News 090629 - Album #3 We have started to work on album #3. Follow the process at: TWITTER.COM/THEGRANDOPENING You can now listen to both our previous albums at Spotify. 090503 - More shows We're gonna play some more shows. First off is Kontiki in Gothenburg at the club Best Wishes. The date is May 13. Then we're gonna play at Landet in Stockholm June 25. 090119 - New Year TGO will play the first show of 2009 at Mosebacke in Stockholm. The club is Sunday Chunk Live and the date is February 15. 081111 - Bad news. The tour is cancelled due to sickness. Sorry for any inconvenience. We'll be back with rescheduled dates asap. 080910 - JRO solo tour and more. Here are the dates of the upcoming John Roger Olsson solo tour. 09/11/08 Hannover (GER) @ Kulturpalast Linden - Cancelled 10/11/08 Oberhausen (GER) @ Druckluft - Cancelled 11/11/08 Dortmund (GER) @ Subrosa - Cancelled 12/11/08 Dudelange (LUX) @ Why Not? - Cancelled 12/11/08 Luxembourg (LUX) @ D:qliq - Cancelled 13/11/08 Darmstadt (GER) @ Stube - Cancelled 14/11/08 Leipzig (GER) @ Cafe Mule - Cancelled 15/11/08 Hamburg (GER) @ Hasenschaukel - Cancelled Beyond the Brightness is now distributed in Australia through INERTIA. Some Australian reviews: NAKED DWARF CYCLIC DEFROST 080416 - BEYOND THE BRIGHTNESS April 4th is the release date of the new album "Beyond the Brightness" by The Grand Opening. The basic tracks for the album were recorded at the movie theatre in nge during the summer and then additional recordings at my home, the Mšregatan Studio and Fryshuset. Jens Pettersson played the drums, Bo Anders Ljung played Wurlitzer, Johanna Ojala sang some backing vocals and I did the rest. Linus Larsson mixed the album in his new house at HogrŠn, Gotland. Henrik Jonsson at Masters of Audio mastered. Beyond the Brightness is released by our label TAPETE RECORDS and distributed by DOTSHOP in Scandinavia and INDIGO in Germany, Austria, Switzerland. Order the album: DOTSHOP (World) TAPETE RECORDS (GER) ITSATRAP (US) GINZA (SWE) CDON (EU) BENGANS (SWE) SKIVHUGGET (SWE) MEGASTORE (SWE) TOWNSEND RECORDS (UK) Reviews: MAINSTAGE (German) HELGA-ROCKT.DE (German) ROTE RAUPE (German) NORDISCHE MUSIK (German) SONIC (Swedish) DAGBLADET (Swedish) ST (Swedish) LTZ (Swedish) N…JESGUIDEN (Swedish)