okay so you take Robbie Williams right?....

...and you mix him up with the new wave keyboards of the Killers and add just a pinch of the cheeky B-52's and what you get might very well be this blog's new darlings: the Alpine. Having heard only 2 full and promising songs by the band, expectations were running high when your favourite reporter (read: the owner of the fingers doing all the typing) were on her way to Musikcaféen, Århus' probably most intimate music venue.
No larger than your average living room, this place was packed with an approximate of 150 nicely dressed specimens on the windy-weathered Friday evening that was the 24th of February.
Kiona did the warm up, as previously mentioned: very interesting front vocal, also very cool hair cut but but but very misplaced warm up band according to my notes. The Alpine's set was a soothing mix of uptempo party-starters and mellow tunes, among them a polka-sounding tune about going camping with your dysfunctional family: "Winnebago", which didn't put a downer to the overall mood of the event, but served as an interesting interlude presenting a very interesting and innovative side to the band's songwriting and melody making. The Alpine's repertoire is varied enough in genre, but perhaps not in sound, and as well with the studio versions of the songs, the live experience of the insisting keyboard could tend to grow a bit tedious over the span of 12 songs (+/- a few). With that said, the band should have roses thrown at the feet of their frontman Peter Boesen in who the band really holds a lot of its weight. The skinny bird-like guy with the chronic flushed pink cheeks is a true entertainer, and he took full advantage of the close encounters with the audience that the intimate settings of Musikcaféen allowed him.
The same positive adjectives you can imagine being implied through the ramblings above, you can apply to what could be a review of the album which came out yesterday. "On feel trips" is an overall super comfortable acquaintance, and is offered for a simple price of 100 kroner at your local Stereo Studio. This is the album Robbie Williams should've made, but thank the gods somebody else did, it sure as hell made it easier to get tickets!

What would Björk do?

It's been approximately 8 months since our favourite Icelandic volcano Björk released her last album "Drawing Restraint 9", which at the same time served as soundtrack for her husband's weird-artsy movie of the same title. So what has she been up to all this time? Past time hobbies of the hobbit-like mother-of-two could very well be bouncing on top of geysers or visits to various fashion houses green-lighting outlines for new rags for her spectacular wardrobe. Although both of the above seem more than likely to have happened, they have not, at least this time around.
Instead, Björk has been embarking on a trip to Banda Aceh, Indonesia, until December 25th 04 known for poor fishermen families residing at beautiful beaches, now more known for even poorer orphans of said fishermen families and overflooded swampy wasteland. Björk launched a charity CD containing cover versions of her hit-single "Army of Me" (off her 95 album Post), donating the incoming dough to Unicef and their work with the thousands of kids in the tsunami-struck region, who managed to get out of the tragedy alive, but left without their parentals. Unicef invited Björk on a trip to see how rebuilding the area has developed, and to get an insider's view on how the fate of the tsunami-hitten children has turned for the better thanks to Unicef, and in part her work on raising money for the project. Non-familiars of Björk's peculiar clothing-style might think the picture above is from a day where the singer was performing as entertainment for the children, but the highly eye-appealing stockings are infact Björk's super cosy, yet fashionable and comfortable even in 30+ degrees celcius, leggings of choice!

Björk noticed the lack of fashion sense, and kindly donated some collection samples, which were discarded due to lack of lime-green and bird-feathers. As the pictures clearly show, the children were very grateful. Rumour has it that a choir of school children from the region will join her, when the launch of her new album is being transmitted via satellite from Mars. Date is yet to be determined.

For information about it all REALLY went down, check the article on Unicef's official website:
Unicef article

The best things in life are free...

or cost 100 kroner!

March 10th, Scandinavian Congress Center, Århus, 19:00/7 pm
FREE Mew concert sponsored by Jyske Bank for account holders, and non-account holders (that bank must have enough money) in between the age of 18 and 24. This will be my second time seeing this band live, after my first glimpse from behind approximately 2000 people one late night at Roskilde Festival last year.
Mew: www.mewsite.com


February 24th, Musikcafeen, Århus, 21:00/ 9pm
Double concert with 2 of Denmark's most promising new bands: The Alpine and Kiona. My enthusiasm regarding The Alpine just won't seem to decrease. This band deserves more hype than the word "hype" has ever generated before. Their album lands on 27th of February, alongside the long waited debut of another respectable Danish newcomer Veto (www.vetonet.dk), the Danish version of The Killers: Campsite, and We Are Scientists . TheAlpine: www.thealpine.dk

The second band, I have only heard one song by, all promising for the live aspect of it and is likely to fall in the taste of poprockers everywhere. Like the Alpine the band consists of 4 guys and a gal, but here the female singer is the front figure. Here's a link to their song "slowmotion": http://www.kiona.dk/audio/slowmotion.mp3
www.kiona.dk

good news for people who love good news

"Dark side of the moon" performed live in its entiety by Roger Waters on Orange stage at this year's Roskilde Festival. (I'm just gonna let that one stand for a moment)
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That was the headline that greeted me after returning from school this morning, and may I just say that I think many a partout ticket is going to be sold, only by the account that this legendary sort-of-frontman, bass player, singer and songwriter of Pink Floyd (yes thee Pink Floyd) is on the bill of artists who will be playing at northern Europe's largest music festival.
After an endless amount of set backs for the release date of their most anticipated DVD release of the astounding Pulse concert from 1994, the "final" (until further notice) date of release from EMI now being September 18th, this must be a pretty OK substitution to make the otherwise dreadful waiting time just that bit sweeter.
The optimal would've been a reunion tour with the entire band, but but but I am more than satisfied with at least seeing one member of the most magical band on this planet, giving it his all to 75,000 people on a beautiful Danish summer night.
Get tickets you crazy diamonds.....or to quote the master himself: "I'll be joining you there!"

Ladies and gentlemen

Welcome ya'll to my newest attempt on keeping a blog reasonably frequently updated. You are now part of an experiment, alongside yours truely, but I am the surgeon and you are the guinea pigs!
This blog will contain occasional brain spillings, and if non occur I will do my best to scrape out some samples for you to fiddle with for your own amusement.

About myself. I am a 20 years and 7 month old example of the gracious species called Homo Sapiens. I live in Denmark with my girlfriend of 9 months Laurence. She is very sweet and from Canada.

In my daily life I study English at university, 2nd semester so things are still rather new. On Friday's I produce one hour of radio at night, along with my partner in crime Howard Stern....no wait...Majbritt is her name. When I'm not occupied with any of the 2 things mentioned above, I surround myself with my lovely friends typically for a quiet evening of watching stupid reality tv shows or whatever's cute on Animal Planet, or we go out and drink ourselves crazy to the brim of oblivion. Among my favoured topics of conversation are: music, music, music, politics, religion, philosophy and.....oh and music!

Oh well enough for now, I'll see you at the ramparts!