2004 - Another year, another project and first semi-professional recording

It seemed like the christmas project I did the year before
gave me the spark needed to kick the first full-length
project since 1995 into gear. Another thing that
contributed to this was also those demos from 2001
that had been laying around in the dusty corners.
It simply felt like the time had come to do those
tracks some justice and also closing the book.

I simply didn't thought I'd be doing this for longer.
After all the time away it felt like I would do
A Christmas Tribute (2003) because I wanted to do
that christmas thing before I quit, and then Life Of Me
(the "2004-project") as a fitting "Last Blast".
I have to say that the first thing that happened that year
was redoing a swedish track from 1993 called "Lilja".
Title remained the same, language got switched from
Swedish to English and, yeah, that's that.

Back to "Life.." now though. Since those few demos from the past
were ballads all the way, it felt more than natural to start off
with writing some uptempo ones. To be honest, even if it doesn't
place itself at number one on the list of most "close to the heart"-
projects I've done, it was written during a time when I still had
a sense for those "every day"-kind of lyrics. 

The stuff ranged all the way from friday nights on town,
to firing away at teachers at school, to wishing I was a kid,
well, you name it. But I was to be getting another, even bigger,
suprise. Turned out a classmate of mine, together with the teachers,
had formed a plan to incorporate a small music studio in the building
we would move into when starting the last year in school.

Since we would have to choose some kind of individual projects
to work with during 3rd grade, I did ask a small question if
I could do a record. Guess if I was stunned when I got thumbs up.
Choices were really easy for that one. A Christmas Tribute,
as well as Life Of Me, were made into physical recordings
during the autumn of '04 and spring of '05. At that time
it felt like it would be the perfect way to end the era.

Little did I know it would be a radical,
to say the least, change of plans during 2005...