GUEST POST: Jack Beauregard | Monsieur Courbet, Cologne
There are only few better ways to start a Saturday night than sipping a free beer and listening to a free concert in a clothes store. And when suddenly the encore turns into an amazing Jimi Hendrix cover…
Foo Fighters | Stadion, Stockholm
RECENSION: Foo Fighters | Stadion, Stockholm – 22 Juni 2011 Entering Stockholm’s Stadion with a blue sky above our heads was just pure luck. Midsummer weather in Sweden is typically on and off with rain, but tonight for Foo Fighters the rain stayed at home.
Balkan Brass Battle | Mosebacketerassen, Stockholm
RECENSION: Balkan Brass Battle | Mosebacketerassen, Stockholm – 19 Juni 2011 My favourite Balkan brass band, Fanfare Ciocărlia from Romania were playing in my favourite Scandinavian city Stockholm. Not only playing, but battling with Serbia’s greatest Balkan gypsies Boban & Marko Markovic Orchestra. Wow. What a combination.
Karma, Atlantisplein, Amsterdam
Street artist Karma is known for his/her sprays tagged with the recycled logo, along with lego brick roads, and political statements such as “I did it my Wei Wei”. The image above says “Better to live one year as a tiger then* a hundred as a sheep”. (*than) More Karma Street Art: http://karmastreetart.com/
One man’s trash… (part 2)
I can slowly see this blog turning into a shoe blog… hahaha I just can’t stop laughing. After I found >>these shoes<< in my opposite neighbour’s garbage a couple of weeks ago, I don’t know if my shoe-in-rubbish-radar has reached super-human levels, but look what I found on the weekend in a different pile of...
GUEST POST: Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan!
Robert Allen Zimmerman, better known as Bob Dylan, turned 70 last month. Reason enough for Birds of Lidingö to put out our personal tribute to one of the greatest artists of our time.
Behind the scenes with THE FOX
Amsterdam’s THE FOX is new to the scene but not new to big opportunities. On Friday MTV presenter Nadia Palesa and crew stopped by our rehearsal studio at the Volkskrantgebouw to film and catch up with the girls for the segment MTV Was Here.
DOWNLOAD: Michael Kiwanuka – Home Again with cello
I’ve had a lot of requests for the mp3 of this video, which I am happily surprised about. The video was meant only for Michael but it has been picked up by the public really well. TO DOWNLOAD: right-click and save here Michael posted about the video on his blog. I was quite honoured! Disclaimer:...
