Last night, John, Walter and I hit up the "Klub Geyser Festival" at Islands Brygge Kulturhus. Doors opened at "klokken otte i aften" (8 PM, for you non-Danes), so we got there about 10 minutes early. No one else was there except for some older people (they had to be 60+), but we had already paid the cover, so we decided to stay.
The opening act was super dubious. It was a 30something bearded gentleman with an acoustic guitar who sang "a welcome song" with the following lyrics:
Hello sun, let's have some fun
Hello moon, its much too soon
Fool, you are so cool
Fool, its not so cruel
(And my favorite couplet:)
We can make love in a flower bed
Or, if you like, do something else instead.
It reminded me of Coco's song from Flight of the Conchords, except, you know, sincere.
Turns out, the crowd became hipster-ified fairly quickly, which was quite a relief. Still, the atmosphere was more laid-back than clubs in the States. It was set up cabaret style, with small tables and cheap beer and big comfy chairs and candlelight. Hygge.
Nuance, the first band, was a kind of country-bluesy, featuring a female lead singer, sassy fedora-wearing bassist and banjo player. Naturally, I liked them. They sang in English, but all of the inter-song banter was Danish. Very disorienting.
The next artist was Cecille Trier and Le Fiasko. Very dark, with haunting harmonies and intense, atmospheric instrumental sections, and her vocal delivery was in the Amanda Palmer-Aimee Mann-Kate Bush vein. They did a nice cover of "Anthem" by Leonard Cohen, but I like almost all Leonard Cohen covers more than the originals. Brilliant songwriter, miserable singer.
The third group, Født Uden Filter, performed entirely in Danish, so I'm not quite sure what happened. Then again, I don't think I would've understood in English, either. It was a girl singer with two backup singer and an acoustic guitarist doing 'funny' songs. They danced and were silly and had props like giant cardboard teardrops. At one point, the backup singers put on sparkly golden cardboard bikinis and sang "get your hands off of me! get your hands off of me!" Whoosh - right over my head.
Il Tempo Gigante is a Danish band with a name in Italian, whose lyrics are in English. Got it? I can't put my finger on who they reminded me of - Calexico? Califone? All I know is their instrumentals were super clever and I loved the use of unusual instruments, like the saw. Good sleepytime music. Really cool stuff.
The last band I absolutely adored and you should check them out here . They are called the Elephants, and their music is sunny indie surf-pop. Los Campesinos! meets the Beach Boys, really fun. I danced out of the venue.
For a 60kr fee, we saw 6 bands and the music continued until 1AM! Sweet deal, huh? We all had a great evening.
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