by:Larm Day 1 - John Dee
On Thursday we played our first (of three) shows at this years by:Larm festival. The location: the awesome venue John Dee in Oslo. We have wanted to play by:Larm for years now, so this was a great occasion for us.
We took the stage shortly after Lydia Laska’s guitarist had been (literally) whipped by the singer a few times, to a nearly full John Dee with an audience in great spirits.
After the words “Who needs the new wave of Bergen bands when you have a tsunami from Oslo?” had been uttered, we played our 30-minute set (see our stunning setlist here) with great response and thankfully no major hiccups. It was a really great night and a fun show (with some surreal conversation both before and after).
After the show we darted around town and caught amongst other bands the brilliant Harry’s Gym, the magical Hanne Hukkelberg and our friends in Cables.
The air in Oslo is on fire, and we already look forward to day 2!
Oh, and if you would like to see more pictures from the show, click here.
Norwegian Wood - Full Concert!
Thank you for the votes (revisited)!
Yet again - we owe you all a huge thank you for voting for us in the Underwood competition (see directly below)! As a consequence, Merlin is playing Saturday 14th of June at Norwegian Wood! That’s right, we were one of the top 4 bands with the highest amount of votes. It’s going to be quite an experience playing for 3000-4000 people, one that we will make sure to write about so watch this space. If you happen to be in the Oslo area the next few months, you can catch us playing a few shows around town. Look on the right column of this place for details!
In other news, this weekend we will be mixing two of the songs we recorded during our previous stay in the studio, so you’ll get to hear some new music from us in the very beginning of June.
Merlin at Norwegian Wood? We need your votes!
Hi friends!
We have now been chosen for another vote-off on the web, this time to play at one of Norway’s coolest festivals: Norwegian Wood, with bands including Queens of the Stone Age, Foo Fighters, Dinosaur Jr. and Jimmy Eat World. We got picked amongst 400 bands to be one of the 20 to go head to head. Needless to say, this is an incredible opportunity for us, one that doesn’t come along very often, so we would love it if you could spare a moment to help us!
We would really, really appreciate it if you could be so kind to go to:
http://www.nrk.no/urort/underwood
And vote for us. You simply choose “Merlin” from the list of bands and click the “STEM HER” button.
Thank you so much in advance!