divine remix and the eurovision contest

ahh.. this is such a wonderful remix.
and the guys who remixed it, midnight juggernauts (yet another wonderful australian band), are going to the hove festival that I wrote about earlier.. I am so excited about that festival. the lineup is amazing.

with the courtesy of rocksellout.com I borrowed this:
Midnight Juggernauts remix of Sebastian Telliers - Divine

I voted for Sebastian Tellier on saturday, and I had a wonderful time watching the melody grand prix (eurovision) song contest.
it was wonderful mostly because of the company I was with, and I haven't hanged out watching tv in several years (no kidding. I dont have a tv). but it was also a wonderful evening because of some funny elements in the show itself.

1. the swedish tv reporter who were to give the results from sweden.


2. sebastian tellier


3. the spanish song (hmm.. now that I found the english subtitles I am not so sure anymore really..)


4. the boasnia song (what is up with hanging up clothes?)


5. the guy who was skating around in the russian song (!)


scary:
-the azerbaijan song with the angelwings and all,
-the finnish song; just because
-the latvian song: because of the pirate-theme they had going there.

nice: norway came in 5.

I dont like the song much, and very much not the girl who made it and wrote it (mira craig) who I had the "pleasure" of meeting when I was working in the sushi restaurant in iceland. I cant remember exactly what she said other than that it was utterly silly. I was in iceland and hadn't really heard of her, she therefore started to explain to me how famous she was in norway and how famous she was going to be other places in the world, and she was basically: bragging! I am not too impressed by bragging and therefore found it a little painful to talk to her. after she came home from iceland, where she had recorded a musicvideo, she played a show in norway, stagedived and no one was there to hold her, so she got severely hurt. poor thing. (this is not ironic. I actually felt really sorry for her when I heard about it.)

the stagedive:


the musicvideo she made in iceland which I am not the biggest fan of:

the sleeper has awoken

In my opinion, for the first time, I would say that Norway is giving Denmark a real competition when it comes to a music festival. Hove festival, which takes place on an island outside of Arendal, is practically an infant. It's first year was last year. But the guy booking for Hove is not at all an infant, he has been the one booking for Quart for years. And now he has made a festival for the people with a slightly more alternative taste than the people frequenting Quart. It is also for the people who appreciate beautiful scenery and nature and who would enjoy to take a dip in the ocean when it gets too hot (That is also an oppurtunity at Quart, but not at Roskilde!).

I agree that Roskilde has a few benefits over Hove, as for instance the price of beer and food. But hey, Hove more than weighs up for this with the fact that its on an island! HELLO, you have to go there by a ferry. How much more idyllic could it get..? And, you could be camping on your boat! by the boatcamping. I cant imagine something nicer than sleeping in a boat in stead of a wet tent (I have only been to sleepover festivals twice, Roskilde in 2004 and 2007. Believe me: it was wet).

I am sure that when people start opening their eyes up to Hove it will become a fullgrown competitor to Roskilde. It is fairly easy to get to Norway, quite inexpensive aswell.. ryanair and norwegian are a few of the low cost carriers that could probably take you from where you are and back really cheap. If you are in CPH you could for instance fly to my home town in 45 minutes, really cheap. (TORP is the airport). And from there on you get on a bus or a train to Arendal.

HERE is the lineup for this years Hove festival.

I cant wait to see the following: Animal Collective, Band of Horses, Black Kids, Black Lips, Crystle Castles, Deerhunter, Familjen, Hellacopters, Hercules and Love Affair, In Flames, KIM HIORTØY, Les Savy Fav, M.I.A, MGMT, MSTRKRFT, Skatebård, Slagsmålsklubben, St.Vincent, Surkin, The Cool Kids, The National Bank, The Teenagers, The Raconteurs, Vampire Weekend, White Rabbits, Yeasayer

I mean is this the festival from heaven or what? Have a look at the lineup yourself. I am sure you will find your own favourites among the bands booked.

Now whats left is to make sure I am off of work, and buy the tickets before they are sold out.

If you also wanna go, please let me know and we could hang out.





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I know its quite a subjective thing to say. because music tastes differ widely, but in my opinion, the booking for Hove, or the lineup, is better than the one made for Roskilde this year.

And, one thing that I find wonderfully brilliant and might contribute to becoming a competitive advantage for Hove is its focus on the environment, and its aim to become the leading festival on environmental conservation. It is the first carbon neutral festival in Scandinavia. In the spirit of this I guess its wrong of me to encourage you to come by planes. There are also lots of boats going to Norway. Kystlink (being by far the cheapest. is it really only 75 kr for a car with 5 people from Hirtshals to Langesund? Langesund is just a few hours drive from Arendal), DFDS (Copenhagen-Oslo), Color Line (Hirtshals - Kristiansand)

I realized I turned into a walking/talking commercial for Hove here, but this is something I strongly believe in.