It was surely one hell of a fine day. On Saturday 11th of August
Crunchy Frog presented a bill of 13 superb artist from Denmark, Sweden
and USA.
The weather turned out to be OK, the crowd was growing all day
and the Swedish beer was cold and kept on coming – and the music was
startling: mean and crazy from Angus & Graves and James Kochalcka,
moving and moody from Wynona, Glorybox and Rhonda Harris, oisy and
poetic from Diefenbach, Hell On Wheels and Thau, and groovy as hell
from David & The Citizens, The Mopeds and Superheroes.
The third edition of the annual Vibracrunch one day
festival included not one, but two stages: the big tent stage and the
small and cozy lounge stage. Local
heroes David & The Citizens kicked the day to a funky start on the
big one, and the good people of Malmö started pouring into the
VC3-site.
Among the musical peaks was Quit Your Dayjob, who spanked
the ears of the audience with their focused and punked up in-your-face
electro/guitar tunes.
And the theatrical rubber show Angus & Graves introduced
their own performance in both Swedish, Danish and English wearing
elaborate swimming gear. They performed a show that made believe that
there is still new musical ground to be explored. Saturday Frank
thrilled people with their Waits-garage sounds and the “ethnic”
Glorybox (US/DK/N) gave a perfect evidence of why they are so popular
in the Benelux. 
Denmarks best post rock band Diefenbach kicked up the volume on the
guitars, Rhonda Harris took them down again and delivered (as usual) a
great and intense concert. The newcomer Moonbabies (who was quite
unknown to at least the Danish part of the audience) was an interesting
new aquaintance.
Copenhagen based country rockers Wynona seduced us all
with
their melodic indie country. And when James Kochalcka played his second
show at Vibracrunch3 on the big stage, people where wise to all the
tricks: the dino choreography, the Swedish (!) heavy rocker Ozzy
Osbourne and best of all: James’ funky magic 
finger
(his dink!). Whenever this crazy American visits Europe he gains a
larger and larger crowd of fans. Among these are Hell on Wheels who –
despite the fact that they played earlier on the same day at the Arvika
Festival – insisted on driving to Malmö to play and – more important –
to hail and enjoy mr. James Kochalcka Superstar. As usual the
HoW-liveshow was startling and excellent, and they gained many Danish
fans as well.
A most amputated version of THAU – only 2 fourth of the
band played under the name “AU” – gave a world premiere of songs from
their new album “All It Takes Is Everything” (out September 10th)
accompanied by recorded drums, strings and organs. Though the
dimminutive band explained the absence of brothers Nalna and Yebo with
a “double tour of Europe” (Roffe and Fzat playes northern Europe,
Yebo
and Nalna the southern part), which 
would double the income of this
lazy band. But that explanation was ruined when Yebo entered the stage
and sang the last song of the gig and received great applause by the
audience.
Day turned into night before The Mopeds played one of
their best shows ever, supported by Patrik “Muso” “Paddy” “Bas
Morgansen” Bartosch of Eggstone and a thrilling brass section – which
of course meant a kick ass sax solo, you didn’t think was even legal
these days. Mopeds presnted a long string of hits and included recent
radio favourites “Dina Tried Her Silverbow”, “The Right to Be Unfunky”
and “Steppin’ On Fire”.
As the big crescendo of the day superheroes was flown in
from sunny France to play a gig of extraordinary show quality. Lead
singer Thomas Troelsen showed his more devilish sides spitting, spacing
out and putting his hands all over his 1,5 meter body - where
everybodies eyes could see! The show was recorded by the Swedish
National Radio (P3) and is to be heard later this year – as well as
Rhonda Harris and Glorybox, which both as well ended on national tape.
Whoa, it’s hard to sum up such a smashingly happy day of
thrills, chills and high quality music. VibraCrunch3 was indeed a great
success, and we have received nothing but praise by the fans and
participants. What we still need, though, is some more pictures from
the concerts to post on this very page. As you see we have a limited
supply as of now.
Looking forward to next year!
