August 24th, 2004

damon tutunjian was here all last week, laid down guitars and vocals on songs, we also spend a while being thrown around, trying to bodysurf the waves, biiig, i think it was a lot of fun. at one moment a beautyfull dolphin, jumped out of the water next to us. i had just bought a book on dolphins and interspecies communication and got happy in the face when i saw it. as scared as i am of sharks, i even get freaked out in swimmingpools, as much do i love the little dodilidodelidolphins.

"frengers, not chicken fingers, some people pronounce frengers so it sounds like a fast food snack or something, please stop doing that okay, have some respect for christ sake." — Bo Madsen

March 4th, 2004

im sorry that the rec has been delayed, but guys we usually spend 3 years so 1, 783435 year seems ok to me still. it will be a great rec so its worth the wait, but i know what its like: when you get laid the first time, u jsut wanna do it again and again.. allright, bad allegory, but still..

its late, ill see you all soon

bophf

• He calls it a bad allegory, I call it a bad analogy ( … BUT IS IT REALLY? +_+).
• Anyway, it isn’t a Mew album without a delay (or two. Or twenty).
• Thankfully for Bophf here, Kites turned out to be an album worth at least ten years’ wait (and then some).

Nov. 24th, 2004

okay okay, got bid by a squarrel the other day, in the finger. i had gotten a little habit distributing parts of my wealth (my nut-wealth ) to the little uuhh its so cute?ies in union square, but sunday morning, on my way home i made a stop i shouldnt have! everything was going well, disney couldnt have staged it more beautyfull, untill this little drugaddictsquarrel w shaky nerves all of a sudden decided to spice up the dish, peanuts, w a little meat!! wroum, blod everywhere, birds taking of, clouds gatering - darkness! and i was thinking, still am acctually: do squarrels have rabies? hmmm, i hope not. as a cabbie replied to my how ya doinn the other day, IM STILL HERE!

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Oct. 29th, 2009 (in Berlin)

If I could be an animal, I would be a squirrel.

"This record is the darkest we’ve ever been, it’s the lightest we’ve ever been, and it’s the hardest and the softest; it’s kind of everything. What we try to capture on this record… it sounds very cheesy, but I think it’s life. It’s everything in life. It’s one big sort of movement through time and through emotion." — Bo Madsen on …And the Glass Handed Kites (via dontgetanybigideas)

(Source: hyperballad)

“Stockholm was another busy day waiting to happen and so we finished the day late at MTV’s morning glory playing Comforting Sounds unplugged. I, of course tried to hit on Kiki, the hostess, but was ignored as usual..”

- March 29th, 2003

The difference that two years can make… 

November 2nd, 2002
Recording session in Copenhagen

We’re recording 3 more songs for the album. This will bring us up
to 15-16 songs, some of which will be b-sides later on.
This is going on in the excellent Sweet Silence Studios in our
hometown of Copenhagen. It feels good to be home for a while, as
touring does take its toll on you after a while, energywise.
Maybe if you could get decent food on the highways in England
(not that the highways are any better.. anywhere else) it wouldn’t
mess you up so much… Anyway the tracks are sounding bitchin’ so
far. We have the mad hands of Joshua producing and the skilled
ears and fingers of Flemming Rasmussen and Troels engineering.
Rich Costey couldn’t make it here for this session, but he will
be mixing the tracks in the comfort of Cello Studios in L.A.
We will be seeing him for New Year’s in Prague.

-Bo

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November 18th, 2004

hi kids, whats smoking? not me, im in NY w da boys to men and you cant smoke in NY, i woke up ass o clock this morning and i have walked around town for something like more than 4 hours i think it is i cant be sure. for a little part of the walk, from having te on 74th street leading into my walk in central park, i was pondering this record. yeah by now its like: does this record, the kid sister of the no longer an ignorant infant frenger, savior, excist at all? i mean all this talk, us talking, u talking - wheres the gd record is what i wanna know? lazy fucks! i have emtions that need to be reflected, yo! ( have you heard the new snoop song btw, snoops in the house maaa, ride it like a saab… )so does the record excist? NO! but it will. this week. no next week. mixing, final final mixing this week, maby next week ok, but then: done done done!

i will take the boys ice skating in central park tomorrow, d u there,

bow

I know what you’re thinking, and just to clarify — yes, we are talking about two years here, not two lobotomies.

"im really more of a cat person myself, i actually dont like dogs, but that little fat cat ( bulldog ) stole my heart a warm summerday many years ago.." — Bo Madsen (on Silas’ dog, Albert)

Jonas Bjerre on his first concert (My Bloody Valentine, Copenhagen, 1992) 

dontgetanybigideas:

“On a whim during the day we had bought spray-can hair dye, mine was bright red, Bo’s was a harsh green… Towards the end of the show our hair dye had dissolved onto our faces and clothes. I was orange like a carrot for days after.”

(Source: hyperballad)

On making the video for Comforting Sounds 

What’s the concept?

Johan: Basically what you see, it’s just you know…

Bo: Striptease, basically.

Jonas: Me stripping, what else.

Bo: But then we couldn’t really show what’s underneath because of rules and stuff, so we had to put in some other stuff like clocks, and you know…

Jonas: It’s sort of like imagining that the words come — you know, it’s really cheesy, but that they come straight from the heart.

Bo: Not from the nipples.