10.28.02 Hey everyone!

It´s Solvi from Quarashi and I just wanted to check in and say hi. I am very happy about the way things are going on the messageboard. It´s great to see our fans communicate with each other and us about Quarashi´s music and other things too.
I keep track of what is going on them messageboard and me and Omar try to answer every question directed to us. We take great pleasure in this actually.

Currently we are back in our hometown working on new stuff for our next record. I am recording some demos and I am very hopeful that soon we´ll have some new solid songs to offer. I would find it really interesting to see what our fans would would want us to do in our music. Maybe that is a discussion for the messageboard:
HOW DO YOU WANT THE NEW QUARASHI STUFF TO SOUND LIKE?

Futhermore I have to give the Maestro and his Quarashi site a huge compliment. The site is such a thorough description of our band and I don´t understand how he comes across all this stuff that is on his site but somehow he does it. WWW.QUARASHI.TK Bookmark this page!

I hope that in the next weeks we will have some mp3´s from the Jinx record up on our official site for everyone to remix etc., we sould find that really amazing if other people would want remix our stuff and do something diffrent with the songs.

Right now we have no confirmed gigs on the western hemisphere because we are working on some new stuff. I am beginning to feel that we are leaving our US fanbase out of the out of the game. Hopefully we´ll be back in the US as soon as we have something new to offer to people, damn I miss the country of Pop Tarts and beautiful truckstops.
In the meantime we are counting on our fans on the web to spread the word and keeping the Quarashi name out there. You guys have done such a great job so far that there is no point in quitting now even though we are not touring.

Hossi pretty much filled you in with our European tour. We had a lot of fun there we got to try new things like the german schnitzel. The german truckstop dish is very interesting to say the least. I caused a sensation at a Eastern German truckstop when I tried to order food in the german language for me and our drumtech Daryl Parker. Never in my life have I seen people laugh so hard at my lame attmepts to speak the local language. Well , at least I tried.I would have laughed myself .

It´s beginning to snow outside and it´s getting darker and darker, no animal in their right mind except penguins and Icelanders would choose such living conditions.
Still in its bizarre way it´s kind a beautiful, especially the northern lights which are dominating the sky right now.

Over and out
Solvi B.

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hello everyone waz up???  I'm doing fine just chilling in Iceland kicking it with some friends. I just moved to a new apartment and it's lovely, just bought a sofa and it's so comfortable that i have been lying there for some days now.mmmmm. It just started to snow here in reykjavik(Iceland) so hopefully I can go snowboarding sooooon. well I gotta go now, I gotta bail my friend out of prison, again.                                              

until next time  peace.   stoney   a.k.a.   steini.

p.s.  remember: listen to QUARASHI.

10.18.02
Sorry for the diary-delay, I've been recovering from a liver transplant.  I'm good now and ready for another drunken weekend in Iceland.  There's a music festival going on called Iceland Airwaves so there's a lot to do and a lot to see.  We came back from a European tour last monday.  The tour was good except for the damn bus and the two drivers.   There were two of them because in Europe, a driver is only allowed to drive for 9 hours straight and some of the drives were over 15 hours.  So anyway.  We played in Paris, Berlin, Milano and Amsterdam.  I liked the Paris show best.  We played in what seemed to be an old theatre.  From the outside it looked like a dump but on the inside it was amazing and it had huge screaming heads carved in the cealing and on the walls.   It was pretty satanic.  Lots of people showed up and we did a good show, I think. In Berlin we played in the 3rd biggest building in the world.  It used to be the American army headquarters in Berlin.  Despite the size of the house this was the smallest venue we've played at in a long while.  After Berlin we drove for 20 hours to Milano.  The Milano show was the weirdest one.  The spot was a popular concert spot ( Queens of the Stone Age are playing there next weekend) but for some weird coincedent we were followed by a Disco night.  Because of that it was hard to read the crowd.  We weren't sure who was there to see Quarashi and who was there to boogie.  Nevertheless, we always put on a good show, it was just an awkward one.  The last city was Amsterdam or Pot-ville as it turned out to be.  It was rather chilly and some of us were feeling a bit sick but the remedies are never far away in Amsterdam.  My remedy was chicken chili at some Indian place there.  I sweated it all out in a half an hour, played a great gig.  Next day we were back in Iceland.  I might write you a uncensored version on the tour later but I gotta go find a man about a dog.  Seeya

H%F6ssi

9.24.02
Hey gang!
Us fellows are really not doing much at the moment. You might have noticed that we won't be coming this month to the states as the tour has been postponed. We are how ever going to Europe to rock the continent. The places we will go to now are France, Germany, The Netherlands and Italy (I think).

We put on a kick ass show in Reykjavik where we packed a sports arena with a few thousand people. The show was insane and I don't think an Icelandic band has ever had such lively and rowdy crowd. Seeing this crowd was weird compared to a few months ago when we couldn't fill a small bar, I guess it goes to show what good publisity can do for you. The show was recorded for TV and it will be shown on a local music TV station, who knows we might put together something for our foreign fans also. Other than that I haven't been doing much, bought a new computer, play with my cat and buy far to many DVD's and computer games. I look forward to go on the road again because all this hanging about isn't healthy.

Take care yall!
Omar

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