It was “Spil Dansk” (Play Danish) day in Denmark last week. Which meant that the public radio stations played Danish music. All day. Only Danish music. The funny thing is that I didn’t even realise that they weren’t playing any ‘foreign’ artists because there’s just so much darn good Danish music around! 🙂
So you don’t know any Danish groups? Hmm. What about Aqua and their global hit “Barbie Girl”? Or are you trying to forget? 😉 Alphabeat, Safri Duo, Infernal and Junior Senior have all had success in the UK.
Here’s my personal top 10 of current Danish bands – in no particular order. Some sing in Danish, some sing in English and some do both. Yep, those crazy Danes are also rather clever:
- Magtens Korridorer (my sweetie friend Rasmus and the boys, currently at the top of both the album and singles charts – go Rasmus!)
- Spleen Utd (great name, never tire of them, give me more!)
- Carpark North (big, clean rock)
- Michael Simpson (dark and electronic, his mum hails from Grimsby)
- Mew (classical sounding rock)
- Veto (electronica, very particular ‘shouty’ voice)
- Oh No Ono (the ‘hair bear bunch’ look and a bit wacky)
- The Broken Beats (clean, catchy rock)
- Sterling (more clean, catchy rock with a twist – saw them in a small concert venue and, mid-song, the lead singer jumped up on to the bar where I was standing – luckily none of my G&T was spilt in the process…)
- Kashmir (the legendary David Bowie asked – and got – to work with them, the result was “The Cynic“…need I say more?)
- When Saints Go Machine (from very disco to very down-in-the-dumps, their song Spitting Image was instrumental, if you forgive the pun, in getting me through my last 5k race)
Happy Friday! 🙂