LIVE REVIEW

Seigmen in Oslo 2015

In Norway everybody is talking about SEIGMEN these days! After nearly eighteen years, a great new album is published on April 13th called ‘Enola’. In March came a tremendous black and white SEIGMEN book with pictures made by the amazing Norwegian photographer Bjørn Opsahl including a gentle and deeply interesting biography written by Arvid Skancke-Knutsen, a well-known Norwegian music journalist. To celebrate the comeback of SEIGMEN the museum of pop-music, Popsenteret, in Oslo dedicated a whole floor to the band. The exhibition is called “Seigmen 1992 – 2014”, showing the history of SEIGMEN through articles, some band equipment and interviews of Alex Møklebust and Bjørn Opsahl which were filmed a few weeks ago. In a red room, really beautifully arranged, are shown some of Bjørns fantastic live pictures and band portraits.

Next night, the first of two sold-out shows in Oslo was up, and SEIGMEN really rocked the “Sentrum Scene”! After the support bands Sørgekåpe and Dunderbeist, which were welcomed by the audience, SEIGMEN entered the stage. The intro has been the same as at the concerts last year. A white curtain covered the stage and the fans were listening to ‘Monument’ while watching an animated short-film of the SEIGMEN logo conquering the world.

The show had been interrupted for a few minutes and finally Lorry fixed the problem and cleared up the scenery! At the next night it worked perfectly and the curtain came down at the first chorus of ‘Hva vi elsker’, which was a really cool effect. Right from the beginning, the atmosphere in “Sentrum Scene” was astonishing - a mixture of excitement and curiosity. At this moment nearly 90% of the audience still did not know the new songs, and waited for them intently. In a terrifically well way SEIGMEN managed to mix new songs like ‘Forevig og alltid’, ‘Trøst’, ‘I mitt hus’ and ‘Tenn alle lys’ with classical songs like ‘Ohm’, ‘Colosseum’, ‘Fra X’, ‘Juvel’ and ‘Döderlein’. Especially at the second night, after they changed the set list a little bit, it worked really brilliantly. The energy on stage, and also in front of the stage, has been overwhelming and ended in an unforgettable moment while everybody was singing “Hjernen er alene” together with Alex, Kim, Noralf, Sverre and Marius.

On top of all the excellent music and performances there has been a really awesome light show. The arrangement of the colours, the type of light and their intensity perfectly matched to the power and the atmosphere of every single song! In my opinion both shows has been slightly too loud and the mix has been really bassy, but that didn’t cut down two perfect concert experiences at all.

SEIGMEN is definitely back!