visisted aarhus/SPOT last weekend. here's my thoughts:
General: - I was really tired throughout the entire festival. - Aarhus is lovely - Professional festival - SCC = Scandinavian Congress Center - All shows on Friday were great, most shows on Saturday was not :(
Friday: 18.30: Before The Show @ HeadQuarters: tight, good indie, reminded me of Cymbals Eat Guitars in their sudden shifts of tempo and intensit 19.15: Kiki Pau @ Foyer/Musikkhuset: really enjoyed this band on record before the festival, but this foyer stage didn't do them right. 19.35: Vild $mith @ Filuren/Musikkhuset: yay bass! real good hip-hop, good rapping and great beats. 20.30: Highasakite @ SCC This: very good performance, much better than they were at by:Larm. 21.00: Young Dreams @ Radar/Godsbanen: Also much better this time compared to at by:Larm. nice harmonies and well played. 22.45: YAST @ Voxhall: One of the bands i looked the most forward to, and yes, they did meet my expectations, but i had to leave after 15 minutes to catch --> 23.00: Sukker Lyn @ Foyer/Musikkhuset: the foyer was suddenly a dance floor and lots of people were dancing. was met by some real good rap + dem dancehall/trap bass beats. i was in a mosh/trap pit through the entire... 15 minutes. 23.15: YO FELLES @ Foyer/Musikkhuset: Yo felles continued the party with more 808 oriented styled trap, which was perfect for me, but lots of people were leaving. nonetheless, i and some other randoms had a great time brotrapping.
Saturday: 14.30: Paper Tigers @ Café-scenen/Musikkhuset: Good. Nice. etc 15.05: City Syd @ Filuren/Musikkhuset: pop. harmonic, tight and professional pop. was good, but i left because reasons (restlessness) 17.15: Ice Cream Cathedral @ SCC That: space rock. this was probably the best show of the Saturday. original music which was well performed, even on the huge conference stage. 18.05: Fossils @ Atlas: drum and bass noise duo which wasn't noisy, nor brutal, nor headbangable. Even though it was the loudest band so far, I did actually fall asleep in the sofa during this show. 19.15: A-Laget @ Radar/Godsbanen: bassssssss. and lots of it. got some flashbacks to last year when i saw XXYYXX here. real good performance, although i disliked the two last songs (Flyplass and Funksjonshemmet) 20.45: We Were Born Canaries @ Radar/Godsbanen: I can't really remember this. Believe it was relaxing indie. 22.15: Far Away From Fiji @ Radar/Godsbanen: nice chill shit. 22.50: Hamferð @ Atlas: epicly slow doom metal! nice.
Grey = concert (not necessarily artist) not a part of the official by:Larm program
Wednesday: 21:30: Gerilja @ the WiMP-tent: zzz 22:00: Young Dreams @ the WiMP-tent: a disappointment :\. two catchy songs, the rest: meh :| 22:30: Sin Fang @ the WiMP-tent: tight indie! more upbeat than what i expected 23:00: Retro Stefson @ the WiMP-tent: good, dancy, didn't pay that much attention (seen them before) 23:30 Elephant9 with Reine Fiske @ the WiMP-tent: very good. headbangable rhodes prog-jazz? yes 00:00 Oyama @ the WiMP-tent: Icelandic shoegaze noise. 10/10. in love, wtb vinyls and tapes 00:30 Sirkus Eliassen @ the WiMP-tent: stopped by this on my way home. here's my review: ..............................................................
Thursday: 17:00: Mmm @ Fisk & Vilt: Good, but not as good as last year. 17:30: Einar Stokka @ Fisk & Vilt: one dude with an acoustic guitar, playing for five cold people in a traditionally decorated norwegian living room in the second floor of fisk & vilt. fun, even though the songs were quite 'ordinary' 18:00: Línt @ Tilt: Nice, drone-y, but not epic 18:30: Bendik Baksaas @ Fisk & Vilt: Did not do any good as a concert this early (club music) 19:15: Kaja Gunnufsen @ Fisk & Vilt: Again, up to the second floor, this time with 8 friends of her + me and [user]Martin_89 being the only two not knowing her. She did acoustic versions of her songs on guitar, with another girl joining in on vocals. Like her style, unfiltered, cute. Recommended. 19:30: Bloksberg @ Fisk & Vilt: bass, but.. nææææhhhhh 20:00: Phil T. Rich @ the WiMP-tent: skilled rapper, good atmosphere, but should have been a DJ instead of a full band. 20:30: Kid Astray @ Badstugata: Disappointing, one hit wonder 21:00: Verdensrommet @ Rockefeller Annex: Great as usual, but didn't really feel it this time 22:00: Hvitmalt gjerde @ the WiMP-tent: !!! Didn't like the two first, new songs, but still: !!! 22:30: Oyama @ Revolver: So good the day before that I just had to see them again. 10/10 this time as well. 23:00: JJ @ Kulturkirka Jacob: wtf? ZZZZZZzzzzzzzz 23:30: Pandreas @ Stratos: Good, but a little too repetitive 00:00: Cashmere Cat @ BLÅ: was a little late to the party, so only got to hear the last 10 tracks of the set, which were kinda boring. but I was told that before I arrived, he had been playing trap bangers, so I'm not gonna be too quick to judge :). 01:00: Hudson Mohawke @ BLÅ: OMGggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg trap <3 tnght, baauer, you name it. so hard 02:00-03:30: Drippin @ BLÅ: more traditional american trap music (dj), very good, but sadly the dancefloor gradually became less and less crowded after hudson stopped playing.
Friday: 20:30: Razika @ the WiMP-tent: goooooood! 21:30: Kråkesølv @ the WiMP-tent: better than the last time I saw them, but after seeing them live five times, understandably i'm just not that into it anymore. 22:00: Black Twig @ Rockefeller Annex: fuzzy rock, should have been engaging, but just wasn't. 22:30: Arlie Mucks @ Revolver: Stavanger britpop. hm. 23:00: Tusmørke @ kulturkirka jakob: flute folk-prog that was ok+ 23:30: Colleagues @ Revolver: uninteresting 00:00: Winhill/Losehill @ Rockefeller Annex: Very nice. 00:30: Shining @ Rockefeller: lousy clean vocals, but otherwise ok
Saturday: 16:00: Kaja Gunnufsen @ Internasjonalen: So good that I had to see her again, this time with full band. 10/10 17:00: Carnival Kids @ Internasjonalen: Very good. The Dillinger Escape Plan inspired 18:00: Dråpe @ Tilt: Very good, as usual 19:00 Angelica's Elegy @ Tilt: very good. 20:00: Delay Trees @ the WiMP-tent: zero impressions 20:30: Ich Bin N!ntendo @ Revolver: major energy bomb of a band, killed Revolver with their grindy jazznoise. nice 21.00: HEKSED @ Rockefeller Annex: Aggressive metalcore without breakdowns, not my style. 22:00: Ekkolodd @ John Dee: Good. 22:30: Elliphant @ Rockefeller: Cool. 23:00: Say Lou Lou @ Sentrum scene: Bad. 23:30: Highasakite @ Rockefeller: OK
Tirsdag: 15:15: Michael Paskalev: Overraskende bra. Minner tidvis om Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground. 16:45: Team Me: zzz. 17:00: Maribel: chill <3 18:30: Lamb of God: barndomshelter, moshpit, ganske god stemning. 19:30: White Denim: Husker dessverre ikke en dritt. Satt i bakken i amfiet. 21:30: Beirut: kjempegod stemning. meget fin musikk ble gjort enda finere i godt lag. 22:30: Rise Against: ble dratt med på denne av de jeg var med. det var helt forjævlig dårlig. 23:00: Bjørn Torske: flekk 23:30: Summer Camp: husker ikke så mye annet enn at jeg skrev på Facebook at dette var den beste konsert så langt. 01:00: Knife Party: holdt ut i cirka 10 minutter, men det kom aldri noe bra.
ellers: god mat, hip-hop-baren, likte spesielt godt Tomas Espedal på litteraturscenen.
Onsdag: 16:00: Michael Paskalev: 17:00: Jonas Alaska: Ble dratt med på begge deler av de jeg var med. Paskalev var ikke like bra to dager på rad, og Alaska var znork. 18:30: August Burns Red: deathcore i Norge <3. dritbra. 19:30: Michael Kiwanuka: tror det var fint, fulgte ikke så godt med. 21:30: Ed Sheeran: ble tvunget med på denne. det var nok den aller dårligste konserten jeg har vært på i år. 22:30: The Shins: tatt litt på senga av hvor bra dette var. +: jente. 23:30: Kreayshawn: gleda meg sykt til denne, og hun innfridde! Overraskende bra live, dansbart til tider. kudos! 23:45: Lana Del Rey: gikk vel mest på denne fordi de to jeg hang med skulle på denne. husker ikke så mye av den, var vel rimelig kjedelig med andre ord. 00:20: Flux Pavilion: sykt. sykt! heftige sanger, stappfullt i teltet, dansa inne og ute. svetteste musikalske opplevelse på hove. 01:00: The xx: fint og koselig! meget deilig avslutning på en svett og bra dag.
Meget fornøyd med å ha sett både Kreayshawn, Flux Pavilion, August Burns Red og The XX på samme dag, i Norge!
