London:
My trip to London was great! I couchsurfed at this lovely lady's place in Camden. I hung out with my friend Sara, her family, this guy that was couchsurfing the same apartment I was living in and got to have some time to myself as well. Got a haircut while I was there. Nothing drastic, but under funny circumstances: I was cut for free as I was caught in the streets of Camden by this girl from a salon looking for hair models! Shopping-wise, I bought some cute dresses and a pair of oxfords (shoes). Besides I danced, laughed, looked at people (with kites) and took the city all in. Oh, and brunched like a madman. Nom!
I ended up attending a concert by the name Hallogallo. It's a project of members from NEU! and Sonic Youth performing old NEU! stuff. I went there quite spontaneously thanks to my new acquaintance Steve Power (I love that last name so I have to include it!) who bought me a ticket. Thanks once again to him!
I haven't been paying that much attention to NEU!'s music in the past. Even though I did download the albums they didn't really stick in my mind, but that is definitely something that will change after this wonderful evening. It was a sit-down concert and I was alone - still I found it hard to sit still in my seat. Clearly I was not alone. Even though at least half of the audience were old enough to be my parents the place was buzzing.
I found a review of the concert here (since I only wrote this poor little blurb for you).
Hallogallo 21th of October @ Barbican Center, London
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A U F S T E H E N ! Last friday I went to see Einstürzende Neubauten here in Copenhagen. They played Vega and opposed to last time they were here they played several older songs - old being relative as the really old songs were barely there - last time they played a lot of songs from their (back then) new album Alles wieder offen. Also different this time around was that I got there in time. Last time I missed the first couple of songs, but this time I was aaall the way up front. Definitely much more impressed by this show. The band appeared to be in such a great mood. They even came back three times to play more songs!
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Blixa doing his thing - and at the bottom: Line, Joy and me (aka pink-green-blond) Picture by Nollpunkt |
After the concert we stood outside and waited for the band to catch some autographs (I may be a big Neubauten fan, but nothing beats my friends, Line and Joy). Since I didn't have a lot of interesting things to sign with me we somehow decided that my newly purchased pack of hygiene pads were going to be the obvious choice.
No way?!
Way.
UPDATE!
You can DOWNLOAD a recording of the show here. Source unknown.
Einstürzende Neubauten 6th of November @ Vega
They played another show with other content the day before (5/11) which I did not attend.Einstürzende Neubauten 6th of November @ Vega
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FREEBIES:
Thanks to one of my favourite blogs (even though it writes too much about Spoon), hippiesaredead.com, I noticed that Pixies put up a live recording of a gig they did in 2004 at the Coachella Festival. I downloaded it from their homepage. All you have to do is throw an email address at them. Fair deal, I say. The sound quality is excellent. N.b. Up for a limited time only.
Download @ http://www.lalapixiesloveyou.com/
Speaking of free downloads I have to recommend everyone Big O Magazine - Besides being a fantastic e-zine about music and politics (based in Singapore of all places!) they offer new amazing bootlegs from a large variety of bands in the league of Bob Dylan, Bowie and the like every week. I get their weekly newsletter via email.
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"If I can't persuade you with reason then I can't persuade you at all" Betty Chestnut always offers great advise over @ the BigO. |
Check it out for yourself @ http://bigOmagazine.com
And finally:
Tomorrow I am going to a concert with the band Efterklang which my friend Jeppe invited me to. Should be interesting. Even though I am not big fan of their actual music I already saw this band two times before. Once at Roskilde Festival and once last winther at a place in Copenhagen called Global. They played fairly good shows both times - their charisma makes up for a lot. Also playing tomorrow will be the band Sleep Party People.
Efterklang + Sleep Party People 13/11-10 @ Forbrændingen
