Tuesday, February 28, 2006

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!

5 Comments:

Blogger Joe said...

Ah, you are still around. You were gone just long enough to make me wonder if you'd bored of this already.

8:08 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey, great post. I'll check Alpine out despite my deeply ingrained hatred of robbie williams. That bastard.

1:11 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Damn good writing Malou...you certainly know what you are talking about. The Alpine is a refreshing new "old sound" type of band.
Must tell, that this band reminds me of Rock of the 70'ties and early 80'ties...being old enough to remember that is ;-)and with the newest Robbie CD in mind.....you are absolutely right...a perfect mix.
Looking so much forward to OUR "Robbie-trip" this July.

6:43 PM  
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Wow... stalker

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