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Updated with more pics from "The underbelly of the Frog". 15.12.2002
The
Crunchy X-Mas show in Copenhagen was a huge succes - 1500 people came
to celebrate and experience the full roster of crunchy bands playing.
Thanks to everybody who attended and to our wonderful staff both from
Vega (the venue) and CF HQ. Everybody did a fantastic job. For the back
stage and afterparty action check out another news item on this site
called “Behind the music: The underbelly of the frog”
The show started with a brief welcome by one of our
founding fathers of CF: Mr. Jesper Rofelt. He presented the humongous
electrically lit Crunchy Frog logo which hovered above the stage all
night and spred love, peace and sweet sweet crispness. Rofelt then
presneted the REAL presenter of the evening Mr. Karsten Irving “Show”
Schiøler, who also happens to be the lead singer of Tothe Int’l. And
thus the party begun....
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 TOTHE INTERNATIONAL
hasn’t played live for quite some time, but MAN are they back in great
form! They played a few of the classics and spellbound the audience
with their mix of great music, weird instrumentation (with Yebo NOT
playing drums on most songs but instead organ, theremin and megaphone)
and whacky stage show (whith their manager Rud standing in the back
with a white cowboy hat, looking mean as f***). One of the best
highlights was when they played their contribution to the Xclusive
Crunchy Xmas Covers-sampler. They did a wonderful country rendering of
Junior Seniors “White Trash”, and also a powerful “Momma, I’m a
Communist”, which in turn happens to be the song that was covered for
the sampler by.....
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 THE RAVEONETTES
who gave a loud (the loudest of the evening!), energetic and truely
electrifying show. Looking cool as always the band was clad in black,
only exceptions (as a reviewer pointed out) was Sunes red scarf and
Sharins white cleavage – uh baby.
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 It
was the birthday of Jakob the drummer (26), and the Raveonettes
celebrated in style with favourites from “Whip It On” and the great new
songs from the forthcoming album such as “The Chaingang of Love” and
“That Great Love Sound”.
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 THAU
was next band on stage after one of the 3 half hour breaks of the
night. Introduced as the band without whom (...etc.) they entered the
stage together with the “5th member” Soma Allpass Hammarlund on cello,
organ and percussion. The band kicked off presnteing a retrospective of
songs from the first, second and third album. At this point the room
had filled to the maximum capacity and it was nice to see that the
Crunchy Frog fans actually had the attention span to listen to
difficult music and not get bored or go to the bar in hords. It is in
fact a great tribute to the music lovers out there, that although many
came for Superheroes or Junior Senior, they actuelly gave the more
underground and weird sounding bands a chance, and generally dug them
as well. This certainly proved to be true during the Thau show as well
as some of the later ones. The concert climaxed as Thau played “This Is
OK” which transformed itself into “I Touched Her Legs” by Superheroes,
and at the last song “Na Ni” when Per Sunding of TBG and Tanja of
Superheroes joined them on stage.
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 JUNIOR SENIOR
was the band that made sure that EVERYBODY got their ass in gear and
got the party started right. As always Senior was the master of
ceremonies and Junior did a fantastic piece of guitarwork. The Rhythm
Prophets (as they call themselves) Yebo and Filip were tight like hell
and the girls Anna and Lullu (with 3 l’s!) had never looked or sounded
better. That band just is a treat to watch and hear.
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Even
though they don’t like being labeled a “party band” it is pretty damned
hard to stop a party from erupting when they play. On stage they were
joined by the always great Lars I Lommen and Thomas T (Superheroes),
and for the last song Senior asked the audience to join the band for a
orgasmic overpopulated version of “White Trash”. Again it is a tribute
to the fans that the stage wasn’t trashed and everybody just had a
great chaotic time.
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LEARNING FROM LAS VEGAS
was next band up, and this was the awaited first time they presented a
lot of the material from their forthcoming album, which is being
recorded at the moment – it will be out before summer ’03. They also
had a few of the old classics on the program this night and it was a
pleasure to revisit songs such as “10.000 Songs” and
“DataBankMemoHaiku”. With new member Jesper Sand (from Thau) as a
strong pressence on guitar and backing vocals the set up we almost
didn’t miss the newly departed member Per, who used to play the keys in
the band (but we still miss you... come back!). Thomas T from
Superheroes who is producing the new album helped out with some
keyboard parts on stage. It was so nice to hear the lads play live
again. Stay tuned for the album people. It is gonna be great!
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 THE TREMOLO BEER GUT
- now there's another band that hasn't played live for some time. Apart
from 10 minutes at a street party during summer, the band has been
spread out doing their own stuff in other bands and as producers etc.
This was truely a home coming. Per just finished the Cardigans record
as producer. Sune has been travelling the world with The Raveonettes,
Yebo has kept busy with Crunchy Frog and Junior Senior and Jengo is
still the Fruit King of Denmark.
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It
was such a thrill for the guys to be together and that wasn't even all:
on organ and theremin we witnessed the genius of Mr. Bas Morgansen (aka
P. Bartosch of Eggstone), and on backing vocals 4/5 of the B-team from
Roskilde Festival 2000: Show (Tothe Int'l), Satan Beck (Pleasure
Machine), Magnus S (Cardigans) and Simon Beck (Sun Lounge). All in all
a pretty happening bunch of cool cats.
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Despite
the lack of rehearsal the band played a wonderful show and topped it
off with the entry of Senior who did the vocals for "Cool Cig's" which
in his version on the XCXC-sampler became "Cool Dicks". A gay anthem
with witty rhymes such as "mono" rhyming with "homo" (?) etc.
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As
a surprice Tanja from Superheroes showed up with a huge dildo and tried
to ram it down Yebos throat... some happy camper from the audience went
home with a trophy this night...
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 THE MOPEDS
unfortunately couldn't make the sound check during the day, so they had
a bit of technical troubles and was suffering with some bad sound. BUT
it was a treat to see and hear the band again - back on Danish soil.
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They
brought Patrik B and Sven on Sax as guests, and did an entertaining
show playing all their hit songs and speaking their funny brand of
Danish in-between the songs.
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 SUPERHEROES
was the most delicious treat, saved for last. Everybody knows they are
the best live band in the State of Denmark, and they certeinly had no
difficulties living up to that (no offense to the other great CF bands).
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Even
though the audience by now had listened to 7 shows and had been
drinking for 5 hours, it was no sweat for Thomas T and his troops
catching the eyes, ears and hearts of every single person in the
audience. The band simply grooved and played like there was no tomorrow.
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 Thomas T was a lean mean crowdsurfing, stagediving, waterthrowing, stripping machine. We are talking ACTIONPACKED!
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Joined
onstage by most of the other bands and a lot of the CF staff for the
last song "In Control of the Beat" the superheroes finished the night
in great style.
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Oh
what a night to remember (if you weren't too drunk). We hope everybody
had a great time and enjoys the record we did for each other and all of
YOU!
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Watch out for more pics, behind the scene revelations and after party scandals...
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Check out "The underbelly of the Frog"
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