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Last Updated: 12/28/2009

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City: Stockholm, London, Karlsruhe, Wyoming, Brussels
Country: SE
Signup Date: 9/2/2005

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Friday, November 20, 2009 

Current mood:  ecstatic

The Plastic Pals
Good Karma Cafe
Polythene Records

The Plastic Pals, a four-piece from Stockholm, led by the energetic and enthusiastic Hakon `Hawk`Sooldt, come roaring out of the traps with a dual guitar attack and a nigh close to perfect instinct for all that´s right about rock `n´ roll. They are unashamedly based on a Groovies/Powerpop/Paisley template and they deliver the goods with unerring accuracy, It´s no wonder that Chris Cacavas can be found playing along here, and that Sid Griffin chose them to be his Plastic Ryders for the recent Paisley celebration.

Across ten tunes here there´s a continous drive and variety. Hawk´s voice suggests an earthy, rootsy personality. His always intriguing lyrics are presented with a clarity that lets every word be heard, though this is a band that´s never reticent about allowing the guitars to do the talking. Exuberant opener `Here Comes The Sun´ definitely sets the stall out and before you´ve got over the thrill of that the exciting intro to `She´s Going Back´ has you hooked all over again.

That´s how it continues: `Long And Lonely´ may be something of a slower lament, and the title track, an almost-ballad carrying a deep undercurrent of loss and regret, but we´re never far from a rolling highway. And like all the best Steve Wynn records, in some respects it´s just a taster. There´s a mélange of sound at the end of `There´s Wind On The Moon´ that live could expand into a frenzy as fine as anything the Miracle 3 might come up with.

Essentially then a collection of classic guitar songs anchored by a rare pop intelligence, seldom found these days, but always very welcome.

Nick West

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Saturday, November 14, 2009 

Current mood:  happy
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009 

Current mood:  relaxed
Hope you all like work in progress. We do!
Just posted a couple of new tracks here - never released on record. Rehearsal room and live versions of:

A turn of the tide
Betweeen the devil and the deep blue sea
Wouldnt change a thing

Hope you like!

Best/Hawk
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009 

Current mood:  artistic
The Plastic Pals will play two shows in London in November:
6 November - The Enterprise, Camden
7 November - Whats Cookin @ The Sheepwalk, Leytonstone




Currently listening:
Goodnight Oslo
By Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3
Release date: 2009-02-17
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009 

Current mood:  cheerful
Been more than a week now since I returned from London. Had a great time with all pals - "old" n new: Gurbs (Another Cowboy), Nick (Bucketfull), Amy, Keith, Paul, Marc (Band of Outsiders), Maz, Lorraine (Mudkiss Fanzine), Simon (the taxidriver)... etc etc...

Also had the priviligue of meeting up with Chuck Prophet for an interview before his show at The Relentless Garage (as it is called these days). Had a great time and it was a good interview. And it was down on tape (well actually on a compact flash card on my new digital recorder). But hell, on the way home (to Chez Gurbs) after the gig as I am listening to the interview I somehow manage to fuck it up - and the file is deleted. Shit, stupid me!!! What an asshole I am....
Well I tell mr Prophet about it in an e-mail - and he is perfectly fine about it "At least we had fun - and thats what counts, aint it?"

Great guy, that Prophet. And his gig was outstanding. I mean - we knew it before, didnt we? But hell, what a hot guitaraeeeest he is ;-) And a great catalogue of wonderful tunes.

The Mott gig? (Friday 2nd October) Simply stunning. Soon to be featured in quite a lengthy review from me at Mudkiss Fanzine. Ill let you know when its online...

BTW Lorraine from Mudkiss interviewed me up in a nice cafe in Camden - and this is gonna be online soon as well. Let you know bout that one too...

Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby (Wednsday 30 September)? Really good stuff.

