The festival site was more or less that same as it always is
but the addition of a 2nd stage is really great. I love the extra
decorations on the stages they have added and little touches here and there.
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| Baby Jesus |
I had seen Baby Jesus at the CPH Psych fest last year but I think the band has improved now. Very focused 60s beat sound with a high energy. They don’t really offer anything new but do this sound really well and authentic. The small crowd really dug them..
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| Magic Jove |
Set List: Guardian Angel, Ashes, Don’t drag me Down,
Trumlåten, In Chains, Floating, In the Fields, So Long, Black Clouds, Sonic
Understanding
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| Hoofoot |
Set List: Last Flight, new song, Take 5,6,7,8 + 9, new song
#2
Agusa, another
progressive rock band from Malmö, Sweden was next on the small stage. They have
also just released a new record. They are very influenced by Swedish folk
melodies and mix this with up-tempo organ driven prog rock. This was the first time I had seen them with the female flute player and that was a nice addition. The crowd was
really digging it and the band is playing really well these days. They played the entire new record (2 album
side long tracks) and all but one of the tracks from the first record, I
think. They started a bit late as the
bass player had disappeared until 15mins before they were supposed to play and
all the gear was locked up in his car so the could not set up until they were
nearly supposed to play!
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| AGUSA |
Set List: Uti vår hage, Gånglåt till Vintergatan, Kung Bores
dans, Kärlek från Agusa
The last band of the night was the young Danish act, Fribyttedrømme from Copenhagen. They
also have just released their debut record. I previously reviewed the band’s 7”
record. I was really looking forward to
this concert and the band did not disappoint playing an amazing show. They had a couple of guys doing some liquid
oil projections and this looked really cool. Actually, I think this is the
first time ever at Kildemose their have been real lights (different colours and
a real light programing station). Some fog as well. It looked cool and the band
was really flying out into space. Think of this band as bit like Pink Floyd
with long floating songs, twisting guitars (there are 3), and spacey organ and
sounds. Really spaced out at times. The
sound was great all day but sadly Fribyttedrømme had pretty awful sound for the
first half an hour (they had their own sound guy, who did not really have it
together).
Set List: De Konstruerede, Kosmonauten, Ørken, Kviksand,
Fribyttedrømmen, Himmellegemer, Fem er det magiske nummer
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| Fribyttedrømme |
9:30 Up and it is
quiet at the moment. IT was not super late ending around 12 last night. It was
pretty cold at night. It is a mix of cloud and sun now and looks to be a nice
day.
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| Doublestone |
Doublestone, I
had not seen in a few year and they rocked the place. I was surprised that a
lot of their songs were not sung in Danish and they did not start off like that
before. Pretty high energy stoner rock stuff.
People seem to dig it.
Basiru Susuo Trio
was a nice change from the rock music and people were just relaxing in the sand
and enjoying the music. Basiru is a rally cool guy and I talked with him a bit
about us collaborating on some music in the future.
Dør Nr 13 is a
band I saw at a CPH Psych Fest pre-festival event and it was not really to my
taste. They have a very charismatic singer and the band seems a bit bigger this
time. I think the singer also did a solo set after Chris Cacavas on later but
no one was watching really. Pity. Anyway, I did not pay a lot of attention to
these guys.
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| Dør Nr 13 |
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| The Wands |
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| Måneskjold |
Chris Cacavas is an American who was backed by
a friend. They were played acoustic and electric guitar and pedal steel and
mostly if not all original songs. It was also something different. Blues, folk,
strange songs.. People were relaxing and enjoying a lot, I think, especially
the older folks in the audience.
Set List: No
Tomorrow, So heavy, Wool Sweaters, Arlene, Devil on my Back, Going Down, Jesus
Rolls/Communication, Your Eyes, Fear, The Rapture, ??, Cheap Wine
Hodja was a huge
surprise for me. This band is a trio
with members from the Reverend Snake Oil Company, who I had seen here before.
Singer, guitar and drums, all of which were amazing players. This was really
down, dirt, gritty nasty blues with super passionate singing and intense
drumming and some cool guitar parts as well. Crowd was into and I really dug
them as well.
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| Hodja |
Nils Gröndahl is
an experimental musician whose main weapon is the violin but hardly played in a
traditional way. He uses the violin to create the tone and sound that he wants
and then he does intense modulation via looping and effects. He also does some
spoken words stuff and gets these hypnotic rhythms going. It was really far out
but if you were patient and did not run away right away, I think you would dig
it and he had a good crowd who was pretty mesmerized. Cool but far out stuff.Telstar Sound Drone was next and now it was dark and you could take advantage of having a pretty cool light show and once again the liquid lights. I have the 7”, the 10” and the full length LP. They played a few songs not on any of their records, which were cool to hear like Drugs Help, Hurricane and Æbelturen. This band has a pretty distinct and spaced out but also hypnotic and a very energetic singer. He actually has more energy than the music itself, which is sometimes a bit crazy… Cool stuff. and pretty intense.
