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Drone - Opening night and 300 liters of free beer

Friday night was the grand opening of this new club called Drone. The concept of the club is supposed to be a place for psychedelic music and the calendar so far seem promising with space rock and kraut rock nights and live music with bands that are a bit more alternative than the usual electronica and indie rock so beloved in Denmark.

Well, to call this place new is kind of wrong as the new owners just took over Apparatet and they haven't changed anything! Same interior, same kind of bartenders and same people as it was before. Nothing new and nothing psychedelic. Where were the blacklight posters, the liquid lights and the body painted female tenders??? The only new stuff was the choice of music and this wasn't even that psychedelic in the couple of hours I was there. Actually I would call it pretty standard alternative rock - you know, Stooges, Ramones, Velvet Underground and Joy Division, nothing they wouldn't play at Isola or Floss or wherever. Some people that stayed till later said they also played Can and Hawkwind later - but hey, was that it? So much fuzz about this new club and then nothing new?!

Anyway, it was the opening night and I therefore hope that this bummer was just to please the mainstream crowd attracted because of the free beers. Well, there was a band called Death Valley Sleepers playing the small stage upstairs in the backroom and they did pretty good. Tobias Winberg and another young guy with Fender Jaguars shoegazing and making pretty noise, cool bassist playing hollowbody, intense drummer and a nice female frontline attack called Kristina Romby doing drowsy drowned vocals. Actually I think that her cool looks and sexy way to handle a tambourine was the most psychedelic expression of the two hours I spent at Drone. Not that this band was anything unusual, they just did a good job and made me even more ready to go see Crystal Stilts tomorrow.

I left to go see On Trial at Studenterhuset and that was a whole different story, more about this later ...



Drone @ MySpace | Death Valley Sleepers | Kristina Romby

DRONE - New Psychedelic Club

The indie club Apparatet is closing down - well, who cares?, that club were never really interesting anyway. The good news is, that there's gonna open a psychedelic rock club instead. The agenda seems pretty allright with all the cool neo-psychedelic bands mentioned on music list. The future will tell if this is just gonna turn into another mainstream club with a little twist of harmless hyped psych or they are gonna hit the right spot. Anyway, this place is just across the street so I hope it's gonna be a cool place. We'll see ...

Opening night will feature the band Death Valley Sleepers with strong influence from BJM and so on - and 300 liters of beer! Only downer is, that it's the same night as awsome kick-ass harmfull On Trial plays Studenterhuset. Yeah, psyccchhhedeliccccaaaa...

Drone Space | Drone Face | Death Valley Sleepers | On Trial

Heatfarm @ The Rock

This saturday Heatfarm played at The Rock supporting Riffelsyndikatet. We were there - as usual - we the old friends. Me and my girlfriend accidentally ended up at Floss before the show and there the old fuckers were! Nice, nice, nice - if the world is going down, Floss will survive. That place never ever changes. Mads made a pretty strange stage appearance letting people who bought a record almost fuck his head up. I filmed the show with my new Flip camcorder and it turned out quite good. Anyway, it was a cool night and Riffelsyndikatet was a nice new acquaintance to me.

Heatfarm Riffelsyndikatet Flip Camcorders The Rock

Jaguaren

Ohhhhh, what a night. Jaguaren er super med Svingere. Damned hangovers tomorrow. Nice Sia with cool tits and butt a cool with Kulsoen! :-) Riesen was shit and so was Maerkbar tonight (I guess). Anyway, beers are great and so are Van Osten, Jäegermaister and Underberg. Too bad I got s drunk I hadto leave Riesen for a cheese burger at Palace Burger and also left Maerk Bar for a ca!a

Causa Sui freaking @ Daemonens Port

Causa Sui is a magnificient danish band with some really talented musicians. They started out as a quartet and put out two great records as so. They made an astonishing performance at last years Roadburn Fest and this year they are gonna play Duna Jam. They then skipped the singer and went on as a trio.

Last night was the first time for them to appear in a new form - and it was to be kind of a surprise. This gig was to be held at Daemonens Port, a small underground venue located in the basement of a company building out at fucking Amager. Fucking cool place with absolutely no restrictions in any way - but also without a toilet! A big bar, cheap beers, cool atmosphere and a great stage with draped red carpets around. Way to go! Musically this was a surprise. I had been told that they were gonna have sax and keyboards added - and they also har a percussionist. The first long set was almost pure impro jazz-rock and they really showed of their admiration for Miles Davis. The sax was really cool and blended in fine with the rest of the band. Keyboards were mainly spaced out synth and Jonas Munk made a lot of strange guitar effects with a laptop on stage.

Second set was more Causa Sui as we know them. Blistering heavy psychedelic rock, but still with sax, synth and percussion. Wow, what a great, great performance from this band - and to experience this at a place like Daemonens Port with mayby 60 people present. After that we went to the shitty Jaguaren and got kicked out when they closed

http://www.myspace.com/causasui Daemonens Port Jaguaren

Barcrawl ... again

Hmmm ... the same old, same old story again. Beers and music and then off to town. This night we started out at Märkbar and had the female tender play some Buzzcocks. Then off to Blågårds Apotek and a meet-up with Karen and some other chick. We were already quite drunk and jazz with Jan Kaspersen and Nulle was no good. Then off to this place called Valhalla supposed to be a rock/metal bar just across the street to Apoteket. There was almost no other people than us. But they did play Guns 'n' Roses and had some Rochefort beers that tasted more than great. The girls came over and Lars bought 10 white Gajol shots. Then the girls left and we had to finish the shots and so on ... Then everything gets really, really blurred but after some discussion we headed for Louises - but it was closed. Then it was Temple Bar with Nanna behind the bar and I guess the DJ was someone from svingninger too?! Now exceptionally drunk we left Temple and Lars went home to Karen. I remember I came back to Temple and talked to Nanna, but I guess i was quite difficult to talk to ...? Hmmmm ... then the classic cheese burger and to bed.

Another fucked up night and now hangovers again. And who the fuck cares anyway??

Now listening to: Eartling Society downloads from their site

Märkbar | Blågårds Apotek | Valhalla | Temple Bar