Dear friends and followers!
we’ve come a long way but now we’re getting closer and closer to the finishing line!
I picked up the two CDs from the printing company North Video in Czech Republic on saturday ( and listened to it: omg, it f***** rocks!!) and managed to get them to the book printer Seltmann through family-transports. Thanks a lot to everyone involved!
 later today I’ll have a look with my grafic designer on the testprints and then tomorrow the will START THE PRINTING!

and now let me invite you to the RELEASE event of Hopped-Up! it’s goin to take place in Berlin’s notorious White Trash Fast Food. From 6 pm on it will be a photoexhibition and the opportunity to buy the book directly from me and – for those who like to- get it signed or fingerprinted (…well…) from 8pm there will be Dj LOBOTOMY playing the best of rhythm’n'blues, rockabilly, western swing, northern soul and a little 60ties wild garage. playing LIVE will be the great CRY BABIES (USA/ GER) with their sexabilly swingaling rockabilly versus LARS VEGAS & THE LOVE GLOVES (GER) playing their energetic rhythm’n'blues!
In front of the place will be standing some really nice handpicked HOT RODS and if you come early (I know it’s hard for you Berliners) you might get one of the free drinks
for all of you guys and girls who come from outside of Berlin please let me know if you need help with accomodation and so on!!

There is a small change in the package of the book. for financial reasons I have to surrender the vinyl single. as it is even harder than I expected it to get money from sponsors or investors I have to cut costs. BUT! there is a huge but coming around the corner.

instead of the vinyl singe there will be a CD compilation with 13 amazing tracks. it’s exclusively compiled by me from the stuff RHYTHM BOMB RECORDS offered plus the great and exclusively written and recorded song by TEX MORTON. isn’t that a nice change?

why can’t cutting costs always be such a win? on the CD you get 13 rockin’ tracks by for example Omar Romero, Billy Lee Riley, Star Mountain Dreamers, Mystery Gang and many more. OMG, it’s gonna be a blast!! for me as a lover of vinyl it was a hard decision but there is actually no choice. a big ‘thank you’ goes out to Omar Romero who recorded an alternative take of his song ‘down the track’ for the single which I can’t use now due to publishing regulations . Huge ‘thank you’ to RHYTHM BOMB for their great support!

YES! the stickers that my friend Nicklas/ http://www.f1textdecor.nu made for Hopped-Up have finally arrived. after 7 weeks of waiting, uncounted phone calls and after having been shipped through all Germany…. finally I found someone in the so called “prio-abteilung” that really took care of it. thank you!