Torsdag: Pakket sammen teltet mitt, så gikk glipp av Philco Fiction klokken 17 ;(. 18:30: Active Child: ja, jeg var han kleine fyren som lente seg inntil stolpen og leste i en avis mens fyren spilte. ja, jeg kjeda meg, dessverre. skuffende. 20:30: Real Estate: finfin indiepop. kanskje den beste indiekonserten på hove. 22:30: Snoop Dogg: ble tvunget med på denne. Det var elendig. bare kleine folk der også. 00:00: Nero: danset gjennom halve greia, ble lei og stakk for å gjøre bedre ting. var ekstremt morsomt mens det varte dog. positivt overraska.
vet ikke helt hva jeg holdt på med denne torsdagen. jeg tok i hvert fall nattbussen til kristiansand 03:15 fra arendal for å slippe unna regnet på fredagen. *puzzy*
hvis jeg skal oppsummere min egen innsats vil jeg gi karakteren 4/10. første gang jeg har vært på festival og truffet folk som er så morsomme å være med at jeg har droppa artister for å heller være med dem, og det var nok mye av grunnen til at jeg ikke var mye på Flekken, i hip-hop-baren eller på ting som Django Django, Azari & III, Roksonix eller D'Accord.
Met up with a friend to attend Eye Emma Jedi @ Quicksilver party @ Bar Vulkan, but we were there too late. On our way home, we decided to go to BLÅ. Success: Dubwoofa: Mm Norwegian bass. grindy. dancable. got a demo from a mc for my dancing. ended early due to technical problems.
by:Larm live: February 16th 20:00: Sandra Kolstad @ Mono: Only got to see one song. 20:30: Lemâitre @ Stratos: Bad. Nobody dancing in the small crowd. 21:00: Mmm @ Gamla: 8/10. Some not-that-exciting songs, but mostly chill. 21:30: Korallreven @ Stratos: Elevator queue. Only saw a couple songs. 22:00: Beaten to Death @ Mono: 9/10 points. Deathgrind <3 22:30: Mathias Stubø Band @ Sub scene: Tiiiiight. 23:00 Anja Elena Viken @ Mono: One hit wonder. 23:30: Les Big Byrd @ Crossroads: Disappointingly 'soundscapely' 00:00 Mikhael Paskalev @ John Dee: Queue into Rockefeller 10 minutes before it started. Didn't get in.
February 17th 18:00: Snorri Helgason @ Mono: Nice, but kinda boring. 18:30: Beaten to Death @ Sub scene: Hard and good <3 19:00: Norsk rockforbunds pølsefest @ Rockefeller: free hot dogs 19:30: Dark Times @ Sub scene: Real. Awesome, as usual. 20:00: Eik @ Jaeger: Tight, but not exactly the chillwave I expected. 20:30: Slim B and Horvei the Greatness @ Sub scene: insanely tight hip-hop. Nice. 21:00: AutoLaser @ Dattera til hagen: Disappointing. Skrillex-like at times. 21:30: Staer @ Gloria Flames: Loud noise rock <3 22:00: Icona Pop @ Dattera til hagen: Boring electro pop. 22:30: The Amazing @ Nokia-teltet: ....... The Nokia tent is horrid. Loud, talking people and too crowded. 23:00: The New Tigers @ Mono: Delicious fuzz rock. 23:30: Team Me @ Nokia-teltet: ..... the Nokia-tent. 00:00: Alfred Hall @ John Dee: Landscape. Disappointing. 00:30: Sykur @ Stratos: Electronic. Was OK, but went to Revolver to meet some friends. 00:45: Casa Murilo @ Revolver: Not my style. 01:00: Lars Vaular @ Sentrum scene: Boring. 01:30: SOULDROP @ Stratos: Finally a happy and dancing crowd at Stratos!
February 18th 18:30: The Avalanche @ Sub scene: <3 <3 Shoegaze indie. Vocal harmonies, perfect. 10/10. Best concert of by:Larm 2012. 20:30: Jabba The Butt @ Revolver: noize metal duo. Hard, short, good. <3 21:00: Astraroth @ Sentrum scene: Black metal... 21:30: Eye Emma Jedi @ Rockefeller: Tight, but got a one-hit wonder feeling over it. 22:00: Mmm @ Dattera til hagen: Got lost in Eastern Oslo on my way to this one, so only got to see one song. Cocky bartender in the door, fu. 22:30: Simian Ghost @ Gloria Flames: Ok. 23:00: Skadne Krek @ Herr Nilsen: Cool. 23:30: PELbO @ Victoria: Nice. 00:00: Hedvig Mollestad Trio @ Mono: Venue full, didn't get inside.
Conclusion: first year with a delegate pass= success. Oslo <3
what CD are you addicted to at the moment? This last week I have been enjoying Desertsongs - Silhouettes.
who is one band that you used to like, but now you can't stand? If I have to mention just one band, according my charts, that would have to be In Flames.
have you ever been on anyone's guest list? whose? Yes. Amongst others, Øyafestivalen's party during by:larm 2011, where Razika and Team Me played. And Kråkesølv's concert at Folken earlier this year. ++
last band person that you got a picture with? i'm not a fangirl.
do you consider yourself a groupie? Nope.
if you were to name a boy and a girl after any band ... what would you name them? i'm not stupid.
how old were you when you went to your first concert? first "real" concert: 15
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Welcome to my nearly complete list of artists I saw live in 2011! This journal contains a chronologically sorted list with all artists I saw live in 2011, including pictures, videos, reviews and more.
This journal is more than just a list. Every artist I have ever seen live, I do my best to upload pictures for, write bio's and tag them (often I see artists without plays etc). I am also planning on adding lists of who I have seen the most times, who I have went to most concerts with, what venues I've been to the most and which artists I have the most album's of. When the lists are finished I'll make nice graphs out of them.
Green color means that this concert was awesome.
I also keep a personal tag list of all artists I have seen live, which you can find here: artists I have seen live.
The syntax is: day month year({link to} event title (day # {for festivals}), {link to} venue name, city, county, country)
(note: one of these organists might not have performed. The speaker's sound was too bad, so I didn't really catch the names of any of the performers, apart from those I found out after the concert)
My very first solo organ concert. It was ok, but I was relatively bored until Bodil Fagerheim started playing. She played some stuff composed by Marcel Dupré (Variations sur un vieux Noel, Op. 20). It was pure awesomeness. Virtuoso-ish. So much variation and finally some volume and massive organ sounds. Everything else was kinda dull and mediocre for a big church. Anyway, it was free and got some cookies after the concert :>.
Already when we arrived at Bøker & børst (Stavanger's hipster cafe/bar) at 8pm it was packed, and we had to sit out in the garden. So when the concert started at 9 it was.. even more packed. But we managed to get a spot right in front of the band.
Armar & bein plays some kind of rock that I have a hard time categorizing. A little reggae, a little 70s rock and they played with the excellent rapper Atlars. They played for over 2 hours, so it was a little too long, but very fun. Very nice music. Very nice mood in the bar. Over 30 degrees and no fresh air and veery crowded, but I didn't mind.
So they have grown so popular that they get to play Folken now.. First time I saw them I paid 30 NOK, this time I paid 200 NOK+, and that was a student ticket.. Before I comment on the music, I just have to mention some things that bothered me: that couple 15cm in front of me that kissed every 8 seconds. That guy with a sound recorder who looked like had never been to a concert before. All the underage girls. That loud, talking guy behind me. That tall guy in the front. That ridiculous guy doing silly dance moves all the time, laughing of it, and then doing another.
Now, music wise, it was good, but I was bored. I would much rather see them at a smaller venue. The calm songs became boring and people were making a lot of noise. The noisier parts (3-4) were epic. They should really make more songs like Nordavinn mot varme kinn.
If they play a small venue and I'm around, I'll see them again. If they play at a big venue, I'm not going to see them again.
After the concert we tried finding some food, but not a single restaurant was open. Stavanger is horrible that way.
Roadtrip to Bergen. Me and anders_sn drove from Sandnes at 10:00 am, took the 11:00 am ferry to Arsvågen, did not catch the 13:00 ferry from Sandvikvåg and had to wait 45 minutes (time well spent, though; pee, climb, eat). Arrival Bergen: 15:00. Visited TwoWah at her dorm and ate dinner. Finished just in time for the concert.
Behind us: a guy who made horse noises and hated the whole thing. After the concert he told us that Beethoven ist God. In front of us: 3 thug life boys talking. In front of us [2]: a girl knitting and taking photos. Below us: wooden seats made of wood.
Ung Symfoni played Anton Bruckner symphony No. 4 in E flat. This being my first symphonic concert, I was amazed by a) the volume (forgot my ear plugs in the car, so ear was distorted 10% of the time), b) the amount of musicians you can fit in a church, c) how beautiful a symphony orchestra can sound and d) how disturbing the audience can be. I will definitely be attending more classical concerts in the future.
After the concert we stole pizza from the orchestra, explored Bergen (everything is 50% cheaper than in Stavanger + there are 150% more people out in the streets compared to Stavanger on Sunday nights) and chilled out at Tuva's dorm. We drove home around 18:30 (Tuva joined us). Took the 20:00 ferry from Halhjem (where I met Nikolai's parents), was 15 seconds too late for the 22:15 ferry from Arsvågen and had to wait for the 23:15 ferry and was home around 00:30.
PHAT was awesome. A drums/guitar/vocals trio that played some kind of weird crossover between stonerish hardcore and rock (see the video). I enjoyed their songs, their rhythms and their riffs. Will try to catch them live some other time too! btw, the drummer threw a PHAT t-shirt to the audience and I grabbed it. Yay.
PHAT:
Johnny Hancocks had been hyping this concert for some weeks now.. and they did not let me down. Pure awesomeness from the beginning to the end. Their sound was great today (small venues ftw) and their new t-shirts looks great as well.
This was their vinyl release concert. The vinyl is a 7" single with the songs Pyramid Daft and Attention Citizens Of California (Nite Sprite Remix). Limited edition of 500 colored vinyls. 100 of each color. I bought a transparent red one + a red Johnny Hancocks t-shirt.
Johnny Hancocks:
Nite Sprite played his dj set afterwards, but sadly no dubstep/brostep.
