This was a very cool show on a
very cold night! I arrived at about 18 so I could set up the hard disc recorder
for making a multitrack recording of this entire concert, of which some may be
released on the Kommun2 label out of Malmö. All three bands have released
records on this cool underground label. This was the 2nd Swedish
Psych night arranged by Sven and it was a pretty good success. I guess there
was about 100 people considering it was like -5C outside and not much warmer
inside this place as it had no heat at all. I never took off my jacket the
entire evening!
Everything
for recording was set up and the excellent ever helpful soundman Memo was great
to work with again. It was just damn cold. All the sound checks were fine but
Hobbiten, who was also guesting with SKL, did not soundcheck with us.
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| SKL |
SKL (Sveriges
Kommuner och Landsting), with whom I was guesting, as well as Hobbiten on
guitar (On Trial, Dragontears, etc..) started the show off. We played only two
songs in long spaced out versions. Kristallen den Fina was the first. We still
have a lot of problems with the violin feedback as we did on the soundcheck but
as Hobbiten was so loud in the monitor I could not hear him at all anymore. I
could barely hear my own sounds but lucky for me, it was the spacey stuff that
Henrik was playing that I matched and he seem to be playing the themes that the
band was. The first one as in A so that is all I needed to know. The place was
pretty packed and people seem to be into it, It was great and it was not what I
expected it to sound like after learning the songs from the record. The 2nd
song was Björndans från Skåne. I think we played about 40mins.
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| Huggorm |
It did not
take long before Huggorm started to play, They are a three piece with a female
drummer and bass player and guitar player with long dreadlocks. The music is
some sort of slightly quirky melodic punk rock and roll. It was nothing very
complex just straight up slightly off kilter rock songs. It is the type of band
that you either get their simple vibe strangeness or you don’t and I did not
get hooked but a lot of the audience seem to like them a lot. They also only
played 45mins. I have no idea what the set list was.
Anders was
what most of us was really looking forward. The old drummer from On Trial has
made two solo records on the Kommun2 label and this stuff has never been played
live. He put together a band made up of the ex-members of On Trial and Baby
Woodrose, all of who play great together, and you know the expected result when
these guys play and improvise….. very psyched out stuff. Think Spids Nøgenhat,
Dragontears and very old On trial, and you get the drift. Anyway, they played 7
songs from the two records and they sounded pretty cool. I think they ended up
getting into the same style of space out each time though and did not really do
anything different, so they all started to sound quite a lot alike. I had a
really good time though. People loved it. Saw friends from Troldmand, Sinister
Creation, and some of the Roadburn crew as well. Fun night and great to play
again!
Set List: Intro Jam, In the Dark Hours, Hej Hej Bye Bye, Helena
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