Blog

Fri 30 Jan – Ingrid Olava liveIngrid OlavaBugge Wesseltoft

Great, really great, solo concert of Bugge Wesseltoft where he presented his last album!

Ingrid Olava was better than expected live. Really enjoyed it!

So the year is coming slowly to an end, and here's my list of my fav albums released in 2008:

Adele - Daydreamer
Anna Ternheim - Leaving on a Mayday
Berry - Mademoiselle
Bonnie Prince Billy - Lie Down In The Light
Cake Bake Betty - To The Dark Tower
Camille - Gospel With No Lord
Cat Power - Jukebox
City & Colour - Bring Me Your Love
Emiliana Torrini - Me And Armini
Emily Jane White - Dark Undercoat
Gemma Ray - The Leader
Ghost Bees - Tasseomancy
Headless Heroes - The Silence of Love
Hellsongs - Songs In the Key of 666
Ingrid Olava - Juliet's Wishes
Jakob Dylan - Seeing Things
Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim
Loreena McKennitt- A Midwinter Night's Dream
Lucky Jim - True Noth
Malcom Middleton - Sleight of Heart
Micky Green - Oh!
Scott Matthew - Scott Matthew
Sophie Hunger - Monday's Ghost
Tori Amos - Live in Montreux 1991/1992
White Hinterland - Phylactery Factory
Woven Hand - Ten Stones

This List is actually longer than i thought! Quite alot good music in 2008.

What i'm hoping for in 2009 are new albums by: Tori Amos, Damien Rice, Regina Spektor, Feist, Alela Diane (her album will be released in Feb. yay!) and Joanna Newsom.

Today, actually. A festival for new rhythmical music from the northern countries in Stavanger. The concerts and seminars are taking place in different venues; Folken, Checkpoint Charlie, Cementen, Metropolis and Tou Scene. This is my suggestions of bands people should see.

Noxagt
Sebastian Waldejer
The Shock!
mordi
Ingrid Olava
Susanna
Kaada (really looking forward to this one, since I missed his last one...)
Shining

...I will of course be present on all of these...

In alphabetical order... Not all are included, because I don't care about them.

Animal Alpha (Øyafestivalen, 2005)
Asphyxsis (Checkpoint Charlie and De Røde Sjøhus, 2006)
Avenged Sevenfold (Hove, 2008)
Backyard Babies (Folken, 2009)
Band of Horses (Folken, 2008)
Bare Eagles Band (Folken, 2008)
Bare Egil Band (Folken, 2008)
BIG BOMBASTIC COLLECTIVE (Cementen, 2007)
Black Lips (Hove, 2008)
Black Sabbath (Oslo Stadion, 2005)
Built to Spill (Folken, 2008))
Cat Power (Roskilde, 2008)
Cavalera Conspiracy (Hove, 2008)
Chrome Hoof (Hove, 2008)
DDR (Folken 2008 & 2009)
deLillos (Bjergstedsparken, 2007)
Dengue Fever (Roskilde, 2008)
The Dillinger Escape Plan (Roskilde, 2008)
Duffy (Hove, 2008)
the dø (Roskilde, 2008)
eriK Salvesen (Folken, 2008)
Fitts for fight (Tou Scene, twice)
Fjorden Baby! (By:Larm & Hovefestivalen, 2009)
Franz Ferdinand (Øyafestivalen 2005 & Hovefestivalen 2009)
Freestyle Picnic (twice, 2008))
Gatas Parlament (Metropolis, 2008)
Grinderman (Roskilde, 2008)
Hayseed Dixie (Folken, 2008)
Hellacopters (Pulpit og Hovefestivalen)
HOH (Nordic Music Week, 2008)
Howlin Rain (Folken, 2008)
Håkan Helström (Folken, 2009)
Ikke Bare Bare Egil Band Band (Folken, 2008)
In Flames (Hove, 2008)
Influence of the Dead Marsipan (many times...)
Ingrid Olava (Nordic Music Week, 2008)
Iron Maiden (Oslo Stadion, 2005)
Jackman (Pulpit, 2005)
Jóse Gonzáles (Roskilde, 2008)
Job for a Cowboy (Hove, 2008)
Johnny Hancocks (everywhere)
Juan Formell y los Van Van (Roskilde, 2008)
Judas Priest (Roskilde, 2008)
Kaada (Nordic Music Week, 2008)
Kaizers Orchestra (many times)
Katzenjammer (Folken, 2008, twice)
Killswitch Engage (Hove, 2008)
The Lovestreets (Checkpoint Charlie, 2008)
Lukestar (Hove, 2008)
Lupe Fiasco (Hove, 2008)
Madrugada (Pulpit, 2005 and twice at Folken, 2008)
Mannepenis (around....)
Mogwai (Roskilde, 2008)
Motorpsycho (Folken and Roskilde, 2008)
Marit Larsen (Folken, 2008)
Mugison (Roskilde, 2008)
The National Bank (Folken, 2008)
Neil Young (Roskilde, 2008)
The New Wine (By:Larm, 2009)
Noxagt (Nordic Music Week, 2008)
Plumbo (Checkpoint Charlie, 2008)
The Raconteurs (Hove, 2008)
Radiohead (Roskilde, 2008)
Roger Waters (Stavanger Stadion, 2006)
Rosa Parks (Grottene, 2008)
Rumble in Rhodos (Roskilde, 2008)
Satyricon (Pulpit, Folken 2008)
Sebastian Waldejer (Tou Scene, 2007, Folken and Nordic Music Week 2008)
The September When (Folken, 2009)
Shining (Nordic Music Week, 2008)
The Shock! (Nordic Music Week, 2008)
Skambankt (Folken, 2009)
Susanna (Nordic Music Week, 2008)
Teitur (Roskilde, 2008)
That Special Monkey Hug (Justisen, 2006?)
Thom Hell (Folken, 2008)
Thomas Dybdahl (Pulpit and Stavanger Sentrum, 2006)
Timbuktu (Pulpit, 2007 and Folken, 2008)
Turbonegro (Pulpit, 2005)
Ungdomskulen (Folken and Hove, 2008)
Under Byen (Nordic Music Week, 2008)
Valentourettes (Folken, 2008)
The Violent Pineapple Syndrome (Metropolis, 2008)
VETO (Nordic Music Week, 2008)
White Lies (Hovefestivalen 2009)
Volbeat (Folken, 2008)
Yessayer (Hove, 2008)

