News: What is happening in the world of Madrugada and on this page? I try to stay as updated as possible, and I will try to bring you the latest rumours and facts concerning Madrugada. Of course, you will also be able to read all the interesting stuff about what has been updated or changed on this very webpage. E-mail - webmaster@madrugada.de.

April 27th 2001 - The previously mentioned interview in German Intro magazine that would only be available on the Internet has now finally been published. Click here to go to the page. The article and interview is in German.

Another message has been posted by the 'Madrugada Massive' at the official Madrugada page at madrugada.net, with information about festival performances that have been listed in The Concert Chronology for quite a while. According to the posted message, the Roskilde Festival performance has now been confirmed. They will play in the Green Tent, the second largest tent of the festival, in the afternoon of Friday June 29th.

The Madrugada page Dumagraad has a nice message board that unfortunately is not being used by a lot of people, and which therefore is very boring at the moment. Please click this link to go to the message board and make it a little bit more interesting by posting something.

April 25th 2001 - A new Madrugada EP is expected in May or June.

Fifteen pictures from Folken in Stavanger, Norway on March 23rd were added to the Exclusive Madrugada Pictures section. Some of them look really good, others do not. But personally I think they should be worth looking at, especially one really nice close-up of Sivert taken during the soundcheck when he was standing with his acoustic guitar and with a scarf on as he had a cold. That specific picture can be seen on the page or by clicking here.

April 24th 2001 - Two unknown titles listed in the Rare Songs FAQ have been cleared up. The song formerly referred to as "Unknown Title #1," a very loud song played as a new end for "We Are Go" during the Norwegian Tour 2001, is a cover of the song "Rollercoaster," written and originally performed by 13th Floor Elevators sometime in the end of the Sixties. Madrugada's version is inspired by the cover of the song done by Spacemen 3 in the Eighties.

The song formerly referred to as "Unknown Title #3," which you can read more about in the April 22nd update to this page, is a cover of Bob Dylan's "Positively 4th Street." Thanks a lot to Sivert Høyem for the information about the songs.

Major update to The Story Of Madrugada today. Also, almost the entire "The Nightly Disease" album was added to Madrugada Lyrics Section today, hopefully there are not too many errors in the transcriptions. The rest of the album, "The Nightly Disease Vol. II" and hopefully most of "Industrial Silence" will be put up one of the next couple of days.

April 23rd 2001 - The Exclusive Madrugada Pictures has finally been updated, and re-made. At the moment there are forty pictures from four concerts available, a lot more pictures will be up as soon as I have time to make the thumbnails for them. The new type of thumbnails used on the page takes more time to make, especially the image maps for the links to the actual pictures, but the download size is about one fourth of the old thumbnails.

Ten never-before-seen pictures shot at Vaskeriet in Kristiansand, Norway on March 14th have been put up on the page. The pictures from the old page and all other pictures I have shot and that have been donated for use on this page will be up shortly, I just have not had enough time to finish all the thumbnails yet.

Please give me some feedback about the new look of the pictures section by sending an e-mail to webmaster@madrugada.de, as I would really like to know what you people think about the way it is set up at the moment. Any better ways to do it? Are the thumbnails too big or too small? Please let me know about it so I can make the page as good and easy-to-use as possible, thank you very much.

April 22nd 2001 - At Studentersamfunnet in Trondheim, Norway on March 16th Sivert got on stage with an acoustic guitar and played one minute of a song by himself before saying "Just kidding!" and starting the next song. I have no idea what song he played or whether it is a cover version. Maybe I should have paid better attention to good old music instead of wasting time listening to Radiohead... anyway, maybe any of you can help?

The lyrics go: "You've got a lot of nerve to say you are my friend / When I was down you just stood there grinning / You've got a lot of nerve to say you've got a helping hand to lend / You just want to be on the side that's winning / I see you on the street but you always act surprised / You say 'Hello how are you?' but you don't mean it / You know as well as me you'd rather see me paralyzed / Why don't you just come out once and scream it?"

An MP3 file of the song can be downloaded here. Thanks a lot to the nice guy who did a really good recording of the show for the MP3 file, which is encoded at 96 kbps and is 820 kB large.

