linksgeher asked: kriag i a autogramm auf die plottn?

wir wern a autogrammkarte beilegen.

twinkledaddybaltimore asked: Does Rika support any sports teams?

yes! soccer-wise, richard and me rep fc blau weiss linz, although richard is probably more of an avid supporter than me. richard digs a couple of other teams, too, he could talk your ear off about soccer.

i don’t know if that counts as “sports teams”, but xchris and his dad are the biggest formula1 fans i know. he can recite the world champions of the last 25 years by heart. i think his current fav is fernando alonso.

nasch only likes the weakerthans. don’t know if that counts.

- stefan

swag

i revamped our tumblr a little bit. you can now ask questions, wow! don’t ask when the album is gonna come out though.

we’re pretty busy these days. we shot a video for a song that’s gonna be on the new album this weekend with geri from s!ysd. i was chilling most of the time while the others were carrying stuff around. fun times! other than that, i finished the remix of the song for the e!e! split, album is being mixed, cover is in the making etc. etc.

here’s a photo geri took last sunday:

rika video shoot

one love - s

some news!

first - things are getting serious about the split 7” with empire! empire! (i was a lonely estate). we are very excited about that! it will be released on goddamn records (austria, europe) and count your lucky stars (us). 

also, we are going to shoot our first video next week with geri from seasick! yet still docked. it will be for our new song “port dover”, which will appear on our upcoming full length album. looking forward to that, too!

additionally, we are practicing painstakingly for being able to play live gigs again soon.

yay!

we played a show at the rhiz in vienna with the nice guys from look mexico yesterday. thank you for coming out, for your kind words and everything!

recording wise we finished about two thirds of the vocals and there will be a strings and brass recording session in early december. we hope we’ll be able to record the missing vocal parts until christmas. 

recording blog

we’re in the middle of recording our album at the spiegelfabrikstudio in gars am kamp. check our blog at rikaband.net/blog

rika/everton split cds arrived

rika & everton split cd

yes! we got a box of (rika/everton split) cds from japan last week, big thanks to hiro! email us if you want one for 10€ and get a super cool and super rare button with the coffee and ghosts tourposter artwork FOR FREE. we also still got some (very) large t-shirts for big people. you can get one of these for 5€.

one more week until recording starts! we’re looking forward to being in a studio again after more than 3 years. we will play shows again after that, some dates will be announced soon.

demo recording. yay!

radio show

tomorrow we will play some of our favorite songs on radio ypsilon in hollabrunn. we might also talk about band stuff. 8 - 10 pm. stream it here.

r.i.p. nate dogg

so now that my two weeks off work in summer are confirmed, it’s official: we will record our (first (real)) album in july. we have about 4-5 songs that are (almost) finished, so the next few months we will be super busy writing new stuff. one new song will feature this:

jen brio!

mmm!

so, the song we’ve recorded for the split 7”… i will finally finish mixing it in the next one or two weeks. sorry for the wait. luckily i won’t mix the album, so it might be ready in early 2012 or something. we’ll see.

in other news: r. will play a solo show as ugly valentine with boduf songs at the rhiz in vienna tomorrow. come hang out with us. here’s the flyer:

u/v flyer

- s