Niclas Thorsteinsson - Musician/Writer

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Neverends at Fair Isles Distillery

Well, first gig in a long time. The festival Summartónar, which holds concerts all over the Faroe Islands during the summer suggested we play at the Fair Isles Distillery, an exciting new brewery with lots of driven people behind it. I can certainly recommend visiting the place, should you find yourself in the Faroe Islands.

Neverends? Just a silly version of  ‘Reverends’, which we pretty much broke up some time ago. We were only three guys from the old band, hence a different name was in order.

Gig fast approaching, I’ve spent the morning trying to tune my Howard Low D whistle and also my cheap Generation tin whistle, which is certainly not meant to be tuned (glued mouthpiece, anyone?). Both were obscenely out of tune and I must proudly proclaim that both operations were successful.

 

 

Walking Backwards

I’m in the process of putting a lot of my old stuff out there. Here’s Walking Backwards from 2009 (together with my old band The Reverends).

The Reverends – You Gotta Go (2009)

The first song on our debut album. Music and lyrics by your truly.

Tórshavn, Faroe Islands

Tidbits February 2018

Tórshavn, Faroe Islands

Just a few tidbits from February 2018:

  • Captain Trips light is making his appearance known across the Faroe Islands. I’ve been unusually ill for about 10 days (but it’s finally getting better). An amazing amount of people have been ill, particularly men.
  •  Sickness perk: I’ve been catching up on some reading. Just finished Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner which was great. I have now moved on to The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, equally great so far.
  • I’ve begun working on a few songs to release under my own name. Fun times.
  • The Reverends are working on three new songs so things are progressing nicely.
  • I’m frying five eggs right now.

Reverends Tidbit the Unwholesome

 

The Reverends are acting up again. After some members in our band have had personal problems to deal with, we’re sort of back on track, meeting every Wednesday evening for songwriting and jamming. Good fun. The first confirmed concert will be on july 6th at Maggies in Nólsoy. Jolly good. Around 4-5 more dates are on their way. Yup, we got the band back together again.

The Reverends – Ride On

A track from our first album.

Reverends News

The Reverends are looking into new online distribution for our upcoming release. There is a fuckton of options to choose from and all we know is that we want it to non-exclusive and that rules out our old label, Tutl. Why non-exclusive? Well, in the current landscape of the internet and the maelstrom that is modern creative rights, it seems like a far better option to retain the rights to our own recordings.

Anyways, the first song of three is called Sometimes I Wish and we’ve finally OK’d the last mix from producer extraordinaire, Óli Poulsen. Hence it will be released fairly soon. More on this later.

Touch the screen! 

The Reverends were featured on Faroese television recently. The producer’s angle was to highlight creative differences in the band. Watch it here.

Sometimes I Wish 


Well, the abovementioned title is a new Reverends song which we recorded two months ago and did some more work on tonight. We redid the intro with what can best be described as some kind of warm 70s inspired minimalism. Looking forward to releasing this one fairly soon. We’re in the process of figuring out which platform to use.

We’ve been recording!

Finally some time in the studio. Great fun. Three songs done. Will be released fairly soon. TBA.

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