March 2019, a truly wonderful month...

First, there were our birthdays. I was lucky that my birthday was on a Saturday this year, so I could choose from numerous options where to celebrate my birthday. The decision was quickly made in favour of the "Klubb Död" event at "Nalen" in Sweden's capital Stockholm, with Then Comes Silence, TRAITRS, The Foreign Resort and The Flatfield. I didn't know any of the four bands beforehand. I just knew it was a post-punk event, listened to one song per band - and thought that the event was "good enough". No, seriously: Lately, I have read some LIVE reviews about promising bands. Promising musicians who aren't known yet and play in front of so few people that the concept of underground concerts is increasingly endangered. This is not good, not at all, and it's up to us music lovers to counteract this very development. Why not going to several smaller events and discover and support something new and fresh instead of visiting only one big spectacle of one of the same old major players per year? 

Well, in any case, the "Klubb Död" event turned out to be the perfect choice. A package consisting of four bands from four different countries (The Flatfield from Finland, The Foreign Resort from Denmark, TRAITRS from Canada and Then Comes Silence from Sweden), all bands were good - and I even fell in love that night, with the last performing band named "Then Comes Silence" from Sweden's capital Stockholm. I was not prepared for that! It was probably the best birthday present this year. As soon as they started their set with "There's A Sound", I was under their spell. 

Here are some audiovisual impressions of The Flatfield, The Foreign Resort and Then Comes Silence. Some snapshots of all four bands will be published on my additional blog "Sound Kitchen Archives" soon.

As if the "Klubb Död" event wasn't great enough already, March 2019 ended for us with another journey towards Stockholm: On 30th March 2019, Ville Valo & Agents played some Finnish schlager on Viking Line's cruiseferry "Viking Grace" somewhere on the Baltic Sea between Turku / Finland and Stockholm / Sweden. 

Further snapshots and audiovisual impressions of that event will be published here and on "Sound Kitchen Archives" soon... Stay tuned!