March 2008: If you´re in Stockholm, Sweden, on the 26th, Don´t miss the release party for Tobias´s new album Turn Heads at Pet Sounds Bar. Tobias and band on stage. Special guest: Peter Morén. February 2008 NEW: Tobias and Peter Morén will tour together. See live dates on the live page! February 2008: Lots of things are happening! Wear deodorant while reading this. NEWS 1: Tobias´ new album Turn Heads will be out in Scandinavia on April 9th, on Playground Scandinavia. The first single is called "Slipping under the radar". NEWS 2: In New Orleans, while producing swede/american artist Theresa Andersson´s new album, one of Tobias´ songs – called "Now I know" – were recorded by legendary songwriter/producer/artist Allen Toussaint in Andersson´s kitchen. Touissant (The Meters, The Band, Dr John, Elvis Costello and lots, lots more) came to the house/studio in his champagne Rolls Royce and played a Fender Rhodes electric piano. Andersson covers another of Tobias´ songs on her new album, God´s Highway. Tobias also writes lyrics to four of her songs. NEWS 3: The Last Tycoon, the first soloalbum from Peter Morén (Peter Bjorn and John), co-produced by Tobias, will be out on US-label Touch and Go/Quarterstick Records. In UK, the album comes out on Wichita recordings. NEWS 4: Tobias will tour the UK together with Ane Brun in May. Look out for live dates on the live page! January 2008: The new album Turn Heads is mastered and ready to be launched. But first, Tobias will go to New Orleans to produce swedish-americans singer Theresa Andersson´s new album. Tobias has also started working together with Existensminimum as a co-producer on Existensminmum´s new album. October 2007: Tobias is gearing up to play at St Vicar in Dublin (24th) as a support for Blind Boys of Alabama, and then the night after (25th) play a big show at The Luminaire in London together with a new band, Existensminumum on drums, Mathias Blomdahl on bass. Don´t miss! Tobias will play both oldies but also a couple of new ones from the fourthcoming Turn Heads (due to be released in Feb 2008). September 2007: The new album is being mixed in Hogrän, Gotland. That´s where Tobias´ good friend Linus Larsson has his mixing studio. Look out for news, soon! July 2007: A new album is soon to be born! Tobias has been recording during tour breaks this spring, and the working title is "Turn heads". Tobias is producing the album himself and friends like Peter Morén (Peter Bjorn and John), John Ericsson (Peter Bjorn and John) Ane Brun, Existensminimum, Linus Larsson, Torbjörn Zetterberg (Folke) and Kathryn Williams are guests in one way or the other. So far, eight songs are mixed (by Linus Larsson). May 2007: For the first time in a couple of years: Tobias on a swedish stage, Södra Teatern in Stockholm. Date: May 15. The tour in the southern parts of US, together with Jim Bianco and Jenny Owen Youngs, went really well. Look out for pictures soon! Tobias is going in into the studio now, the work with the third album has started. February 2007: Tobias will do tour US in March. That includes two shows at SXSW, South by Southwest, in Austin, Texas: The Alan McGee afternoon together with members from Charlatans and singer songwriter Viking Moses. The other show is together with Ane Brun and Teitur. February 2007: Somewhere in the city is out in France, Holland and Belgium! Tobias and Linus will do a show at Divan du Monde, Paris, on Feb 26. January 2007 New year, new tours and new territories. Somewhere in the city will be released in France, Belgium and Holland by legendary label Pias and in Australia by Shock Records, Australia´s largest independent record company. There will be more territories soon! Tobias will do his first main act tour in UK, in February. More info, go to Playing live. God´s highway is the next single taken from Somewhere in the city. Look out for the beautiful video, shot in black and white in a studio in New York by Petter Ringbom (Flat.com). Tobias also recorded the song together with a gospel quartet in Los Angeles, in the american label Cheap Lullaby´s recording studio. It will also be out there during spring. In March, Tobias will play at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas. More