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Livereviews
Brant Bjork & The Bros
- Stengade 30, Copenhagen, 15.04/06
Saturday 15. april was B-day on Stengade 30 in Copenhagen.
For the second time within only three weeks grand ol’
stonerking Brant Bjork and his collection of cool brothers
visited the venue – last time supporting Danko Jones
and this time headlining. Yours truly was there in spite of
a tempting invitation to the Bad Afro label-night, which took
place the same evening on Rust.
By Foxy
Surprisingly many people had found their way to Stengade
on this particular night. It’s like Brant Bjork’s
audience just keeps growing between his regular visits to
Copenhagen. Since I was in the studio recording on his last
visit (the Danko-night) and therefore missed the gig a few
weeks earlier I was of course really hungry like a fox to
get my head blown away with some genuine stoner.
Supporting this night was Copenhagen garage/rock’n’roll
band The Grim Fighting Heroes who opened the evening at aproximately
22.15 and played ca. half an hour. The guys played so fucking
loud this night that most of the audience was blown right
back to the bar where they desperately tried to stuff paper
tissues into their sore ears. As I have mentioned before the
hardkicking, bloody dynamic drummer is the great feature of
this band, but this Saturday the TGFH had a new drummer smashing
away – he was nevertheless really good too. The band
kicked ass all the way through, but I frankly missed a bit
of variation in their material. And the lead vocal was just
a bit too much shouting and too less singing to be totally
cool, and that’s a shame! Anyway – a convincing
outburst of energy…
After some changing of gear on stage Mr. Bjork and Bros were
ready to turn Stengade into a completely smoking, stoned,
leaned back, bandana-dressed zone of smooth coolness. Always
surpressing the wild explosions of the music, their constant
and compressed flood of riffs drifted right into the ears
of the audience for almost 1½ hours non stop. The guys
are known for tripping for hours once they’re on stage,
so this was in fact a short gig! Repeating beats, long solos
and improvisations, jazzed-out drums, a deep, constant bassline
and some of the coolest guitarwork blended perfectly well
with Brant Bjorks half-stoned, mumbling vocals this night.
It really worked!
The Bros got people headbanging in a state of trance from
beginning to end. No one could stand still to this massive
wall of stone hitting them in their faces with full force.
The band of course played a lot of the expected highlights
from the catalogue of cool songs, and just like last year
when they played Rust in Copenhagen they made the 20 minutes
long impro-medley of ”I Miss my Chick” and ”Sunshine
of your Love” – and it was also cool this time.
Yeah, brothers and sisters. What can I say besides: Go check’em
out next time they visit Copenhagen – unless of course
you’re only devoted to electropop and never smoked a
spliff in your entire life…
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