Drunken Butterfly is..

(photos by Ronny Nissen)
Set List: 57, Østre Banegård, Capo8 (working title), Det e voks i verdens paradoks, Only Skin, 1000 Lightyears

(photos mostly by julie)
Set List: A Song, Østre Banegård, (six)/2 + (seven)/2, Foreverlong, Reject, 57

(if you have any photos from this gig we'd love to have them, thanks)
Set List: (mostly working titles) A Song, Foreverlong, Populike, toonice, Reject, Østre Banegård, (six)/2 + (seven)/2, A Norwegian kids song, i wish i was dead [somewhat improvised]

Back from our overhyped UK tour, full of joy, compliments and dirty english breakfasts (the non-vegetarians amongst us tanked up on meat like shouldn't be humanly possible). Our music went down well and we didn't break anything. So many thanks are in order for the people who made it all possible, most notably grilly (and the rest of to the boats), nicola and the ashmores, but also including the lovely drunken promoter people at the white hart and them who lent us equipment, corey and alex (i was nice with your bass). Bonus thanks to corey for borrowing my camera and taking us some awesome photos, and to julie for playing at roadie. Thanks to all the other londoners for not shooting, robbing or swearing at us too loudly.

(photos by corey and cliff)
Set List: 57, (six)/2 + (seven)/2, Østre Banegård, Stein/Stain, The Song, [improvised noise]

(photos coming eventually, hopefully)
Set List: 57, Stein, (six) + (seven), Østre Banegård, The Song, [improvised noise]

Set List: 57, Stein, The Song, Only Skin, (six)

(if you have any photos from this gig we'd greatly appreciate seeing them, thanks)
Set List: The Song

1. A Song
2. Det e voks i verdens paradoks
3. Forever
4. Hjemmegåanne
5. jazz(master) - a truth with no modulations
6. Ibofobi
7. Kop
8. Never sleep / Never wake
9. Theories of Destruction (in a flat G#)
10. One Million Giraffes
11. (six)/2 + (seven)/2
12. 120 seconds of sex

A much darker xmas record for 2009 (the CD cover at least). It is an even higher low-fidelity piece of audio experiencement, once more breautifully recorded in our basement HQ/reherser, and featuring multi-dimensional noise sculpture solos from each band member. It might come with an all new exclusive comic, life size giclée prints of the band, or fossilized dinosaur turds, depending on the certain physics in question at the time.

"it sounds disturbing like a reoccuring nightmare" (also sprach zarathustra)
"the intro to the album is lovely" (free comics)
"pleasantly distract[ed] me from committing suicide at the checkout" (ekstra bladet)

Free album package download

1. Only (a bit of) skin
2. 57
3. (six)
4. Østre Banegård
5. Stein
6. Time/Way
7. The Song

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..now laurence really has messed up the code

To read the most entertaining, thrilling, ridiculous, and epic adventure to ever grace the insides of a drunken butterfly album booklet, please click these scary disembodied floating head caricatures of your favourite idiot noise heroes:

Despite the events being completely out of the timeline and potentially not even canon, the comic occurs somewhere between episodes 2 and 3. Also way in the past. These are the problems you have to deal with when half of your story is based on reality and the other half is pure geekery.

14.07.2010 We survived another Roskilde, and as the dust settles all that can be remembered is the obscenity and the endless blue skies. Also those annoying songs that can never be dislodged, sitting in the back of your brain waiting for the trigger. A comic! Bikkj.. just shut up and click:

Obviously this comic is dedicated to all those lovely people of the studenterhuset camp, because who else knows what any of it is about?

08.07.2010 The sea is foaming with a whole lot of crude, the wave is coming and we're all getting screwed. We're going surfing, we're going surfing:

And we're riding the hottest custom shop boards this side of Christianshavn. Also if you're curious (and you shouldn't be), only jølle is hanging eleven, and he's ready for some serious mullering too.