... yet again the audience manages to ruin my concert experience. In front of me: three drunk 30 year old women dancing like they owned the place. Also in front me: two 40 year old women, also drunk, dancing dances that made me vomit.
The music: at times it was epic reggae, and at times it was boring reggae. Rapper Atlars did an excellent job on the stage and is by far my favorite rapper in Norway. I left a little early as I wasn't exactly captivated by this concert. Våland Rockers Sound System spun records in the lobby.
Sund Sessions is the students at the jazz line at Sund folkhøgskole. The ~15 students has made around 25 bands, and every band has made 2-3 songs. In their Norway tour they play a selection of these songs, and the set list varies from concert to concert.
The bands varied from standard jazz to funk, soul and free jazz. It was a good mix. The last few songs of the concert was definitely the best though. I would have liked to see a little more energy on the stage. A friend of mine, Johannes, played the trombone and he played it good! Was also very impressed with the left-hand drummer, the pianist and one of the guitarists.
Ice cold this Saturday evening; luckily Skur 2 was pre-heated. First up was Stine Janvin Motland. I have seen her perform with an accordion-playing man at Skur 2 before, and it was very interesting. Reminded me of Toot. Sadly, interesting doesn't make it good... Tonight she did a 30-minute solo improvisation making gargling noises, screaming, humming and doing some kind of "cancelled traditional folk music sounds".. I can elaborate if needed :P. (one can argue if I "don't understand this kind of music" etc etc, but I was not entertained.)
Christian Wallumrød Ensemble though, entertained me greatly. I was blown away by the nice (dis)harmonies and the blending of baroque music, folk music and contemporary music. Some of the songs were so beautiful that I wanted to shed a tear like a man. I loved the toy piano/piano combination + the beautifully sounding vibraphone + the awesome (sometimes also rhythmical) drumming. Other instruments included viola, violin, hardingfele, cello, trumpet and harmonica.
After the concert I signed up as a member of Ny musikk!
General about by:Larm 2011, 17th-19th February 2011(by:Larm 2011, Oslo, Oslo, Norway)
Woop. Me and hLeks took the train to Oslo from Sandnes 06:15, even though I got my drivers license the day before.. The train ride was 8 hours, but it was ok. We traveled in comfort class. Tried to get some sleep, but instead I listened to some music and watched the winter landscapes.. and watched some TV series.. and the internet. When we finally arrived we checked in at Comfort Hotel Xpress, where we were surrounded by audio tech guys and musicians. The hotel was some kind of official by:larm hotel, and has a rock/trendy image. We got a room in the sixth floor which looked like it was the largest room of the floor. Nice bathroom, TV and twin beds. Then we traded our festival passes for a festival wrist band before we walked to MartinNH's *cough* 6 million NOK apartment to make and eat dinner. After this, we took the tram back to the hotel and started our loong night (actually, I won a guest list pass for me and a friend for a Øya party in the basement of the hotel with free t-shirt, concerts, food and beer, where we hung out for about an hour before the by:larm concerts)
Friday, I woke up "early", took a shower and went down to the lobby to eat and update myself on the internet. I believe I was there for around 2 hours just chilling in the hotel's great atmosphere and waiting for Aleks to wake up.. When he finally woke up, we went out to eat at Café Sara, before checking out hipster store Hunting Lodge, record store Tiger (disappointingly small) and Big Dipper. Bought a Fjorden baby! album and a Daughters album. After this we chilled out at the hotel for a bit before heading to Martin for yet another dinner, this time with olletone, Johannes and Åsne. --> Concerts.
Saturday; same procedure: Aleks sleeps, I check the internet in the lobby. (here I found out that I won a Nokia N8 for checking into their tent on Youngstorget with Foursquare last night!) We walk all the way to Martin's appartment, goes out to eat, ends up at Peppes pizza where I eat delicious pasta bolognese, before we took the tram back to the city. I then joined Stene and carolinefeita for pizza and TV at Stene's appartment and had a good time, while Aleks met Tone and had a few beers before the concerts. I was back in the city at 21:00 and saw the last bits of Einar Stray's band. Sunday: 8 hour train-ride home.
Nice music, but it bored me. She should have brought a band. Would have made everything much better. I like her music on tape, but this was not very delightful to watch/listen to.
Sub Scene is the Metropolis / L54 of Oslo. Only 10x cooler. I loved the interior and the cafe, but the stage was a little meh. Very few people met up for this concert. Surfers Lingo's song Memories was very good, but the rest of the songs weren't that good..
Anders Danielsen Lie is a solo project that I definitely looked forward to before by:larm, and I was not disappointed. Anders loops drums, bass, vocals and keyboards into a great atmospheric mix topped off with jazzy keyboard solos and vocal melodies. All in all it sounds like an advanced dream pop band up there on the stage. The only thing I didn't like was the piano solo songs which were rather boring for min sinnsstemning.
Blood Command doesn't really play the style of hardcore I (can) enjoy.. Seeing Blood Command wasn't even in my tight scheduele, but we were there and Aleks wanted to see them so. The vocalist, a girl, had crazy vocals and there were actually some cool riffs in there, so this was a positive surprise.
As Lukestar entered the stage my expectations weren't super high, although what I've heard of them before by:larm was pretty good. The vocalist surprised me with his falsetto vocals, which were really great! The band was tight, the melodies were nice and the concert as a whole was very good.
Britta Persson was one of the acts I had huge expectations to, as I had listened a lot to her album before by:Larm. At Sentrum scene she disappointed. Most songs were boring and not very exciting. Meet a Bear was good however.
omg. In July 2009, I woke up around 3:30 AM to get ready for the 7-hour train ride to Kongsberg jazzfestival. That night, on the 8 PM concert, I could barely keep my eyes open and every time I would blink, I could swear I was actually asleep for some nanoseconds. This night at the nice church in Oslo, the same thing happened, only worse. I could barely keep my eyes open and was sleepy. After the concert I stayed for about 15 minutes just sitting in the gallery alone, trying not to sleep, while stage crew started cleaning up for the day.
What I was actually able to hear at the concert was however very interesting and good. I'm gonna catch them live some other time. I was too tired to be able to enjoy it, and it didn't help that their music was kinda shoegazy.
Blå (the stage) reminded me very much of Tou Scene in that it is far from the city centre, kinda hidden away and seems to host the weirdest (and best) concerts. They even had an ATM in there, never seen that inside a venue/club before. I came early (because I couldn't sleep in the church all day (see above)), grabbed a glass of water and positioned myself in the front where I had a pole to lean on. Great choice. No people in front of me, and good sound. Every person inside Blå looked like persons I could get along with + the venue was really warm(<3).
Musicwise (og stemningsmessig), this concert is probably on my top 3 all time concerts. It was epic. Dreamy, dreamy lo-fi shoegaze, in Oslo's thus far coolest and warmest place = great combination, especially when you're tired and this was just what you needed to wake you up (or rather, make you sleep with your eyes and ears open).
With the power of the ATM in the pub, I bought their CD from a band member and have been listening to it in my car ever since. (Writing this in late March 2011).
As Sleep Party People played a pretty long set, + I stayed to buy their CD AND it was pretty far away from the city centre, I did only get to see one Fjorden baby! song. That song was however not good. Too much synth and that classical Norwegian indie sound, instead of their chilled out dub sound from earlier.
One good thing however: I checked in at the tent on Foursquare, and I won a Nokia N8!
Third and last day with concerts. As mentioned earlier, ate dinner at Peppes with Aleks and MartinNH and was at carolinefeita's boyfriend's place eating dinner and watching a show about Thai wives and Norwegian men. Lol. So because of this, I only got to see the two last songs by Einar Stray and his band. Which were medicore. Typical Norwegian indie. Not impressed.
After Einar Stray we sat down at a table at Rockefeller and chilled out, as there were nothing interesting in the program for about 1 hour. 22 was a band I had heard one track by from before, which I liked. Seeing them at Nokia-teltet was however a disaster. Cheesy, cheesy guys running around in make-up playing bad and boring tracks. One good track though.
I did abseloutly not like Tôg when I saw them last year, and I hated it this year. Bass drum "party music", every song was the same, boring thing. (And still they got good reviews :\)
Treefight for Sunlight had promising words written about them in the programme, but they disappointed live. It started OK, Pretty tight, upbeat un-Norwegian indie, but after a while it became veery boring and not as "American" as I had hoped.
Cold Mailman is to me, typical Norwegian indie pop. They're also a very typical Norwegian band. A couple of radio singles, but mostly mediocre songs. So tonight at Nokia-teltet, they did not impress me. They had one good song, but the rest was fast-paced, loud and boring. Boo.
So after this hugely disappointing Bylarm night, I looked forward to Peter Bjorn and John. Turned out Peter Bjorn and John was the band what would disappoint me the most. Keyword: boring. Left after 10 minutes and went to sleep.
Me and Anders arrived very late... Only saw the last 30 seconds of the last artist's last song. Did not catch Disorderly House that was also playing. From what we heard it was a nice acoustic concert.
Razika: Four kinda innocently looking Bergen girls with a very charismatic lead singer singing about boys. Fun band, good music and definitely gonna check out their debut album coming out in in May (already bought it).
John olav nilsen & gjengen: Sooooooo muuuuuuuuch beer throwing... Luckily i was standing right in front of the soundboard, but there was still 2 or 3 drops... Extremely good mood in teh audience today.. The band played many good, old songs, though the new songs felt mediocre and too much "Norwegian indie style".. That synthy thing i despise (bylarm was filled with it).. It felt a lot more polished than the first album which was raw and "true".. Also, the band members was as far away as you can get when it comes to indie look.. Not that it matters, just making observartions...
Started off with some nice vibraphone/clarinet duo stuff.. Then evolved into this 12-man jam.. With a lot of bright noises from wind instruments and a lot of powerful, fast drum/bass background... It became very intense at times... But I disliked the lack of a theme + I missed stage precense and the joy. I saw a total of two smiles during the entire concert.... They were just standing there in their one-colored t-shirts playing their instrument.