...more to come...

After reading the reviews of Way Out West in the local newspaper in Göteborg, I decided that I needed to write some reviews myself, since obviously the reviewers must have been at some other festival. They all seem to have seen different bands at different locations, of course rendering their opinions very different from mine.

I spent the first evening of Way Out West at Jazzhuset, where Silje Nes, Ingrid Olava and Wildbirds & Peacedrums would embellish my night. I had never before heart neither Silje nor Ingrid, but I am a long time fan of Wildbirds & Peacedrums.

Silje Nes – **
Silje Nes was, sadly, quite uninteresting. She played quite beautiful songs, but without any tension or real dynamic. It all sounded a bit like a school concert for parents, though a good one. This discovery surprised me since I had the impression that Silje was the most famous of the bands that played at Jazzhuset this night.


Ingrid Olava - ****
If Silje Nes was uninteresting, Ingrid Olava and her band took me with surprise, and totally swept me off my feet. If she would have played alone this night, she might have sounded like any female singer-songwriter with a piano, and at times she reminded me of Tori Amos or a raspier Kate Bush. She is also a skilled songwriter and after listening to some of her songs here at last.fm like Only just begun, I have fallen in love with her voice. But what really made this evening special was her band. Accompanied by drums and guitar/bass, suddenly the songs get the same kind of build-ups as Sigur Rós, yielding a delicate combination of piano-based singer songwriter and postrock. Towards the end of the concert she played covers of Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan, which only further confirmed this mix of traditions. This is where you should have been this night, and she would probably have been given five stars if it wasn't for...

Wildbirds & Peacedrums - *****
According to Ingrid Olava, Wildbirds & Peacedrums is her favorite swedish band, and that's no surprise to me, since I also have loved them since I discovered them a year and a half ago. For any other band it would have been impossible to go out after Ingrid and make a better concert with more energy, I also doubted myself, but for Mariam Wallentin and Andreas Werliin this seemed to be no problem. Wildbirds & Peacedrums is the perfect mix of blues, pop, punk, minimalist postrock (if there is such a thing) and with a voice that is not of this world. Mariam might not sing perfectly clean, but her energy and presence will surely blow you away. If you weren't there last night, immediately run down to the record store and get The Snake, their second album that is a bit closer to the live experience. Sadly all the energy and communication cannot be caught on record, so the songs on the disc can't really be compared to seeing them live. Afterwards, Andreas and Mariam seemed just as exhausted as me, after a fantastic night.