Incidentally, every member of the real life Drunken Butterfly owns a skateboard, but of course none of us can actually skate (why do you think we have a comic?).

24.06.2010 Our script writer and illustrator have been working like dogs in their pathetic attempts to immortalise our rock and roll lifestyles in mere pictures. And in time for Roskilde too! Warning, actual content may differ from the pretentious description that precedes it. Also, if you work in a really shitty place this might be suitable for it. Click on the disaster that's about to happen:

21.06.2010 Watch Drunken Butterfly live! There's two very random song snippets followed by the our double song noise sandwich finale. You gotta love the change in sound quality as the camera moves infront of each amp. Thanks to whoever it was who recorded and edited it so very strangely.

11.06.2010 A bonus for all the people who came to our gig last night (and to those who didn't but wanted to), here is the latest and hottest episode of the drunken butterflies. We're battling Grant Morrison to once again save the world, so The Invisibles is probably required reading for this one. I apologise now, but not for the colours. Zap:

I can't believe it took two months to work that joke out.

As an extra bonus, there are new photos under the photos/gigs section, and they're hot.

14.05.2010 Hi good people of the internet. Drunken Butterfly is once again ready to play some tunes for ya'll! You will know it's us when laurence is bashing the grahamatron, jølle is swinging small bedsidelamps next to his synth-glas and of course kenneth does his very best to fuck up the sound even more with his darling chaospad. The rest will just be beautiful pop, pop, pop, with the occasional roar of the hidden bears we always bring on stage. so! come! happy!

When: 10th of June, 8pm
Where: Islands Brygge Kulturhuset (Islands Brygge 18)
CC: 20kr
Dresscode: sonic

14.03.2010 Just to prove it wasn't a fad, here's the latest update of our favourite less-than-superhero webcomic that's about us - the drunk and drunker butterflies! Another true story, and with massive props to Hjortene for being five years old. Click the workers:

19.02.2010 This is just me testing our very sexy new database blog capabilities that have been hand-coded from scratch by nanobots cultivated from Newton's preserved apple that was bitten by Turing moments before commiting suicide, shreds of Pascaline, and Berners-Lee's ZX81.

It's special, either way.

04.02.2010 We have two things for you today. First is the comic that graces the insides of our new CD booklet, I give you the Drunken Butterflies - special edition:

Secondly, you can now download our previous album, songs about chickens, stones and your cousin. The download package includes all the songs, artwork, and everything non-physical that you need to make your very own copy. Get your copy now, whilst my bandwidth lasts out..

16.01.2010 Since we've had all of our pedals and microphones stolen we've decided to become an acoustic band. Actually we're going to ditch the guitars too, swap the drums for kitchen utensils. We're not even going to sing anymore, we're just going to whistle and grunt. You know we're good for it. And we're never going to practice again. From now on we're only playing live, twenty four hours a day and seven days a week. One continuous and never ending performance. When we're dead the waves we've created will carry on forever. Our atoms will hum until the very end of time, haunting the universe right up to its bitter end. Eternal noiselove.

01.01.2010 No, we love you really. Not all of you, but most of you. And we have no idea why this particular point relative to the sun has been designated as the start of a new anything, but people being people, ever since the invention of time, having apparent need for elaborate dictatorial systems to incarcerate them, we would like to wish you a happy new year.

If you would like to acquire a copy of our luscious new CD then drop us a succulent line through our guestbook (or hey, you know our email addresses anyway). Look at the damage a bunch of excess CO2 in the atmosphere is causing, just imagine the chaos a drunken butterfly could cause..

10.12.2009 Oh shit, it's nearly christmas! What are you going to give all your stupid fucking friends this year? I know! How about the new drunken butterfly xmas CD? That would be perfect! Well tough shit because that was our idea ..and they're not for sale! HA!

