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“I Used To Be Scared” EP out now!

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Number Seven Deli’s debut EP from 2002 is back! Ten years after its original release, and more than nine and a half years after all the original CDs sold out, “I Used To Be Scared” has finally returned to the commercial market.

In addition to two exclusive songs, “Try To Walk Away” and “Little Lullaby”, the EP include the original version of “In The Wrong Arms”, winner of NRK P3′s Urørt prize and the band’s first radio hit.

As of today the EP will be available through all the usual digital outlets, such as iTunes, Platekompaniet, CDON, Amazon and the rest.

Get it on iTunes here!

Get it on Amazon here!

For Number Seven Deli’s big 1-0, debut EP available again!

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“I Used To Be Scared”, Number Seven Deli’s debut EP, was released June 3rd 2002. The event was thoroughly celebrated at jazz club Blå, with hot potato soup, Seven & Seven drinks and an inspired concert from the band. Dressed in their sharpest second hand suits, of course.

Even though it happened in the middle of a newspaper strike, it didn’t go totally unnoticed. VG called it “One of the greatest songs in the history of Norwegian pop music.”

Sadly, “I Used To Be Scared” has not been available since shortly after its release, thus making it impossible to obtain the two tracks exclusive for this EP, “Try To Walk Away” and “Little Lullaby”. “In The Wrong Arms” features in a different version from “Falkner Street” too – this is the one you heard on the radio.

But these gems are just about to do a glorious return to the commercial market! As of Monday June 11th the EP be available through all the usual digital outlets, such as iTunes, Platekompaniet, Amazon and the rest. Happy birthday!

Geoff Berner’s Number Seven Deli moment

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Incomparable Canadian singer-songwriter and accordion player Geoff Berner has written a text on “I Used To Be Scared”, Number Seven Deli’s debut EP from 2002.

“I first heard Number Seven Deli as I lay, lonesome and broke, in the back of a 1950s postal van bound for Berlin, having just emerged from a Belgian jail. As the cruel German rain whipped the windows, a tortuously, beautifully sad melody enveloped me. It both soothed me and brought me to tears.”

Due to his insightful humour, politically inflammatory compositions and showmanship, Berner has gained a cult following over the years, and his recent offering, “Victory Party”, just won a Canadian Folk Music Award. He goes on:

“There was Johnny P. Hide’s nightingale voice, urging me, “Let’s ignore the cold facts of this life”. I didn’t know it yet, but I’d just had my first number seven deli moment.”

But what is a number seven deli moment? And how can you score one yourself?

It’s all revealed in the link below, so make sure to read it thoroughly.

I want to read the whole thing now!

New music video!

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Ingvil Giskeødegård has just finished editing a music video for “The Ones We’ve Been Waiting For”. It’s filmed by the band, in, or in close vicinity to, a car from Rent-a-Wreck, on the way to and from gigs during the last few weeks. And if watching Number Seven Deli eat, drink, sleep, sing, talk, wait and walking in and out of a car isn’t exotic enough, there’s a shot of a tied up dog too.

Take me to the Video section!  

A Word from Bedroom Eyes

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“For a heap of reasons, I was a complete mess. Eating bad, sleeping worse and dragging around a lovesick blues the size of myself. But almost every day these two dreamlike Norwegian pop songs filled the headphones with some hope.”

Jonas Jonsson – aka Swedish indie pop sensation Bedroom Eyes - has written a personal text on “Toxteth”, Number Seven Deli and his tenure as a fish factory worker in Norway. As always when Jonsson writes, it’s worth a read.

Check it out here!