Category Archives: Music
Chris Isaak
Chris Isaak på scen er et eventyr! I går kveld (andre gangen på to år) var det dags igjen, denne gangen på Sentrum Scene i Oslo.
Chris Isaak er en reinkarnasjon av Elvis, av amerikanske perfeksjon av beste merke. Dessuten synes jeg at han er en av de få artister som virkelig klarer å snakke mellom sangene, med glimten i øyet og selvironi beskriver han sine bandmedlemmer og hvorfor han hele tiden skriver sanger om kjærlighet.
Det er veldig befriende, og bandet får hele tiden det til å svingene uten å falle ned i en søt suppe, som er temmelig lett gjort med de standard rock’n roll akkorder som han og bandet gir oss i løpet av 1 time og 45 minutter.
En setlist på 24 sanger og 4 ekstranummer – Chris Isaak har en sangkatalog som gjør at han kan omtrent bytte ut alt å få et like sterkt set, det er bare et spørsmål om smak. I år spilte han mye fra sin forrige plate Beyond The Sun, en hyllest til sin gamle helter fra Sun Records. (En plate som jeg mener er den svakeste han har gjort – men det fungerer veldig bra live!)
Kort oppsummert: En magisk kveld med hvor det var fler smilende mennesker enn noen gang på en konsert, en arbeidsseier for bandet – og bare lykke!
Setlist:
”American boy”
”Pretty girls don’t cry”
”Blue hotel”
”We’ve got tomorrow”
”I want your love”
”San Francisco days”
”I’m not waiting”
”Somebody’s crying”
”Wicked game”
”Best I ever had”
”Dancin’”
”Notice the ring”
”Baby did a bad bad thing”
”Doin’ the best I can”
”Ring of fire”
”Dixie fried”
”Can’t help falling in love”
”It’s now or never”
”She’s not you”
”How’s the world treating you”
”Forgot to remember to forget”
”Live it up”
”Miss Pearl”
”Great balls of fire”
EKSTRANUMMER:
”Super magic 2000”
”Oh, pretty woman”
”Big wide wonderful world”
”Worked it out wrong”
Spotify
gjør så mye kule saker!
Denne siste saken, med å legge til en play-knapp med spillelister, eks. på sin egen blogg er jo bare genialt!
Tenk så mye musikk man kan streame til sine venner og bekjente.
Slik ser det ut, spilleliste med The Cult, Live at the Marquee!
Heia Djurgår’n !
Innimellom kommer man over små morsomme saker. Som kjent har ikke toppfotballen helt skjønt dette med bruken av sosiale medier, enda mindre med kommunikasjon. Som regel er det godt voksne menn som vil vise sin egen fortreffelighet og altfor ofte en veldig lite ydmyke til supporterne.
Nå har den allsvenske klubben Djurgården IF i Stockholm tatt et litt morsomt grep – direktekontakt med spillerne. Man legger ut spillernes Twitter navn på sin offisielle side.
Ok, jeg ser ulempene, men jeg synes fordelene oppveier dette. Å ha en rekke ambassadører for laget de spiller for, og som veldig mange mennesker bruker veldig mye tid og penger på – det er meget god merkevarebygging og et eksempel til etterfølgelse! Brann, plukk opp denne og bli de første i Norge!
Skulle aldri tro jeg skulle si noe slik, men i dette tilfelle – Heia Djurgår’n !
My summer project – top 100 albums
It’s summer and very hot in Oslo and therefor (besides moving…) I need to have a summer project. And it will kind of the impossible one, which and who are the best 100 albums in history, with the limit to pop and rock’n roll.
I’ll guess it will change from day to day – but so far I’m starting with what I feel today – and the first no 1 is Bowie’s the Man Who Sold The World.
I’ll promise you, I will get back in this matter!
Spotify is brilliant, isn’t it?
You can come across this enormous library of good music, and I again, it happens every five year… , this must be one of the best live recordings ever:
Jerry Lee Lewis – Live at the Star Club Hamburg
And as they say – “Live At The Star Club, Hamburg” is not an album, it’s a crime scene!!” Just listen, it’s absolutely brilliant for those of you who likes good old rock’n roll!
Elvis
The russian president uses a video blog!
I have written some stuff about the role social media played in Obama’s campaign in the US. Politicians can make great use of social media and online communities to engage with the public.
One real benefit of engaging people in this way is that you can focus people round a specific topic or issue, a useful tool for politicians and government. It’s also a great way to open up and bring people inside the organization. Just as this is beneficial for brands, so it is also beneficial for organizations. That’s why it’s great to see another example of social media being used in this way, and this time one that is possibly one that is less well known: the videoblog from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
Launched in October 2008, Dmitry Medvedev recorded a few experimental video blog entries before the end of last year, but it is this week that he has returned and the blog is starting to gain traction. I’ve included the latest clip below, which may only be of use to Russian speakers (although you do get to see Medvedev skiing).
Check it out:
I don’t know what he is saying, but what I read in a statement was “I would like to say a few words about how my video blog. You will know that we began to experiment with a few posts from the 7th October last year. I now want us to take your feedback and improve implement some of your suggestions. First, you asked for commenting on the site and I’m glad to say we have now got this. You can now post comments to the site and I hope you will do so. I have already listened to your feedback with great interest and look forward to reading your comments.” Now that is how to interact with your people!
The best Springsteen song, not written by him!
On my way to work this morning I suddenly heard the best song ever, not written by Springsteen. And, for thus’ who know me, I’m not a Springsteen-fan, at all!
But this is the best he ever could write, drama with saxophone and piano – great lyrics – plain and simple, a really good song!
And who it is, those guys 
Listen to it here: Joeys On The Streets Again
Motörhead in Oslo or Lemmy The Movie, take a pick
Since the best band in rock’n roll is coming to Oslo december 14th, why not shop a clip from the forthcoming movie – Lemmy the Movie. It probably will be an uncritical yahoo, but who cares – it’s the most influential man in hard rock ever – long live Lemmy!
So, here we go, the trailer to Lemmy the Movie
Dixie Chicks slams the Grammies
The best album of 2006, “Taking the Long Way” – with the brilliant lyrics in “Not ready to make nice” (Most country radio stations have shown little interest in playing the Chicks’ music since March 10, 2003, when Natalie Maines told an audience in London that she was ashamed that President Bush is from Texas) last night won five Grammies! Best album, best record and song of the year, both “Not ready to make nice”, best country album and vocal performance, what a great comeback!
Brilliant music!
About Nisse Hellberg
Why haven’t Nisse Hellberg, front man of the Swedish rockband Wilmer X, got more recognition for his brilliant lyrics? The one other guy who could match him is the late Jokke Nielsen – two guys who in small words describes the world around them. And they do it brilliantly!