09.06.01
Light Returns!
As light returns, Fibes, Oh Fibes! are back. Fibes, Oh
Fibes! have reformed, they started off as a six piece band but
today they've ended up being only three members; Christian Olsson,
the obvious general on vocals and piano, Mathias Nilsson on guitar
and Edvin Edvinson on bass. Originally the bands music was based on
the songs that Christian had written in his apartment in Pristina,
Kosovo during his years there. Nowadays Christian and Mathias
writes all the songs together, often on trips around the
world.
On the new album "1987" Fibes, Oh Fibes! have collaborated with
artists, songwriters and producers such as Kim Wilde, Björn
Skifs (Blue Swede), Gary Kemp (Spandau Ballet), Pontus and Petter
Winnberg (Madonna, Britney Spears, Maroon 5) and Oskar Linnros
(Veronica Maggio). It's an interesting clash, to say the
least.
- "C'mon guys!!!" This is the stage manager of Lionel
Richie shouting at Fibes, Oh Fibes! The band is being several
minutes late up on stage in Globen in Stockholm as supporting act
for Lionel on his world tour. Christian has just disappeared,
having suffered from a nervous breakdown. 10 000 people are waiting
in the audience. This is in April, 2007, just over half a year
after the album "Emotional" has been praised in almost all Swedish
media.
A short while after the concerts with Lionel Richie, Christian
flees and ends up in Los Angeles where he plays piano in
miscellaneous bars, trying to find his way back to something
valuable. He sings duets with the prima donna Sonja Kimmons and
after having played the song "LA Girls" in one of those bars he is
persuaded by the only surviving member of the band Lynyrd Skynyrd
to start writing songs again. In these bars the embryo for "Love
Child" is born.
