Someone passed some bliss among the crowd…
For those of you that won’t get a chance to see
Regular visitors to these news pages will know that the band covered Memory Of A Free Festival in Berlin (02.05.2006 NEWS: KASHMIR COVER BOWIE LIVE IN BERLIN) a song they’ve apparently included in their set at shows since that date.
Apart from Memory Of A Free Festival, you can also expect to hear The Cynic in tonight’s set, the song Kashmir roped David in as guest vocalist for on their No Balance Palance album. Sadly he won’t be there to sing his part, but by all accounts singer Kasper Eistrup has risen to the occasion and has handled David’s part admirably. (Oooer missus…snigger, cough, etc.)
The show is due to start at 20:30, Amsterdam time. Click on the image above to get to the
Thanx to BowieNetter 051060 for the pointer.
051060 also sent in the above article from his local paper, which he has very kindly translated for us…I won’t be so rude as to go through and make any corrections, as 051060’s English is a whole lot better than my Dutch will ever be. Here follows the majority of the piece…
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Kashmir gets support of ‘mister Bowie’
The big break-through will be there
The best British pop music comes from Danmark. The band is called Kashmir, named after the Led Zeppelin song, the favourite song of Kasper Eistrup & co. They are very popular in Scandinavia and Germany, but the big break-through is still a dream. Now there’s not only a great new album, there’s also a seal of quality: David Bowie, Lou Reed and Tony Visconti are the world famous rockers who contributed to the Kashmir CD ‘No Balance Palace’.
Just a few days before the hectic European tour (19 concerts in 22 days) Eistrup (singer, songwriter, composer, poet, artist) tried to explain the lack of success. “We don’t have an exciting history of drugs, homosexuality, crime or whatever. We’re just guys with lovely girlfriends. That’s not interesting for press. Also our music is not hot for radio; you have to grow up with us. We’re changing all the time, but not with a strategy.
“‘No Balance Palace’ was becoming a guitar record, much noise and ambient, no ballads.” Brilliant miniatures of melodies, full of sphere and dynamics, with remembrances to bands like Sonic Youth, Smashing Pumpkins, Television, The Cure, Sigur Rós and the German electrics Neu.
The last named was in the seventies the source of inspiration to David Bowie. His albums like Low (1977) until Scary Monsters and Super Creeps (1980) are in the remembrances of Eistrup. And now he has an interesting story! He was surprised to hear that ‘mister Bowie’ was a fan of Kashmir and also ‘mister Bowie’ wanted to do a song with them, the new single ‘The cynic”. “Unbelievable, it’s an honour. I met him one and a half years ago in New York and I spoke with him. He said immediately he knew our band and also that he had bought the last two CDs (The Good Life and Zitilites). I was shaking, proud and shy, you may know.”
“The meeting was arranged by producer Tony Visconti, who was at the beginning of Bowie’s career. He was more than willing to work with Kashmir. I had bought tickets in New York to see a PJ Harvey concert when Tony rang and asked if I intended to see The Killers instead at the Irving Plaza. ‘You have to come’, Tony said with pressure on me. So I went upstairs and David was there and said: ‘Hi, hello, Kasper’. I didn’t know what to say. Later that night he gave me a lift in a luxurious Lincoln car. He’s so relaxed and interested in arts and culture. We are very glad that mister Bowie is on our album. By the way it was the first time after his heart attack that he’d sung again.”
Copyright: Ton de Lange/Noordhollands Dagblad, Holland, February 9th, 2006.
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Thanx again 051060, very kind of you to have taken the time for us.