Stengade 30 used to be a
great place to see shows and I am happy to see it is once again a very good
place to see bands with excellent sound and a perfect size. For the last 8
years or so they booked mostly reggae, some metal but all the stoner rock and
psychedelic rock had disappeared from the bookers minds but now the place is
back on track and booking cool shows again. I have been there like 3 times in
the last month.. Wow..
On
this Thursday night, there were very few people when I arrived about 21:30 and
no one I knew. Rhona, Thor, Tom, Jens, Martin, Anders and Nanna eventually all
showed up and I guess there were 25 people who saw Katla and 50 for Vidunder.
Katla started at 22:10 and played 4 songs and about a 40 min set of very cool heavy
psychedelic rock with some doomy and jammed out parts. I was really impressed.
I filmed the same song as they have on You tube called Wrist watch in a Time
Vacuum. I enjoyed the set a lot.
After about 20mins or so Vidunder
hit the stage and people just came from now where to create a decent crowd of
50 or so for this young new Swedish trio from Malmö. The band opened the
concert with the first track on their CD called Summoning the not Living and
ran this into a pretty boring instrumental track (no guitar solo). I filmed the
next two tracks, Trees and Threefold both from their debut record. The best
song of the night was the closer, In her Grave but again this one sounds like
it was written by Witchcraft and sung by Magnus. Way to short a set at 35mins.
The band wears their influences a
bit too close and really lack originality in a big way. The songs are nearly
all close copies to either Graveyard style sound and vocal or Witchcraft and
usually a mix of both. The crowd was enjoying it but it did not hold my
attention much as they don’t do any jamming, improvisation and don’t even have
an original sound and they had few very interesting or good guitar solos (he is
young!). They headlined and played less than 40mins. What the fuck is that? You need to
have at least an hour of material if you are going to headline clubs. Don’t you like to
play live, why play so short? At least play all your songs and a cover song
(please not Witchcraft or Graveyard but someone like Buffalo). Do some jamming
or something. The stage is yours take advantage that you are getting to play
live for people, have fun, jam, experiment, write new songs, try them out live,
but if you are going to spend hours driving setting up and filling the club and
you play 35mins. This is just not good enough. Sorry for the rant from this old
fucker.. Just keep playing more and try to develop your own style dudes…
Set List: Summoning the not
Living, Instrumental, Your Ghost, Trees, Threefold, Asmodeus, Fire, Into her
Grave
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