yes, this is gonna be such fun..
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the support band attracted quite a lot of people from the attached bars but it was Erlend Øye and his fellows who caused that the lounge was packed with audience composed mainly of indie folks, foreign erasmus students and guests (jan p. muchow, jaromír švejdík, gregory finn, ondřej ježek, márdi, klára nemravová,..there was also dušan neuwerth and pavel kučera..if i listed my czech favourite band´s members who weren´t there, the list would be much shorter which could either indicate that the czech alternative music scene is very small either that there was nearly everybody) ..
they kicked it off with two unreleased songs and they continued without break with familiar guitar strokes from Golden Cage and audience went mental for the first time..the atmosphere was very tense yet relaxed and pretty enjoyable..the band seemed to enjoy the concert the same way as audience that was uncotrollably moving to the sustain rhythm of their music.. funny moment came when Erlend encouraged the people with cameras to put it down finally at least for one song and to fully take a pleasure from the music instead..in spite of the fact that the ratio of released and unreleased songs was even, i enjoyed every track they played (except one song when i was taking a pee which was also very enjoyable).. Most of the known songs were sparked with some new arrangments and Erlend´s singing was clean and sounded like on his records. Instrumentally, the band was pretty well coordinated..Erlend even showed his showman skills when he from time to time danced in his very own style..
My name is Prince and I´m whitefunky
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before the concert, i had wished to sing a song Done With You with the band..i somehow managed to do so, but my voice was kinda weak coz of my permanent screaming...later on, Erlend spoke about his former visit in prague back in the 1995 on a trip with his school..after the concert me and my friend asked the drummer Sebastian Maschat about his visits in prague and he told us that he hadn´t been here until that day and that they were gonna leave early in the morning the other day due to their concert in wienna..imagine that, he is a German who is recording his records in Mexico and touring the world and he has never been to prague for a proper visit...he admitted that it was shame and he promised us to come back soon...
We play smashing hits..
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The set was closed with Burning but the audience screamed so loud that there had to be an encore...after that, the keyboardist Daniel Nentwig decided to celebrate the end of the concert with a short walk on his keyboards which was pretty extreme for me. Erlend then danced for a while on pre-prepared chair so they could finally wrap it up leaving peculiar feeling of satisfaction in me and in most of the attendees..
Benny Andersson ? no, It´s Daniel Nentwig..
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after the concert, i decided to buy their T-Shirt to compensate not buying their record..when i put it on the keyboardist who was there too told me that it was a good choice and that it´s funny how it matches the T-shirt i came to the concert with..
another facts i was fortunate to learn personally in short summary:
Erlend is not going to release any new material with Royksopp since he doesn´t get on well with them as a person.
Daniel Nentwig haven´t heard any record from Kings of Convenience. He only knows song I´d rather dance with you..
His opinion on illegal downloading is that he can do nothing about it but he thinks that it´s much bigger problem for labels than for him as a musician.
He also adviced me not to go to Bergen for studying the university since it still rains there.
same time next year, i guess ...
