How my song Tuning was born

A year after I first moved to Denmark, in 2007, I started a band together with Thomas from the now defunct Danish rock act The Royal Highness. We named ourselves Saint Augustine, but didn't really do much as we were both extremely busy with everything besides Saint Augustine (although we started out quite ambitious and videotaped every rehearsal and posted it on youtube as a diary). It was however during this period my song Tuning first saw the light of day (although we decided to call it "Skissy India"). Check out parts of the songwriting process in this video and listen to the song on the Saint Augustine myspace page (FYI: I'm singing in gibberish):



And this is how it sounds, two years after its origin, on my debut album "Days Like Waves".

Tuning by StinaStjern

I guess you can say it sounds quite different, but you should be able to hear that it is the same song.

Fun fact: I first met Thomas while he worked at Cafe Svejk - an awesome bar selling Czech beer. He got me a job there as bartender, and we had good fun bartending while listening to many great rock albums. Thomas now works for Warner Music in Denmark and I have released my debut as Stina Stjern on my own record label Familien Marklund. Funny how things turn out in life and I am glad we both have achieved some of the many dreams we talked about during the Saint Augustine period.

Sexy knitting

I have been working on knitting this girl cardigan (see pictures below). Isn't it nice? And guess what? It can actually be yours!!! Listen to the GREAT radio show Sexy on NRK P3 (Norwegian National Broadcasted radio) this week and click here to learn how to win (in Norwegian). It is actually quite easy, and it would be sooo much fun if a lot of people participated.


Girl cardigan size M/S


Yay, reindeers!


Stina Stjern on back

Thanks for showing up at Akers Mek

We had a blast playing at Akers Mek in Oslo last friday. Great crowd, great music (Philco Fiction also played) and great DJ. Hope to see you the next time I'm in town.











Hipstamatics by Anders Voldrønning

Thank you EstherOrkester!

Look what I got in my mail-box yesterday: A good old letter from the beautiful Norwegian musician EstherOrkester. I love good old fashioned letters and postcards, so I was very excited when I opened my mail box and found this green envelope with my name written on it! Thank you so much Esther! I will of course write you back and send you a letter the way we did back in the days! Maybe we can be pen pals for real?

Check out EstherOrkesther here!

Svartlamon

Rehearsing at Svartlamon, Trondheim with Ola, Kyrre and Lars Ove! Next up: Coffee at Ramp!

Days Like Waves on vinyl

Oh joy! So it happened. My vinyl has arrived. Just getting everything ready for release February 28. Among other more boring preparations I need to bundle it with download codes before it can be sold. I want everything to be perfect for those buying my music.

Please keep in mind that the album (CD, download, vinyl) will be available for pre-order here on this website pretty soon while members of my mailinglist will get a really good deal. I promise :-)

Days Like Waves test pressing

Pictures from when I listened to my album for the first time on vinyl. This album was MADE for vinyl. It sounds so much better than CD or mp3 etc. Magic!