Life of the IT-Drummer

A web log from Tobias Rusås Olsen.

December 1: Arctic Monkeys - Pretty Visitors

Arctic Monkeys - Pretty Visitors from the album Humbug.

Spotify link: http://open.spotify.com/track/7LQYHt7q67kKlNNkEiiAZI
I’m traditionally a pretty big Arctic Monkeys fan, I really enjoyed their last two albums. I must admit that I was a bit let down by Humbug (I don’t think the influence from Josh Homme, Queens of the Stone Age, was of positive nature), but [...]

Read the rest of December 1: Arctic Monkeys - Pretty Visitors

Denver Mini live at Hulen - 2009

My friend Peder recorded another video of one of our live gigs. It’s by coincidence the same song as last time, but still .. entertaining? We were booked the same day as the concert took place, and hadn’t rehearsed for months, and our guitar player had to play bass. Still loads of fun though.

Read the rest of Denver Mini live at Hulen - 2009

Denver Mini (and the pillars of salt) live at Hulen!

I’m currently in Denver Minis backingband (sometimes) called “The pillars of salt”, and we played a concert at the famous “Hulen” (the cage) on thursday. The crowd was truly amazing. Since I’ve got hold of some great photos, I thought I’d share them - Click on the photos for better quality:

Denver Mini himself!

Eirik, the guitar [...]

Read the rest of Denver Mini (and the pillars of salt) live at Hulen!

Tromming på youtube.

Jeg er så heldig at jeg har en youtubekonto, og der har jeg lagt ut en rekke trommevideoer, og for å maksimere eksponeringen tenkte jeg ta jeg skulle vise et par av videoene derfra. De fleste videoene er innspilt på mitt digitale trommesett Yamaha DTXplorer.
Først ut er denne videoen - Band of Horses sin Ode [...]

Read the rest of Tromming på youtube.