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VC5 - better than ever!

by crunchy.dk 28. August 2003 12:34

This year VibraCrunch celebrated its 5 year anniversary in Malmö. And what an absolutely splendid night we had! More than 4000 dedicated musicfreaks & fans showed up to move their feet and feel united for 7 hours of crazy beats, funky stuff, indiepop and pure ol' rock 'n' roll - making it the biggest crowd so far at vibeful Vibracrunch.

With kind of a dream line up (according to some people the best ever) and all the bands being up for some serious party business after giving all they had and a little more, the night was destined to be magic! To top everything we were also lucky as the weather was with us. It started out pretty bad with rain and dark clouds early in the day, but later the sun arrived (thank you, weathergods!) turning everything into a beautiful Swedish, yet indian summer, which (almost…) made everyone forget all about the loooong beer queues and the not so cool and very expensive Swedish cigs – well, you can't win em' all!

 

Our own Danish rock bastards – Baby Woodrose – was the opening act. And what a show! These guys surely know how to get in gear with their nasty sound and catchy rock tunes – and it was certainly a thrill to see the dust rise, as the crowd moved along to the beat and riffs.

The cool and superb indieband from Sweden - First Floor Power – was the opening act on the main stage and they instantly made everyone smile with their warm, catchy melodies.

(Due to technical problems we don't have any pictures of FFP at VibraCrunch...plase send us one, if you have!)

Powersolo delivered a burning and powerful performance with their Rockabilly-garage-punk-country songs. A little less conversation and a little more action, as The King would have said. We are very proud of these guys. Check them out!

When the day faded into night it was time to kick some ass and chew some bubblegum (and to drink, of course) as Superheroes took the stage by storm. Drunk Danes and smashing Swedes joined together in utter madness to this legendary band and sang along to all the hits (Johnny really had fun tonight!). All of them drooling over Thomas T's well shaped naked torso.

With a bag full of new material from their forthcoming album (out on Crunchy Frog October 6th) as well as oldies but goodies like all time favourite, Ten Thousand Songs, Learning From Las Vegas gave an intense concert. They created a magic moment at the Lounge Stage. And with a jolly jumper in guitarist Jesper Sand, the band made sure the guitars did the talking!



Next in line on the main stage was the Scandinavian kings of dub – Dub Sweden. This band was a great crowdpleaser (in the most positive meaning of the word). They are enjoying quite a big success in their home country and for for the Danes - not all of 'em sober at this time - this was the perfect introduction to an excellent party band you can jump around to and have fun!

A wonderful bunch of native Malmoe people playing some wicked shit. As usual the band, led by singer and guitarist Henrik Andersson (who is originally from Umeå) kicked off in high gear. Melodic stuff and breath taking ballades - just how you like it!

To finish an unforgetable night of pure pleasure and joy it was Danish band, Mew's turn to take over the main stage. Due to their much (well deserved!) hyped, new international album, "Frengers" and their spectacular stageshows, they sure had something to live up to. To judge from the huge and excited crowd, Mew fulfilled everyone's expectations with a mindblowing and heartful finale on a grandiose day. Only the people made of stone didn’t have a little tear in their eyes by the end of the night.

Thanks to all of you out there making VC5 a goddamn extraordinary experience for everyone. See you next year! Roger, over and out!

It's Vibra time again and it's FREE

by crunchy.dk 22. May 2003 12:38

The time for the annual VibraCrunch festival is getting closer each day. Put an X in your calendar on August 22nd - music starts at 6:30 pm and since smaller and bigger bands are mixed in no particular order, make sure you are there early so you DON'T miss your favorite band. Crunchy Frog has had the pleasure of setting up a slot at the Malmö Festival since 1999, where it all started out as a collaboration with Crunchy and our sister label from Malmö, Vibrafon (R.I.P.). During the years we have presented such excellent artists as: Junior Senior, Swan Lee, Rhonda Harris, Wynona, Glorybox, Diefenbach, Knallert, Dipper, Ray Wonder, First Floor Power, David and the Citizens, Ny Akustik, Revlon 9, Moonbabies, Quit Your Dayjob and of course all bands from the Crunchy family. This year we'll celebrate our 5th anniversary – hence VibraCrunch V. As usual you can expect an outstanding set up with some of the coolest Danish and Swedish Indie bands you can imagine. The program is ready now. So feast your eyes on this golden and 100% FREE lineup (more details at the bottom):

MEW (DK):

We are most proud to present the band who hang out with Courtney Love and supermodel Helena Christensen, and has fans such as R.E.M, who dedicated one of their songs to the band at their recent gig at the Midtfyns Festival, DK. Their latest album 'Frengers' is a beautiful journey through dreamland and should be found on every night table in the universe!


