Escape from boredom

Finally I got my ass to Platekompaniet and bought this album which I’ve mentioned several times already in my blog. Not much on their website, more to be found if you follow the links to either Facebook or Myspace.

Platekompaniet 20,- NOK, but I must admit that even though I not a hardcore pop-kinda-guy, and have rejected everything from Idol in public…Margaret Berger, even if she attended Idol, this ain’t bad.

“Will you remember me” and also “Samantha” being quite ok…

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Bought for 20,- NOK at Platekompaniet. http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draumir

Must say I wonder why Donkeyboy with their song Ambitions is getting so much time on NRK. Have seen the video two times the past week in between programs. One thing would have been if the video had been showed in a program about music, but in between programs? Not to be mistaken, the song is pretty good, but even so…why that band, that song? Who do they know?

Wrote this one when wathing Trygdekontoret, listening to Thomas Seltzer saying the phrase Funciton before Fashion

@Update: I’ve been told that this is a new thing done by NRK on NRK3. Elin have also seen the new Shakira video in between other programs.

“…Var du ikke på Green Day-konserten? Ikke bare amerikanere som er idioter altså…” Side 2

Me, Jonas – my brother and his buddy Ole Magnus went to see Green Day yesterday…21’st century breakdown…still got the songs in my head. What a performance, the opening must have been the best opening I’ve ever experienced. Billy Joe and the rest of the band started out at maximum speed and stayed there!

All reviews are very good, 5 and 6. I would give them a very strong 5…

• Aftenposten
• Dagbladet
• Side 2
• Puls

And to end it, again from Side 2

“…Underholdning blir neppe bedre enn dette. Fy aen ass!…”

Preparing for the Green Day concert in two weeks, what is better than looking at the set list from their recent concerts? Found this great site, gives me all I need http://www.setlist.fm/search?query=green+day Really like the integration with Youtube, click on the first song and it plays through all songs in the list.

Me, Loy, Anders, Bendik and Simen, who disappeared when he went off to buy beer, was at Valle Hovin yesterday when AC/DC played. They play simple and straightforward rock’n roll, just what you expect when going on a concert with them. I thought it was cool to see them live, but I must admit that I was a bit disappointed, the reason for this being to long breaks between each song. Almost between every song there was a break for about 30 seconds without any sound at all. I would have wanted a much tighter set, with the current song just flowing into the next one. So, seeing and hearing AC/DC –> Cool. The “Black Ice”-show, uncool!

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Yesterday Petter and I went to see Ghost Dog in concert. I’ve previous blogged that I really enjoy their music and that is still true, but yesterdays concert was a bit of a disappointment. For some reason I don’t think Ivan, the vocalist, did not use his full potential. Whether he was drunk or just had a bad day I’m actually not sure, but for some reason I think he could have been singing better than he did. But, still, it was a good concert…

Must admit Spotify impressed me just now. I read about Jahn Teigen at norskmusikk.org, and with Spotify running I wanted to listen to some of his music. I already have “En Dags Pause” in my cd collection, but I wanted to listen to some of his really old stuff – Popol Vuh, or Popol Ace (they had to change their name). And to my surprise, Spotify does have Popol Ace, so if you have Spotify, just click on the following link http://open.spotify.com/track/3rRVXVbzvsI1JDOSkPZkd1

This evening Elin and I went to a concert with Eva Kristine Bjerga Haugen and Espen Eriksen Trio, playing support for someone else (we went home before they started playing) http://www.nasjonaljazzscene.no/pa-plakaten/neil-cowley-trio-plateslipp. To thoose of you who know my taste of music, I have not turned into a jazz-man, but when Lars Tormod play I listen to jazz 🙂