Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Gaming for Culture

This saturday night, I will be performing live together with Stefan Blomberg, Michael Gill, Mattias Wikström and Ulf Sandqvist during the Kulturnatten event here in Umeå. What we will perform? Music of course, but it won't be a regular performance. No, we will be playing a multiplayer session of the Nintendo DS game Band Brothers. For those unfamiliar with the game, which is likely since it's a japanese import and not released here in Europe, it could be described as Guitar Hero, but for the NDS. Looking forward to it a lot. We did go through the playlist yesterday and will be rehearsing some more today in preparation of the event. If you're around, be sure to check us out.

As a sidenote, Linda Bergkvist will be exhibiting some of her art at the local Pilgrim-shop during the event. She will as per usual without doubt draw a lot of attention.

This means however that I will miss out on the finale of the Eurovision Song Contest, and possible the finnish monsterrock band Lordi's eventual triumph there. Such a shame, but I guess I can always watch the reruns. It is possibly one of the coolest things to happen in that lame contest ever. Such a shame I won't be able to vote.

3 comments:

Henrik V said...

Hah! Coolt. Var kommer man kunna läsa om det, eller ännu bättre, se det i efterhand?

Johan Eklund said...

Det hade varit trevligt om vi kunde banda det och göra tillgängligt på webben. Hade inte Spel2 gått i graven så hade jag nog gjort en ansträngning för att banda det på något sätt och sen lägga upp det. Men nu vetefan, och det börjar bli kort om tid.

Gill och Wikström gav dock starka signaler om att de kommer göra ett reportage om det. Så vi får väl se, men det vore ju konstigt om ett event med fyra spelskribenter inblandade inte hamnade hos några läsare alls.

Anonymous said...

Riktigt schysst idé, faktiskt.