It's ON!

I can't believe it's been almost six months since anyone wrote here... Well, you know how it is, the time move so fast when you're having fun :)

We're sorry we've made you guys wait so long for any news from us, but now we actually have a lot going on!

I'm back from Ireland now (omg I love that place), and we're working on some new material.

As for live gigs, we're gonna participate in Emergenza again, and this year we will make it to the final for sure! We also have a gig at the legendary rock club Harry B James here in Stockholm the 26th March!

AND we're gonna make a video to our song Always Running later this spring! Awesome huh?

/Omi

Times they are a-changin'

Hi guys! Just thought we would tell you what's going on this fall.

The band is going to be on a little time-out and there will be no livegigs (ok, maybe acoustic but probably not).

While Fredrik has already gone back to Lund for his studies and Omi's soon going to Ireland to study at the University of Limerick, Danny sees the opportunity to fulfill a dream he has had for a while: to study electronic music production at SAE institute. Meanwhile Sarah continues her music and media studies at Swedish Royal College of Music and Joel has a side project called Finding Fortune with his friend Jens (who is also a member of incredible Partfunk).

We won't have the opportunity to rock together as we are used to for a while, but of course we will all still be in contact with each other, exchanging ideas through email and stuff :) So in a couple of months we will be back again, more awesome than ever, LOOK OUT!!!

Good times

Oh my, was I in a bad mood when I last wrote something here :O

But after that things actually started working real good for R41. We found a new guitarrist almost immediately and we participated in Emergenza Music Festival where we made it to the semi-finals.

After that, unfortunately, our new guitarrist started acting like a real asshole so we fired him and there were only four of us, again. But then we thought "Fuck it, Fredrik is our man!". We don't care if he lives far away from us and can't attend all the rehersals, he belongs with us! So Fredrik is back in the band again :D

And two weeks from now, on the 21th of June, we're going to record some new songs! And we will make sure that our music will be available on Spotify!!!!

Love
Omi

Hard times

Hi. It's been a while.

Times are getting hard for R41 again. If you like us on facebook you already know that Danny, Joel and I were in a car accident in the end of November last year. Joel and I was virtually fine but Danny hurt his neck and had to undergo surgery. We had to cancel the gig in Gustavsberg. But in the end, we all survived and Danny has recovered quite well so we feel like we are super lucky. Things really could have been A LOT worse.

Another troublesome thing is that Fredrik has decided to move to Lund in southern Sweden to study at the university so now we have to look for another guitarrist :( When we found Fredrik we were so happy because we felt like the band was back on track again and we made great plans about photoshoots and recordings and stuff, and now it's like we're back on square one, the same place we were in last year when Cisco told us he was going to leave the band.

But you know we will never give up. We have some gigs planned the following months, starting with us participating in the international music competition Emergenza Music Festival. The 20th january we play our first and last gig with Fredrik at Fryshuset in Stockholm. After that it will just be four of us for a while.

Check our website for the dates of all our gigs http://reachingforone.tk

And don't forget, if you want to contact us, maybe to give us a tip about an awesome guitarrist we should check out, book us for a gig in your town, or if you just want to talk, email: reachingforone@hotmail.com

/Omi

Spelning på Gustavsberg!

Hej alla!


Nu har det gått ett tag sen någon skrev här och det finns mycket att säga om tiden som gått sen jag gick med i bandet - för det första har det varit fruktansvärt kul att spela med R41 och att till slut känna sig som en del i bandet på riktigt, trots all mobbing jag fått utstå (som yngst, från Malmö och längst i bandet har jag det inte lätt.

Vi har repat på gammalt, gjort om och gjort nytt, några i bandet var och såg Royal Republic och Not Called Jinx på Debaser, en fruktansvärt bra spelning och jag själv fick träffa min gamla gitarrlärare, Hannes. 

    Jakten på gig påbörjades för inte allt för länge sen, men jag måste erkänna att det kom lite oväntat när vi blev erbjudna en spelning nästa torsdag i Gustavsberg. Själv har jag inte stått på scen med ett riktigt band på ganska länge, och det ska bli jättekul att göra en riktig spelning igen. Spellistan är satt, gitarrerna är stämda och vi är alla väldigt taggade. Spelningen börjar klockan 19.00 på "Gurraberg", eventet på facebook kan hittas här: http://tinyurl.com/d6qesfq


Det har märkts i replokalen att vi är redo för den här spelningen, och det kommer defenitivt vara en att komma ihåg länge. 


Rock on!
/Fredrik "7-up" Grotte

Interview with Fredrik Grotte, the new guitarist of Reaching for One!

After a long wait, lots of auditions and much consideration we can finally have the pleasure of introducing our new guitarist; Fredrik Grotte! To let you all get to know him a bit better we decided to do a short interview with our newest member.

So, how does it feel?
It feels great! It's been a while since I played in a band but I'm really enjoying it - It helps that we're playing kickass music as well.
Since you're not from Stockholm, how did you find out about the band and that we were looking for a guitarist?
When I moved here two months ago I knew I wanted to find a band to play in, so I looked around a little and one day I went to 4sound in Stockholm and saw a handwritten note that said "reaching for one" was looking for a guitarist - I sent an e-mail from my phone right away.
How did you react when you found out you were the new guitarist?
At the time I was at Reading Festival in England, just about to see Hot Water Music so I could barely hear what Danny said - The general message was clear though, it was an awesome feeling!
Why do you think you were picked?
Well, I'm pretty good at playing the guitar, obviously - I've been told my personality had a big part in it as well, but I think it had more to do with the brib-- I mean, yeah.
What kind of guitar do you use?
I have a Gibson Explorer and a Gibson The Paul from '79, the last one was given to me by an author and a close friend - There is no object that has higher personal value to me than that guitar.
Lastly, what do you think you'll bring to the band?
Hopefully I'll add to the great vibe in the band, as well as do some songwriting, something I've been doing a little on my own before. Other than that, a lot of sweat during live shows...

Stay tuned for more blog entries, new photoshoots and... new recordings?
Love
R41

R41 on Soundcloud!

Hi there people! We've just created an account on Soundcloud! If you too have an account, be sure to follow us! As we've uploaded our music on Soundcloud, we've also made som changes on our website reachingforone.tk. From now on, we share our music from Soundcloud instead of uploading it on our own site. That way we save a lot of space! :)

Where is our guitarist?!

We're really struggling to find a guitarist that can replace Francisco. Who would've thought it would be this hard? We haven't even tried out that many, we have contacted a lot of people, but there has only been two guys who has actually come to rehearse with us. It sucks.

But we never give up. We have two guys coming to rehearse with us soon. And we are emailing with a couple of people that are interested to try out as our new guitarist as well. So we keep our fingers crossed and hope it will work out this time. Because seriously, we don't have time for this. We want to take over the world, NAO!

We are planning on recording a couple more of our songs, regardless if we find our guitarist soon or not. Look forward to it!