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Your beloved admin just came home from a concert with the Norwegian band Kråkesølv, which is the norwegian word for mica.
This is mica, which is not the band Kråkesølv.
Kråkesølv is a band from my home-town, Bodø, which lies in the northern part of Norway. I went to a concert they had up north some time ago, and was quite disappointed. I’d been told they were incredible, yet the concert was as boring as it was noisy. I do not know whether I was drugged, or they where, but this time the experience couldn’t be more different.
As some of the more perceptive among you might be able to tell, I was most impressed with Kråkesølvs performance. They started out with a promising tune, and their first song earned plenty of applause from the audience. Now there were two performances going on at the same time, of which this was the minor one, which I had only patriotically chosen to attend, so the audience must have fallen short of 60 people, but the atmosphere was great, and the warm-up band had really gotten us excited. After the first song ended, one of the band-members told us that he would like to dedicate the concert to his, and another band-member’s, late grandmother, whose funeral they had to pass up in order to play for us. That really gave the concert a personal feel, but without making it a dreary process.
As the concert went on I became more and more convinced that this was some other band than the one I had listened to before. They were all so into the music, and after one song one of them commented that they had not sounded that good in a long time. The music really did come alive on that small stage from which it blasted.
Amazing live artists, you can really tell they love what they do.
The concert ended with the best song I believe I’ve heard in 2010. I think they said it was brand new, it certainly had a different style than the other music they played. While the main focus had definitely been on the vocals up to this point, this one really let the instruments come into their own. It’s not like the vocals were neglected though, it was just that there was less of an obvious divide between the song and the rest of the music than there had been before. Their last song was also more upbeat and rocky than the rest of the concert, while remaining melodic, and it was still recognizably their type of music.
To summarize, if you ever have the chance to attend a Kråkesølv concert, take my advice and do so. Pass up anything you have to pass up, because when these guys are having a good day, they’re pretty much the best, and who doesn’t love awesome music? I know I am looking forward to the next time I can hear them live, and I’ll be checking out their recorded music too, first chance I get.
Twitter just went down for being too awesome! Too many people were using it! I can’t decide whether I should be depressed or impressed…
CSS is effing awesome! WordPress’s editor is a bitch that can’t retain html code for shit. That is pretty much all. New about-sites, go get to know us! Hoping that the remaining two authors will finish theirs soon. Do you like our new favicon?
I’ll let you in on a secret: There are a few candidates. Which one do you like better?
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OK is a man sideways. If you did not already know this, was your mind blown? Also, the word bed looks like a bed. The question then becomes, is there a way of putting a man on a bed using nothing but ascii characters?
In other news, Windows 7 has not blue-screened on me for over a day, which is certainly a new record. Granted, I haven’t really done anything, and it has stopped receiving input from a bluetooth keyboard (that it insists is still connected) several times, but you just have to take what you get and run with it.
Going to some concerts tonight… Does anyone know who the fuck the “Skanksters” are?
Welcome, dear reader, to BRBcoffee’s final resting-place. Although it has had different names through the ages, this blog is nearly as old as the interwebs themselves! It started out as a personal myspace-blog, but it has grown since then, both in size, maturity, diversity, and last but most definitely not least, number of authors.
It has not been an easy road for my poor little blog. It seems I have a tendency to wait with migrating it to a new place and platform until long after the necessity arises. From myspace it was moved to blogger, I believe, where it thrived for some time. I fear I neglected it quite often, and I guess that’s when I got the idea to get some help in keeping it alive. Enter Elaine and Vegard.
It looked something like this
Now I don’t remember if there were any intermediate steps, but somehow I reached the conclusion that tumblr would be the best place to host a collaborative blog. I clearly did not know what I was getting myself into! Customization at tumblr is dreadful, multiple authors is a feature only in name, and just trying to add comment functionality is a royal pain in the ass. However, through combined effort, we made it work … somewhat. The tumblr blog is both the darkest and the brigtest chapter in the history of this blog. Bright, because it saw some brilliant entries from three brilliant people, dark because it suffered mass neglection. Clearly just adding more authors means nothing if there is no driving force.
Which brings us here. The truth is, the tumblr-thing was never supposed to be a long-lasting experiment. Since before we set it up, I had been talking about buying a proper domain and setting up something myself. I even had another friend of mine (who might be making some cameos later on), partially on board with programming the thing. Clearly, such a thing did not happen, but I did buy brbcoffee.com, .net, .info, and .org quite some time ago now! It’s been “under construction” ever since, which here means “Bjørn isn’t doing anything because he’s lazy.”
But lo and behold, brbcoffee is under construction no more! I’ve decided that I don’t like lazy people, and as a testament to that I’ve decided to do this again, for real this time! I will not disappoint any more waiting readers. Instead I shall make this site something I can be proud of, and I think that with a little help from my friends, that goal is very much attainable!
So what are your thoughts? Are you looking forward to reading and listening to us rant?
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