Hove festival
PIRATE LOVE
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Les Savy Fav
Black Kids
Animal Collective
Jay-Z
MGMT
The Kooks
Panic at the Disco
Coheed & Cambria
Dengue Fever
Vampire Weekend
The Wombats
Charlotte & The Co-Stars
Thom Hell
Foals
Band of Horses
Beck
White Denim
Rival Schools
Animal Alpha
Flogging Molly
Bad Religion
Matias Tellez
Familjen
Slagsmålsklubben
Black Mountain
Black Lips
Ungdomskulen
The National Bank
Goldfrapp
Tommy Tokyo & Starving For My Gravy
Ingrid Olava
Jaguar Love
Lupe Fiasco
Duffy
Cavalera Conspiracy
Killswitch Engage
The Raconteurs
Hellacopters
Yeasayer
Kelley Stoltz
Satyricon
Primordial
Howlin' Rain

Huset
Sigrun And The Kitchen Band
Black Debbath
Ralph Myerz & Jack Herren Band
Superfamily
Silver Street
Jaa9 & OnklP

Others
PikkaBird - Mono
Smashing Pumpkins - Spektrum
Jethro Tull - Sentrum Scene

Her album which is released on the 31st of March in Norway can be heard on her Myspace site; go to
www.myspace.com/ingridolava.

Tracklisting as follows

Stars
Headlines
Only Just Begun
Giant of Time
Back to Love
William
Juliet's Wishes
George, Fred and me
It's allright ma (I'm only bleeding)
Elevator
Slippery

http://www.hovefestival.com

Attending? Read no more: http://www.last.fm/event/7957

Some people have been afraid that their favorite bands will overlap. In order to quell fears and and reassure people that it's not left to a throw of the dice, here's an overview of the Hove Festival schedule. Artists listed first play last. Everything starts at four each afternoon with the exception of the club program at Amfiscenen which starts at 11:30pm.

UPDATES WILL BE NOTIFIED.
Paul Wall has been canceled.



Tuesday 26. June
Hovescenen (The Main Scene)
queens of the stoneage / Incubus / Cansei de Ser Sexy / My Midnight Creeps

Amfiscenen (2nd scene)
Amy Winehouse / Clipse / Stephen Marley / Darkside of the Force

Amfiscenen, (Club)
Kaiser Chiefs / TBA / TBA

Teltscenen (Small scene)
Klaxons / The Twang / 65 days of static

Wednesday 27. June
Hovescenen
The Killers / Arcade Fire / The Hold Steady / Me First and the Gimme Gimmes / X-Queen of the Astronauts

Amfiscenen
Lamb of God / Chimaira / Unearth / Gojira / Dimension F3H

Amfiscenen, (Club)
Bright Eyes / SUSANNE SUNDFØR

Teltscenen
The View / The Noisettes / The New Violators / TBA

Thursday 28. June
Hovescenen
Dipset FEAT Juelz Santana & Jim Jones / Chamillionaire / Lil’ Wayne / Papoose / Akala / TBA

Amfiscenen
Interpol / TV on the Radio / 120 Days / Tokyo Police Club

Amfiscenen, (Club)
Neurosis / Hatebreed / She Said Destroy

Teltscenen
Oh No Ono / The Presets / The Lionheart Brothers / Brightblack Morning Light

Friday 29. June
Hovescenen
Slayer / Mastodon / Cynic / Keep of Kalessin

Amfiscenen
Damien Rice / Nellie McKay / Pleasure / Ingrid Olava

Amfiscenen, (Club)
TBA / Remy Ma

Teltscenen
The Long Blondes / 1990s / TBA

Saturday 30. June
Hovescenen
My Chemical Romance / Billy Talent / Flying Crap / Pale Kids

Amfiscenen
SIVERT HØYEM & THE VOLUNTEERS / Modest Mouse / William Hut / TBA

Amfiscenen, klubb
Gossip / The Horrors

Teltscenen
Devastations / Patrick Wolf / Rockettothesky / TBA