April 20th 2001 - In the official Norwegian album chart list, Topp 40, "The Nightly Disease" rose from a nineteenth to a seventeenth place this week, its fifth week in the charts. "Industrial Silence" also rose, from a twenty-fith place to spot twenty in its thirty-eight week in the charts. This is due to the album being sold at bargain prices at selected record stores.

"The Nightly Disease" fell from a fifty-first to a ninety-first place in its second week in the German album charts.

An interesting addition to the Madrugada Discography. A "Labels 2001" compilation disc has been released on DVD, featuring eleven complete music videos and two audio tracks. One of the videos, along with videos by Placebo, Moby and Calexico, is Madrugada's "Vocal" music video, directed by French film-maker Jean-Marc Barr late last year.

Jean-Marc Barr is the director of the independent French movie "Too Much Flesh," starring Patricia Arquette, which includes "Vocal" on the soundtrack. Barr made a music video for the song as payment for using the song in the movie.

April 16th 2001 - Here is a link to a page that has four nice pictures of Madrugada from the M'era Luna Festival on August 13th 200 in Hildesheim, Germany.

I found a nice description of Madrugada's songs in the album review section of the virgin.net page: "[The songs are] far from being mad industrial metal-edged guitar-challenged pieces of noise, the unpromisingly-titled songs [...] are actually deep and rich Elvis-country acoustic pop; supper-club smoking torch-song balladry and inviting surfing rock monologue respectively."

The setlist from Studentersamfunnet in Trondheim, Norway on March 16th 2001 was added to The Concert Chronology. Another old gospel song Sivert played a part of at the same concert was added to the Rare Songs FAQ as "Unknown Title #3."

April 15th 2001 - The so far complete schedule for the European summer festival tour was added to The Concert Chronology. Thanks to Jessy Hunter at Helter Skelter, Madrugada's booking agency for performances outside of Norway, for the information.

Information about Robert and Sivert's two acoustic concerts in Greece last week was also added to The Concert Chronology, thanks to Kostas Papakotas and Konstantine.

April 12th 2001 - I have finally managed to get the pictures I took at Vaskeriet, Kristiansand, Norway on March 14th and at Folken, Stavanger, Norway on March 23rd developed. I am currently on vacation and will therefore not spend a lot of time scanning these pictures just yet, but here is one picture from Stavanger that I think looks rather nice.

More of these pictures will of course be available at a later time, maybe as soon as next week. The picture now used on the main page is also from Stavanger, taken during "Black Mambo," where Sivert is standing on a small box with a light inside while the rest of the stage is dark.

April 11th 2001 - In its fourth week on the charts, "The Nightly Disease" fell from an eleventh to a nineteenth place on the official Norwegian album chart list, Topp 40, this week. Worth to be noticed, though, is the fact that "Industrial Silence" re-entered the charts on a very impressive twenty-fifth place in its thirty-seventh week in the charts. It is also worth to notice that "The Nightly Disease" entered the German charts on the fifty-first place this week.

April 10th 2001 - An interview with Sivert was published on the German music channel VIVA's teletext some days ago. The interview, which can be found here, was translated into English by Franziska Ress.

April 9th 2001 - Madrugada will play at the Roskilde Festival, arranged between June 29th and 30th and July 1st and 2nd, according to the festival homepage. Most likely they will play on the second largest stage, Green Tent. They played in the smaller White Tent last year.

World Of Music, a record store chain in Germany, has "The Nightly Disease" as their Album Of The Week. You can buy the limited edition of the new album for the price of a regular CD at their store. It should also be possible to order it from their webpage, http://www.wom.de/. In the WOM Journal magazine there is a whole page devoted to the band, including a picture on the front page.

Madrugada are featured in the April issue of German Visions magazine. The magazine comes with a compilation CD that includes Madrugada's "Nightly Disease Part II" along with a non-album track by Manic Street Preachers, the new video from Muse and tracks from The Soundtrack Of Our Lives, Stereophonics and more. There is also an advertisement for "The Nightly Disease," anf the album gets a nice review.

A lot of other German magazines currently out also feature Madrugada. In Intro there is a short piece that says there is an interview with Sivert and Jon available online at http://www.intro.de/, but I could not find it. The album is reviewed in the same issue. In Musikexpress there is an article about the band moving to Berlin, along with a cool picture taken in a bathroom.

