you a perfectly good excuse for staying in, playing guitar and making new music and recording.
We plan on finishing the coming demo ourselves since our good friend Johan Sandén moved his studio to Stockholm. We still hope to continue working with Johan but he has a really tight schedule and we´re an impatient bunch and are gonna try to do it ourselves. 

Gig in Nässjö!
Yes! This Saturday we´re gonna rock Almenäs källare in Nässjö. Anybody that wants to come along is more than welcome. Just drop us a line in the templemail and we´ll see what we can do.

See ya!

John

Well well, the weekend is over, and damn - what happend? It keeps flashing in my head, spinning round and round , depression over the early morning,work etc etc etc - and despite the sequences of drinking the famous "dunka" I and i think whole Lola are very happy and satisfied with the past weekend! The gig went well, we were little bit insecure about how it had developed but after seeing the recording of the gig we thought, cool...it looked as we had fun wich we had! Everything went as planned apart from my singing on the last song, it was totally wrong all the way, sounded like real crap, but then again, what the fuck..keep on rocking, its a free world!

I am so very happy this evening!

Hey!
Autumn is here and I´ve got the blues.... Seems like all my favourite musicians are passing away. Little Freddie King is missing after Hurricane Katrina. Clarence Gatemouth Brown passed yesterday.... I tell ya! It must be sweet up there in heaven, or maybe hell, I don´t know. Strange times...
The gig last friday went pretty well, considering it was thrown togheter rahter haphazardly and we played a bunch of songs we don´t normally do I´d say it felt pretty good. Played half the show with Toms Telecaster, that is one sweet guitar! The other half I played with the Hagström/Bjärton acoustic that my father bought in ´68. Still the best guitar ever made. Built like a tank. Thick neck, never stays in tune, no tone unless you use strings thicker than 0.12, and I love it.
We are getting ready to rehearse and record some new material. Next gig isn´t until late october so we should have something ready and hopefully out by that time. Keep your fingers crossed. We have some really great song to lay on ya! The new songs have a sort of swagger to them that we didn´t have before. It´s all about the groove these days. I have never heard marcus play the drums like this before. He blows me away every time.
Anyway we´re gonna produce the new songs ourselves, hopefully with some help from our good friend Johan Sandén.
I´d like to thank all the people that came to the show and made it special. Hope to see you next time!
´Til then
Be good, make love.
Peace John

Yesterday we played a gig at the "Kulturhuset" in Jönköping. The theme for the night was "rock against HFF" and the night turned out quite alright. We decided perform the gig in a acoustic set, with me playing rods and "vispar", in a quiter more intimate show.
The "studio" was about full when we started(i think) and they seemed to like it., I surely enjoyed it more than for a long time. Tom was at his peak and got several of appreciations after the show. Victor was solid as a rock and Robin too. John played half the show with his acoustic guitar and then swiched to the Telecaster which sounded great in this setup.
Overall a great night.. Despite the lousy sondcheck..
Hope to see all of  you who were there again!

It is with sorrow in my heart that I must tell you that one of the greats died yesterday. Just found out this morning that blues legend R.L Burnside passed away. R.L had been sick a while, I knew that but somehow I guess I just didn´t think he was gonna go. It´s a damn shame! I tell ya! Give your prayers and positive thinking to R.L´s twelwe children and wife Alice Mae. R.L was blues walking like a man, the embodiment of guitar moan and backdoor slam, the kind of person to yell fire in a crowded theatre and the player of the meanest hill countryblues you ever heard. Check out his albums at Fatpossum.com, I personally recomend every single one of them. In honor of R.L, I suggest you go out tonight, drink som whiskey and cause a ruckus just to remember him! Like R.L said: When I die, someones gotta play these blues!

John   

The fall is around the corner and with it a magical new record to be low to.