Once again we weren’t supposed to start working until the afternoon, but whereas we could have spent the first part of the day enjoying NYC, we had to spend this particular beginning of the day getting some sleep in order to look as rested as possible. Personnally I (Paw) didn’t get up until 12:30. I got a quick shower, dropped by a Deli to get a banana, a salad and some water and THEN I was ready for the second day of our video shoot.
The first veeery demanding task of the day was… waiting. For 5-6 hours I had nothing to do but wait for make-up, hair and the set to be ready. Phew, it’s hard work being a pop-star… ;-)
It may seem easy but actually I’d rather work 20 hours straight than wait the 18 of them.
Fortunately the second task of the day was doing something – and even doing something fun! We were shooting some ”zero-gravity” scenes for the video for Electric Light. Apart from the ridiculously tight harness I had to wear that nearly killed me AND my chances of ever becoming a father, the experience was really great. We were pulled up and down and from side to side, suspended from wires that people were pulling in all different directions. We can’t wait to see the finished result of it!
After a couple of hours with a numb crotch, it was time for the extras to become ”weightless”. Some of them did some pretty daring stunts and most of them walked away rather bruised and battered. We love them for sacrificing and giving all they had in order to make our video as good as it can possibly get.
At 11pm it was time to do a complete make-over and do the performance-bit for the video for Whenever You Need Me. We went from all disco-glam looks to a casual and understated look and we thought we were all in for a walk in the park.
In one way it WAS an easy thing – we were just performing the song, singing and playing instruments. On the other hand we had to do it twice as fast in order to have all the shots in slow motion. Maybe your wondering what the h*** I’m talking about? Ok. I’ll try to explain. If you lip-sync and play a song at it’s normal pace and then slow down the images, the notes you play and words you say won’t fit the song unless that is slowed down too – and that wouldn’t sound very nice. So instead you speed up the music and (attempt to) perform it at that much faster pace, so what you see will fit the original pace of the song when you slow down the images down.
The people watching the shoot said it looked great. We thought it felt weird, but we also have a feeling it’s going to look amazing. It will be interesting to see. :-)
Even more interesting, though, will be to see all the stuff that was recorded the last day. All that stuff didn’t include us because the video will be little scenes with actors and extras that enact the story’s of the lyrics and in between there will be shots of us performing the song. We weren’t there when the actors did their thing, but as always we have faith in our Director, Loïc Maes. So far he’s done a great job. :-)
All we can do now is wait… Take care! :-)
Endnu engang skulle vi først mødes om eftermiddagen, men hvor vi i går kunne bruge morgen og formiddagen på at nyde lidt NYC skulle vi her bruge formiddagen på at sove de værste træthedstegn væk, så personligt stod jeg (Paw) først op kl.1230 for at tage et hurtigt bad og lige nå forbi en Deli for at købe en banan, lidt salat og en kildevand så jeg kunne være klar til anden dagen af vores video shoot!
Dagens første og meget meget krævende opgave bestod i at vente en små 5-6 timer på at settet, make-up osv. blev klart... Puha, det er hårdt at være popstjerne! ;-) Det kan godt være at det er nemt at vente, men for at være helt ærligt overfor dig vil jeg altså hellere arbejde 20 timer i streg end at skulle vente de 18.
Heldigvis bestod dagens anden opgave faktisk i at skulle lave noget... :-) Og endda noget som var sjovt!
Vi skulle nemlig lave nogle ”vægtløse scener” til Electric Light videoen. Udover at det harnes jeg fik spændt omkring livet og skridtet for at derefter kunne blive hængt op i nogle wires, nær havde taget livet af mig og mine fremtidige børn, så var det faktisk en super sjov oplevelse og noget som vi ser meget frem til at opleve det færdige resultat af.
Efter et par timer med følelsesløst skridt var der masser at tid til komme sig da det nu var statisternes tur til at opleve hvad det vil sige at være ”vægtløs”... ;-)
Til sidst var det endelig blevet tid til at indspille de scener som vi medvirker i til Whenever You Need Me, scener hvor jeg tænkte ”hey – Det bliver pærelet, vi skal jo bare sidde og spille...”. Og på sin vis havde jeg også ret, for videoen er delt ind i små individuelle historier med indklip af os der spiller, jeg havde bare lige glemt at vi skulle spille i næsten dobbelt tempo af hvor hurtigt nummeret normalt går og dét er nemmere sagt end gjort! Og nu sidder du måske og tænker ”hvorfor skulle I det?!”
Jo, du har sikkert lagt mærke til de videoer hvor det virker som om billederne kører langsomt, men alligevel passer det til musikken? Den effekt opnår man ved at vi spiller vores instrumenter eller lipsync’er i f.eks. dobbelt tempo og når man så bagefter sætter videoen ned i halvt tempo, ja så passer det til musikken i originalt tempo, det ser bare langsomt ud!
