2011 was a very good year for Wild Beasts. Their latest album “Smother” ranked high on almost any Best-Of list and a huge tour saw them play everywhere from Australia to Turkey to Mexico. The show in Copenhagen in December is the last of the tour and year, the flight back to the UK is booked for the next morning. We lead Tom and Hayden into the freight elevator that is normally used to get gear up to the main stage. The acoustics is amazing in there, yet there’s always the possibility that somebody calls the elevator and it starts to move unexpectedly and noisily (which of course happens as soon as we close the elevator door). But Hayden and Tom are in a good mood and burst into laughter – and not for the last time during this session. Right in the middle of the first take of “Bed of Nails” a stage worker pops into the ...

It is quite a long way out to Figurines’ rehearsal space. We cycle past old and new industrial buildings in Copenhagen’s Valby district until we find the address we are looking for a in a small backyard behind a car parking. Singer Christian welcomes us and opens the hidden door to their rehearsal room. In the narrow corridor leading to the practise space Jens sets up his keyboard underneath a shelf. Drummer Claus does some skatebo...

Jeppe is sitting on the trash can in front of his house in Valby when we arrive. The guitarist and singer of WhoMadeWho strums his guitar and waves as he sees us coming around the corner. He invited us to his place – or better: to the greenhouse in his garden – in a rather suburban neighbourhood full of single-family houses for this session. After looking for some lamp to light the greenhouse and an extension cord for the bass amp Jeppe moves ...

It’s birthday time! Widowspeak’s drummer Michael is turning 23 on the day we meet them at KB18, a small venue in Copenhagen’s meatpacking district. There’s birthday cake and pizza backstage, but we leave the cosy, candlelit and – above all – warm room to head out into the “meat city”, a quickly developing area in Vesterbro with a lot of cultural businesses and venues, but also still quite some meat industry ...

“Home, always gonna feel at home, no matter where I may roam”, Teitur sings in his room in Copenhagen. Initially we had planned to meet up with the Faroese songwriter at his place in Amagerbrogade and then head to another location close-by to do the recordings. But once arrived in the cosy apartment that he shares with a young family (you can hear the baby cry in the background occasionally) we decided to stay and take the chance to film an ex...

Hometown shows are always something special, particularly for bands who have been touring all over the world. It is quite a rare occasion for us to meet Sune Rose Wagner and Sharin Foo where it all started for them, in Copenhagen, right before their final show of the tour and the year. They are concentrating and preparing their set when we arrive at the Vega venue in the afternoon. Time is limited and outdoor temperatures are as you would imag...