17°C, sun, rain then sun.

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Yesterday’s concert was interesting. Two bands of scandinavian origin, both billed as A-side performers, but in practice….

Tys tys (Copenhagen) played the second set but were not rewarded with CD sales that Suzanne & M O got. Their music was "difficult", structure was convoluted and strange things happened to the vocals between mic & speakers. The mixing desk bloke (who also looked like a Viking) was actively involved in the music-making, bending & twisting as he modified the mix.

 

The Vocalist said something curious at the end of one pice. "I got a bit of a kick there", I thought something had mixed differently ot her expectation. But later when Maria Laurette Friis stood up, she was obviously a few months pregnant. See their website here.

I bought their album, thinking that I didn’t even know if I liked the stuff, only a few others lined up with me. The CD is playing in the background as I write and it sounds wonderful. Even so, it’s not easy music.

Susanna And The Magical Orchestra

S&MO Played first, most if not all, covers but played very slowly. A close delicate examination of well known tracks from Elvis, Depeche Mode, Joy Division and Prince amongst others. I only recognised some, the set finished early, or at least it seemed so. That means it was good by the way.

Again, like so often I was underwealmed by the sound system in the Glee Club. It didn’t hurt in the way that the Carling academy does, but still it had that hazy electric sound with interference and poor connections also noticable.