Vi er selv meget spændte på videoen til Whenever You Need Me da vi jo ikke har set indspilningerne til de små side historier, men de indspilninger vi lavede så jo selvfølgelig knald godt ud!
Nu er der bare tilbage at vente på at videoerne kommer...
Ses! :-)
Actually we're cheating a little. We're on day two of our shoot and we didn't write as promised yesterday. It's because the shoot yesterday was insanely stressful and we didn't finish until 4:30 this morning. Although we think you guys are very important to us, we chose to get some sleep and postpone writing this blog so we wouldn’t look and feel completely crappy today.
Anyway the day yesterday got off to a slow and gentle start – we were able to just hang out and relax (I bought a pair of gorgeous shoes) and actually we were so relaxed, we didn’t quite grasp the fact that we were shooting a video. That changed quickly once we got on the set after having our hair and make-up done.
First scene was on a street in Brooklyn, NY and not only was it windy, we were shooting where the sun couldn’t reach us and keep us warm. The skimpy outfit I was wearing and the super-thin silk shirt Paw was wearing didn’t even come close to keeping us warm. Teeth were chattering and legs were shaking and the moment Loîc, our director, shouted “ACTION” it was on with the fake smile and pretend it’s summer and nice.
Three-four hours later the extras and the dancers were ready and we had to do a party-dancing-in-the-street type of scene at ten in the evening with the whole neighbourhood watching, but with no music! We had permission to shoot but we didn’t have permission to play music, so I had an ear-piece in so I could lip-sync and everyone else just had to sort of dance to nothing but the cheers from the passing cars and spectators.
A lot of people asked what film we were shooting – one lady even believen Paw, when he said it was scenes for the Incredible Hulk 2!?!
The last and latest scenes we shot were in a supermarket just up the street – Steve’s Supermarket.
Steve himself were there the whole time taking care of us. Great guy! Weird experience running around, dancing and singing in a supermarket, but definitely fun.
We had to wrap it up at three in the morning but packing up and getting back to Manhattan took a bit of time too and we weren’t in bed until it was 4:30 – and that was after working a full 22 hours…
Spirits are still high and it all looks promising.
Until we have more on this you can entertain yourself with the video for Downtown Boys. Log in to your Infernal Profile and check it out. We are quite happy with it. ☺
Now we’d better get back to working on our next video…
“Speak” to you tomorrow…
Faktisk sidder jeg på dag to og skriver dette, da vi først kom i seng kl.04:30 i nat. Jeg tænkte at jeg hellere måtte få lidt søvn så jeg kunne se lidt frisk ud til i dag. Nå, men dagen i går startede med lidt tid til hygge - faktisk i sådan en grad, at vi havde lidt svært ved få ind i vores hoveder at vi snart skulle optage video. Da vi først kom i gang, skal jeg dog lige love for, at der skete noget. Det vi skulle starte med at optage, var nogle gadescener i Brooklyn - en ret kølig fornøjelse skulle vi hilse og sige, for selvom der var forår i luften, så stod vi i skyggen og optog plus det blæste. Det sæt tøj Lina næsten havde på og den silkeagtige skjorte, jeg havde på, var bestemt ikke egnet til det vejr. Det var noget med at stå og klapre tænder og så, så snart Loïc (instruktøren) råbte: ACTION! finde dit teater smil frem og lade som om det var sommer…
Efter 3-4 timer med klapren-tænder, så kom der en masse statister, som vi skulle danse med på åben gade, i Brooklyn - en lidt underlig oplevelse som da også tiltrak en hel del opmærksomhed. :-)
Der var endda en dame, der spurgte hvilken film, vi optog, og til det svarede jeg, at det var nogle scener til den nye HULK film hvorefter hun udbrød: “Oh yeah really! WOW! “
De sidste scener vi optog var i et supermarked lidt længere oppe ad gaden og endnu engang var det en lidt syret oplevelse, vi blev udsat for. Vi skulle rende rundt i et supermarked, fyre den af med masser af lys, røg, høj musik og folk der dansede rundt. Det er ikke sådan jeg oplever dét at gå i f.eks. Netto... :-) Men helt klart en sjov oplevelse!
Vi sluttede af i supermarkedet kl.03 og som skrevet, så blev den 04:30 inden vi ramte vores hovedpuder og dermed afsluttede en 22 timers arbejdsdag...
Og I øvrigt er videoen til Downtown Boys klar!
Log ind på din profil og se den, den er blevet super, synes vi!!
"Ses" i morgen... :-)
(Se nedenfor for dansk)
Today ended up not being as stressed as we had dreaded. We both started our day waking up waaaaay to early because we fell asleep around 8pm the day before because of the time-difference between Europe and the US. It gave us time to enjoy a calm and quiet breakfast from one of the nearby Deli’s – a concept you really miss just about everywhere else.
