Formerly fronting Oslo quintet Norma Sass, Thea Glenton Raknes returns with The Wild in tow, and where her previous band was all technicoloured pop, this sees Thea fuzz it up, dabbling with the Blues ever so slightly, but still retaining a throbbing pop heart at the core, keeping time with hand-claps, a growling kick-drum, layering the chorus with a deep baritone which underscores her spectacularly distinctive, mellifluous voice. Half-English, Raknes always put her shoulder into her lyrics and here she brings a weariness to the table that belies her years: “Trying hard to seem / happy on the face of it /and God knows I’ve had practice…”. Let’s hope her shows at by:Larm lift her spirits.

Thursday 14 February, 2030, in the tent on Youngstorget
Friday 15 February, 22:00, at John Dee (our preference)

There are two types of covers:
1. The type that should be banned
2. The type that should be applauded

Scarlett’s cover of ‘One Sunday Morning’ falls into the second category.

Brave, noisy, and often beautiful, she takes just five minutes, forty-nine seconds to turn Wilco’s twelve minute opus into an uncompromisingly off-kilter hymn, layered umms and ahhs on top of heartbeat-kickdrums, cyclical guitar lines, glockenspiel and various clicks and whirs, retaining the life-and-mortality-heart of Jeff Tweedy’s lyrics.

Following quite spectacular press reviews for her fourth album ‘Featherbrain‘. We’re excited to announce Hanne‘s first UK show in over two years, at London’s Lexington, 30th April, promoted by the goode and juste Bird on The Wire, and supported by the wonderful Fireworks Night.

“Darkness and space extend in all directions. There is no discussing this in less than epic terms. Dragons are the one true rating system, and ‘Featherbrain’ is 100 percent dragons.” – The Quietus

Tickets £8 here and here.

Doors 7.30
Fireworks Night 8.30
Hanne Hukkelberg 9.30

Featherbrain is a risky album. Both dissonant and lyrical, it is music for headphones and notebooks. Its intimate, eccentric sounds demand your intimacy and your eccentricity, but the effort is rewarded: a personal and honest sonic world opens up, in fact, so sincere Hukkelberg had to toughen up to record it. Listen carefully.

“After one listen to this album, you’ll be freaked out. After several, you’ll start to pick it apart, to understand it, and you will end up raving about it to everyone you know.”
– The Stool Pigeon

Supporting are Fireworks Night who lovingly embrace two of popular music’s most seductive elements; rhythm and the pleasure of the chorus. The intricate arrangements and compelling lyrical narratives of their previous records still remain but this time they are played by a band smitten with music as a vehicle for joy as well as sorrow, a combination which has made them an unusually exhilarating band – able at once to move feet, head and heart.

“A dizzyingly talented dash-cutting ensemble trading in claret confessionals and gravel voiced, tobacco-stained drama, all told via nigh-on perfect string accompaniment and fantastic songwriting flair.” – Drowned in Sound

The new single from Civil Civic is released on July 13.

Take a listen
Watch the video