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01.12.2009 We've been waiting on divine inspiration for our most recent comic, but then somone came along and broke into our practice room. again. So this one is for you, mother fucker. Keep clicking the idiots:

26.10.2009 It's drunken butterfly quiz time!

1. which butterfly recently won an award for best dressed artist at a michael jackson tribute event?

2. how many guitars are owned by the drunken butterfly collective? how many were actually playable three months ago?

3. which butterfly does not use vegan guitar straps?

4. how much bottle refund money did drunken butterfly acquire between 28.09.2009 and 27.10.2009, considering jølle was not even here? (bonus point for guessing how much we got on 28.09.2009)

5. how many times has jølle cleaned the drunken butterfly HQ?

6. 6/2 + 7/2 = ?

7. who are the internationally famous bands that drunken butterfly share their basement with?

8. which tasty and nutritious dish is most likely to be consumed just before drunken butterfly practices?

9. if laurence leaves home at 4:30pm, jølle leaves home at 5:45pm, kenneth leaves home at 7:00pm, and they're all travelling by bike, when do drunken butterfly start practicing? and more importantly, how many beers have they each already drank?

10. tie breaker! (because i think we're going to need it) what's the next drunken butterfly album called? (please)

answers on a fucking postcard or in our guestbook (for a bonus point!). the winner will receive a 100% free (ripped) copy of our next album, when we finish recording and mixing it. you can't say more exciting than that!

08.10.2009 A second comic in under a month? What? Are we not working hard enough on producing our next hit smash record? Don't we have better things to do? Hopefully this piece of finely illustrated dialogue will go someway to address your concerns. Click the idiots again:

I think i'm getting pretty good efficient at stealing clipart. But as for us battling god and saving the world (get the girl, kill the baddies, etc), that epic project is slightly more ambitious and you will have to wait. Eagerly, please.

11.09.2009 I'm very happy to announce the launch of our long unanticipated and excellently crap band comic! It could have waited forever, but thanks to (the excellent) Cats in Paris we got our rearhinds in gear and hit the ground running with a slight limp. I wish I could take this shit seriously, I really do. But here it is, just click on the idiots:

If you're unsure as to which band member is which, jølle is speaking in verdana, kenneth is speaking in arial, and laurence is using the superior tahoma (some of us can't afford helvetica). But we stole all the artwork ourselves. And yes that's the actual bass that laurence plays. Hurray.

The next episode will see us battling god and saving the world (including the secret origin of the drunken butterflies!), just so we get all that over with and can continue with recording our next album. Instead of like, making stupid comics and having wet dreams about Grant Morrison.

10.07.2009 It's the jazz festival this week in Copenhagen and we're playing on the 13th in Valbyparken. Obviously our gig has nothing at all to do with the actual jazz festival, but kenneth has been listening to way too much of it and it's started to effect his playing. We're all doomed. So come down and check out the climate camp, maybe we wont all be doomed after all. We're playing at 7pm (hopefully). Jazz, spazz, it's all the same.

And i need to buy two PP3s for my two DD3s. There's a joke in there somewhere (maybe that i'm using two DD3s).

18.06.2009 Vague whisperings and warnings:

kenneth: haven't gotten to that part jet
laurence: savour it
kenneth: just rough mix'x to get the idea
laurence: i got more than an idea. i almost came.

03.06.2009 Tales Tails of the Butterflies. kenneth walks back into the practice room and me and jølle are both sitting down making repetitive noises with our guitars. We're trapped in the "ping pong scratch click" of our fake delay loop. There are two DD3s on the floor connected in series, but they're long forgotten. kenneth just laughs and comments how he can't believe us guys. Although personally I'm wondering why he didn't join in. Some weeks later, after a gig, someone comments how it's obvious we smoke a lot of weed (I initially typo'd "weird"), and when we convince him we don't, no not at all, he tells us that we should. This is a serious suggestion. but personally i think we're fucked up enough, as the story above illustrates. ping pong scratch click. ping pong scratch click.

