17th March: Day 2 and I'm not sure when a large number of blogs will be up and running again, mine included.
I better start backing up all my entries from 2003!!! Gosh! It's almost 3 years of accumulated entries. Perhaps this is their way of reminding us that we should all take precautions because the internet is such a transitional place, having said that, your hard disk can crash at anytime too, so really, having it in print is the way to go. Gone are the days of beautiful (albeit tedious) handwritten entries into leather bound journals or high school ones with stickers and pictures.
So KINGS OF CONVENIENCE played a glorious 60min set.
In case you don't know who they are, they are a 2 man outfit from Norway and have been coined as the modern day Simon and Garfunkel. The Duo were born out of a 90's indie band called Skog playing Joy Division covers.
This is Eirik Glambek Boe
The more subdued and quiet of the 2, has such a phenomenal voice it sounds as if 2 people are singing at the same time. I still think he looks like hybrid of Eric Bana and Mr. Froddo and is, my favorite.
This is Erlend Oye
The attention seeking one of the 2, and seems to remind everyone of Napoleon Dynamite (I haven't seen the movie), and is the one that jazzes up the performances with is antics.
Erlend doing his geeky dance thing
Some concert photos which mof managed to snap stealthily with the phone camera under the watchful eyes of the crew camera nazis.
Erlend is also into DJing and The Juayster went for Erlend's set the day before the concert and said that it was strange.
Because...he just happened to be standing there at Poptart, requested no flash, and mof said I'll regret it if I didn't go up and say hi.
All in all, the concert was a bloody steal at $50 and the acoustics were so good, I've not heard an act sound better live then on CD. I never expected to be so...entertained. Their music paints a picture of polite civility and that clearly was not the case! There was dancing, whistling, claping, humming, and even strange girls jumping on stage to dance. Crazy chord changing and guitar tunning before every song, hip swiveling, the blacking out of lights, birthday song singing and Norwegian chicks.
I'm having withdrawal symptoms.
BUT! Nothing Sigur Ros can't fix in 3 weeks :)
I better start backing up all my entries from 2003!!! Gosh! It's almost 3 years of accumulated entries. Perhaps this is their way of reminding us that we should all take precautions because the internet is such a transitional place, having said that, your hard disk can crash at anytime too, so really, having it in print is the way to go. Gone are the days of beautiful (albeit tedious) handwritten entries into leather bound journals or high school ones with stickers and pictures.
So KINGS OF CONVENIENCE played a glorious 60min set.
In case you don't know who they are, they are a 2 man outfit from Norway and have been coined as the modern day Simon and Garfunkel. The Duo were born out of a 90's indie band called Skog playing Joy Division covers.
This is Eirik Glambek Boe
The more subdued and quiet of the 2, has such a phenomenal voice it sounds as if 2 people are singing at the same time. I still think he looks like hybrid of Eric Bana and Mr. Froddo and is, my favorite.
This is Erlend Oye
The attention seeking one of the 2, and seems to remind everyone of Napoleon Dynamite (I haven't seen the movie), and is the one that jazzes up the performances with is antics.
Erlend doing his geeky dance thing
Some concert photos which mof managed to snap stealthily with the phone camera under the watchful eyes of the crew camera nazis.
Erlend is also into DJing and The Juayster went for Erlend's set the day before the concert and said that it was strange.
Because...he just happened to be standing there at Poptart, requested no flash, and mof said I'll regret it if I didn't go up and say hi.
All in all, the concert was a bloody steal at $50 and the acoustics were so good, I've not heard an act sound better live then on CD. I never expected to be so...entertained. Their music paints a picture of polite civility and that clearly was not the case! There was dancing, whistling, claping, humming, and even strange girls jumping on stage to dance. Crazy chord changing and guitar tunning before every song, hip swiveling, the blacking out of lights, birthday song singing and Norwegian chicks.
I'm having withdrawal symptoms.
BUT! Nothing Sigur Ros can't fix in 3 weeks :)