Just Fan Girling Over Here

I'm a huge Nauru / Axel Lundén fan, I study psychology and love cats!

[naurufan999]

I recently moved out of the student village and into my own little hybel. Not sure what that is in English. But this means I finally can hang things on the walls!!! So I went to my parents to get my good stuff. Of course I had to bring my best Nauru poster back.

Sorry for the weird angle, this flat is quite odd. And small!

This one is my favorite. From the 'we're still a bit goth but now we have a stylist' period. lol. The album reminds me now a bit of Editors or White Lies. Plasma is still my favorite. The middle time going from darker to their more poppy material.

Top to bottom, left to right: Jens, Onni, Jan Fredrik, and "Akki".

I'll show more things once I pack out my stuff and get it in order.

And yes, as you see I still use DVDs. Netflix in Norway is not very good because we have to wait for whatever gets subtitled even though everybody here speaks English!

[nekirmum]

I realize I've been MIA for a moment or ten. I've been out of commission, much to my own dismay, if not to yours. I hope that you'll accept this rambling recollection of the past as an apology.

I guess I'm like that friend who falls of the map and then turns up again as if no time has passed, picking up right were you left off. Jeez, I really am a bit like ol' Mumrik aren't I? I see it now.

Anyway, here's me picking up where we left off.

[naurufan999]

Wuhu!!! Endelig!!

[naurufan999]

Its finally happening!!!! I feel like I've been waiting to hear something from this album forever 😊 There was always some fans who said the album must be really bad since it wasn't released, but now we get to hear for ourselves! I feel like this girl right now, both excited and scared 😁I don't think it can possibly be bad, it's Axel we're talking about!

[naurufan999]

Today I was looking through Axel's website again just to see if I missed something after reading the new chapter. This is when I noticed a new song lyric was added. Here is the thing though: This song, like the rest of this record, was never released. I have no ide what it sounds like. Now I want to hear it so bad!! Please?!

Already we've waited so long, it feels he's teasing us now.

Also: I suck at English but even I know Axel needs to work on his spelling XD

[naurufan999]

Look out Tumblr, I'm back.

Okay, so here’s me starting a Tumblr blog when I should be working on a project for university. Adulting is hard.

A summary for any newcomers since I moved from Twitter:

I was a huge fan girl for the Swedish indie rock band Nauru when I was much younger. I guess I still am, but more grown up. Fan woman? Is this a thing?

I guess it is a thing! LOL

And by default of course I was a fan of the singer, Axel Lundén’s solo music. I was too young to see Nauru more than one time before they broke up. But I did see Axel two times in Oslo, Norway where I live. I saw him at Blå, where I met Micke (RIP), but not Axel. Then I saw him at Krakatao, that was his final gig. Or at least he said it.

During that show, he sang my favorite song for me. After the show he signed the set list he gave me when he saw my scarred arms, or so he says.

The actual setlist:

I did not have it good as a young person. But I’m better now and my scars are now covered with awesome tattoos.

Well, Axel tells the story much better than I with my terrible English. You can read about it here and here.

This all really started when I went on the internet to solve the mystery of the posters for that 2014 show that suddenly showed up in 2021 around my work. And to find some fellow Nauru fans to discuss it with.

I found my old roommate Linnéa. And I made some new friends who are all so nice but had no idea who Axel is but for some reason still were super interested. And some others who just thought the posters were weird.

Maybe it’s best I didn’t find many old Nauru fans around. That fanbase was so toxic in the end. The people I did meet don't have the same history and this is maybe a good thing.

I think this mystery is solved now? I am pretty certain Kåre hung these posters all over. Linnéa found one in Karlstad also. My friend in Bergen even found them there!

(This is a picture Linnéa sent me from Karlstad, Sweden)

Obviously now that he wanted us to notice the website was back after so many years. And very similar to how it was then. With some obvious differences. The story for one, the about page for another, and a few other small things.  

Later I wrote a letter to Axel to apologize for being an idiot back in 2014. Since nobody knew whatever happened to him, I was not even sure it would ever reach him. It was worth a try!

My email:

Axel later responded to the email I wrote him and I was very uncool in my response.

My uncool response:

Axel's much cooler response:

Then we found him on Twitter, with a odd name and living in L.A. I was afraid he was going to call it quits and disappear again, but some nice people in Kåre's discord server got him to think different about things.

Now Axel tells a new story. Which is good, because I still have a lot of questions. The most burning among them for me and most fans: Whatever happened to Goodbye Susto anyway?   

I think we're about to finally find out.

Jinkies! Get in the Scooby Doo bus, folks! XD 

Sorry this was such a mess. But I am a mess, so what were you expecting?

K bye.

[naurufan999]

Hi, friends!

I made this account most so I can follow @nekirmum and @nerdjerkery, but maybe I will also post some things now and again. Maybe find some fellow Nauru fans? I haven't had a tumblr blog since I was a teenager XD

Hope I can find some of you who were so nice on Twitter. (FU Elon, I was just beginning to live social media again)