Hello Saferide
 [May 2005] My Best Friend |
 [2005] If I Don't Write This Song Someone I Love Will Die |
 [Sep 2005] Introducing... |
 [Dec 2005] Long Lost Penpal |
 [Jun 2006] Would You Let Me Play This EP 10 Times A Day? |
 [May 2007] I Was Definitely Made For These Times |
Säkert!
 [Jan 2007] Vi kommer att dö samtidigt |
 [Feb 2007] Säkert! |
 [May 2007] Allt som är ditt |
Live Band Members
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♥ Annika Norlin ♥ Andreas Söderlund |
♥ Maia Hirasawa ♥ Fredrik Hultgren ♥ Jens Lagergren |
Footnotes [1] From myspace.com/saferide |
I really should let someone else (Jason) write about Hello Saferide because everyone seems to know more about her than me. I've only really discovered her recently through another voxer.
Hello Saferide is from Stockholm, Sweden, and is really just Annika Norlin. The name was inspired by "inspired by an intelligent bus driver in a drug-addicted small town" from Willimantic, Connecticut.[1]
Regal Recordings, who's probably most famous for picking up Lily Allen, have decided to release Hello Saferide in the UK, their first 7" single is "I Was Definitely Made For These Times" with "The Quiz" as the flipside. It's marketed as a double A-Side.
Norlin is currently involved in another project, called Säkert!. They are only recording Swedish language-only releases. If you speak Swedish, you can read about them on Razzia Records. (Maybe someone can translate for me).
The song that I really like (from what I've listened to) is "Long Lost Penpal", featuring Firefox AK (Andrea Kellerman) singing the penpal part. The song is very sad and I believe might be based on actual correspondents.
I really identify with this song on more than one level. You know, before the internet, people wrote letters and we had penpals. At the height of my bedsit days, I had over forty penpals, and I'm still friends with some of them to this day. Although we don't write traditional letters anymore.
There is one woman who I dearly miss and wonder what she is doing these days. Her name is Silja R from Finland. She's an artist, loves Sparks and Davie Bowie. This is one of her envelope (I don't live there anymore).
We used to make FBs (Friendship Booklets) and send each other mix tapes. I sometime wish I could get back into letter writings and sending/receiving packages, but with my schedule as of late, I don't think I could have the time (and not to mention the costs associated with postage).
Some of the envelope art that we'd send each other were pretty creative, and I remember spending hours and hours putting just the right touch of hidden words and art. Those were the days, weren't they?
In order to save money on postage, there is a trick we used to do. We'd coat the postage stamps with a small film of glue. When we receive a package, using just a little spit, you can wipe away the canceled ink. We'd then send back each other's stamps and, of course, we'd never re-use the stamps that much, it gets suspicious after a while.

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