Fri 13 Apr – Ida Maria

I went to see Ida Maria live again, and this time it was only her ( + her band of course) - so that meant a lot more songs were played. awesomeness!

set list:
Pleasure
Louie
Morning Light
in the end
drive away my heart
we're all going to hell
Stella and God
Better when you're naked
Oh my god

encore:
Keep me warm

encore 2:
I quite like men

she started, as usual, with her blues-y bass-guitar-only song, which I now learned was called "Pleasure". her voice is amazing here.
and…

Thu 22 Mar – Bright Eyes

on the 22nd of march there were two bands playing in Oslo… well, probably a lot of other too, but there were two bands playing in Oslo I wanted to see. there was Bigbang… and there was Bright Eyes. it was a tough choice, and I have to admit, I wasn't sure until the concert started that I had made the right choice, but seeing as I had seen Bigbang live 4 times before as opposed to Bright Eyes: 0… it was a bit odd if I'd chosen Bigbang. I mean, seriously:…

Tue 13 Mar – IDA MARIA, Scarlet Monroe

I have newly discovered the best female artist (in my own personal opinion though) of this decade. her name is Ida Maria. she and her band plays indie pop-punk rock, or however I am supposed to label her artistery. she is amazing. and thus, I was quite exited to go see her this evening.

the warm-up act was Scarlet Monroe, who was a pleasant surprise. dreamy loud noise, in the positive sense of the word "noise".

Ida Maria kicked off with a blues-y song with just her, her guitar and…

Sun 18 Feb – Wolfmother, deadends

this is possibly the best concert I've been to. wait, scratch that, this is the best concert I've been to!

if there was something negative to be said about it it has more to do with us arriving more than fashionable late and thus ending up with having to resort to the gallery/2nd floor (which consist of seats) to be able to see anything. the tickets had been sold out for months and thus the scene where the concert was held was stuffed with people.

and yes, there is something fundamentally wrong with sitting…

I have seen this band before recently and I enjoyed that show so of course I thought I'd go see them again when they came to perform here in Oslo.

the warm-up act was Shaun Bartlett & days like this. Quite ok. somehow I'd like to label the music "pretty", thought not in a negative way. it was quite enjoyable to listen to and I also recorded his song "unleash" but I havn't bothered to figure out how I can compress the videofile to under 100MBs so I can upload it at YouTube yet.
but yes, very nice 8)

though,…

my concert reviews tend to be quite long and informative to some extent, but I feel I only need to use 1 word to sum up this concert: heaven.
I could try to elaborate more, but for the most of the concert I was in heaven. fantastic. the music captured me from the very first note.

Thomas Dybdahl has an amazing talent. this is a statement, not a theory. and the musicians who performed his songs with him on stage gave me goodebumps. espeically the the trumpet player and the fiddle player during their respective solos.

oh, and Thomas'…

yesterday, a friend of mine tipped me off with the fact that there was a free concert at a venue a train ride from here. so that's where we went.

the band playing was Grand Island. who played a weird sort of music. lots of different influences into one package.

I havn't really listened to them untill yesterday, where I felt it was my duty to put their most famous single on repeat for a while ("Us Annexed"). uhm, the logic behind this is somewhat lost on me at the moment. but I like that song.

I liked their…

Because I simply refuse doing silly quizes, but still would like to talk about my music… so here we go:

1. Radiohead - 76 plays.
I guess this has something to do with the fact that I bought radiohead - the bends and found out that it has to be one of my favorite albums. before, I've just owned OK computer and I have downloaded random songs off of them, not really made an effort to really get into the radiohead-wave, but still enjoyed their music very much. the bends os one hell of an album.

2. Bonnie "prince" billy…

seriously, is there no way to block out the thousands of "how emo am I?" and "guess the lyrics" and other nonsensical quizzes out there who is spamming my journal recommendations? I'm this close to going insane. I would have thought people who listened to some of the same music as I do (yes, now I'm just being pretentious) would fail to show these sheep-ish tendencies, but appearently not.

last.fm is slowly being killed by the "how emo/mainstream/indie/stupid am I?"-wave and noone is doing anything about it. and I don't get you people, why do you feel the need the…

I am amazed that sometimes a cover can be quite much better than the original. and it is odd to think that a man/woman's art work can be portrayed better by another person. but this again, shows that every song has a potential to be great. in every tune there is a potential, and if that tune is put in the hans of the right person it can, if not just go nearer, even fullfill, it's potential. I am convinced that if you took the core of, let's say, Britney Spears "toxic" stripped it of it's fake mixing room sounds,…