It’s just SO cool that at seven in the morning, you can just walk in to something that is a mix of a 7 Eleven and a restaurant and you can get ANYTHING you want! And it’s fresh and delicious too. Amazing. Anyway, enough about food.
We also had a few hours to enjoy the sunshine, shopping a bit together with Thomas and Jimmy. They aren’t doing anything until we’re shooting the video for Whenever You Need Me and today was all about styling and doing still pictures for press and album-cover.
We used the same photographer as we did for the cover for Downtown Boys – Pieter Henket – and once again we had great fun and the pictures looked great, when we saw them on the little screen of his camera. But hey! How could they not with hotties like us in them… ;-)
Now we’re going for a bite to eat. Sushi, I hope. That gives a flat, lean tummy for tomorrow…
Take care.
I dag endte faktisk med ikke at være så stresset som vi havde frygtet. Vi startede begge to dagen med at vågne møg tidligt fordi vi gik omkuld kl.20 i går på grund af tidsforskellen hvilket gav os god tid til at nå og nyde en rolig omgang morgenmad fra den nærmeste Deli, et koncept man godt kan blive irriteret over ikke findes i Danmark.
Det er simpelthen SÅ fedt at man kl.07 om morgen kan vade ind i noget der minder om en mellemting mellem en kiosk og grønthandler og tage en bakke, fylde den op med friske salater, friskskåret frugt og div kødretter som er tilberedt på en måde man sjældent ser på dyre restauranter med buffet i DK! Skønt!
Nå nok om det, derefter fik vi tid til at nyde det gode vejr og shoppe lidt sammen med Jimmy Dee og Thomas som også er med da de skal medvirke i Whenever You Need Me videoen. Da shoppingen var ovre blev det endelig tid til lidt reelt arbejde – Vi skulle nemlig skyde lidt flere billeder til album coveret. Vi brugte den samme fotograf som vi gjorde sidst og det vi fik lov at se på kameraet så ud til at det bliver nogle super billeder, men hey – Det kan jo ikke blive andet med sådanne to skønheder foran kameraet! Ha Ha Ha!
Nu vil vi smutte ud og spise noget sushi – Det ligger godt i maven!
Vi skrives!
(Se nedenfor for dansk)
Once again we are on a flight to New York City. We are recording two videos for songs for our forthcoming album Electric Cabaret. One is called Whenever You Need Me and the other is called Electric Light and if you stop by infernal.dk regularly you will soon hear more of these tracks.
Right now there's only a few hours left of the flight and for once the flight isn't totally booked, so there is lots of legroom for the boys (we're bringing Thomas our drummer and Jimmy our guitarist). Paw is very, very pleased. I don't care all that much, though, because to tell you the truth I'm not even tall enough to sit down and reach the floor with my whole foot...! :-)
Anyway, we're going to be in NYC until Sunday. That really only leaves us one day for dress rehearsals and a photoshoot and three days to do two videos. It's going to be tight! In spite of that we're going to try to make room in our schedule so we can do some blogs here on infernal.dk and keep you up to speed with what's going on.
We hope you're happy - we are, because the sky is blue (it always is at this altitude) and the iPod is pumpin' out great tunes... ours of course... ;-)
Blog you later! :-)
Så er vi simpelthen på vej til New York igen. Vi skal indspille video til to sange fra det kommende album Electric Caberet, det ene hedder Whenever You Need Me og det andet hedder Electric Light, og dem kommer du selvfølgelig snart til at høre mere til her på infernal.dk.
Lige nu sidder vi i flyveren og har godt og vel et par timer tilbage af turen og for en gangs skyld er der ikke så mange med, hvilket betyder at vi har fået pladser med masser af benplads! Det har i hvert fald gjort min tur mere behagelig end den plejer at være, ja Lina har altid benplads nok... hun kan nogen gange ikke engang nå gulvet med fødderne! :-)
Vi skal være i NYC til på søndag så der er ikke meget tid til at skyde to videoer og samtidig have en hel dag til kun at skyde billeder til album coveret, så der er lagt en stram tidsplan, Men på trods af det så går vi benhårdt efter at nå og skrive en blog hver dag, så I kan følge lidt med i hvad vi render rundt og laver.
Håber du holder skruen i vandet... Det gør jeg nemlig, for iPod'en skyder vellyd fra sig i form af vores nye album og det sparker sgu' mås! Glæd dig!
Vi skrives! :-)
Ikke nok med at solen har bagt ned over Danmark de sidste par dage, hvilket jo hæver ethvert humør, så er der i Infernal lejren ekstra højt humør i disse dage!
