Mikkel Hess is an old friend of mine. We were thinking about doing something together. First, we thought “they can come and play” and then I decided to join them.

Yes, I’ve been playing drums for 34 years. It’s kind of a relief for me, I guess. 

We're on the outside of everything, and we're a small group of countries. Looking from a distance it allows you to focus on your own thing.

I’m following the news and shows during fashion weeks, but at the same time there’s something inside of me that tries to work against it. That has been my drive force from the beginning. I’ve always tried to do things in a different way. Everybody thinks they are so independent, listens to underground independent music, but when you sum it up, it’s quite a lot of people listening to the same thing. When you think about it, you begin to realize that maybe you are not that special. From a bigger perspective, we all live our lives in a similar way, we all follow the same things. According to our social circle, we look like each other and listen to the similar music, maybe without even realizing that.

I would love to think I’m special, but I don’t know if I am. [laughs] Everything that I do is around music. I remember me with friends that were really into dark depressive music bands. We were all mostly dressed in black and were watching certain films and reading certain books. Everybody camouflaged each other. And then, suddenly we met another group that looked like us, listened to the same music and was checking out the same books. We were confused, we thought we had our own unique identity.

It differs a little bit from the general understanding of the Nordic thing, I guess. But at the same time, I was educated aesthetically in a Scandinavian way. I work a lot with conservative pieces but color control is quite important for me.

It is crucial. Humor is a good way in general to get people together. Also, it’s important to find a balance between serious and humorous sides. Danish humor is more ironic and sarcastic altogether.

It always comes in at the last minute, when we need to send the invitations out. The title needs to describe what we’ve been working on without describing it too much. Almost like a film title.

It can be anything that only you can recognize and other people might not see.