As for the file. Some say these things can be retrieved. And if anyone of you has got info as for how to do it - pleeeezzze contact Hawk The Jerk ;-)

Well actually maybe it isnt Hawk The Jerk. After a wonderful solo show I had the pleasure of doing at The Betsey Trotwood (Saturday 3d October) - thanks a lot Gurbs + Raz @ The Betsey for giving me the opportunity :D - a guy in the pub asks me my name. "Hawk", I say. "Pork?", he asks. "No! Hawk!", I reply. "Pork?", he says and continues: "How the hell you gonna sell a band with a singer called Pork?"
By this point - partly due to a few pints of Guinness and "Nuns delight" (as Keith calls "Bishops Finger") and partly due to this charade I cant hardly keep my face... But I go once more "No! Hawk!" " Awwwww..... Hawk", he says.... ;-)

On the bus to the Betsey Trotwood me and Gurbs sing a couple of Dream Syndicate tunes... Good fun!!! Amy captures on video - but the following morning her camera is gone... Shame...

The gig then? Loads of people in the upstairs acoustic room of The Betsey - one pal from Sweden in fact - music journalist Patrik Forshage. And I played mainly acoustic versions of Plastic Pals tunes: Hangin in the Louvre, If love should call, Good Karma Cafe, Here comes the sun and Shes going back. About mid-set I get an inclination of doing a T Rex tune - and settle for Jeepster.
For an encore there are requests for Mott - "Dudes!" "Play Dudes, Hawk". So we have ourselves a good singalong of "All the young dudes"

In the taxi on the way back to Gurbs place - about 4.30 AM or so - me, Gurbs, Amy, Keith and Paul entertain the cab driver with shamelessly drunken versions of more Mott tunes - to be continued in his house ;-)

A good trip indeed!

Thanks everyone!

Hawk



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Wednesday, September 23, 2009 

Current mood:  smitten
Hiya,

Hope all is well and that you are having an as nice and sunny September as we are having here in Stockholm. If this weather stays were in for an Indian Summer.

Next week I am off for London - shows with Wreckless Eric&Amy Rigby, Chuck Prophet and Mott The Hoople + a solo show for Hawk: unplugged versions of Plastic Pals tunes at The Betsey Trotwood, Saturday 3 October.

The Betsey Trotwood is a quirky Victorian pub in Clerkenwell, central London, serving cask ales and famous for its cosy subterranean music venue. It..s run by Raz, a real cool dude with a sandpaper voice, and his wife. Electric music stage in the cellar for around 60 people, pub on the ground floor, acoustic stage on 1st floor - and Raz and his wife and kids live on the top floor.

So if you are in London 3 October - hope to see you there.

Got few Plastic Pals shows coming up for you all:

Stockholm: Tuesday 20 October - Bar 122, Folkungagatan 122

London: Friday 6 November - The Enterprise (Camden)
Saturday 7 November - Whats Cookin @ The Sheepwalk (Leytonstone)

Hope to see you!

Best/Hawk

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Wednesday, August 19, 2009 

Current mood:  smitten

Hi,
It..s been a long summer and no blog posts. But now we are back on track.

Tonight we will be on the air on the super cool "MEGAWATTS" Radio Show from ROMILLY SUR SEINE, Champagne-Ardenne, France. On 98.2 FM (local radio) 9 PM – 10.30 PM (local French time). The hosts Marc & Jef are playing “Here comes the sun”.

Since it is a local radio show most of you won..t be able to tune in live. But it will be available afterwords online at www.myspace.com/jefrockmegawatts

 

Last weekend we played at a nice folk rock festival in Segmon, Sweden. Cherishing the memory of our recently fallen hero Willy Deville we played a cover of “Heaven stood still”. Hopefully there will be vids out on Youtube soon.

 

Otherwise it is back to rehearsing and songwriting tunes for new album to be recorded next year.

 

Upcoming gigs? London 6-7 November. Mark your calendars and join us!

 

Love/Hawk


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Monday, June 15, 2009 

Current mood:  electric
Lindsay Hutton, founder of fanzine The Next Big Thing and former writer in mags as Sounds, has written a blog entry on The Plastic Pals "Good Karma Café":

"This is as a consistently good melting pot of influences as I’ve heard in recent times. I’ll leave you to determine who or what these are but will add my consideration that Häkan’s vocal reminds me of Ian McNabb of The Icicle Works. “She’s Going Back” was the one that sealed that comparison being that I always thought it would be cool if The Del Lords covered “Understanding Jane”.

