Switch Opens from Stockholm, Sweden started out in 2000 as Fingerspitzengefühl. They made two albums for Kooljunk Communications, “Fingerspitzengefühl” in 2004 and “Happy Doomsday” in 2006, and decided to continue as Switch Opens in 2008. The band has done extensive gigging on their own, but also supported bands such as Neurosis, Scars On Broadway and Entombed. The band has earned a reputation as an adrenalized live act, crushing everything in their way. Switch Opens signed to GMR Music Group in October 2008 and the self-titled record was released in Scandinavia in September 2009 and in the rest of Europe in the end of October. In January 2010, the album won P3 Guld, the Swedish national radio music awards, in the Rock/Metal category. In May 2011, the band changed label once again. A new album is scheduled for release early 2012 on Transubstans Records.
Switch Opens will play at Strand in Stockholm on October 4th (Today). They will be joined by In Solitude and it is a release party for the film about the history of Swedish heavy metal, called Så jävla metal (So Fucking Metal). Since Micke is going to Sicily to study the occult at the Aleister Crowley Abbey, Tobias Alpadie from Gordon Fights will fill in for him.
Todays tune "Express Death" is taken from Switch Opens self titled album.
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Live Clip from Debaser Slussen, Stockholm, Sep 17, 2009
Last Saturday I spent the evening with some friends, the plan where a dinner and a visit at Debaser Slussen. The evening entertainment where Bombus, Spiders and Gordon Fights.
The evening began with a really nice dinner at Rival with a bunch of friends who wanted to celebrate this rocker. (Yes, I have become a year older.) With a good meal in the stomach and a few beers, we went down to Slussen to inhale the sweet tones of great music. First one was the Stockholm band Fights Gordon, who has previously made a visit here on Tune Of The Day. They also had their release party for their debut album, but I did not see any records, had actually wanted purchase a copy, sounded really good live, although you could note that there where a gang of non experienced live musicians, they were incredibly talented but slightly rigid live. A fun little parenthesis was that one of the guitarists got nutspin on stage, and looked almost crazy on the end when he was headbanging and throwing the guitar around his neck.
Band number two on stage where Spiders, with a female pipe to the quite scaled down garage rock, performed their set really well, nice swing in the songs, had wished that her voice was clearer, disappeared at times into the porridge.
The clock was approaching midnight and now it was time for Bombus to get up on stage and they did with a bang, shit, this was heavy. Bombus känndes directly to the most experienced of the three bands that lirade and they lit the audience directly, enough for all bands in the evening had a good response, but you could feel the air that this was what everyone was waiting for. 'll Say it short, really fucking good.
A little fun was that I ran into lots of acquaintances, also bumped in to Tom Swiesciak and Jonte Royal, cool guys!
Tom who works as a freelance journalist, wrote a review for the magazine Gaff, read it here (in Swedish so use a translator)
Today, you get some pictures from the gig, would you to see more then check out Tune Of The Day on Facebook, where the there will be a great deal of pictures.
Gordon Fights
Spiders
Bombus
Bombus
Today's Tune is the new Bombus single. Today, you will settle for an audio track, it is unfortunately not on Spotify and not on Youtube But what's the fuzz, you could always play this over and over again if you do not run out and buy yourself a copy, I would have done it, erm that i have already done:)
As we couldnt celebrate him today, cos he is working with a gig today, I gave him his party yesterday.
Below one of Stones paintings of Frank Zappa
I took him to a very nice restaurant in mid Stockholm with a bunch of nice friends :) And after that we went to Debaser Slussen and saw 3 great bands.
First up was a band i dont know so much of, but we had em here on TOTD on the 1st of September, Gordon Fights I liked a lot, Great band took us back right to the seventees like the tune of today :)
Stones is one of these guys that always help and being a awesome and firm father and husband. To celebrate the best man, I of course get him some LED ZEPPELIN!
Love you !!!!!
Here is a tune from their 1970 album Led Zeppelin III,
Saturday, also Salary weekend as it so nicely put when for the coincidence is money in the account. Not that it wont take long before it is empty again.
Yesterday was Josh Groban on "Globen" a concert that I did not see very much of, what I heard it was pretty sleepy so in other words I missed probably nothing.
Today it's full speed ahead here in Stockholm, especially when we're talking concerts.
At Gyllene Cirkeln plays Trettioåriga Kriget where they will perform both the new album and the debut album from 1974 in its entirety. Very exciting.
At Debaser, where the club Pussy A Go-Go has a gathering where bands such as "Bombus", "Spiders" and "Gordon Fights" performs, there I was going to go tonight. Report on this will be after the weekend.
WWDIS organizes a musical evening on the Strand with the legend, ghostrider and one half of Suicide, the sunglasses adorned Martin Rev. He is also involved in today's tune!
Todays tune "Born Free" was written and produced by M.I.A. and co-produced by Switch. The song opens with a frantic rhythm built around a sample from 1977's "Ghost Rider" by the seminal synthpunk band Suicide. M.I.A., which stands for Missing In Action and is a play on her name, is an English singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, painter and music video director of Sri Lankan Tamil descent. Her compositions combine elements of hip-hop, electronica, dance, alternative and world music.
In 2011, NME ranked the video number thirteen on the list of the 100 Top Greatest Music Videos ever made.
Blues-driven Swedish rock band Gordon Fights visit us with their debut single "Time Machine". This is a wonderful rock 'n roll frenzy, here has the brush been dipped into Lynyrd Skynyrd's paint bucket. Splashing their art with MC5 and Humble Pie, it's really good expressed and swings awesome, with a clear love for the 70 century, Southern rock. To get the true feeling in the rythms have they let their mustaches lie in a bath of U.S. imported beers.
Gordon Fights consist of:
Viktor Persson Rasmus Söderling Anders Carlsson Patrik Engström Tobias Alpadie
Their debut "Gordon Fights" has been just been reviewed in WeRock by Fredrik Sandberg actually got a good review score and in my eyes / ears, a perfect purchase. I hope of course, that this album will be released on Vinyl! On WeRock you will also find the month harvest of reviews, including albums with bands like "Chaos Divine", "Thalamus","Portrait", "Craft" and "Pain" and several.
On 24th September will the club "Pussy a Go Go" have its premiere at Debaser Slussen, it will be record release with Gordon Fights and of course live music. In addition, guests this evening of no less than Bombus and Spiders, ensure that you go there.
Todays tune "Time Machine" is the first single for what's to come. Their debut album will be released in late September.
Directed by Robin Haldert. Filmed & edited by Robin Haldert & Kalle Stillersson. Visual effects & art direction by Viktor Balkewitsch Persson.
Listen to ”Switch Opens - Express Death" on Spotify here! 
