Radiohead at the Grammys

Sometimes old institutions and traditions needs a bit of shaking up, and not surprisingly did Radiohead just that when they played at the Grammys last night. 15 step was performed by Thom and Jonny and The USC Marching Band. . Amazing stuff!! I wish it had been better sound at this clip though so I could hear the details. Hope someone posts that later, while we wait for that: here.

And OHH!!! The won Best Alternative Album! YEEEAH!!

Great music videos: U2 -Sweetest Thing

This weekend is U2-weekend on WH1 in Norway and even maybe all over Europe? Anyways.. They have so so many great videos (and songs of course) but it's one that always breaks my heart and makes me shed a tear or two. It's the very very sweet song "Sweetest Thing".

The song was allegedly written by Bono as an apology to his wife Ali Hewson for forgetting her birthday during The Joshua Tree sessions. At Alison's request, proceeds from the single went to her favored charity, Chernobyl Children's Project International. In the video, directed by Kevin Godley, the phrase "I'm sorry" (and some variations) can be spotted. Cameo appearances in the video include Riverdance, Boyzone, Steve Collins, the Artane Boys Band, and the Chippendales. The Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr., Norman Hewson (Bono's brother), Dik Evans (The Edge's brother), and Alison Hewson, appear in the video as well, along with Bono. More here

Bono really shows how expressive his face can be and he really has his heart on his sleeve and are not so much the usual very cool and untouchable. You can really tell how much emotion it is connected with this song and it's so so cute and so funny. I think my favorite moment might be the little dog with the white flag. A very great idea for a video for a very very cute song. I think any wife in the world would melt when she got such an apology. Enjoy! (And yes, that is his wife in the beginning)

Australian awakening and Great covers: Sia - Paranoid Android

Grettings from an extreemly snowy Norway! Been out walking through lots of snow with guitar, bakcpack and handbag for two days now.. Sigh.. Good to be home..

Sia is another of the great Australians.. I was really glad I found out that it was her singing Electric Bird. I have heard that song for so long and wondered who it was. On Spotify I found this amazing version she does of Paranoid Android. The intensity of her voice in this one reminds me a bit of Beth Gibbons and Tori Amos and the strings in the bakground is perfectly "sick", strange and creepy.. Might be the best Radiohead cover I have ever heard. Gives me chills :) Here

New music: Australian awakening - Spiderbait

Sometimes one is just very lucky when it comes to finding new music and this has happily happened to me again. A few days back "inuitwomb" on Last.fm (great nick by the way ;), or Benn as he is really called, posted me a shout. He had found at that we had a quite similar taste in music and it's always good to meet people like that, that like a lot of the same thing as you and also a whole lot of other great things that you have never heard.

For a long time I have had this thought in the back of my head that it has to be a lot of great Australian music out there that I have never heard. The only thing I know that is Australian is Kylie Minouge and AC/DC... There had to be more than that coming from down under. So as Benn is Australian I asked him for some new cool Australian music and my oh my! I am glad I did. He on the spot gave me about 15 bands I have never heard of. I am now on my third band and I have LOVED everything so far, and that is very rare...

So people.. brace yourself for a lot of Australian coming from me to you in the time ahead!

First up is "Spiderbait" an amazing rock band.. One of the coolest things is that the drummer is actually also the bands singer and they have a guitarist and a female bass player. I must have heard them before, at least their single "Black Betty" was very familiar to me. It's very typichal down to earth bad ass rock, and I think they have music that are not just like that, but I haven't heard anything yet. They kind of remind me of a mix between The Pixies and Foo Fighters and PJ Harvey, Audioslave and Ida Maria right now... And there is some old school rock ala Ac/dc in there too. Great stuff. I give you Black Betty...

Ah.... and I of course now realized that Black Betty is really a classic song covered by tons of people.. that's why I knew it... Stupid me (Slap of hand to the head). But anyways Spiderbait's version is definitively the best one I have heard (and I have now heard quite a few as I have been looking for their version .. hehe) (You can see the video in HQ if you have Last.fm on the Last.fm page)

Live: Oasis in Oslo Spektrum

photo from Dresen by Colawarkid

In 1998 i attended the scariest concert of my life. I was quite new to the whole concert thing and somehow ended up about 5 meters from stage on Oasis. I am pretty tall so I usually never get afraid to get lost in the mush pit, but this time I was cought between really tall and really crazy boys that was jumping like maniacs. We managed to get to the side of the crowd and it was better for a while. BUT it was so so so damn loud that my ears started ringing so bad that i couldn't even hear the music any more. We ended up leaving way before the Walrus.

Today it was time to attend my second Oasis concert - ten years later. I ended up right next to the sound guy and that is always good. supposedly it should be the best sound in the whole arena though it's no always so. But this time it was.

I really can't believe that you can go to an Oasis concert and buy seats where you have to sit down. The whole thrill is to jump to songs like "Cigarettes and Alcohol" and "Slide Away". I was a little to prepared about the set list. I have to stop unwrapping the Christmas presents to early or in this case read to many set lists from the current tour before I attend the concert. Lovely blend though between the old and the new though. For me the classics where the greatest because it's during this last ten years that I have loved more and more songs like "supersonic" "Morning Glory" and "Rock'n'roll star". Maybe I am just idealizing my youth ;) Noel kept joking that it had to be several school classes on school trips in the audience cause there were so many young people there. Apparently it's been a long time since they played to such a young audience. Cool though.. recruit them young.. he he

Oasis is also quite fun to watch and you think to yourself "What the *** is Liam doing now" when you watch them. He just stands around a lot, and it's very very cool but also makes you wonder. And his legendary singing pose is always stellar. I was especially happy to hear him sing really well and do all the long tones.. I have been watching some live from the earlier parts of the tour and he seam to have been really struggling. Very happy :)


During "Wonderwall" something very strange happened by the way. Liam for some reason stopped the whole song shouting "just a second... just a second" and strolled of to the side of the stage. I bet he had a chat to the sound guy about something cause something was "too loud" apparently.. Maybe it was us or the drums. Thanks to YouTube though, you can watch it here. What the ''' is he saying?



There are tons of live clips from the concert on YouTube. Just search for "Oslo Oasis 2009" :)

This one of the really great ones and gives you a lot of the atmosphere of the place. "Don't look back in anger" is such a classic.




Some heroes from the teenage years live forever. Some heros even get better when you get older and they have changed half the band to legendary musicians from other dead bands and made a kind of brit-pop super-group. (Yes, Gem and Andy has a very great past). I think they might become the new Rolling Stones and are gonna be around a lot longer and maybe we'll have a second age of brit-pop war now that Blur is back. That would be something, ha? ;)Can't wait til July! Co-coci-choo and yooohooo :)

And as I write the last words of this post I found an interview where Noel talks about doing solo stuff, so great things ahead for sure.