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| Telstar Sound Drone |
The last band of the night was Bite the Bullet (half the
guys from Highway Child). This is nearly the house band for the festival if you
add up the number of times they have played including with Highway Child..
Anyway, the band played a more experimental set on this night as their drummer
could not make it so Paw (guitarist) played drums on all but one song and
Christian (bass Player) played the bass on a few songs and guitar on the
rest. I was really surprised how cool
the music was without the guitar. The songs really did stand up. I think it was
really bold of the band to do this. Paw
played all the drums on the record so he is knows how to do it but still this
is a guitar driven rock and roll band. Anyway, it was a great concert and high
energy and Thomas the singer was amazing..
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| Bite the Bullet |
Set List: I feel Love, Going Out, Be like You, What am I
doing Here, Desire, Everybody has a broken Soul, My Soul, I will not Die,
Seaside, Uniform, Space Drums, Baby Girl got Soul
Day 3
10:30 I had a very rough night with a plugged up nose and
serious leg cramp that had me screaming in pain (not pleasure, and not sure
what the neighbor tents though!). Anyway, after an ice cold shower and some
breakfast I was feeling better.
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| Orcas |
Flora Fauna was
next. This was a five piece band that played pretty spacey and psychedelic
stuff at times and also sung in Danish. Quite incredible how many bands are
singing in Danish these days. There used to me on one except Spids Nøgenhat in
the psych scene that sung in Danish. Cool.
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| Flora Fauna |
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| Morgan Square |
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| The Universals |
No sign of Nick from the Univerzals yet but the others are
confident he will be here soon.
The Univerzals
started about 25mins late and had to play a slightly shorter than planned
set. It is great that Nick has put this
band back together and they are playing again.
I have really enjoyed the two records that they have made. The tracks at
the concert were from both plus an older and quite heavy song called Space
Train that I had never heard. Great musicians with awesome saxophone, synths
and guitar solos… Nicks voice was pretty rough on this day but the performance
was excellent.
Set List: E55, Glass Skyscraper, UFO, Mars Man, Space Train
I missed both the German bands, Excessive Visage and Hellkamp,
as we had to set up and take down our stuff for the ØSC concert next on the big
stage. I did pop by and hear a few mins but neither band was my taste. As I
recall they were both some sort of Indie rock.
ØSC, we played a
very good concert. I was really happy with our performance despite Mogens and
Jiri, not being that happy as the guitars were too loud on the stage. Wish they
would have said something during one of the breaks. Anyway, when they hear the
show they will realize they did play very well.
This was the first time we ever played with the guitar player, Lau from
Fribyttedrømme but I think he did a great job.
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| ØSC (Pic by Sabine) |
You can hear the show at the link: https://archive.org/details/OSC2015-08-01.SBD
Baby Woodrose was next on the big stage and this was by far the biggest crowd of the entire festival. Where did all these people come from??? I heard there were 300 at the festival.. Sounds about like normal.. Anyway, Baby Woodrose totally rocked the place and the soundman Anders cranked it up as they were way louder than any other band that played the whole weekend! A very intense set including an old On Trial song (Flashing’ghast) and also a brand new song Mind Control Machine!, Disconnected, Information Overload, Volcano, Born to Lose and a few others… The cover of Freedom by Richie Havens was really cool... I think they played about an hour and 10mins.
The Sonic Dawn
(used to be called the Mind Flowers) were the last band on the small stage and
were really rocking the place when they suffered a series of power failures
over about 20mins, which totally destroyed the gig. Damn.. I felt bad for them.
They are such cool people and the band has really developed from just playing
short 60s tracks to a more developed sound and longer more intricate
tracks… Not sure what the set list was… They did the best they could be the momentum
and vibe was certainly wrecked but the breaks.
De Underjordiske
is another young new Danish band from the Northern tip of Jyllland who play
their own unique sort of psych rock.
They had great reviews at Roskilde Festival this year and seem to be
gaining quite a following. So far they have only released one 10” single on the
Levitation Records label. Anyway, close your guys and go back to the UK, circa
1986-1988 and you will hear a band called THE Cult, but with lyrics sung in
Danish… That is what this band sounds like. Quite uncanny at times…
The final band of the evening is a very special group of
freaky people with a great sense of fun and humour and love to put on a crazy
and cool show. They are called Elevatorfører. They have also only released one record back
in 2013 but I think they have another soon. Anyway, a fun way to end the
festival…
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