LAST PLANE OUT

Crossover Prog • Sweden

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Last Plane Out is a Swedish duo consisting of Nils Erikson who is based in Malm�, and Anders Lundquist of Stockholm. Nils formerly had a lengthy spell as the pianist and co-lead singer of the Swedish prog band Karmakanic, and Anders was formerly the bass player and composer/lyricist of the Stockholm-based seventies style hard/classic rock band 'Future Elephants?', but he abandoned his former career to become a music journalist.

In 1996, Nils Erikson released his debut solo album 'Sp�r', which was nominated as a candidate for the Swedish 'Grammis' award for 'New Artist of the Year', and music journalist, musician and lyricist Anders Lundquist was hired to write the biography which was needed to accompany the release. When Nils found out that Anders was not only a writer and a musician but also an accomplished lyricist, the pair started to collaborate on some songs, with Nils writing the music and Anders providing the lyrics.

However, their self-titled debut album took a long time to complete, with Erikson working on the music at his home studio in a converted stable, and Lundquist writing the lyrics in places as diverse as Paris, New York, and even a bench in London's Hyde Park while travelling around the world interviewing other musicians.

The finished album has been dedicated to the memory of Kevin Gilbert, the former frontman of the short-lived US rock band 'Toy Matinee', which released just one self-titled album in 1990. Gilbert died in 1996 aged 29, and the name that the duo have chosen for their project echoes the title of Toy Matinee's biggest song.

Nils Erikson actually got to know Kevin Gilbert in 1988 when both the bands they belonged to were taking part in an international competition in Tokyo. Erikson was suffering a bout of appendicitis at the time and Kevin was also feeling under the weather, so while most of the members of the other competing acts were out and about cosying up to the judging panel, he and Kevin just hung out together on the tour bus.

The opening track of the album, 'Making Her Smile', features Jonas Reingold of 'Karmakanic' and the 'Steve Hackett Band' guesting on lead guitar and bass, but Erikson plays everything else on the album. The only other guest featured on the album is Swedish-Iranian singer Aida Jabbari, who duets with Nils Erikson on track three 'Nobody Else, No'. The album was released via the Rimbo-based Swedish record label S-Rock Music Production digitally on April 26 2024, an...Last Plane Out is a Swedish duo consisting of Nils Erikson who is based in Malm�, and Anders Lundquist of Stockholm. Nils formerly had a lengthy spell as the pianist and co-lead singer of the Swedish prog band Karmakanic, and Anders was formerly the bass player and composer/lyricist of the Stockholm-based seventies style hard/classic rock band 'Future Elephants?', but he abandoned his former career to become a music journalist.

In 1996, Nils Erikson released his debut solo album 'Sp�r', which was nominated as a candidate for the Swedish 'Grammis' award for 'New Artist of the Year', and music journalist, musician and lyricist Anders Lundquist was hired to write the biography which was needed to accompany the release. When Nils found out that Anders was not only a writer and a musician but also an accomplished lyricist, the pair started to collaborate on some songs, with Nils writing the music and Anders providing the lyrics.

However, their self-titled debut album took a long time to complete, with Erikson working on the music at his home studio in a converted stable, and Lundquist writing the lyrics in places as diverse as Paris, New York, and even a bench in London's Hyde Park while travelling around the world interviewing other musicians.

The finished album has been dedicated to the memory of Kevin Gilbert, the former frontman of the short-lived US rock band 'Toy Matinee', which released just one self-titled album in 1990. Gilbert died in 1996 aged 29, and the name that the duo have chosen for their project echoes the title of Toy Matinee's biggest song.

Nils Erikson actually got to know Kevin Gilbert in 1988 when both the bands they belonged to were taking part in an international competition in Tokyo. Erikson was suffering a bout of appendicitis at the time and Kevin was also feeling under the weather, so while most of the members of the other competing acts were out and about cosying up to the judging panel, he and Kevin just hung out together on the tour bus.

The opening track of the album, 'Making Her Smile', features Jonas Reingold of 'Karmakanic' and the 'Steve Hackett Band' guesting on lead guitar and bass, but Erikson plays everything else on the album. The only other guest featured on the album is Swedish-Iranian singer Aida Jabbari, who duets with Nils Erikson on track three 'Nobody Else, No'. The album was released via the Rimbo-based Swedish record label S-Rock Music Production digitally on April 26 2024, and as a Vinyl LP on May 31 of that year.

The album was nominated as a candidate in the 'Studio Album of the Year' category of a new Swedish music award called Rocknyttpriset, which has been set up to protect and promote Swedish rock and hard rock, and the song 'Strange Love' was nominated in the 'Song of the Year' category. 'Last Plane Out' was also a 'Limelight' feature in the July 2024 issue (151) of the UK's glossy 'Prog' magazine.

The opening track 'Making Her Smile' was released as the first single from the album in February 2024, with track 7, 'Stirring Up The Ghosts' following it in March. Track 3, 'Nobody Else, No' then became the album's third single in late April 2024. A further single, not actually part of the album, called 'All Fools' Day', was released on September 6 2024.

The album's closing track 'Leave A Light On' is dedicated to late sisters Josefin Nilsson and Marie Nilsson-Lind of the Gotland-based Swedish pop/folk vocal group 'Ainbusk', who, with Erikson and Lundquist's permission, had previously recorded their own version of the song. Josefin sadly died back in 2016, followed by her sister Marie in early January 2024.

Last Plane Out are currently working on a follow-up album which is due for release in February 2025, with the intention of the duo subsequently putting together a live band with Nils Erikson handling vocals and keyboards, and Anders Lundquist switching between guitar and bass.read more

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