There really is a neo-Liverpool sound to this Stockholm combo that sets this set aside from much of the psychedelic pop that is mane under laboratory conditions to a business plan. The Pals manage to circumnavigate all that with what is obviously a passion to simply create bloody good songs and see where those lead ‘em.

If you heard one of these cuts on the radio then whichever one it was, you’d want to know who it was. Those guitars are utterly infectious as they jangle and pummel, sometimes simultaneously. If what goes around does indeed come around then their music will take them far."

Although I do have to admit I never heard The Icice Works (but now I have) what can I say but "thank you very much, mr Hutton" :)

Here you find The Next Big Thing blog.

The Plastic Pals wishes happiness, success and good health to all of you.

Best/Hawk
Currently listening:
Icicle Works
By Icicle Works
Release date: 2006-10-23
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Wednesday, June 03, 2009 

Current mood:  electric
This coming Saturday 6 June is Swedens national day. And what would be a better way for your favourite Swedish psychopopsters THE PLASTIC PALS to celebrate it  gigging in Norway? Or to be more specific in Halden where Swedish king Charles XII (Swedish: Karl XII – Latinized to Carolus Rex "King Charles", Turkish Demirbaş Şarl "Charles the Habitué") was shot in 1718. 

And guess what address the club Feelgood is on? Svenskegata (which basically means The Swedes..s street in Norwegian).

Not that the Swedish national day is anything to be proud of – compared to the Norwegian one (they celebrate the independence they got 17 May 1814, which shortly was followed by a couple of unions with Sweden – before their final freedom in 1905). Sweden just used to celebrate the national flag until 1983 when 6 June was declared Swedens national day – but it was just a few years ago since it was made a public holiday.

Anyways, we are no bleeding nationalists or anything. But we sure are gonna have a good time in Halden, Norway on Saturday as a support band to THE NEW CHRISTS (AUS).

If you are in the neighbourhood (Halden, Oslo, Fredrikstad, Töcksfors, Arvika, Årjäng) the gig is at 9 PM CET at Feelgood, Svenskegata 1, Halden, Norway.

But in a peacful kinda way lets sing: "First we take Norway, then we take....

Best/Hawk
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Saturday, May 16, 2009 

Current mood:  amused
I used to get mad at my school....

The teachers that taught me werent cool

I never needed anybodys help in any way

Used to be an angry young man


But now these days are gone, Im not so self-assured

Now I found I changed my mind, Ive opened up the door...


I do appreciate you being round

and

Help me if you can.... 


"Right Hawk, what is it this time?" 


Well you got me there... In fact it is something...


A chance to play at one of the bigger summer festivals in Sweden: Arvikafestivalen...


There is a MySpace competion with votings during two weeks where the bands with the most votes gets to play at one of the stages at this festival...


Would be pretty cool if one of these band were The Plastic Pals, wouldnt it? 


Well together we might make that happen. Go to http://www.myspace.com/arvikafestivalen


Once, there at the top of the page on the left hand side you find a drop down-list. Just scroll down the list and mark The Plastic Pals.  It says CHOOSE YOUR BAND under this list.

Then ENTER CATHCPA

And then just press Vote!


Voilá...


You can do it once a day per MySpace account – but I reckon there is a way around this. Just log out and log in again and go through the voting procedure once again – over and over again...


"WELL WHATS IN IT FOR ME THEN, HAWK?" you might ask...


A good question. A very good question indeed. 


Well lets put it like this:


Keep a record of how many times you have voted for The Plastic Pals. And...when all the votings are finished, send an e-mail to us at this e-mail address: soold@theplasticpals.se and tell us how many times you voted.


Thus you will have a chance to win a Plastic Pals t-shirt. The new one – black with the Plastic Pals logo in the same blue colour as on the record sleeve of the Good Karma Cafe-album. (I will post a picture of the t-shirt soon...)


Pretty cool, huh? 


So please...Vote, vote, vote 


Love ya!


Hawk





Currently listening:
Help! (Deluxe Edition)
Release date: 2007-11-06
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