FIRST FLOOR POWER(S)

One of Sweden's best indie bands. The band has grown a great live audience in Scandinavia due to their constant touring. Signed to cool, Swedish indie label, Silence Records, they released their debut album, 'There is Hope' (produced by Jonas Jonasson of Bob Hund) in 2000. They got a new album out in late August.


SUPERHEROES (DK)

Crunchy Frog's very own pop/rock darlings. They always deliver A++++++ liveshows, but you probably already know that. If not... there is no excuse not to go see this amazing band in Malmö and their ONLY gig in the Øresund area this year!


LEARNING FROM LAS VEGAS (DK)

A well known secret from Crunchy Frog. This band plays beautiful indiepop and is about to release their third album this fall. Come out and see this fantastic band before everybody else starts talking ´bout ’em, and hear all their new songs before your lazy neighbour. He might have heard the single 'Yale Keys' which is already in heavy rotation on Danish radio, though!


DUB SWEDEN (S)

Dub Sweden from Stockholm has played at numerous clubs all over Sweden as well as big Rock festivals (e.g. Hultsfred in June). Their songs have been on high rotation throughout different radio stations in Sweden. Expect Rock, pop and...dub..??.


BABY WOODROSE (DK)

The opening act at this year's Roskilde Festival. Probably Denmark's next big export success, with their high energy, psychedelic Rock ´n Roll music. But first stop: Malmö.


HANK (S)

Malmö’s very own Hank, plays Pop/Rock in an intensive and melodic way as only the swedes can do it and they are ready to conquer the world. Don’t miss it.


POWERSOLO (DK)

These guys play as if they were coming straigt outta the swamps of Southern Loisiana; playing catchy Rockabilly-garage-punk-country songs. Come and swing your asses off, or your mama will be very dissapointed.

Practical stuff

This map shows the excact location of the site. It takes about 5 minutes to walk from the Central Station.

For Copenhageners it's nice to know that the trains back to ol' CPH departs every hour all through the night.

It's free and no tickets are required - so just turn up in time to soak up all of the splendid music!

You can buy beer and food at the site, and of course records and t-shirts from all the bands that have any.

The Ocean Diver EP – out now and forever!

by crunchy.dk 28. April 2003 12:44

The Ocean Diver EP – out now and forever!
April 28th saw the realease of a brand new EP from Superheroes – a must for every lover of quality music!

Besides the single track “The Ocean Diver”, this EP contains 3 live songs, taken from the Roskilde Festival and the Danish National Radio P3 Award show 2003. Furthermore our heroes have also put 5 videos into this delicious cocktail:

Turn Me On - A high-energy, in your face picture assault that matches the up-tempo song. The idea behind the video was to take random pictures from the Crunchy Frog and Superheroes archives, give them a good shake, and then make a video out of that.

Someone Else - This video, nominated for "video of the year" at the Danish Music Awards (Grammy) 2003, is a voyage into the more sombre side of Superheroes. In the video, referred to by director Peder Pedersen as his “most moving video of his career”, you see situations with people crying. Even though this may sound a bit “arty” it successfully underlines the melancholic mood of the song.
The alert viewer will notice that several members of Superheroes can be seen in the video!

Wasting Time - This animated video tells the story of a lonely man and his empty life, his only companionship is talking to his coffeemaker and watching TV shows.

Cool Girl - Shot live at Skanderborg and Roskilde Festivals (infront of some 40.000 roaring fans) + Crunchy X-mas 2003.

And just when you thought it couldn’t get any better, you get the single and the new video for the song, Ocean Diver.
A video pieced together by the legendary Danish cult cartoon “Bennys Badekar” (Benny's Bathtub) from 1972. The video is a spectacular fusion between the soft and melancholic notes of
“The Ocean Diver” and the marvelous fantasy world of Benny and his magic bathtub.

Don’t miss out on this fantastic EP from the super-gang. 

Superheroes out in Holland, Belgium, Sweden and Norway

by crunchy.dk 28. March 2003 12:46

Crunchy Frog's sharply dressed and until now, nationally treasured band, Superheroes is out on the pulsating and vigorous label Virgin (Norway Sweden) – founded by eccentric richboy and balloon fanatic Richard Branson – in Sweden and Norway. And south of the Danish border they have been picked up by the cooler than cool indie label PIAS. So you see, they are an international treasure now...