info soon. Tobias´ worldwide publisher is, from now on, Sony Music ATV. And this is a new year message from the artist himself: – It´s been a great year for me. I met a lot of new and old fans, both in US and UK, and I can´t wait to see you all again! And I had a great time, as always, travelling with Linus, Christian, Sam, Teitur, Mikael, Derek, Jonas, Ane, Kathryn, Louis, Neil, David, Laura, Darius and everyone else. Thank you so much for 2006. See you in 2007. November and December 2006: The US tour and the UK tour were both very succesfull! In UK, Tobias and Kathryn Williams did a duet together, Paul Simons Homeward bond. On November 17:th Tobias and Linus Larsson (co-producer and co-muscian on both Somewhere in the city and the first album "For Elisabeth wherever she is) will do a show at Rust, Copenhagen. Their very first duo-show ever! Later in November, Tobias will support danish rockband Moi Caprice in Denmark, the mini tour ends in Copenhagen, at Big Vega, on December 2d. In the beginning of December, Tobias will shoot a video for God´s Higway in New York City. Video director: Petter Ringbom. The video starrs Hollywood actress Serena Reeder as the black woman God. October 2006: The US tour, together with Teitur and (for two weeks) danish Tina Dico, has been a success. Riding in Willie Nelsons old tour bus, things have gone really, really well. Before the US tour ends, Tobias will record some songs in Los Angeles together with a gospel quartet. August 2006: Tobias will join Kathryn Williams as the support act on her UK-tour, in October and November. Dates? Look at the live-page. Tobias Froberg will play at the The Green Man Festival 2006 in Wales, August 19th. The same Saturday night that fellow swede José Gonzalez. Click here for more info! Other acts at the festival are for example Donovan, Calexico, Martha Wainwright and Bert Jansch. Tobias plays five days in a row in London, the five first days in August. Linus Larsson plays drums and Andrew Dry plays bass. Venues? Go to the live page. The video for the first single When the night turns cold is spinning on MTV Europe, and the single is being played on both Radio 1 and Radio 2. July 2006: Here are the first dates on the US-tour in September. Go to the playing live page! Tourmates: Tobias, Teitur and danish Tina Dico. And here are the first release dates for the album "Somewhere in the city": SCANDINAVIA & the BALTIC STATES: August 14th (Playground Music) USA: August 22nd (Cheap Lullaby Records) UK: September 4th (Poptones). In the UK, the single "When the night turns cold" will be released August 7th. Tobias & Linus have recorded a new piano version of the first single, "When the night turns cold". Specially for Itunes – out in UK and Scandinavia soon! It really smells like the 80:s, it´s one of those ballads that could have been taken from a Spandau Ballet-album. It´s far, far away from the original version. Tobias´ and Linus´s good friend Jimi Harlevi plays heavy trums, taken directly from the hell of the 80:s. New releases! New labels! New countries! The album "Somewhere in the city" will be released in France, Belgium and Holland by PIAS via Poptones. Cinnamon is going to release it in Spain and Portugal. June 2006: The video for the first single, When the night turns cold, will be shot in Southend, England. Director: Emma. Date: June 21 & 22. The Ane Brun-concert at Hultsfred was a success! A lot of sun, a lot of people cheering (aprox 8.000–10.000) when Tobias and Ane sang Love & Misery, and a lot of partying. May 2006: The latest press release from Plan C Management: TOBIAS FROBERG SIGNS TO POPTONES RECORDS! Swedish artist Tobias Froberg has signed his new album "Somewhere In The City" to the UK label Poptones Records, run by the legendary music guru Alan McGee, the man who discovered and signed Oasis and Primal Scream amongst others and put The Hives career on track by signing them to Poptones. The agreement was made via Tobias's label Fire Egg Recordings and is for the UK, France, Holland, Belgium, Spain and Portugal. Alan McGee said last week: "He's the next Scandinavian Superstar" Tobias's track "When the night turns cold" from the new album is already being used in the