Først og fremmest er vi simpelthen blevet færdige med pladen og det er en fornøjelse der slår det meste, for ikke nok med at diverse 14 timers ”vagter” i studiet er overstået, så kan vi endelig kaste os over forberedelserne til vores sommer tour. Vi glæder os som små børn til at komme på landevejen igen og spille lidt af det nye materiale for dig – og selvfølgelig masser af alt det du kender i forvejen! :-)
Dernæst gik vi 2 pladser op på Tjeklisten i går til nummer 3! Endnu gang overgår vi hvad vi havde turdet håbe på, og en stor del af æren skyldes DIG!
Jo jo, selvfølgelig kræver det jo først og fremmest en god sang, men lige derefter kommer den hjælp vi får fra dig og uden den, ville vi ikke ligge så højt placeret – så tak for det! Nu er det jo bare sådan, at vi gerne vil blive hængende lidt på toppen af Tjeklisten (der er sgu’ så hyggeligt ;-)) så hvis du gider at bruge 2 minutter på at give os din stemme, så kan vi forsikre dig om at humøret forbliver knald-højt i Infernal lejren!
Stem HER!
Så takker vi her! :-)
... For us is often a mix of many things, and so yesterday was no different from many other days.
The day began at ten in Ark Studio just outside Copenhagen. Paw, our drummer Thomas and the owner of and technician at Ark, Kristian set up the drums while I (Lina) took a look at making a potential set-list for the up-coming Summer Tour.
At eleven a photographer from a Danish newspaper dropped in to be "a fly on the wall" and take pictures of us working throughout the day.
We were at Ark to record drums for one of the tracks that will be on our album, Electric Cabaret. The track is called Whenever You Need Me and is a mid-tempo type song along the lines of Ten Miles - only much better, of course... ;-)
In the afternoon we went back to our temporary studio, where we're finishing the recording and production of our forthcoming album, Electric Cabaret.
We had to record some guitar-bits for two tracks: Mr. Money and Silver Surfer.
Jimmy Dee - our guitarist - had done his homework and came up with great stuff!
We can't wait for you all to hear it all...
Actually we were so pleased, we all decided to finish the day having dinner together, so we went out and ate ourselves full in Thai Food.
Right now I'm trying to keep quiet so my voice will be rested and ready for tomorrow. We have to record some of the last vocals for this album - and we've saved the best for last; I have to sing probably the most vocally demanding song of all the songs that will be on the album. No pressure. Not nerveous. Noooohhh, no, no... ;-)
For the blog you can see one of her pix from us (Paw & Lina) Thomas Holmen (our drummer) and Kristian (the recording technician and owner of the studio) together at Ark Studio.
//Lina
En god grund til at læse BT...?
Ja sgu! For i går fulgte en af deres fotografer os hele dagen igennem og tog billeder af os imens vi optog trommer, guitar, planlagde set-liste og meget mere.
Dagen startede kl. 10 i Ark Studio i Brønshøj. Drengene (Paw, vores trommeslager Thomas og studiets tekniker og indehaver, Kristian) stillede trommer op og mic'ede dem op, imens jeg satte mig til at gruble lidt over set-listen til vores forestående sommer turné.
Kl. 11 kom BTs fotograf ind ad døren lige som vi var klar til at gå i gang med at optage.
Vi fik indspillet trommer til et af den kommende plades numre. Nummeret hedder Whenever You Need Me og lugter vel egentlig lidt af Ten Miles, hvis jeg skal sammenligne det med noget. Og det skal jeg jo... ;-)
Om eftermiddagen tog vi ud i vores midlertidige studie, hvor vi er i færd med at lægge sidste hånd på vores kommende plade, Electric Cabaret.
Der fik vi indspillet guitar på to numre til pladen: Mr. Money og Silver Surfer.
Vores guitarist, Jimmy Dee havde læst grundigt på lektien (altså lyttet til numrene), og han kom op med nogle super fede ting!
Vi glæder os top meget til, at I alle sammen får at høre, hvad vi har fundet på! :-)
Da klokken var omkring ni om aftenen, var vi så tilfredse med os selv og dagens dont, at vi bestemte os for at daffe ud og æde os ned. Og det gjorde vi så. I Thai mad. Uuuhmmmm!
Her til aften sidder jeg (Lina) og leger stilleleg for at hvile stemmen til i morgen. Vi skal indspille nogle af de sidste vokaler til pladen - og vi har helt klart gemt det bedste (læs: sværeste) til sidst! Det kan godt give mig lidt kriller i maven. Men jeg glæder mig også. Det er et nummer, der har været undervejs i lang, lang tid. Det øger altid presset lidt... ;-)
Til bloggen er et af BT fotografens billeder fra i går. Dette er taget af os (Paw & Lina), vores trommeslager Thomas Holmen og Ark studiets Kristian.
//Lina
