4 days left ’till my first exam, and I’ve slept for 18 hours since last night. I went to bed at 10 pm. because I hadn’t slept for oh so long, and I figured I’d get up around 10 am. if I didn’t wake up on my own before then. Well, it’s 5 pm. now, and I got up half an hour ago. My sleeping patterns are impossible…
I’m totally nervous about my exam, but I’m also in a dire need to get out of the apartment and go to a concert.
And not just any concert. Each year there is a festival, Bodø HardCore Festival (BHCF), in Bodø. It’s mainly rock music, but also some hip-hop and raggae sometimes. And there are 3 bands this year that I’m dying to see. Luckily they’re all in one night, so I go tonight, read for my exam tomorrow, and then I’ll see if I feel seccure enough on my exam to go tomorrow as well.
So which bands am I dying to see?
The fantastic band Honningbarna (on MySpace and Spotify) are playing tonight. I saw them for the first time this summer, and they were fantastic. They’ve played a lot of festivals and have become quite popular. They play hardcore rock, and combine it with a lot of stage-prescence and great lyrics (mostly in Norwegian, which I really like!)
There will also be a reunion with the Bodø-band Sinnssyk Ugle (on Myspace) who haven’t played for some time due to other band-projects. (My favourite being Kråkesølv, eventhough I know some of my fellow authors don’t like them. They just released their second album, and it was quite as great as the first one.) They play indie-like rock, and sing on dialect. Got to love them! (Both of them!)
And every year the local raggae-band Manna (also on MySpace and Spotify) plays. And every year it’s great. Also in Norwegian.
I prefer it when norwegian artists sing in Norwegian. The lyrics are often more natural, it feels more “real”, and the Norwegian-language is quite nice.
So that’s my evening.
Rock out,
Frida