160 NOK; pretty expensive concert. Started with the wonderful Nike Äir and everything was great. But the new songs were too synthy and "Norwegian" and happy. The band has a great stage presence though. Himmelen was great, Mary Janewas great. The laser lighting and the smoke was epic! Very happy I went, but I did not buy their new record despite good reviews online.
Arrived around 9:30. I Shot Alice was supposed to start 9; didn't want to see them as their Myspace recording sucked. Sadly/luckily, the show was majorly delayed. While we were waiting for them to start, they played a siiiick filthstep song at hiiigh volume with extreme bass on Checkpoint which was epic! I Shot Alice turned out to be former members of bands I saw live in 2007 and 2008 in the hardcore scene, only older and better. Their songs though, was mostly straight-forward deathcore with slow breakdowns (don't get me wrong, I like breakdowns but they weren't very groundbreaking or innovative). They also had an electronic bass drop sound they used extensively (like Despised Icon and many other bands). Was much better than expected. Then there was a 30 minute wait before Social Suicide entered the stage. The band I paid 120 NOK to see. I only got to see one song before I had to leave :\. Song was good though. See below why I had to leave.
Resept is a vegetarian café that sometimes hosts club nights with DJ's. This time they went all dubstep, with the legendary Jazzsteppa performing their live dubstep. One problem though. Age limit 20, I'm 19. No problem. I contacted one of the DJ's (I believe?) and asked if he knew a way I could get in... He set me up with one of the place's owners and told me I could come in if I helped with picking up empty glasses/bottles \o/ lolll.
So that's what I did. Me and Jone went over there, I told the guy in the door that I was the undercover cleaning guy, got in for free and met the guys in the bar. And started picking up glasses at the same time that an unidentified DJ team (possibly Awsome) was on the stage playing deep and filthy dubstep to drunk and high, dancing club-goers. I didn't really get to see very much of them, was busy picking up glasses and hung around in the second floor as it was simply too crowded downstairs. But from what I heard, it was great.
The first thing I heard when Jazzsteppa entered the stage was the awesome sound of the drum kit. Perfect cymbal and kick drum sound. And then their DJ, trombonist and vocalist did their magical things, blowing away the whole place with their dub, filth and jazzy dubstep. Things spotted during their 2-hour set: cocaine, cigarettes inside, way-too-crowded basement, Anders 'sneaking' in without showing ID, great music, Resepts kitchen, storage room and washing room and even more great music. Home at 5 AM. Was an absurd night for me, and a nice preview of the nightclub scene in Stavanger..
Johnny Hancocks played in front of the stage this time, which turned out to be genius. Became very intimate. High volume and high energy along with a great dancing crowd made this concert one of the best Johnny Hancocks concert ever. Johnny Hancocks has really nailed it with their new style. Loved their new-new song too.
Shallow Yellow was nothing special. Typical "hard rock" band. Did their clean group vocals in every song which was kinda unoriginal. Not my style.
Mick Pointer's Marillion was well, old guys. Mick Pointer in his sweatpants and white t-shirt, guitarist in leather jacket and vocalist with face paint and a mullet. He was scottish. And pretty funny actually. Some drunk people at tribute, as you would expect. This 80s prog music was quite nice actually! Good, slow guitar solos and synth that didn't sound cheesy. They played a very long set and my back was very tired, but it was worth it.
I looked forward to EGG3 based on their recording on Spotify + their video on the event page on Facebook which showed some even darker stuff going on. Sadly, when they played Checkpoint, something was missing. Most of their songs wasn't "cool". They missed a lot of power (bass guitar). They tried being extreme, but was something in the middle. Guitar wasn't distorted enough, sax wasn't dark enough, no bass and drums wasn't powerful enough for the sound they tried to achieve.
The calm songs were the best. Disappointing concert.
The first thing we saw was Kristian Thunestvedt Evjen og Ola Lindseth playing a piece by the Russian Альфре́д Га́рриевич Шни́тке (Alfred Schnittke) and a new piece by Øyvind Mæland. One guy on piano and one on violin. They played their typical "contemporary classical" styled music and it was interesting enough. Not a whole lot to say about that.
After this, we moved to stage 2 where Anders Gjerde played beautiful noise/soundscape music + vocals + guitar. It was pretty good. (thought I talked to him some weeks later at Cafe Humbug where he told me it was just some stuff he made last night and he didn't like it himself).
Then we went outside to buy and eat some hot dogs while Stine Janvin Motland and Sanae Yoshida Mæland premiering "Ad Undas", a new piece by Øyvind Mæland with lyrics by Øyvind Rimbereid. We heard and saw this from outside, and I'm pretty happy I didn't have to sit through it. Typical Stine Janvin Motland performance. Very high pitch at times.
After this we went to see Lukestar on Folken. Read about it below. After Lukestar, we returned to this spring concert, where Karin Midgard og Elise Aabakken danced to percussion by Bastien Ricquebourgs. We only saw the last 15 seconds of it, but it looked good. Two dancers and a percussionist.
Next up, Pål Jackman, Gjertrud Økland and Per Zanussi performed as Mini-Wunderkammer. Pretty fun, spanish-y music with double bass, acoustic guitar and violin. The audience loved it.
Then, Maria Hannevold danced in front of the bar with Reidar Garthus on the saxophone. They had problems with their background track, so it was only the saxophone and the dance, and not the background noises. It was good nonetheless, even though i couldn't really see anything from where i was standing.
And at last; Odd Børge Sagland, Vidar Schanche, Ståle Birkeland, Christophe Bezenac and Petter Fadnes played free jazz. Too contemporary and jazz for me. Just spastic drums and spastic saxophones. Applauds weren't that good either, so i guess I wasn't alone not liking it. Or maybe it was too late.
I looked forward to this concert, as I liked their show in Oslo. (note: was positively surprised by their show in Oslo).
However, today they entered a 30% filled Folken with the attitude of rock stars. Chanting to the audience to try to create a lively atmosphere and act like everything was crazy down there. It wasn't. The band member's attitude was also saying "i'm a big rock star, so i'll do these cliche moves and chants". I hated it. Also, every single song was mediocre. Typical norwegian indie band with lots of fillers, and a couple of radio hits. Disappointing. Left just a couple of songs in the concert. Luckily I got the concert for free, winning a guest list pass for me + a friend.
Like Thunder Goes Under: Better than expected. Classic-y rock. Guitarist broke a string after the first song so there was a 5 minute break. But songs were surpringsly good.
Protendo: For the next performance, Yngve and Thomas arrived (they knew 90% of the crowd). Protendo, which is a group of graduate students from Vågen high school, played many cheesy funk songs with trumpets and saxophones. They played it good, but i hated the songs. Fun evening though.
Justin Vickery played the organ. Didn't really pay attention. Harald Helland and Ruben Espelid played some songs. I guess Ruben sings good, but the songs were Christian so yeah... blabla.
Never seen this many people at Martinique before. The place was packed, and Harrys gym seemed genuinely happy to be there. They played a fantastic set, with Brother as the best tune of the evening.
After the concert at Martinique (see above), we rushed to Tou Scene to see 120 Days. Bloksberg played an hour before. 120 Days was standing in a circle, and the audience was supposed to stand around them. People kinda flocked at the entrance, which was the worst position in terms of sound, but they moved to where we were standing after a while. There was a lot of smoke and cool lights. This + the dancy music made it a fun concert. People were dancing. How rare is that? Music was good too!
I biked to Stavanger this windy, but warm May day. Me and Anders went to Rogaland Teater where they had a costume sale, before biking down to Galleri Sult to see this duo consisting of Line Horneland and Alf Terje Hana (Athana). Their soundscapes were beautiful, and Hana really knows how to make nice sounds with his guitar and his pedals. But it was perhaps not interesting enough for my young ears, so no green concert.
Ingvar Lygren played organ and piano pretty good. Åge Østrem played trumpet pretty good. The rest were "confirmants" singing + my cousin Ingvild Næss on violin.
My first symphony orchestra concert. I drove the wrong way on my way to Stavanger konserthus, so I was very late. When I arrived there, the foyer was already empty and I had to run to make it to the the hall before the orchestra started playing. The second I entered they started playing. Win.
First thing they played was the overture from Ruslan and Lyudmila by Михаи́л Ива́нович Гли́нка (Mikhail Glinka). I can't really remember anything from this.
Secondly, they played Still Talking to Myself, composed by Mark Adderley. This was the premiere of the piece. Kjersti Dahle was the solo oboist. I liked it a lot. Interesting contemporary classical music.
They played their free jazz and the audience loved it. I wasn't too much into it, but it was ok! I left after the break. This was my first time at Cementen, they usually have 20/21 years there. Cool place. They played in the bar - I don't know if there are more to Cementen than this, guess I won't find out either as I'm moving to Kristiansand this summer.
This concert is a little special: I was the promoter of the concert.
It started out with anders_sn wanting to do something special (now that he turns 20(?)). So he wanted to arrange a concert, and so he did. He contacted the vegan cafe Resept, who hosted a Jazzsteppa concert earlier this year, and they said yes to hosting a new dubstep concert. So he then contacted a couple of artists, and got hold of Cookie Monsta through his booking company. Resept took responsibility for the sound, place, beer, poster etc, while Anders fixed the flight tickets, contracts, hotel and driving. I was the promoter. Prior to the event I invited people on Facebook, Last.fm, various forums, and me and Anders walked around the entire city putting up legal posters for the concert.
