Wednesday 26 March 2014

Songs about Life, Cigarettes and Pamplona - Pelle Carlberg in concert at Café Konrad!


After House of Wolves in August last year, Tom convinced another great singer/songwriter to come all the way to Luxembourg, Pelle Carlberg!

This time, the concert didn’t take place in Exit07, but at Café Konrad, the perfect place to listen to the stories of the friendly Pelle on a Tuesday evening.

Pelle, a former Middleclass Kid from Uppsala, 70 km to the north of Stockholm, came with his guitar and immediately captured the audience with his songs, each presented with a lovely background story. During almost an hour and a half, he played a selection of songs from his three albums “Everything. Now!”, “In A Nutshell” and “The Lilac Time”. I can say that I never attended a concert in such an intimate atmosphere where I was completely immersed until the end - always keen to hear about his next story. Pelle was playing songs about life, and we learned that “Metal to Metal is no good, but stupid to stupid is no better” (the first one is a story about a German mechanic called Dirk, who had told Pelle about how his van broke before playing at a concert in Berlin, so he ended up having to take the taxi to the Club where he was playing in the evening). And this is only one of all the funny stories we could listen to, sung by Pelle with his self-deprecating humour, mixed with his catchy melodies.

Songs about crap airlines (“Fly Me To The Moon”), Stockholm, Pelle and his friend Sebastian (“1983”) and plenty of other entertaining stories were presented with the same wit.

We learned that Pelle is a fan of the group I’m From Barcelona, about who he wrote the song “Pamplona” for - a song that even go us singing along and I think it worked out quite well!

At the end of the concert, he explained to us that “Clever Girls Like Clever Boys Much More Than Clever Boys Like Clever Girls”, and so a nice evening with wonderful stories and melodies presented by a great Swedish guy came to an end. Definitely a live show worth spectating!

So, that was yesterday, and today, I am still singing…na na na na naaaaaa!




Monday 24 March 2014

Playlist 23 March 2014

Versus You - Better Than Me (Moving On)

Fight Like Apes - Waking Up With Robocop (The Body Of Christ And The Legs Of Tina Turner)

Scanners - Control (Love Is Symmetry)

Scott & Charlene's Wedding - Charlie's In The Gutter (Any Port In A Storm)

Monochrome - The Weekender (Unità)

Making Marks - Forgive and Forget (A Thousand Half-Truths)

Paper Plane Pilot - This Place (First Flight)

Halls - You Must Learn To Live Again (Love To Give)

Spain - Sunday Morning (Sargent Place)

Fanfarlo - The Beginning and The End (Let's Go Extinct)

Money - Bluebell Fields (The Shadow Of Heaven)

Jeremy Messersmith - I Want To Be Your One Night Stand (Heart Murmurs)

Musée Mécanique - Sleeping In Our Clothes (Hold This Ghost)

Pelle Carlberg - Clever Girls Like Clever Boys Much More Than Clever Boys Like Clever Girls (In A Nutshell)


Tuesday 18 March 2014

Playlist 16 March 2014

Wild Nothing - Cloudbusting (Cloudbusting Single)

Scott & Charlene's Wedding - Charlie's In The Gutter (Any Port In A Storm)

Beach Fossils - Generational Synthetic (Clash The Truth)

Fight Like Apes - Indie Monster (The Body Of Christ And The Legs Of Tina Turner)

Mogwai - Special N ("Les Revenants" Soundtrack)

Fanfarlo - We're The Future (Let's Go Extinct)

Wild Beasts - Wanderlust (Present Tense)

The Go Find - The Lobby (Brand New Love)

Monochrome - Minutes & Actions (Unità)

Dean Wareham - The Dancer Disappers (Dean Wareham)

Barzin - Lazy Summer (To Live Alone In That Long Summer)

Pelle Carlberg - Middleclass Kid (In A Nutshell)

Azure Blue - Sunset (Beyond The Dreams There Is Infinite Doubt)

Withered Hand - Heart, Heart (New Gods)



Playlist 9 March 2014

Parquet Courts - Borrowed Time (Light Up Gold)

Withered Hand - Heart, Heart (New Gods)

When Nalda Became Punk - When It'll Come (A Farewell To Youth)

Kid Canaveral - Couldn't Dance (Shouting At Wildlife)

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Young Adult Friction (The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart)

September Girls - Heartbeats (Cursing The Sea)

The Tuts - I Call You Up (The Tuts EP)

Stanley Brinks & The Wave Pictures - Max In The Elevator (Gin)

Math & Physics Club - We Won't Keep Secrets (Our Hearts Beat Out Loud)

Making Marks - Flying High Forever (A Thousand Half-Truths)

Melpo Mene - Holes (Holes)

Northern Portrait - A Quiet Night In Copenhagen (Ta!)

Finnmark! - Just Can't Win (We're Not Köping)

Monochrome - Ecart (Les Murs Ont La Parole) (Eclat)

The Spook School - What A Pity (Dress Up)

Seafood - Easy Path (Surviving The Quiet)


Monday 3 March 2014

Playlist 2 March 2014

Northern Portrait - I Give You Two Seconds To Entertain Me (Ta!)

Hidden Cameras - Doom (Age)

The Notwist - Kong (Close To The Glass)

Versus You - Better Than Me (Moving On)

Cheatahs - Geographic (Cheatahs)

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - J Smoov (Wig Out At Jagbags)

Cloud Nothings - I'm Not Part Of Me (Here and Nowhere Else)

Making Marks - Bruises (A Thousand Half-Truths)

Finnmark! - Everyone's Dying (We're Not Köping)

Freschard - Sweet Sweet South (Boom Biddy Boom)

Motorama - Winter At Night (Eyes/Winter At Night 7")

Versus You - Better Than Me (Moving On)

Let's Wrestle - Wrexham Aluminium (Let's Wrestle)