pan-European TV ad for Panasonic Lumix cameras. Tobias is already signed via Fire Egg to Scandinavian indie Playground for Scandinavia and Baltic states and to Cheap Lullaby for the US, where the track has already been played last week by influential Radio station WXPN. --- BUY IT! The first single, When the night turns cold, is now avalible on Itunes. --- It´s finally official! Ane Brun and nine of the artists on the album Duets, including Tobias Froberg, are performing the songs live at the Swedish festival Hultsfred this summer! Everyone except Madrugada from Norway were able to come to Hultsfred this year. April 2006: NEWS: Tobias signs US-deal with Cheap Lullaby Records, Los Angeles. Come back for more info soon! NEWS! Tobias Froberg track used in Panasonic Lumix TV commercial. Track 1 and the first single from Tobias Froberg´s forthcoming album "Somewhere in the city", a song called "When the night turns cold" is currently being used on the new Panasonic Television/Cinema advert for their Lumix range of Cameras. The ad was shot in Barcelona and features scenes shot in the back of taxis driving through the beautiful sights of the city and features the track heavily and includes a credit to Tobias in the Ad! The advert is running in the UK at the moment, will run around the rest of Europe and will soon appear in Australia and New Zealand. For more information on the Panasonic range of Lumix Cameras, there will soon be a link here. To hear the track, why not visit www.myspace.com/tobiasfroberg The single will be available on itunes shortly and the album will be released on the 2nd of August! Interview: Q&A with Tobias. Go to Grandma´s Basement. March 2006: Tobias and Linus are signing a license deal with Playground Scandinavia, for the territories of Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The new album Somewhere in the city is soon avalible, in these countries first of all! February 2006: The new album, "Somewhere in the city", is finished, and the artwork is done by Petter Ringbom at Flat Inc, New York. The album will be released during spring 2006. There are two new London-concerts in the pipeline, March 21 and 22. January 2006 1: Watch Ane Brun and Tobias do the duet "Love and misery" on norwegian tv-show God morgen, Norge. Click here and then "Se web-TV", almost at the top of the page, then click on "musikk". Tobias and Ane also did the duetsong on the norwegian indie-grammies. The show was broadcasted by NRK, both tv and radio. Ane won the category "Best pop". Congratulations! January 2006 2: The new record is mastered! But no one knows when it will be released... Tobias will play at the Noorderslag festival in Holland, januari the 13:th. The same day as fellow swedes Dungen, Shout Out Louds, Existensminimum, The Sounds and José Gonzáles. November 29, tuesday: Tobias and Ane Brun will do the duetsong Love & Misery live on the swedish radioshow "P3 Lantz". So, tune in swedish P3 that day. November 2005: Tobias´ Love & Misery (taken from the fourthcoming album) is one of ten songs on Ane Brun´s beautiful album Duets. The second day Itunes relased the album, Love & Misery was the 81 most downloaded song in Norway. If you have´nt heard the album, where Ane sings together with people like Ron Sexsmith, Teitur, Tingsek, Lars Bygdén and The Tiny, you have to go to www.anebrun.com and check it out, it´s really amazing! October 2005: Tobias plays four shows in New York. On October the 25:th, Tobias makes his US-debut at Knitting Factory, New York. And then three more dates in NY, Living Room (26th, just after Ane Brun), Coda (27th, with Teitur) and CB`s 313 Gallery, CBGB`s (28th). Tobias will also appear as the special guest when swedish singer Lars Bygdén celebrates his debutalbum in Sundsvall, Sweden. Date, October 12. September 2005: Tobias and Linus are making progress with the new album. It´s almost there! And the result will be fucking great – if you ask them. There is a new song called "Forever is just a word in a lovesong", and it sounds like a big boat in a perfect storm. The song was recorded in Linus´and Björn Yttlings (Peter Bjorn and John, Ceasars) studio in Hornstull, Stockholm. Tobias and Teitur are working on a new song, the first