The concert day: I picked up Lars Erik, who was also in on this, and we drove to Anders to finish up making some vegan cookies we were selling at the show, while Anders picked up Cookie Monsta at the airport. We then bought some food for the night, and drove to Resept where we started packing in the whole basement in tin foil and clearing the tables and pillows from the cafe up to the kitchen. The stage was also set up, and the audio equipment set up and tested by the other DJ's of the night, Dj Automat.Piss.Tool aka Tante Trude, I believe, chef, at Resept, was playing + Skytebass from Bergen, who took a nap while we set the stage up.
The doormen/bouncers, which were friends of Anders, I believe came around 21:30. Doors opened 22:00. This was a 20years concert/nightclub, so I wasn't even old enough to come in, and many of my friends weren't old enough, sadly, but we did want to target the nightclub scene in Stavanger. When the clock was 22:30, and there still only was 2 guys dancing to Automat.Piss.Tool, I must admit I was beginning to get nervous.
Around 11:30 we had 45 paying people, but still almost nobody was there. Skytebass started playing his own tracks, a little more melodic and sometimes 8-bitty dubstep, was pretty cool, but I think we should have brought more than 1 sub. When the clock passed midnight, everybody who was outside had to go in, as you can't have alcohol outside after midnight. Then it finally became relatively crowded on the dancefloor. People were having a really good time. Around 1am Automat.Piss.Tool took the stage again, and played his filthy stuff, and people loved it. Anders picked up Cookie Monsta from the hotel, and he came on stage around 1:30 am. People loved it. I liked it. The whole floor was filled with dancing people, and the people upstairs was enjoying themselves as well. At this time, I was also up on the stage, sitting behind the dj "desk" and controlling the one light we had. It was a huge blitzer/flasher, and every time it flashed, the whole room (covered in tin foil) reflected the light. There was only one speed, which was epelecticly fast. In other words, epic in the drops. No light during the buildup, BAM full epelepsy party during the drop. Success. But it was hard timing it, as the light needed 3-4 seconds to warm up. Anyway, it was pretty interesting sitting behind the artist, and not to mention being the guy making the place light up. Me and Lars Erik split the job, so I got dig the music as well.
He was done around 2:45 am. Automat.Piss.Tool played some songs until 3:30am, when we packed up. I drove home.
Maskinhallen is a brand new stage at Tou Scene, and this was one of the first concerts there. I loved the place. Pipes in the ceiling and walls from the old brewery. Lighting was also good. AdLib played their usual good show, but I'm not as impressed anymore by their skills ("seen it before"), so they have to do something else to impress me from now on. One of their lasts tracks were pretty good though, Jaga Jazzist-inspired stuff with lots of sound and cymbals. I think it's a good road for them to take.
Was in Oslo for a couple of days, just for fun, and this concert was one of the few events that interested me. Hausmania is a ""self-driven"" culture house, occupied by punks and communists and all that. The whole house is basically just graffiti. I arrived in the backyard, where 4 guys were drinking beer. When I found the way in, I had no idea where "Humla" was. I asked a flute-playing hippie who was in the graffiti-hallway, and he pointed me to a room with a sofa and some speakers, where I met a girl from bodø called "Ane vegane" (or as I originally thought, "Ane med gane"). I paid 40kr, and got two huge straight-edge X's on my fists. She told me the concert didn't really start just yet, in fact, an hour from now. So I went back to the city and found 4-5 nice cd's and vinyl's at Big Dipper + forgot my umbrella there, before heading back with the cd's to where I was sleeping (Jon's brand new apartment), and walked back to Humla. I bought my tickets around 19, and now the clock was 21, and the concert still hadn't started.
The first band was from Skien, and play real screamo-ish hardcore. Real feelings and awesome screamo-styled music. I loved it. Ane Vegane joined in on vocals on one track.
Strike a Match:
The second band was a 2-girl-1-boy-band, who I was originally looking forward to watching. They had a free demo on Bandcamp which was great, emotional hardcore. They were pretty cute. And good music too. I bought their cassette demo afterwards.
Dark Times:
The two last bands were from Macedonia. The first one was pretty nice, not so hard, but still pretty hardcore. They had some sound problems towards the end with the bass drum. The last band was nearly the same band, just with a girl as a vocalist. They were ok too I guess, but I did leave because I was tired and a little uncomfortable due to the fact I was at a concert alone (who does that anyway?).
Now this was weird. It said it would start around 22:00 on touscene.com, but it was more like 21:30, so we only got to see the last 15 minutes. There was only about 2 cars parked outside, so we did start to think a little, but after all, it was a Tuesday. We paid; but the girl behind the empty bar/counter didn't know if they had started or not (which is a weird thing to not know).
I entered stage one (the biggest one) with ear plugs, and immediately I thought I had entered a sound check. But it turned out it wasn't a sound check. In fact it was in the middle of the concert.
Tou scene 1 is a huge room. In this room, there were 5 people sitting on chairs in the middle of the room, holding ropes attached to the light rig (see picture). And no music or anything. Taku Unami was in the process of putting up more objects in the light rig while I was taking a chair. Me and Nikolai were given the heaviest rope, which had a chair attached. He then lifted the light rig up to the roof, and we had to hold back/drag/release to make the chair go up and down (it did make a sound while doing this). Taku was laughing through the entire thing. At one point he sat beneath our mid-air chair with a blanket over his head and just sat there laughing while we were teasing him with releasing the chair on his head. After this, still in complete silence, he packed together while we sat there in the middle of the room watching. When everything was cleaned up, we applauded and then left. It was super weird.
Journal under construction! Lots of videos, pictures and reviews are missing. I am adding stuff all the time, but I don't have much time anymore.
Welcome to my nearly complete list of artists I saw live in 2010! This journal contains a chronologically sorted list with all artists I saw live in 2010, including pictures, videos, reviews and more. The reviews part is still under construction.
This journal is more than just a list. Every artist I have ever seen live, I do my best to upload pictures for, write bio's and tag them (often I see artists without plays etc). I am also planning on adding lists of who I have seen the most times, who I have went to most concerts with, what venues I've been to the most and which artists I have the most album's of. When the lists are finished I'll make nice graphs out of them.
Green color means that this concert was awesome.
I also keep a personal tag list of all artists I have seen live, which you can find here: artists I have seen live.
I started to add reviews in November/December 2009, so reviews for the older events will probably contain factual errors etc.
The syntax is: day month year({link to} event title (day # {for festivals}), {link to} venue name, city, county, country)
After waiting 15 minutes at 7-11, I managed to not catch the train, and had to call Anders to pick me up in Sandnes, so I had to wait yet another 15 minutes.. So not a good start on the evening, but we eventually made it to Checkpoint Charlie in the ice cold weather. Mordi was already on the stage when we arrived, but I believe they hadn't start the set yet. They played good as usual, and also played a new song, which I liked, even though it felt more mainstream. First time I've heard them do melodies on vocals.
Mordi:
We thought that Mordi was the last band and that we had missed Johnny Hancocks (we already missed Overthrow, but not so important anyway). So we got two ice cold glasses of water and spoke to this old man with beard, and then suddenly Johnny Hancocks appeared. They too played good as usual, with improvisation and an awesome new Digitech Whammy pedal. Johnny also had a new song, which was surprisingly similar to Mordi's in one aspect, the rhythm. Johnyn Hancocks did it more advanced though, and even though I wasn't in love with the song after the concert, I couldn't get it out of my head the next day ^^. So obviously it was good. Both Johnny Hancocks and Mordi played too short sets :(
This concert was going to take place at "Bøndenes hus", but was moved to Folkets hus. I've never been there before, and I was surprised that there was a hall that big inside the house. The concert was postponed 50 minutes, as a lot of people were still filling the house. I really enjoyed the parts where all three played, and especially the tunes with violin. It was a good experience to see them live, but they did not play any songs from their older albums, I ended up buying their 2005 album Bra Kast!. Anders bought their 2009-album, which I don't remember the name of. We drank water after the concert.
Extremely powerful, droneish experimental metal right here. Drove with hLeks to Tou Scene, where we met a bunch of friends (or friends of friends). Paid 60NOK too much (did not get student prize), but it was worth it. Shining's sound was extremely "soupy", which was kinda epic when they played 10-15 minute long songs. Not much to say, if you like their album Blackjazz, then I definitely recommend going to a show.
I have never seen so many people I know gathered together at one venue.. It seemed like half of the school was there. Anyway, AdLib opened up with their funkiest song, and actually managed to surprise me. The last time I saw them live, at Arkivet, they were not moving at all, mostly playing jazz with long solos. This time, they were "jumping around". Almost like another band. But they were still AdLib, and I loved it. Great funky jazz. Very digable.
FoxJam has a sound that I'm not a huge fan of. A little cheesy, mainstreamish sound, but still unique and original. It's hip-hop vocals with a band + flute. It bored me, but some songs are enjoyable. As an encore, AdLib joined FoxJam and played together, which was pretty cool.
Me and hLeks was aware that there would be tables and chairs at this concert, so we tried to get there early to get the best spots.. but that didn't work out so well. When we arrived there we met up with olletone, and scouted after some free chairs. Luckily, Tea from my class was there, and we stole some chairs and sat down at their table, which was in the middle of the room. Perfect.
We were actually there to see The Tiny more than Ingrid Olava, as The Tiny sounded well; much more interesting than Ingrid on record. I was however put a little off they first entered the stage. The girl of the duo made weird facial expressions which was awkward to look at. The man was extremely skilled on the cello (and saw) and did some good vocals as well. For me, this was not a good experience, but don't get me wrong, they were skilled musicians. Both Aleks and Tone bought their album in the pause (and got them signed).
The Tiny:
Ingrid Olava, who is too piano heavy for me, impressed me. She played some songs from her upcoming album, and some songs from her breakthrough album - I really liked the new ones. They were almost post-rock at times. She had two skilled musicians on the stage, one on bass and another on drums and percussion. I would probably have been sleeping through the concert if it had not been for these extra layers of sounds, as I'm not really into piano solo artists.. but yep, all good. She spoke (very cutely) to the audience (almost as cute as Marit Larsen), and I would say that the audience('s) mood was good.
