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- I have been waiting for this for sooo long. For 10 years.

Yngve Sætre made this statement on the pavement outside Bergen’s most famous concert venue, Garage, a late December evening in 2006. Just by chance the much acclaimed producer with a star studded CV including names like national icons Dum Dum Boys and deLillos as well locally based stars Pogo Pops, Ephemera and Datarock, had attended a Fjorden Baby! concert. The band had existed for a year and a half and consisted of four childhood friends and a bass guitarist they had found on the internet. During this time they had played a few gigs and performed at number of jam sessions. Before leaving the concert, he invited the quintet to his own music studio. Without quite realising what was happening and before having made any kind of career plan, they accepted Sætre’s invitation.

Two years later Fjorden Baby! caugth the public’s attention when their song ”Karoline” was listed on NRK P3. The song came second in the radio channel’s competition for new bands, Urørt. ”Karoline” was actually not a typical Fjorden Baby! song. It is synth-free. The album, also entitled Fjorden Baby!, was released in January 2009 was less easy-listening, with clear references to reggae and dub. The new-wave elements and local dialect lyrics made people draw comparisons to bands like The Aller Værste and Gjennomslag. The critics were enthustiastic. The Oslo daily Dagsavisen even claimed the quintet merited a place among ”The New Great Ones” of Norwegian Rock while NRK announced that ”the debate about the future of Norwegian rock hereby ends.”

The fact that their childhood friends Lars Vaular and John Olav Nilsen & Gjengen came from the same Bergen suburb and became famous around the same time resulted in people talking about a Loddefjord wave in the Norwegian music scene. After having performed at all of the major Norwegian music festivals (Hove, Øya, Pstereo, Slottsfjell), Fjorden Baby ended a busy summer performing for 2300 people at home. They played on the football pitch where they used to play as kids. The football pitch was the venue for the festival that bears the name of the former postal code of the area: 5071-Alle til Loddefjord ( Everybody to Loddefjord).

Ever since the band has been working on a new album together with producers Yngve Sætre, Jørgen Træen, Anand Chetty and Kato Ådland. They still compose all their music together while vocalist Sturle Kvilekval is responsible for the lyrics. The band has spiced up their live performances using lasers, strobes, smoke and snowmachines as well as enormous flower pots. Their visual performance as well as their music are visibly inspired by early 1990s Manchester club culture. The first single from the album ”Rendevouz”  will be released 10 October 2010.