Paris and Stockholm!!!

Grunk Ma aka Sara is going to Paris in January and Lately La La is now playing two gigs there on the 24th and 26ty of January! And best of all- I will get some money for playing, kors i taket! At the same time, yes tiiime, will be spent recording music for the Irish girls documentary, as well as for future Lately la la tracks. I am hoping that my friends flat will provide me with french hot dog inspiration whilst running up the Montmartre hill to le Sacre coeur shouting Ahhh les Baguettes! Moving Ahead...In February I am going to Stockholm and staying in my cousins flat for two months: Hjääälp too much to take in...I have to write more blogs to keep myself updated with my life.

One of the best films ever is the Swedish comedy-classic "Picassos Äventyr" I wish I was better at downloading so I could watch this film over here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjME2Ke__fo&feature=related

Port wine is the drink for me

But just say a simple "Port" when you are ordering this drink at a Pub in England, otherwise people behind the bar get very confused.
On this note, here is a Swenglish drinking song that my grandmother taught me at an early age:

(sung with a strong Swedish accent)

"Over the mountains and down by the sea,
millions of drinks are waiting for me
oh go to hell with milk and tea
"snaps" is the drink for me!"

You can change snaps to your favourite one-syllable drink if you want.

Skååål!

Lately la la at New Park

Just a little notice saying that Lately La La played a miniature gig at the volunteer meeting at New Park Cinema on the 18th December. I believe there is some footage from the performance but I dont have it at hand right now!
I played Streetlights and Sayonara and these two sweet songs conquered the hearts of the OAP audience.
I also sang a duet with Henry; One more Dance
You can hear Miriam Makeba and Harry Belafonte performing this song here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGlywmLXaYU

On December the 20th I played and sang as part of the New Park Cinema Christmas band New Park Rangers. The carol singing was a warm-up Christmas celebration before the cinema showed the classic Christmas film: a miracle on 34th street. We got very positive responses from the audience, a lady came up to me and told me she had been laughing so much she was in tears! The tongue-wricking Swedish translation of jingle bells was especially appreciated. The band consisted of: Me, Henry from Boxoffice, the siblings Marcus and Camilla and Mark the projectionist. Below you can see a picture from the film: A miracle on 34th street.

Lately La La at the Red Rooms Brighton

Playlist 16th December:

Only love can break your heart
The Park
I was in the army
Clap-song
Eurovision
Conall
Sayonara

Harbour Gallery in December

Lately la la playing in Brighton December the 16th!

The Christmas Market is Open!

The shop/Gallery is located in 15 St Pancras, Chichester and will be open most afternoons and early evenings up until Christmas.
We are selling:
Swedish Christmas decorations and Christmas food
Paintings and prints by Alison Hessenberg
Ceramics by Gordon Ferris
Design, Postcards and Clothes by GRUNK
Jewellery made by Holly and Charlie
Drawings and CDs by Marcus Hessenberg
and some other random bits and bobs.
Very Welcome and GOD JUL!

Harbour Gallery Cristmas Market!

Grunk is making things to sell at the christmas market in Chichester!
Grunk ma also went to Stockholm to get some swedish christmas things to sell and display in the shop. The opening is on December the 5th at Harbour Gallery, 15 St Pancras, Chichester at 17:00. The shop will be open most days and early evenings up until christmas.

Making Grunk art and Music

Making music for Irish Documentary
by Malin: malinanderssonfilm.com

Gig at La Havana -done

Me and Marcus played at La Havana, it was great to see some local friends there,
and to be on stage again after far too many months off it.
Marcus said that maybe I should play on my own sometimes because he thinks
I am better that way. And also I am hard to follow on drums, because I like
improvising and making pauses in a live setting...!
I played Old man by Neil Young to start with, and there were some problems with
the cassette player that I used: even old technology makes life harder at times when
you don´t need it! I thought the song sounded catastrophically bad and the guitar
was seriously out of tune, but I got a compliment from an unknown audience member
so I might keep going with that one. I love Neil Young.
And I was never one for a polished sound anyway.
Now I am booking gigs for Paris and beyond!
www.myspace.com/latelylala

Gallery Preparations

November the 12th saw me taking the train to Portsmouth, to volunteer at ASPEX, painting walls and preparing for their new exhibition: Emergency 4.
I met and talked to Dutch artist Femmy Otten, and we talked about Antichrist by Lars von Trier (a masterpiece in our opinion) and other things that concern us as young women...
Read more about Femmy and her art on her website:

http://www.femmyotten.nl/

and the very interesting Aspex Art gallery:

http://www.aspex.org.uk/

Watch this film!

One afternoon in new park cinema, me and my friend Anna watched:
CLASH By NIGHT by Fritz Lang:
An intense moral film noir from a great director with Marilyn Monroe in a supporting role, and main actress Barbara Stanwyck superbly portraying a woman filled with bitterness and passion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8ImBTJtvyM&feature=related

Business Course and Cinema

On the 8th and 9th November I attended a business course for women in the creative industries run by an amazing woman, Claire from:

http://www.womenswisdom.co.uk/

They held the course in New Park Community Centre, and there you will also find a wonderful cinema with up to five screenings daily of arthouse and foreign films, and where I volunteer regularly:

http://www.chichestercinema.org/

Rehearsing in the Country

This is inside the village hall where I ve been rehearsing lately (la la).

Village grunk

This is the place where I would like to make grunk music very soon.
Absolutuely fabolous! 10 minutes drive away....

musikk for grunks

www.myspace.com/latelylala

[grunk] -grandma punk!

Heloooo!
Tis the birth of grunk online.
The real birth happened on
Upper Lewes Road, Brighton a good few months ago.

I was driving a car I think, and
trying to explain my style of dressing
-grand ma punk...
Ahaaa, said Chris from the back seat,
That is GRUNK!

This site will show you faboulously stylish
things and people.
Not unusually from places where you thought fashion
was no more.

And you will be able to buy some of the things in the photos!!!
How very wonderful is that!
The procedings will help me to pay for my Ford maintenance.

GRUNKKKKK