Ingrid Olava:
Towards the end I became bored though. Double encore is not my style at all.
My second visit to Kulturlaboratoriet.. This über-abandoned, old and experimental cold house with a provisional stage. It was a party with around 95 people (from the Facebook attending list). And of course, no party without cigarettes... so the small room was more of a gas chamber than a room.. but I survived. Musically, Sly Dr. Bloom sentimentally played their best tracks chronologically. And before the last track, they unveiled their new name playing a new song, which I can't really remember how went. The concert was good music-wise, but the atmosphere and all the people made it a really cool evening.
Had some expectations to this - what I heard here on Last.fm was very good. And they were playing really well live as well, long and sludgish songs, but I felt there was something missing.. (apart from the crowd - we were like 15 people). Maybe it was the sound, or my ear plugs. Anyway, a really, really good concert, but still not a green one. I'm gonna see them live again if I get the chance.
Ultra Sheriff played spacish electronica with bass, guitar and synth. The music was kinda cheesy, and the vocals got boring, but a consistent stage show and some funny lines made it ok. Not my style, but I'm glad bands try out new stuff like this.
Casiokids's show was a little dull.. Don't get me wrong, it was good and all, but not as good as expected. They managed to ruin the best part of Verdens største land, by adding some staccatos or whatever in "Norge, Finland og Sverige" :((
lol yeahh. I paid using my mom's Aftenbladkort, but apparently, you had to be the owner of the subscription to use it.. but they let it go ^^. I was also kinda stoked over that the DJ played Uffie before the concert \o/.
Sly Dr. Bloom played their set well, as usual. Extremely much bass. I don't think I had heard their newest song before, so that was cool.
The Pink Robots was like.. happy'ish dance pop thing.. im not a dancer, and musically it became dull after a couple of songs, so I was disappointed in them.
Jack Dalton played what I like to call "standard" music. They mix genres, but not enough. The best parts were the instrumental screamo parts (the last song, 628 or something like that).
After the concert we hung out with the guys in Sly Dr. Bloom in the rain, before we hit Martinique and found a blanket. Oh, btw, they played Yeasayer and Passion Pit aaand Girls at Martinique, and Yeasayer at Checkpoint Charlie. I had no idea people had good taste in Stavanger.
Me and anders_sn only got to see The List's two last songs, but what we saw saw surprisingly good. Kinda post.
Kråkesølv entered the stage at midnight - a little late for a Thursday, but it was totally worth it, although I overslept badly for school the next day. Second time I saw them, and they played very nice selection of songs. 3-4-5 new songs, and the rest from Trådnøsting. Stemning. Really fun concert, I rarely get to see one of my top artists live. The air quality was horrific though. And the 0.33l Cola was 31 NOK.
As there were some time between The List and and Kråkesølv, I paid 200 NOK extra for something I had no idea what was. And I'm glad I did so, because Veronica Maggio was niiice. Her music was pop'ish, melodic and the performance was excellent.
Captain Credible put up a funny scene show, and played his role well from the second he entered his .. table. Told stories between the songs, which made the slightly drunk audience laugh every time. His music was also really good, and he used lots of weird boxes and stuff to do stuff... Very IDM'ish chiptuneish stuff about robots, unicorns and rainbows. Loved it.
I had no idea what this "Staer" (Stær) band was, so I was surprised to see members of Johnny Hancocks and Gnizzt entering the stage.. It was noisy, but they had some cool stuff going on in the background. Very good!
Noxagt was a lot slower than expected, but still very interesting. At times I tagged them soundscape in my head, even though that's not it. (I did tag them soundscapeish, though).
Terraex is a band that I like quite much actually. They have a nice sound, so hearing them acoustically was something I looked forward to. I think they played good and had a great sound even acoustic. Good concert, free, first spring day of 2010 + 130 NOK chicken sandwich consumed.
Met up with junior789 and anders_sn in Langgata with Lanternen. It was a lot colder than expected, and the band members were probably freezing cold, but they played very good, as usual! Very funky, very nice. After the concert me and Anders wandered around in Sandnes, eventually making our way to the grand opening of Sandnes 2160, where this huge stage and even huger screens were. Got a glimpse of the queen of Norway.
The first thing that happened after entering Tou Scene 1 hour before the concert, was that MarcelBerge spilled beer on anders_sn's camera. Then they became friends. Or something like that.
The first band, Lydia Laska, was probably the worst act I have seen live the last year. I liked a song from Myspace, and also read about their "awesome scene show", but they stood still most of the time. And played standard thrashy, post-punkish music that's easy to like for drunk 30year-olds. The drunk audience bothered me the most. I can't stand certain drunk dance moves. Super bad.
Serena-Maneesh however. Great noise, great performance. Great music.
Me and anders_sn decided to bike out to Bryne to see this concert. Nice weather, and got to have a closer look at some animals (and their smell). We arrived at Bryne 1 hour too early, so we wandered around in the crowd. Did I mention that I hate pre-puberty boys?
The concert was way too loud and Donkeyboy became boring after a while and is definitely best one song at the time, on the radio.
LidoLido has some catchy stuff going on, but was mostly remixes and I think that's kinda pointless. But not bad.
Faith SFX was surprisingly skilled. Really good beatboxing, never seen a professional beatboxer before. He even did some dubstep stuff for a couple of seconds.
Met up with junior789 at the train station in Sandnes, walked to Nytorget where we met anders_sn and Kjartan V. (vocalist in Repent. Gnizzt played very good.
From here we walked to Øvre Holmegate, where Switchblade Love was playing. Relaxing stuff, but nothing I would like to hear more of.
From there we walked to Arneageren where Dark Revolution of Funk were playing their last song, which I thought was horrifyingly standard, but after listening to them at Urørt later, they weren't actually that bad.
Some 15 minutes later, ...And the Echo Falls played. A poor attempt to play progressive rock/metal. The sound was horrible and the songs uninteresting. Sadly enough.
And thennnnn I tasted spring rolls for the first time (with chicken), and didn't really enjoy it. Repent played a very good show shortly after at Nytorget.
Also bought this year's first Norwegian strawberries, 40NOK and a hoax.
The last time I saw Shining, I was amazed by their sound and the volume, but this time it felt like the same thing all over again. A good concert, but nothing more. Maybe it had something to do with the 3.5 hour long train ride to the festival?
Sitting a hot art gallery, not being able to see anything of the things going on with Keith's tabletop guitar, wasn't exactly a good experience, but the sounds he made was pure art.
Kongsberg church is a horrible place to have concerts. The musicians, an organist and a drummer/percussionist, sat in the third floor, so only a few people in the fourth floor was able to see them. Og så var det knirkingen da. But as for the music, this was an interesting concert, which gradually got better and better (the sound was bad in the beginning).
This concert at Energimølla was probably the most boring concert at the festival. TOOT was unbelieveably little interesting; nothing really happened and they did their own stuff instead of playing with each other. A guy making noises with his mouth, a guy making clicking noises with some analog electronic equipment with extremely little variation, and a guy on a trumpet.
After TOOT played way too long, it was No Spaghetti Edition's time to shine; with 9 members I figured this would be a lot more interesting and exciting, but it was as quiet and long as TOOT, and half of the band did nothing at all.
MIMEO, 10 (actually 11) musicians sitting around a table in the middle of the room. The name MIMEO is an abbrevation for "Music In Movement Electronic Orchestra", so the audience was able to walk around the table to look what was going on. Musically, this was a lot more interesting than No Spaghetti Edition and TOOT. This was a lot more powerful at times, and a lot more happening + the musicians actually played together instead of individually. A relatively good concert.
Tortoise was definitely the most disappointing act of the festival. Nikolai and Martin thought it was so bad that they left after one song. Me and Eirik was there for about 3 or 4 songs. Vegard liked it. I expected post-rock, either the mathy kind, or the atmospheric kind, but instead we got something that well.. didn't really interest me. They had their own sound, they played well, but I just didn't like it.
Jaga Jazzist was the best concert of the festival. I had not listened much to this band, so I did not know what to expect, but they had the post-rock elements I like. Good songs, good show. Almost a green concert.
Hardcore marathon, like back in 2007 and 2008. Lots of people showed up. There were vegan food and moshpits.
Poster:
Kurt Tank started. OK show.. perhaps the most emotive band of them, but still pretty hardcore. moshing was good.
Bitter Taste was next. I liked this better. some good, hard and slow parts. still good moshing and setting. pretty headbangable.
Dakari played after, and it was the best performance of the night. Snöras-alike parts. Hardcore, but still good.
Rank N' File: I'm sorry, but I can't stand this kind of hardcore. The über standard hardcore, with clean group vocals and chants... Left after two songs.
Evolve: Really hard hardcore.. but not so innovative.. kinda reminded me of power-violence, and that's not a good thing. Not for me.
Nice night at Kinokino, where they showed local music videos and interviewed the people behind them. Hovering Orville did a reverse music video, they played music live at two silent short films. The shorts were beautiful alone, but with the post-rock-ish music it was perfect. Great stuff.
The week before the festival, @kolumbus_no, the local bus company, asked twitter for volunteers who would get a day pass for the festival by wearing a special t-shirt. I said yes, and won. The only thing I had to do was wear a t-shirt with a QR code, and then let people "scan me" thoughout the day. Around 15 people scanned me, so that was some easy 700 NOK saved. The weather was beautiful. A lot of my friends were there. But. The music........
Bare Egil Band started the day.. he might be funny, but seriously.. the music is horrible. I can't stand it. He would do a lot better as a stand-up comedian.