24.05.2009 Thank you everyone who came to our show yesterday and made it so magical (although i suspect that was mostly just the DD3)

laurence: i want to update the db site but don't know what to write
kenneth: hnmmm that we kicked ass

20.04.2009 We're back from our overhyped UK tour, full of joy, compliments and dirty english breakfasts (the non-vegetarians amongst us tanked up on meat like shouldn't be humanly possible). Our music went down well and we didn't break anything. So many thanks are in order for the people who made it all possible, most notably grilly (and the rest of to the boats), nicola and the ashmores, but also including the lovely drunken promoter people at the white hart and them who lent us equipment, corey and alex (i was nice with your bass). Bonus thanks to corey for borrowing my camera and taking us some awesome photos, and to julie for playing at roadie. Thanks to all the other londoners for not shooting, robbing or swearing at us too loudly.

07.03.2009 It was a great practice we had yesterday - all shock and awe and dense levels of irony. We went down into our basement only to find the reherser door open, and inside nothing quite how we left it. Taking stock, we're missing Jølle's guitar, a cymbal, the hi-hats, a snare bag, and a sports bag. Several expensive pieces of equipment had been messed with, their wires pulled out etc, and the soundcard had been pulled out of Kenneth's computer and carefully placed back on top, but all had been left. A small flight case had been opened to reveal a very expensive mic, but that had also been left. All our pedals were sitting pretty, and the sexy ibanez bass sat shining on the guitar rack. It makes no sense at all.

Brilliant, because if it's someone who knows us they now have a list of what they should have taken, all our which we now have stored elsewhere. Infact, the only consolation is knowing that whoever did this is a complete fucking moron. You'd have to be an imbecile to fuck up a theft so badly. It's almost funny.

There were no signs of forced entry, so we can only presume it was someone who had a key for all three doors that stand between the street and our shit. Supposedly there may be a few of them knocking around in the wilderness. That or the wankers very good at lockpicking (I promised Kenneth I'd get the word "wankers" into our update). The gate to the street and the outer building door may have been left momentarily open, but we're satisfied ourselves that our door was definitely locked when we left it.

If we ever find out who did it they have a violent date with our egg slicer.

04.03.2009 Announcing the Drunken Butterfly UK tour! Our big gig is in London on the April 17th and we will absolutely love to see you. There will be love, noise and prizes. For an extra bonus, if anyone wants to book us during the week after easter get in touch through our contact form. Our options are wide open and smiling with scary fangs.

18.02.2009 Jølle's cast is off and we're back in business. Hitting the ground running. We have an emergency last minute gig supporting the Lake Bros this friday (20th Feb) at Studenterhuset. Come and say hello, get a CD, a hug, tinnitus, whatever you want. It will be nice to see you.

10.01.2009 Crash! jølle has broken his elbow, forcing us to cancel our asian tour and Illum CD signing session. A big apology to all those who were looking forward to shaking his hand - no can do. And I can take the piss too, because I distinctly remember him laughing at me when i broke my arm, and I'd been skiing, nothing quite so stupid as dancing on the bar (shame no one recorded it, we could have sampled it on our next record). But hey, this is what rock'n'roll is all about, and if he's a true rockstar he'll get his arm cast in a position so he can still play, like gail greenwood did.

On the up side, me and kenneth nor have some breathing room for our various side projects (oi!).

06.01.2009 In danger of sounding like an annoying but rather suitable Thin Lizzy song, we're back in town. The 'fly are ready for re-action.

After spending christmas and new year's hibernation growing fatter by the minute we are ready to rock our extra kilos away. Mince pies and kransekage, as metal as you like. This is good news for those who like us (us), but bad news for our neighbours in the basement of Studenterhuset (who can only dislike us).

What will the new year bring? We don't quite know, but a lot of R'n'R. Potentially the long awaited '57' (pronounced "five seven") video will hopefully arrive (the North Koreans are taking a long time filling inbetween the key frames). I personally like the sound of a 'five (six) seven eight' ep. We'll see.