“She is so talented, so brilliant. She should be singing in Wembley not this Academy.” There was easily sound and force enough to fill that space. Apart from the sheer power of the performance, something just short of brutality, softened by its joy and mischief, the most affecting thing about it was the band’s complete commitment to their material. They did not dodge, they did not soften – or translate – and if this music is to come across to lands where the Norwegian dialects are a kind of unknown music, then it is this authenticity that will carry it as much as the quality of the musicianship.