Bare Egil Band:
Next up was Madcon. They played on the main stage. And ew. Crappy music. PLAYBACK! On a rock festival? give me a break.
Madcon:
Tôg was next. Boring, lifeless and unoriginal electronic music. Chilling in the grass was unpleasant with this music in the background.
Then it was time for Lars Vaular on the main stage. This guy is wicked. Laidback style, without looking like a douche, Bergensdialekt and great lyrics. Easily the best performance of the festival's third day. The sound was a huge improvement from the last time I saw him live, in Sandnes. Gi meg no bass.
Lars Vaular:
Purified in Blood then played at stage 2. Crowd was getting lively, but I can't stand the music. It's boring. Repetive. "Hardcore".
Purified in Blood:
Thomas Dybdahl on the main stage was what I was looking forward to the most, but it wasn't as fantastic as I hoped. I mean, the music was good, but the intimacy was lost on the 1000x1000meter stage. I will have to catch this guy inside one time, because the music truly is beautiful, but on Lassa, it was a disappointment.
Thomas Dybdahl:
Kvelertak on stage 2 was probably the craziest concert, with dozens of crowdsurfers, beer throws, stagedives etc. But once again, the music is boring. I say unoriginal even. No-no for me.
Kvelertak:
Ozzy Osbourne on the main stage. 10-15 000 people in the crowd. It was epic looking at the crowd from all the way back when the headlights lit up the area, but that was about it. All I could see was this old guy in a mantle singing out of tune, and a couple of cheesy band members. Left before the first song was finished, that's how bad it was.
Ozzy Osbourne:
But all in all, a great day with friends in beautiful weather. I hope there will be another Rått og Råde. I just hope I can influence the booking :d
My first real Numusic experience. Tou Scene awesome and experimental as always. Psychedelic lights in the ceiling, DJ's and lots of people. Harrys gym's set was pretty much based around their new album, which I had only listened to once or twice (it was released some days ago). I've been listening a lot to their first album, so I was naturally hoping they would play more from that album. Seems like the audience was hoping for that too. When they played Brother and Attic, that's when the audience really started to get lively. Nevertheless, great concert, great band. Bought their new CD after the concert and got it signed by Anne Lise.
Harrys gym:
At this point I had been awake for like 20 hours, but we still stayed to see the last band of the evening, Tussle. However, as expected, this was a major fail for me. This type of electronic music isn't interesting to me and the band seemed lifeless..
Tussle:
Aeroplane dj'ed stage 2 for several hours, but I only caught some glimpses of him.
Nice night at Folken. Although I was tired as hell. Lars Erik drove us to Folken, where lotta boyz was in da hood, and Steve Reich was talking to local hero Nils Henrik Asheim at the bar, seemingly unknowing of the concert that was soon about to start. Electrical Counterpoint, 2x5 and stuff like that. I enjoyed 2x5 the most. Really nice rhythm with the electrical bass and keyboard (2 of each).
Great evening this. Me and Anders arrived at 22:30, when DJ Iwana was dj'ing. Her music was OK, but not the type of dubstep I enjoy.
Taigatrost started the night on scene 1, and their music was extremely chilled out, but still very interesting. I would love to hear more.
Loefah then entered the dubstep stage with MC Sgt Pokes. Some technical problems, but after a while it was fixed. This guy played for like 2 hours.. and the kind of dubstep I don't like. I prefer the slower, "2-step" rhythms.
Since I didn't like it, I decided to check out what was going on at stage 1. Tiedye played some kind of... pop? nu disco might be more like it. Relatively tight musicians, but the music was totally off for this evening. Dubstep to nu disco, it didn't really fit that well.
and finally.. Digital Mystikz with Mala and Coki on the stage. The volume was higher, the bass was higher and the people were higher (lol). Some crazy tunes. Especially towards the end (this set was also way too long, imo, they played until 3.30 am). I loved the wobbly stuff.
Kurt Tank. I wrote "OK" in my last concert review, but this time it was worse. Standard hardcore.
Kurt Tank:
Deathbed Reunion, the new project of Repent's old members, plays a more experimental form of hardcoreish music, but still too hardcore for me. A couple good parts, but mostly not my style.
Deathbed Reunion:
Like Rats From a Sinking Ship exclusively played songs from their upcoming album, and I can tell it will be good. The music is even more dynamic than the last time. I love how they go from beautiful/chill riffs to grindtech in a split second. Truly unique sound.
This was the second last concert of their Norway tour, where they exclusively play under-18 gigs. +2 Kudos for that!
Iris Porturas played acoustic guitar. Mostly songs she had written herself.
The guitarist in Arlie Mucks was apparently stabbed with a knife in the hand, so he couldn't play. Their vocalist/guitarist, Tord L. Bjørnevik, stepped in and did a solo, acoustic concert for us.
This great evening, right after #tweetupstavanger at Comfort Hotel Square (yes, the hotel with Stavanger's first Foursquare special), we were entertained by Dagfinn Nordbø, a radio and newspaper journalist/poet. He read his poems and satires accompanied by a jazz band consisting of piano and double bass. Some laughs, some nice poems and nice thoughts. ... red wine
After the (new) Hamu(e)mon band practice we decided to go to Stavanger to watch The Norwegian Fords. They consist of teachers from my music friend's old school. Before them played a couple of other bands. the first we saw was Sublime Eyes, a death metal band with female vocals. They were pretty tight, but I'm out of that music atm. Elise Vatsvaag was ok as usual, I can't enjoy that music live though. The Norwegian Fords also played good, but again, too soft to be enjoyed live for me. FoxJam, as normal, played good, but I have seen them so many times now that I am not that impressed anymore.
After this we went to Thomas, hung out and watched a movie (rating: 3/10) before we returned to our beds at 4am.
So, met up with Vidar, Anders and Aleksander Martinique 1.5 hours before the concert started to reminisce. I was immidieately impressed by Pow Pow's unique sound, but I was never really loving it. Good show.
POW POW: It started getting crowded as The New Wine entered the stage. They played tight electro pop/nu disco music that the crowd seemed to love. I liked it too. Bought their CD and got it signed.
Some kind of progressive/stoner rock quartet. Nearly empty Tribute. Musically this was good some times, and bad some times. I really enjoyed the instrumental parts, but they were way too short. The vocalist just had to sing all the time. Very nice and 'proggy' bass lines.
After meeting Ole's cat, we went to Metropolis to see TARP (well, after we bought 36 pieces of "Walters mandler" chocolates). Saw the last song of Highway Rudi, but I can't really say I was too into it.
TARP however was really good! They were really into it, groovy bass and fuzzed guitar solos with unique vocals. The incest story was also awesome.
Orchestral night with Yngve and Thomas. At least that's what we thought. Turns out it was more of a contemporary mini festival. We arrived at Skur 2 around 21pm, and it seemed like we were the only ones there, but right before they started to play more people came (with their obligatory red wine glasses). The first thing we heard was some kind of atonal improsivation from four brass instrument players (I THINK (side note: I have no idea about orchestral/classical music) it was two trumpets and two slide trombones). It was quite nice. After this they played a piece using notes, but I can' really remember it. The next thing that happened was that one of the trumpet players took some kind of mini trumpet/cornet/wateva, and spasmicly played it as he changed mutes and threw them around. Contemporary. As he did this the three other players started to play what I like to call "ompa ompa" music. It was a weird mix.
Then, an accordion player and a girl sat on two chairs. The accordian player played his instrument, and the girl shouted. And sung. And some other stuff. It was weird, contemporary and it had extreme Toot vibes. I think I liked it.
Next up more players in the orchestra played. A couple drummers and brass players etc. They played an extremely typical contemporary piece, with spasmic drumming and sudden impulses of ... noises.
After a red wine pause, the piece of the evening was played. Øyvind Torvund explanied that this was his first piece using synths (I think), and that he was inspired by cambodian folk music. I think there were about 15 musicians playing now, in four different groups placed around the room, which gave a really nice effect as we were sitting in the middle. This piece entertained me with lots of sounds, but also with calmer parts. I really liked that the drummers suddenly started to play rhythmically towards the end. And the synths were awesome too. Although I'm not into the "scene", I enjoy getting glimpses of the "community" and the music from time to time, so this was a nice evening.
After the Kitchen Orchestra concert we went to Checkpoint Charlie to see Ole play with Borderline Case. There were nobody at the door, so we just walked in without paying :d. Only got to see the last part of the concert and I was pleasently surprised. It wasn't as "standard" as the recordings. Thomas shouted "Olee" a couple of times, and the last time more people joined in, and after a couple of seconds the entire venue was shouting "Ole" ^^. (he's the drummer, former drummer in Sly Dr. Bloom)
Magical. Powerful, beautiful vocals mixed with great keyboard sounds, loops and effects. A very respectful and silent audience, and a comfortable chair for me made this a very nice evening. Sit back and enjoy. Highly recommended.
My first time ever at Gaffel & Karaffel. Nice little stage. I loved the dialogue the band had with the audience, and of course the humor. Especially Paolo. The music too was really good, better than the last time I saw them back in 2009 at Kongsberg Kino. It probably has something to do that I'm not very fond of jazz piano solos, and this time we didn't get any. The chairs however, was horrible. It felt like a... really bad chair. They played Lebanese jazz, Scottish jazz, Norwegian/European jazz and Gregorian jazz. Most of it were good, and they are all highly skilled musicians, but they did play a little too long. Almost 2.5 hours!
Decided to go down to L54 to check out Freezing Part, that apparently (based on LIVE54's video show), is a shoegazing band, so I definitely wanted to see that. I managed to get there horribly late, so I only got to see their last song, but I liked it. Good atmosphere. Will check them out next time they play in the area. Also saw two songs by Sunset Pilots. OK performance, postish rock with melodic vocals. Then I walked up to bartefaen to chill out before Shining at Tribute, but I ended up on staying at Lars Erik's the whole night.
