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So, after quiet some time, I’m finally back to scrobbling on last.fm. I’ve been gone mostly due to the changes they did there, it was very messy for some time.
I’ve installed it on my Desktop PC and Kodi (nVidia Shield), but the one on Kodi is not working it seems.
I’ve, officially, had last.fm since 2007, and below are my yearly scrobbles since I started.
The link to my last.fm profile is this: https://www.last.fm/user/Pwrmad
Audience: Approx. 600
This is Katatonia’s Dead Letters, from the album Dead End Kings that they performed at Pumpehuset in Copenhagen, Denmark on October 26th, 2016. An awesome song, but the concert wasn’t all too good for me. I was standing far in the back, so it’s very noisy and people were talking like crazy.
I was standing in the back because I wasn’t feeling well at this concert. Was ridden by a cold that has lasted for two weeks. It seem to finally have lost it’s grip completely today though. Yay! 😀 Because of the cold I had to leave the concert rather early, which is something I rarely do. If I leave a concert early it’s only to catch a train or something.
Don’t remember who the support bands were, but there were two of them, and I didn’t see any of them.
Audience: Approx. 9000
So, Kent announced earlier this year they were calling it quits, and wanted to end the whole thing with a new album, a best of album and a farewell tour.
The first concert (October 22nd) in Oslo Spektrum was sold out before I could get a ticket, but a few days later they announced another concert the day after. I easily got a ticket for the latter, and got a really good seat (I prefer to sit in Oslo Spektrum if I get a good seat), and yesterday was the day.
It was a simple yet professional concert, and the first hour went by like it was 5 minutes. It had a bunch of hits, but I guess they could’ve chosen more from their older albums. Mostly since I haven’t been listening much to the new one yet. 😀 Overall the concert lasted for about 2 hours and 20 minutes, so it was a long one. Well worth the steep ticket price of 650 NOK actually.
Speaking of albums; I bought the new album, and the recently released double-CD Best Of collection – which contain four new songs as well. Additionally I bought a farewell tour t-shirt.
I recorded the whole intro and the first song, “999”, and you can see it below. Note that the lyrics are in Swedish.
Audience: Approx. 2000
Seigmen has always been my favourite band singing in Norwegian. Granted, their previous album (Radiowaves) was in English, and Metropolis (the album before Radiowaves) was also released as an English Edition (Grandmaster Recordings). However, their main language, and most popular songs has Norwegian lyrics.
I became a fan of these guys back in 1994 when the Hjernen er alene EP was released. Didn’t give it much thought or listening at first, but it amounted to be the band I’ve liked the most, who are singing in Norwegian that is.
I have been to more concerts with these guys than I can count, and have no overview of how many it has been really. Within one week, while studying, I went to three concerts with them even. Good times! 🙂 I guess I’ve attended between 30-40 concerts since the 90s.
After Radiowaves was released and a tour they went on a long hiatus, with just a few reunion concerts, until they released a new album in 2015. Here’s a recording I made from their first official concert after they started up again. It’s the entire intro, and then some excerpts from throughout the concert.
I bought a bunch of stuff there too:
Audience: Approx. 600
I always want to try new things, and this time I wanted to check out a concert abroad. Sonata Arctica is first up, and the gold nugget here is that I’ve never seen them live before. I used to listen to this band a lot 10+ years ago, so it was about damn time I got to see them. 🙂
The concert was only a few days ago (October 11th) at Pumpehuset in Copenhagen, Denmark – and I still have the whole thing in my head and body. It was an excellent concert, with me standing right in front of the stage. That’s why the filming is like this as well (not widescreen), because I couldn’t fit the guys into the screen otherwise. XD
You can see the setlist at the beginning of the video below, which is Fullmoon in its entirety, and a small excerpt of Wolves Die Young. Was to busy watching the show that I didn’t film that much.
Support was Twilight Force, and it was a bunch of fun to see them as well as I’ve never heard them before. They had some classic power metal going on, and I will definitely check them out further.
They dropped a new video just before the show (they released the album The Ninth Hour only a few days ago), and the new tunes were really good live. Will check out the new CD too since I got it at the concert.
Audience: Approx. 17000
I saw Muse at Telenor Arena Oslo (Norway) on June 12th. It was an amazing show, and the music was of course pretty damn good too. 😀
I don’t even remember what the support was for this concert, but they weren’t worth remember either imo. They were an okay warm-up though.
These are just some excerpts from throughout the concert (some very short even):
Audience: Approx. 2000
I saw Myrkur and Deafheaven at Sentrum Scene in Oslo (Norway) on March 19th. I was there mainly for Myrkur, but was blown away by Deafheaven’s performance.
I recorded Myrkur’s first song and then there’s some excerpts from throughout the concert:
I didn’t record much from Deafheaven, it’s only excerpts from the two first songs: