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!
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