Horribly cold this Thursday. Quite a few people showed up to see I Was a King, but before them was Teeny Grownups, a band with not-so-great vocals and relatively basic indie riffs. Nothing I was much into.
I Was a King however, was really good. Seven musicians that all fit perfectly in the soundscape. Beautiful verses, great vocals and great stage presence. When Still faded in was definitely the best part of the concert. It seems like everything Anne Lise Frøkedal touches turns to gold.
I Was a King:
Bought two I Was a King albums after the show. ... but I don't consider this a green concert.
Before the concert, I got to play shuffleboard for the first time ever, on western Norway's only shuffleboard. Here is Anders playing:
Sadly enough, Lucy Swann's band was some semi-acoustic stuff. Percussion and double bass. Why sadly? Well, because there were no "power" in the music this way. I expected kinda loud bass heavy pop from what I heard on Spotify, but don't get me wrong, she is a great singer and the music was good. but I wasn't particularly captivated by it.
Tou Scene was empty the first four floor as I walked up the stairs. Pretty nice feeling. When I got up to the fifth floor, there were about 10-12 other people there, mostly talking English actually.
ZAP trio played "typical" contemporary music with spastic drums and experimenting and improvising with the instruments. Asheim played an open piano, and did weird things to the strings inside the piano. He played them and blocked them with a spoon to make unique sounds. Zanussi took what looked like the remains of a bow, and placed in between the strings of the double bass, to mute them. The "bow" (stick), then vibrated and made cool sounds. He also used a clothespin to mute strings. Solberg had lots of weird percussion stuff, but played mostly using sticks (in creative ways).
As I have said before, I am not sure if I like contemporary music, but I definitely think it's something out of the ordinary and a good cultural experience. Though, when I'm sitting there I am often asking myself if individuals in the audience or the musicians are faking it, or if the affection for this music is real.. My personal theory is that some people do it for the red wine and exclusiveness.
Rainy and snowy day in Stavanger. Big Bang played their Christmas concert to a sold-out Folken at the same time, but we didn't notice it. Rain Check played jazz. And it was pretty good.
Practice drove out to Tou Scene in the snow. Met Martin and Nikolai for the first time in forever (Christmas holiday) + Yngve. Kitchen Orchestra was really good today. The opening, can't remember where it was from or its name, reminded me of a more contemporary Alamaailman Vasarat. They played "Christmas" music with a contemporary twist. God stemning. Best part was when Nils Henrik Asheim did his little speech.
After the concert me, Yngve, Anders and Martin went out to eat at an Indian restaurant, Tandoori India. Me and Martin ordered, naturally, Indian tomato soup.
Journal under construction! Lots of videos, pictures and reviews are missing. I am adding stuff all the time, but I don't have much time anymore.
Welcome to my nearly complete list of artists I saw live in 2009! This journal contains a chronologically sorted list with all artists I saw live in 2009, including pictures, videos, reviews and more. The reviews part is still under construction.
This journal is more than just a list. Every artist I have ever seen live, I do my best to upload pictures for, write bio's and tag them (often I see artists without plays etc). I am also planning on adding lists of who I have seen the most times, who I have went to most concerts with, what venues I've been to the most and which artists I have the most album's of. When the lists are finished I'll make nice graphs out of them.
Green color means that this concert was awesome.
I also keep a personal tag list of all artists I have seen live, which you can find here: artists I have seen live.
I started to add reviews in November/December 2009, so reviews for the older events will probably contain factual errors etc.
The syntax is: day month year({link to} event title (day # {for festivals}), {link to} venue name, city, county, country)
After listening to these guys on Spotify and Lydverket, I fell in love. Found a free demo thingie online, which I loved even more. First up was Frøken Fryd, which were playing pretty tight tonight. Their new song had a few dissonant parts which I liked. I think it's time to move on from the girly pop rock...... don't care about what the record companies or the manager wants.. Anyway, Kråkesølv. Surprisingly young, from the very awesome city of Bodø. Playing beautiful indie pop and post-rock. Fits perfectly with my favorite artist at the moment, Cymbals Eat Guitars. They were joking about their mistakes and generally having a good time. I absolutely loved it and I'm sad I didn't get to buy a CD.. They're also playing tomorrow at Martinique, if I'm lucky I can see them there after my own concert. Perfect concert.
We (Hamu(e)mon) had a band practice earlier on the day, when we got a call from Iris about out our sound check time.. We suddenly realized we had to flee from Eirik's house, to catch the train. Which we did, by 1-2 minutes.. but there was no train at that time, as this was a Saturday... so we had to wait another 30 minutes, but luckily the sound checks were a little delayed.
The first band, Steinbitt, could only play one song (I believe it was a cover), which was pretty bad. We didn't know that they only were playing 1 song, so I did not have time to warm up, thus making me tired in the arms after only 1 song -> making me play sloppy. I don't believe it was terrible though, but not my/our best concert. This was our last concert ever, but we didn't make any fuzz about it.
I don't remember much from Battle of Jericho. I left before Arlie Mucks played. I did not go to the Kråkesølv concert at Martinique as I planned :(. anders_sn did, and he got a t-shirt + a signed CD :(.
The most remarkable thing about this day was probably that it was the coldest day "ever" in Sandnes.. This was my first visit ever to Sandnes brygge (Sandnes harbor), a relatively new cafe. The concert locals were surprisingly big (I know there is a big stand-up scene in Sandnes, which uses this stage). A whole bunch of people from the music "line" at school was there, as The Norwegian Fords consists of teachers from Lundehaugen vgs. Two pupils were also there as choir girls. As I can't remember if I liked this band the first time I saw them live, I can't really compare the concerts, but I do believe that this was better than the last one. It did get a little boring - not my type of music, but it was okay.
This concert was a part of the weekly jazz concerts held every Saturday on Arkivet nattbar (the basement of Newsman, Stavanger) by Stavanger Jazzforum. hLeks picked me up in what can best be described as a snow storm, and we had to drive in 50km/h on the highway. After battling with the parking meter, we found the place (which did not serve ice tea or cacao). AdLib was even tighter, jazzier and funkier than I had expected. Skilled, young, musicians, sweet songs, great solos and yeah. The kind of jazz I enjoy. Before Swing and Sweet entered the stage, Eva Espensen's grand daughter sung a Christmas carol, which was an epic fail (sorry if you read this, but it's true :))
Swing and Sweet played the kind of jazz I call "standard jazz". Nothing special. Piano, bass, drums and female vocals. *yawn*
As the Tuesday quiz was delayed, so was the concert.. But at 22:30, Statsbakeriet started.. played their songs.. and stopped. Statsbakeriet isn't really a band I enjoy much, too simple music and corny violin. Then Gnizzt entered the stage.. and didn't really impress me too much actually. I loved their sound (from the 2007 EP/last time I saw them), but this time it was kinda dull. The bass wasn't very distinctive, should be a lot more bass in the bass.. So, I did not get the "Gnizzt feeling", but I did enjoy the concert, and I did like the new songs. Me and Anders both got a free EP.
Not exactly a concert, but whatever. Nå musikklag played 4 known Christmas "carols", Gro Belsnes Eide played the church organ. Nå musikklag played pretty well.
It was announced that you should buy tickets in good time, so we were gonna be there around 20:00 (when the doors opened), but anders_sn managed to cack-up his tires, and had to change tire and car.. but we did manage to get tickets, 300 NOK cheaper than everybody else (last concert ever with "kulturkortet"). Since we had 1 hour before Hard Luck Blues Band started, we found a parking "house" (dunno what that is in English), went inside the stair room, and made weird sounds using objects we found, and recorded them. I'm sure I'll use the sounds on some kind of Tecfan project. Anyway, Hard Luck Blues Band was pretty cool. They had fun on stage, the guitar solos were very soulful, and the bassist was playing extremely tight. I do believe this was my first blues concert, and I know for sure toddneM would have liked this. (oh btw, I thought every second guy in the bar was Gisle, my English teacher from Jåttå vgs, but I was wrong every time! However, I did know one of the "older" guys ^^. Ole Svela, the manager of Terraex, the arranger of Blackmoon Festival).
Then Aunt Mary. They had this über old, analog, (probably) Leslie (with open tone cabinet), which sounded great. From the very start, the atmosphere was terrific. Jan Groth spoke to us (the audience) in a nice way, and there was two-way communication the whole time. Since the original bassist is unable to play bass anymore, the bassist of Wig Wam (Bernt Jansen) played bass, and he did it extremely well, although his clothing style was more 80s than 70s.. Anyway, I am extremely happy I went. This was one of the best concerts ever. The 70s feeling was definitely there, although there were no hippies, only old men.
Journal under construction! Lots of videos, pictures and reviews are missing. I am adding stuff all the time, but I don't have much time anymore.
Welcome to my nearly complete list of artists I saw live in 2008! This journal contains a chronologically sorted list with all artists I saw live in 2008, including pictures, videos, reviews and more. The reviews part is still under construction.
This journal is more than just a list. Every artist I have ever seen live, I do my best to upload pictures for, write bio's and tag them (often I see artists without plays etc). I am also planning on adding lists of who I have seen the most times, who I have went to most concerts with, what venues I've been to the most and which artists I have the most album's of. When the lists are finished I'll make nice graphs out of them.
Green color means that this concert was awesome.
I also keep a personal tag list of all artists I have seen live, which you can find here: artists I have seen live.
I started to add reviews in November/December 2009, so reviews for the older events will probably contain factual errors etc.
The syntax is: day month year({link to} event title (day # {for festivals}), {link to} venue name, city, county, country)
Not exactly a concert, but whatever. Bengt Nordbakken stable on the church organ, and the not-so-stable Ganddal skolekorps trying to play some Christmas carols..
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