Words: Mathias Karpov

Picture: Martin Henningsson

Six sold-out shows at Södra Teatern will bring down the curtain on the career of one of Sweden’s most influential rock bands – The Soundtrack of Our Lives.

Seventeen years after forming in Gothenburg, the band plan to pull the plug on their long and illustrious career by playing each of their albums on six consecutive nights at Södra.

But before that, they are touring the country one last time to bid farewell to the fans that have shared in their success. We travelled to an old “Folkets Hus” venue in the very small town of Bångbro where we met TSOOL singer Ebbot Lundberg before their gig.  “We want it to be magic, not just a physical experience”, he says describing their devotional and spiritual live performances.

When looking back through the years, there are both glorious and horrid times to recollect. Ebbot has a laid-back take on the setbacks and odd situations they have encountered throughout the years.

“In hindsight, it’s actually the setbacks that are the highlights. There’s such comedy about things that go horribly wrong – anything from playing in front of an audience of two to someone falling off stage, or being thrown out of your own gig. That happened to me in Norway only five days ago. They didn’t recognise me and sternly told me I had to leave the premises.

It’s your last tour ever and of all places we are in Bångbro…

Yeah, two months before the end of the world, haha.

Is it a coincidence that you do your last tour now with the last gigs just before Christmas when the world will come to an end?

I don’t think it’s a coincidence, but we didn’t always plan that the farewell tour would coincide with this. But it really could be way more powerful than you could ever think. We might not need a light technician; it could be the biggest show ever seen anyway.

You onced stage-dived on my father-in-low, he’s 64 years old…

Ouch, I hope he didn’t break anything. I don’t do that much these days – the last few times I’ve injured people, and I ended up paying a hospital bill not so long ago. It’s probably not much fun taking the brunt of 130 kilos coming flying through the air.

What will you do on the first day after the tour, when your TSOOL career is finished?

It kind of depends on if the earth still exists. But if it does, I’ll do all the things I haven’t yet had the time to, I’m in a serious workaholic phase at the moment. I realise how much fun it is, I’ve been lazy for the most of my life.