2020-06-08
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11.08: Simon Söderberg will talk now.
11.07: the President of the Court will sort out some ambiguities but now a few plaintiffs will be heard.
11.04: Michael Berg (the plaint strange's lawyer): the plaintiffs confronted Tobias Forge that the agreement for unacceptable and the plaintiffs never accepted the agreement presented before the US tour. I would like to make that clear.
11.03: Now we are in place in Hall 3 again…
10.57: it's still pause, it certainly always gets a few minutes later than what is said…
Pause until about 10: 55.
It's a pretty relaxed team on the Forge side. I met at them at the coffee machine where attorney Söderlund Björk had comments on my reporting from Monday: "my jacket is blue, not black as you wrote yesterday, we are not a funeral companion”.
Both sides have made their case and the former band members have been asked by the President of the Court to say something about some allegations made by Tobias Forge's lawyer Ann-Charlotte Söderlund Björk. We'll see if we hear any of them after the break.
Pause until about 10: 55.
10.42: Pause.
10.37 “" he has invoiced by contract and he has received contract proposals in 2016 and has invoiced retroactively and has not had comments on Contracts. He announced that he accepted the agreement. And it was about Musicians for Hire.
10.36: now it is Martin Hjertstedt's turn, which is one of those who stand behind the mood against Tobias Forge.
10.34: “It has been alleged that Henrik Palm has created a riff or some tune somewhere, but he played the wrong”. The tone went down instead of up and he has accepted two previous agreements. he had assignments as a live-musician.
10.29: "Henrik Palms' fee was a monthly salary but the question was whether he wanted to play but it was never a question of a full member".
10.28: now it's time to go through Henrik Palm. Here there are different opinions about when he started in the band but according to Söderlund Björk Henrik Palm was with for just over a year in Ghost, 201 19752016.
10.23: now the lawyer goes through a second person, Mauro Rubino, who is one of the four who sues Tobias Forge. Mauro Rubino had assignments as a keyboard player between 2011 and november 2016.
Ann-Charlotte Söderlund Björk: "he had no activity except as a musician and he has biable by agreement”.
10.22: "he has not created anything of value”.
It is a total sawing of former member Simon Söderberg as Forge's lawyer now does.
10.19: it took a little more than half an hour to finish the case from the Forge page. The lawyer goes hard on the former member Simon Söderberg. Söderlund Björk will probably graze of the other three even before the matter is finished.
10.15: now it goes through what concerts Simon Söderberg was attending. "Simon Söderberg was an emergency solution," says Söderlund Björk.
According to the lawyer, Söderberg already realized in 2012 that it was Tobias Forge's band and she uses email conversation that she believes proves that attitude.
10.08: Söderlund Björk “ " there is talk about drums here, I want to show that the drums were played by someone else and not by Simon Söderberg (who is one of the four who has sued him).”
However, I did not agree to what year this should have been, but it has to do with the contracts and what agreements have been made and when they have been made. The lawyer wants to show that there is a mechanical production everywhere where it says that Simon Söderberg claims that he accounts for part of the production.
10.06: it's an interview with two music experts talking about Ghost. It is unclear what Söderlund Björk wants with the playback.
10.04: Söderlund Björk now plays a sound recording before the court. From a podcast.
09.58: "he is probably the only one who can be considered the mate, alongside Tobias, the other members jumped on as gaster when the sails were already hoisted”.
09.56: she goes through a former member who is not in the mood and how he and Tobias Forge worked together until 2011. The planned upcoming gigs, he was also seen as one of those who was with and started the band, which Tobias Forge agrees.
09.56: Söderlund Björk: after the long review we will now go through the claimants.
09.55: the Parties parted and Forge hoped and believed that the other members were a closed chapter. But a month later, 16 december, returned by his agent who explained that there was a partnership between the parties.
09.50: autumn Tour after november 12, 2016, all band members were replaced. Then remained the final part of the band's autumn tour that was conducted in Europe.
09.47: the four former band members choose to move in the corridors completely open in the breaks and enter through the same door as the audience. Forte, on the other hand, has requested to sit separately in the breaks. His team pulls away to a sidelocal and enters the courtroom another way.
09.44: Söderlund Björk goes through the last details of its production. I'm guessing one more minute.
09.41: Forge arrived at Linköping Courthouse in a taxi half an hour before the trial started. He was polite and came to see me when he arrived. He even wanted to explain one thing (which I keep to myself:).
09.40: Tobias Forge sits reclining and looks at the power-point that his lawyer continues to go through.
09.38: Söderlund Björk continues its cause and as I wrote earlier, it is a solid material to go through, feels like a power collection against the mood.
09.35: on this occasion, former band members had contacted a lawyer who tried to negotiate with Tobias. It is about instruc economy and more stable income, which Tobias Forge could not guarantee, except for the basis on which they had previously agreed, explains Ann-Charlotte Söderlund Björk.
09.34: Ann-Charlotte Söderlund Björk “ " Tobias did not even know if the others would show up on stage”
09.33: Ghost went on tour but the parties barely talked to Tobias Forge, according to the lawyer.
09.30: the lawyer is now going through emails and agreements that should have been made in October 2016 and some invoicing.
09.26: the writing that is being talked about is an email where Michael Berg points out that it is unreadable. There will be a little discussion in the court but the President believes that Söderlund Björk should be allowed to continue. Frosty between the Parties and frosty between the lawyers.
09.25: Ann-Charlotte Söderlund Björk: “I can read it, so hard it is not, you can read with me if you want”.
09.24: Michael Berg interrupts Forge's lawyer: "your papers can't be read”.
09.22: inside the glass in Hall three sits a total of 15 people in the form of agents, and lawyers and plaintiffs and respondents.
09.20: both sides, through the lawyers Michael Berg and Ann-Charlotte Söderlund, have made safe and stable presentations with high confidence.
09.19: she is now reviewing what the agreements looked like and what compensation paid out. It is important to point out that the musicians have been paid, but the quintet believes that it has made incorrectly.
09.18: and the lawyer continues with the fact that the band met and tried to conclude contracts. It was at this time, to say the least, very frosty in the band.
09.16: we arrive at 2016.
09.14: now Ann-Charlotte Söderlund talks about a band member who got fired and that the band continued playing about usual after that. But more meetings were generating on Ghost's future and on new fees and contracts.
09.13: Tobias has had a bonus system that was publicly known. If records sold well, everyone would get more money says the lawyer on the grounds that Forge didn't want to sign a deal.
09.12: she begins by going through that some of the four who have sued Forge have invoiced and been paid for the fees.
09.08: Ann-Charlotte Söderlund. Tobias Forge begins day two by completing his cause.
09.07: now everyone is in place.
At 09.03: we have not yet been allowed to enter the courtroom. So just like yesterday, we'll be a few minutes late.