Norway, Sweden and Benelux have gone on an extreme diet consisting of “Turn Me On” as appetizer – just to make the mouth ache for some more. As the main course they all get pampered with the steaming hot and spicy variety of songs from the album, “Superheroes”. Sweden, in addition to this, also has a side order with an assortment of mixed Superheroes hits on a special bonus cd with 10 extra tracks taken from earlier releases and b-sides. All these Superheroes treats can be digested in the company of the band when they play in Norway, Sweden and Benelux this spring:

04-02-2003 Dodger @ Smålands Nation, Lund SWE
04-03-2003 So What, Oslo NOR
04-04-2003 Kulturkammaren, Norrköping SWE
04-05- 2003 Fritz's Corner @ Debaser, Stockholm SWE

04-17-2003 Ekko, Utrecht NL
04-18-2003 W2, Den Bosch NL
04-19-2003 Viva Velinx Festival, Tongeren BE
04-20-2003 LVC, Leiden NL

Album out in Benelux on March 24th, and Sweden and Norway on April 7th.

First major review from Holland; it's a 5/5 in the leading music magazine "Oor".

Check out Thomas and Asger's interview with MTV Upnorth here

NY and SXSW got a crunchy injection!

by crunchy.dk 24. March 2003 12:47

Mid-March saw a crunchy invasion of bands from sunny, but cold, Scandinavia. Mission: To rock the US - first New York and later the same week to get sun ON and BBQ and margharitas IN the white North European bellies, while waiting to play at the music conference South By South West in Austin, Texas.

Well, the bellies never really got a tan (though Austin was hot), but the Americans got what they deserved: Scandinavian kick ass music (much better than the usually lick ass music) - that'll teach them!

Monday March 10th, the crunchy tunes were heading for the club Mercury Lounge in New York. And what a night it was: crowded, hot and the beers kept on coming! Music delivered by Superheroes, Junior Senior and The Mopeds!

Thursday the same week the crazy Danes and Swedes invaded Texas and filled the club Friends - located on the street to be, 6th St - on the greatest night of all during the fine festival. Junior Senior, The Tremolo Beer Gut, The Mopeds was on the bill for the night - along with the splendid Danish band Powersolo.

Junior Senior was on the front cover of newspaper Austin-American Statesman the day after the show - and the same day The Raveonettes decorated the front cover of Austin Chronicle.

Check out the Danish Rock Counsil, ROSA's report (only in Danish) on the Danish invasion of SXSW Pakkede huse til danske showcases i USA and Hottere end hot

Here's a bunch of pix's - enjoy!

Junior Senior
The dynamite duo and their flock of party people turned up the heat of the room - both in New york and Austin. Besides a great bunch of plain normal people, even label guys and media people danced the night away. Junior Senior's show at SXSW was filmed by MTV and will be on "You Hear It First" on MTV US in April.











Superheroes
Superheroes was in greatest shape at the Mercury Lounge. Not a dry eye, maybe because of the keen water throwing from Thomas!


The Mopeds
The Mopeds rocked as hell with their charming pop-rock tunes! As always the swedes spellbound the audience with their all-time-present urge to get a crowd moving. This time - for the first time ever -before an american crowd. Let it not be the last!









The Mopeds had brought a new guitarist - Petter, in the absence of Patrick, who usually join the band on stage. And watch out Patrick: Petter's got a moustache that'll be damn hard to beat!!




Tremolo Beer Gut as cool as it gets!
Jengo and Per Sunding both flew in for this one gig, so they only needed to add beer to get the place heated up as they went on as last band in Austin! Nalna was stand in for Sune Wagner from The Raveonettes - and showed that Crunchy is full of excellent guitars!


















Powersolo
Their power country rock was more than welcome in Texas. Actually it ain't getting more steaky than this - "they rocked" as an pissing American in the toilet called up a friend to report!









Backstage


The funny funny guys from Junior Senior on their reputation of being all fun: "It's true...it really is!"




Sweet liquor eases the pain! Junior, Superheroes' Asu and Thomas C!



Like girls, the Swedes just wanna have fun! A rare moment captured on camera: David and Jens of The Mopeds pretending to be sober!




Dining with the stars of tomorrow...or is it today? Well, there's your answer to what these Danes are living on: All doped and high on crack! superheroes' Thomas Troelsen and Lars opposite Senior and the fortunate US manager of both superheroes AND Junior Senior, Mr Ian Zaider.



Chuyi's in Austin invaded by Crunchy people...sweet Margaritas keep the doctor away!

All photos by Jessica Tolf Vulpius

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