Birds of Clay

CLUB DEROUTE

Birds of Clay’s probably last concert this year. We will be warming up for one of Skandinavias best Balkan groups the GOTHENBURG GADJOS. And also we are celebrating the double birthday of Jon Samuel Lundström and Simon from Orkestar Baxtalo.

Tickets 50 kr
= 2 Bands, Tapas and 1 free Beer

Underhuset, Halmtorvet 9. Tomorrow at 9 p.m.

Last Klub Deroute of the year with 5 men from Gothenburg and 3 women from Christiania:

GOTHENBURG GADJOS
Scandinavia’s probably most skilled Balkan musicians formed GADJOS in the summer of 2011 from two weeks of playing the streets of Warschauer Brücke in Berlin; a musical training camp that developed the bands sound. Gadjos delivers heavy beats from the club scene, even heavier jazz, and strong influences from the Romani Tallava music in Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, Macedonia and Bulgaria. The classic B
alkan

If you missed us at the Apoteket concert. You can hear us playing at the Opera, Christiania at 8 p.m. the day after. Food is good and cheap. Entrance is Free. What more can you wish for!!

Our next koncert will be at the new venue Auditoriet. (auditoriet.dk)

Bernard bangs allé. Frederiksberg, Copenhagen on tHis saturday the 3rd oF november.

Doors open 20.00.

Birds play at 23.00.

Entrancé is only 20 kr

with love…

After recording two albums in the United States in the 70s that both flopped, singer-songwriter, Sixto Rodriguez, a native of Detroit, disappeared from the music scene in America and resurfaced in South Africa. The documentary Searching for Sugar Man covers the career of Detroit singer-songwriter Rodriguez from his humble beginnings to South African success.

A bootleg recording of his album “Cold Fact” made its way to South Africa in the early 70s, where Afrikaners facing Apartheid took to it, making Rodriguez a star, although he didn’t know it.  Rumors spread that he killed himself, the most popular being that he set himself on fire on stage after singing the lines, “But thanks for your time/then you can thank me for mine/and after that’s said/forget it.”  In the documentary Searching for Sugar Man fans of Rodriguez refuse to forget it, picking up where the suicide rumors left off.

The documentary starts with Rodriguez going back to work in Detroit, renovating homes and buildings, oblivious to the fact that his music has reached South Africa and struck a chord with Afrikaners, influencing the Anti-Apartheid movement.  His records were immediately banned by the South African government, but that just made him even more popular.

Rodriguez’s music reflects on his life in Detroit from an outsider’s perspective.  He said of his music back then, “As far as my work from Detroit comparing to the South African Apartheid, the similarities echo. The placards of the 1970s in the United States read things like: ‘We Want Jobs’ and ‘Stop the War’ – I was looking at the music from a working class perspective that was relevant, as it turns out, to the kids in South Africa.”

Eerily, these themes still relate to Detroit, and America, with the recession, wars, and Occupy Movements.  His lyrics in “The Establishment Blues” could be applied to today.  ”Gun sales are soaring/housewives find life boring /Divorce the only answer/ smoking causes cancer/This system’s gonna fall soon/to an angry young tune/And that’s a concrete cold fact.”

Tonight (26/09-12) is the night where you have the opportunaty to be all sweapt up in Birds. For the Birds of Clay, and the Magnetic Eagle will both be playing a concert tonight, celebrating the 42 nd birthday of the little freetown christiania. Be sweept away by the melodic harmonies of voices, and the strumming and plonging of the accustic instruments of the Birds of Clay. Where after the Magnetic Eagle will take you on a journey with full stop no return into the unknown world of improvisation. This little event will take place today at 20.00 o’clock in the old cinema building “Byens Lys” with is right next to the Moonfisher, Christiania.

Birds play at aprox.:21.00, The Magnetic Eagle at aprox.: 22.30