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