Danish Invasion
The lineup was Boho Dancer, Schultz and Forever, Waldo and Marsha and Tako Lako. I will cover the blahs in another post, but first let's drink to the amazing stuff coming out of Denmark. So be warned if you visit a Danish showcase, be prepared to stand behind some tall people and some high cheekbones. How is such a small, homogenous country putting out so many quality bands? Maybe there is some hidden socialist subsidies encouraging young music. Spoke a bit with Morten, one of the (many) guitarists of Waldo and Marsha, and the consensus is that it's the English language stuff coming out of Denmark that is attracting attention (the panting over Iceage last year probably chummed the waters, leading all to assume the next and best is there.)
Schultz and Forever
Waldo and Marsha
two guitars good, four guitars better |
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Here's the blah portion
Boho Dancer came on with a female lead on acoustic guitar, a guitarist and a percussionist. For some reason it sounded really nineties and maybe this my reaction to a certain sounding female lead vocal, or to the lyrics that smacked of cliche ("it's breaking my heart/when it all comes down") Now, the only two parts of the set I liked was a screamy/droney outro section where the drummer did that thing drummers do and lost it, going to that special place only percussionists now, and another where the lead singer came out in the audience and kept singing the refrain "Do you like me?" Nice bold reach out into the crowd, earnest but nothing special. Tako Lako is apparently popular in Denmark, am I a bad person for judging them at soundcheck? I saw the saxophone going up onstage and the accordion and thought oh no, the Baltic thing was novel when Gogol Bordello did it for like 10 minutes, and that was in 2009. So I left after the first song because itwaslateandIwastiredsorry.
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