Got a free minute here in Holland, so I'll squeeze in a couple of quick lines about last week's concert at John Dee. After seeing Girl Talk with Fredrika and Squarepusher with Stian, I was by myself again this time around when I went to the gig of japanese post rock band Mono. I hadn't listened to a single song of theirs beforehand, only knew they are among the likes of Explosions In The Sky or Godspeed You! Black Emperor and remembered Andrea once gushing about them back in Copenhagen.

But damn, it was good! Of course not the same sort of 'experience' as a Gregg Gillis, but intense nonetheless, on another level. These four produced sound full of bombast and opulence while maintaining a sort of cool, japanese indifference towards both crowd and, as it seemed, even their own music – with occasional outbursts of emotion towards the end. I loved how almost all their songs, 90% of which stretched over at least 10 minutes, usually started very minimalist and quiet but then developed into these massive walls of melodic noise. Definitely go see them, should they ever be in your area.

P.S. I promise this was the last concert post for a while, next one's in late May :)

I'm in Amsterdam! Blog updates might be scarce over the next couple of days.

My Bombay Sapphire stuff made into the March issue of Norwegian design magazine Kreativt Forum as one of the 'Monthly Picks'. Yippee-ki-yay.

My new dream job. Ok, maybe just an incredibly witty way to make a headline for the two concerts I went to last week: Girl Talk and Squarepusher.

First one was truly great – blood, sweat and tears baby! Seriously though, I did bust my lip open on some girls head that night. Anyways, what's extremely sympathetic about that young man from Pittsburgh, is, that he actually wants to be surrounded by the crowd and explicitly asked the people to enter the stage as soon as possible. And they did. He thanked them by throwing a helluva a party. Now if the only the Norwegian crowd did too... No, I don't wanna be too harsh, they get a B– for effort. Still, when it's Girl Talk in the house there should better be more than 1/3 of the people dancing their ass off. Next time. By the way, the opening act was the hilarious Captain Credible. That guy went totally havoc on stage while producing some pretty bad ass music. Be sure to check out his videos when visiting his MySpace site!

As for Squarepusher. Well, it wasn't spectacular but it wasn't horrible either. I guess 'decent' describes it best. Probably a concert with him 5 years ago would have been more thrilling. Still good to have seen such a legend of electronic music live for once. By the way, all the pics from the Girl Talk concert are © Bjørnar Håland / groove.no. My cam only seemed to wanna work after the concert :P