The April issue of KulturNews has Madrugada all over the front page, a very nice picture that was also used for the frontpage of Norwegian Dagbladet's Friday issue some time ago. nside the magazine there is an interview with Jon and Robert done early in the morning, another picture from the same photo session as the picture on the front page, and a review of "The Nightly Disease" where the album gets five out of six points.

In the April issue of Uncle Sally's Magazine there is an interview with Sivert, where he says "Selling music is like selling toys or meat." "The Nightly Disease" is reviewed in the April issue of Live In Concert. It also says in the same magazine that Madrugada will play the KAMA Festival in Idar Oberstein on June 3rd and at Rheinkultur in Bonn on June 30th.

April 5th 2001 - Madrugada, in form of Sivert and Robert with acoustic guitars, will apparently play a free concert at Mylos Club in Salonika, Greece on April 12th. Thanks to the new Madrugada fanpage Madrugada Skies for this information.

April 4th 2001 - There is a video of "A Deadend Mind" from the first concert at Rockefeller, Oslo, Norway available at Nettavisen. Here is a link directly to the page with the video. Thanks to Anne Lena for this information.

Madrugada will do their only Norwegian festival appearance at Norwegian Wood in Frognerbadet, Oslo on June 9th, headlining along with Ulf Lundell. This information was found at Nettavisen and at Oslopuls.

April 3rd 2001 - The last part of Madrugada's Norwegian tour has apparently been canceled due to Frode being sick. Luckily this only concerns three concerts, two in Ålesund and one in Molde, which should have been played Thursday, Friday and Saturday this week.

April 2nd 2001 - Dagbladet published an article about the woman on the cover of "The Nightly Disease" album, which can be read here. The woman, Kirsten Høeg, is now fortythree years old, and the picture was taken in 1983 by Peter Knudsen for a theatre play called "Bare Vent!" Espen Tveit has been credited for the picture by Madrugada, as Frode found a picture he had taken of a wall where the bottom part of the poster was featured in the archives of the photo bureau Samfoto. Madrugada used only the part with the poster for the cover, and credited Tveit for the picture as they had no idea where the poster was from.

Some people might also remember a rather similar story concerning the cover of "Industrial Silence." According to Sivert, no one in the band can remember who shot the picture that wound up as the cover of that album. The picture is a woman's head and the handlebars of a scooter, and they found it spray-painted on a door in East Village in New York. "We might own the artist some money now," Sivert once said to a newspaper.

April 1st 2001 - Madrugada played two successful concert at Rockefeller in Oslo this weekend. Unfortunately I was unable to attend these two concerts, but Anne Lena sent me a nice review of the second concert. It started really bad, as some moron threw two and a half glasses of beer at Sivert during the first song, "Black Mambo," which really pissed Sivert off. He yelled at the guy, who stood right in front of the stage, complained at the guards for them not paying attention and told the audience that if they threw one more beer he would leave the stage and not come back. He said that was not due to the audience in general, but because of one person, and pointed at the guy who threw the beer.

Luckily no more beer was thrown towards the stage, and Sivert and the rest of the band seemed to really enjoy playing. Sivert said that they really appreciated the audience and that it was a pleasure playing to them, and threw his guitar pick and his tambourine to the audience after the last song.

The setlist for Saturday's concert at Rockefeller, Oslo, Norway:
1. Black Mambo 2. A Deadend Mind 3. Vocal 4. Nightly Disease Part I 5. Hands Up - I Love You 6. Beautyproof 7. Belladonna 8. Nightly Disease Part II 9. Salt 10. Lucy One 11. We Are Go 12. Step Into This Room And Dance For Me 13. Strange Colour Blue 14. Higher 15. Sister 16. Only When You're Gone

This concert was recorded on MiniDisc by a member of the audience. The concert on Friday was supposedly very much like yesterday's concert. Jann, the band's light engineer, liked that concert better than the one yesterday, but apparently both the audience and the band seemed less passionate about making the concert a memorable one on Friday. Both concert were, as most people should know, sold out a long time ago.

On Friday Dagbladet published a short article written by Sivert. He was asked by the newspaper to write a text about Nick Cave's new album, but instead wound up writing a text about how much he loves Will Oldham's latest releases.

Older News: Most of the older news pages are also being stored and are available from this page. These news pages are no longer updated, so some of the links might be outdated.