This one started out an an experiment to see if I was capable of writing a song about a character where each morning is worse than the one before. It was finished and performed live by me during the Medieval Week 2024 in Visby but this is the studio version completed about a year later
The Medieval week on Gotland has for many years had an anthem called Sju Dagar Per År which ALL visitors know by heart. I wanted to make my own version with a little twist and since there is so much hair during the Midieval week (beards, dreads etc) I thought Sju Dagar (med hår) would be appropriate. The song was finished just before Medieval Week 2025 and actually performed live in front of an audience by me.
At my work place (Frimis Visby) every december we serve almost 2000 people our great christmas buffee. All guests are instructed at arrival that you will need to use 7 different plates. First you take a plate with herring, potato, egg. Then you discard that plate and take a new one with salmon, paté. The reason for this is that the chefs don’t want the taste of herring onto their meatballs etc.
So, to make fun of this. I created this song that is an instruction on how to eat these seven plates. It’s intentionally created to sound a little like Peter Jöback / Saleem Al Fakir. I think I succeeded
I am part of a medieval jousting group called Bockens Kämpar where I am the herald. The founder of that group is called Riddare Bockskägg and albeit a very nice guy he also has an ego a few sizes too large for his own good. I choose to write this song to him as an exaggerated homage, almost ironic. I had to work hard with the editing to make the song feel like all it’s parts are connected.
Gotlands Musikalkompani created an very good version of ”The sound of music” and played it in front of full houses. I felt it was so good it had to be preserved so I volunteered to film all three setups with several cameras and edit everything into three separate musical movies. This is one scene from one of them.