Mouse on Mars on fire
I was tired yesterday. Very tired. Thursday nights Mouse on Mars-concert ended very late, and I had to get up fairly early (well, ten o'clock) to get to a class called "Popular music and gender".
Culture-box let us in at ten o'clock, but Jan Jelinek didn't go on stage until at the break of midnight. The first couple of tracks were rather boring with danceable beats and slowly developing soundwaves, but midways in his set he started experimenting with crackling beats and electronic noise, and it did spice things up a bit. Over all not an impressive performance though.
As time passed by me and my buddy killed the wait with some fine brewskis, Humle from Thisted Brewery, a fairly good, ecological strong lager, and the fact that a pothead pushed one of my beers out of my hand so I dropped it and saw the nozzling gold spilled on the floor didn't exactly ease my impatience for Mouse on Mars to go on so I wouldn't get too late in bed and be shiny fresh for class the following day.
We had to wait till half past 1, but it was definetely worth the wait. Mouse on Mars are wellknown as a good electronic liveact, and they sure proved it. Fantastic explosive, funky, energetic concert with crackling, hammering, thundering breakbeats saying "come on, you can dance to this". It was electronic fireworks with more colours than your average testscreen. The twists, the turns took me completely off guard and made my blood rush through my veins like killer bees on a spree. Cutting edge!
Culture-box let us in at ten o'clock, but Jan Jelinek didn't go on stage until at the break of midnight. The first couple of tracks were rather boring with danceable beats and slowly developing soundwaves, but midways in his set he started experimenting with crackling beats and electronic noise, and it did spice things up a bit. Over all not an impressive performance though.
As time passed by me and my buddy killed the wait with some fine brewskis, Humle from Thisted Brewery, a fairly good, ecological strong lager, and the fact that a pothead pushed one of my beers out of my hand so I dropped it and saw the nozzling gold spilled on the floor didn't exactly ease my impatience for Mouse on Mars to go on so I wouldn't get too late in bed and be shiny fresh for class the following day.
We had to wait till half past 1, but it was definetely worth the wait. Mouse on Mars are wellknown as a good electronic liveact, and they sure proved it. Fantastic explosive, funky, energetic concert with crackling, hammering, thundering breakbeats saying "come on, you can dance to this". It was electronic fireworks with more colours than your average testscreen. The twists, the turns took me completely off guard and made my blood rush through my veins like killer bees on a spree. Cutting edge!
Rye Coalition on Superbowl Sunday
The concert with Rye Coalition and Menfolk was quite a catch. Cheap beers to start with to get the motor running and later on lots of energitic rock'n'roll. Menfolk tryed to encourage people to come up in front of the stage even though it was Sunday. The band seemed to be hung over themselves though, but did actually kick the shit out of their instruments half way through their set and proved to be quite firm instrumentalists playing their noisy mathrock.
Rye Coalition on the other hand didn't seem to have noticed it was Sunday besides that they did point out it was Superbowl Sunday. And when they asked if we also had commercials every second minut some of the audience replied it was "Muhammed Time" referring to the probably biggest crisis in foreign affairs of modern Danish history. But lead singer Ralph Cuseglio misunderstood and thought they said "Hammer Time", and that was exactly what Rye Coalition was about. To hammer away in solid, alcohol driven rock'n'roll. They made their own Superbowl, Rhythm vs. Strings, and Cuseglio acted as referee given scores and game reports between songs. They also did a halftime show as Led Zeppelin playing a fantastic version of "Communication Breakdown". In the end they put a couple of bongo drums out in the audience to play on and in that way participate in the concert.
Rye Coalition showed the audience an outrageously good time and sure knew how to entertain in that old rock'n'roll animal fashion. Thank you a bunch!
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Rye Coalition on the other hand didn't seem to have noticed it was Sunday besides that they did point out it was Superbowl Sunday. And when they asked if we also had commercials every second minut some of the audience replied it was "Muhammed Time" referring to the probably biggest crisis in foreign affairs of modern Danish history. But lead singer Ralph Cuseglio misunderstood and thought they said "Hammer Time", and that was exactly what Rye Coalition was about. To hammer away in solid, alcohol driven rock'n'roll. They made their own Superbowl, Rhythm vs. Strings, and Cuseglio acted as referee given scores and game reports between songs. They also did a halftime show as Led Zeppelin playing a fantastic version of "Communication Breakdown". In the end they put a couple of bongo drums out in the audience to play on and in that way participate in the concert.
Rye Coalition showed the audience an outrageously good time and sure knew how to entertain in that old rock'n'roll animal fashion. Thank you a bunch!
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The Jai-Alai Savant
I'm so goddamn stupid I could choke. The day before yesterday Atmosphere and Brother Ali of Rhymesayers played here in Copenhagen and I missed it. I would have loved to see them on stage and rumours says that they did well. Anyhow, they're playing in Sweden, Holland, Belgium and England the following week so don't be a fool like me and miss them.
The next concert I'm going to is with Menfolk and Rye Coalition arranged by Play/Rec. It's probably going to be loud.
At last I would like to bring your attention to The Jai-Alai Savant, a band on Gold Standard Labs. They have only released an EP, but it's a charming one. They kind of sound like a mix of early Police with some dub inspiration and the percussion of Talking Heads. I think they're going big when they release their full length. And they can't go wrong with a songtitle like "Scarlett Johansson, why don't you love me?".
The next concert I'm going to is with Menfolk and Rye Coalition arranged by Play/Rec. It's probably going to be loud.
At last I would like to bring your attention to The Jai-Alai Savant, a band on Gold Standard Labs. They have only released an EP, but it's a charming one. They kind of sound like a mix of early Police with some dub inspiration and the percussion of Talking Heads. I think they're going big when they release their full length. And they can't go wrong with a songtitle like "Scarlett Johansson, why don't you love me?".