song they wrote together, "Somewhere in the city", will most certainly end up on this Tobias second album. What is there more to say? Well, Tobias´ well known fire-eggs is the kickstart you need every day. You need a HOT frying pan, too much olive oil, a couple of eggs and Tabasco – and some kind of a seasoning/cajun-spice. DO IT! July 2005: Tobias, Teitur & Ane Brun will do two shows together at Schenholms, Visby – on Gotland, where Tobias comes from. When? Look at the live-page! All we can say is you gotta be there! All 3 will also do a show on Kulturhuset, Stockholm this summer. When? Take a look at the livepage. The recording of Tobias´and Linus´ second album is like a dream! T & L are very content! Six songs are mixed – God´s Highway, For E again (together with Teitur), Love & misery (with Ane Brun), When the night turns cold (with Existensminumum), Now I know, Someone. T & L will record a couple of new songs during July – perhaps the newly written song together with Teitur, Somewhere in the city. "It´s a real bastard" claims Teitur & Tobias. During the last week of June, Linus is recording a really, really great (and well known) english artist on the countryside outside of London. Who is the artist? Well, time will tell... This is all for now! Hope you´re enjoying the summer! May 2005: Tobias will do two shows in London (see live-page). He will also play at the Go North festival gig on the 2nd June in Aberdeen, Scotland. More info later. April/May 2005: What is happening? Well, Tobias will do his first show in London, on May 10:th. This is the first show outside Scandinavia, but it will not be the last. A couple of more dates around the globe are in the pipeline, tba. What´s more to say? The new record is starting to get more colours. Ane Brun – she´s absolutely a fantastic singer, she´s the REAL DEAL – sings on two tracks. Teitur – another fantastic singer, another REAL DEAL – sings and play piano on one track. Tobias & Linus will work hard to, as they say, make the best record they have done. So far. Mar 2005: What is happening? Well, Tobias & Linus are working on the new album. They say: "If the first album smelled like soil, wood and horseshit (no, the music is not country-music, but it is music from the countryside), this new one has a strong smell of pedestrians, this is our city-record. We believe it´s gonna be great." This time some guests will appear in the songs. Magnus Henriksson (Existensminimum, Moneybrother) plays bongodrums like a madman on "When the night turns cold". The one and only Ane Brun will sing a duet on the song Oh my love. And, there will be more guests... More info later! Feb 2005: What is happening? Well, the album "For Elisabeth..." is being released in Denmark, let´s just hope the danes will like it! Tobias & Linus are working on the second album. There are aprox 15 new songs to record. The first steps are taken in Tobias apartment, under his bed. Thats true. Jan 2005: The album "For Elisabeth Wherever She Is" is nominated for the album of the year in the category "Visa/singersongwriter", on the swedish Manifest 2005 – the awards for alternative, swedish recordlabels. Last years winner: Tobias´good friend, José González. Where: Nalen, Stockholm. When: Tuesday, 1 feb. The result? No award. Fucking shit-awards. The host for the swedish tv-show Musikbyrån (SVT), Magnus Broni, lists his favourites 2004... Read the list. OLDER NEWS: Tobias will once again team up with Teitur. They will do two concerts in Denmark. Where? Go to live for info. Tobias, Linus & the band will do two songs on swedish morningshow TV4 Nyhetsmorgon. The will play Don´t worry ´bout a thing & For Elisabeth Wherever She Is. The recording of the second album has started! Tobias & Linus recorded seven songs in a white house on the beautiful island of Gotland. Tobias will perform songs on swedish radioshow Morgonpasset, P3. The song What are you gonna do is climbing the radiochart in Germany. Right now it´s number 7. The song So I is climbing the radiochart in Portugal. Don´t miss the video for single So I, go to Silence! After the show at Chinateatern (togehter with José González and Jens Lekman) were 150 copies of the single So I sold in ten minutes!