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Culture News in Brief: The physicality that defies belief

Laura Geigenberger
October 22nd, 2018


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In other news, a Danish-American hillbilly band receives Grammy nomination and Aminé, Martin Kohlstedt, Boy Pablo, Rival Sons and Disturbed are all performing in Copenhagen

Variety was impressed (photo: Kevin Mazur)

 

International pop icon Pink, currently on her ‘Beautiful Trauma World Tour’, has announced she will grace the Casa Arena in Horsens with a performance on August 7.

Pink is known for her incredibly powerful and unique voice and her high-energy live shows.

Having already excited fans in the United States, Australia and New Zealand, she has managed to delight the recognised music magazine Variety.

It felt compelled to “say without too much fear of hyperbole that, in decades of concert-going and reviewing, Pink’s is the most ‘holy fucking shit’ act of physicality I’ve ever seen as part of a pop show”.

Ticket sales begin on October 26 at 10:00 at horsensandfriends.dk, livenation.dk and ticketmaster.dk.


Hip-hop artist vs classic pianist
DR Koncerthuset’s Studie 2 is welcoming some great artists next year. One of America’s most innovative hip-hop artists, Aminé, is taking the Danish stage for the first time to present his visual texts, brilliant productions and catchy tunes (February 2). On April 9, the German pianist and composer Martin Kohlstedt will put an original flair on contemporary compositional music, mixing his profound piano skills and electronic experiments.

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Rival Sons announce European tour 2019
It requires a massive amount of talent to make rock music that can live up to legends like Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones or the Doors. The American band Rival Sons is able to rejoice the glam of the retro universe, but simultaneously renew the genre with vital modern nuances. The band has announced a major European tour in 2019, during which it will play at Copenhagen’ Store Vega on March 5. Tickets can be purchased at vega.dk, livenation.dk or ticketmaster.dk.

Grammy nomination for Danish-American hillbilly
The Pawnshop Preachers’ album ‘Put A Fork In Me, I’m Done’ is one of 239 Grammy-nominated ‘Best Americana Album’ entries. A regular fixture of the Danish music scene since 1997, frontman Brett Perkins – an Oklahoman expat living in Copenhagen since 2004 – is also the founder of the Copenhagen Songwriters Festival. His songs are described as “pure Americana, blending Brett Perkins California Country style and lyrical phrases culled from his family’s Kentucky hillbilly roots”. On October 31, he and his band will find out whether they’ll receive a Grammy.

Indie-phenomenon to play at Pump House
His latest concert in Copenhagen was totally sold out and he wants to do it again. Boy Pablo, an indie pop-rock singer, songwriter and artist from Bergen, Norway, is scheduled to return to Denmark’s capital to grace Pumpehuset on January 17. Since his breakthrough in 2016 at the age of 19, songwriter Pablo Muñoz’s Boy Pablo project’ has been praised within the indie-scene. Ticket sales via ticketmaster.dk have already started.

Ready to be ‘Disturbed’?
High-dosed hard rock can be expected from the US heavy metal band Disturbed. Not only have they just dropped another long-awaited album, they will ‘disturb’ Copenhagen’s KB Hallen on May 3. Preceding ‘Evolution’, the seventh album by the hard rock veterans from Chicago, Illinois, they have released a first song with the striking title ‘Are You Ready’. So, Copenhagen, are you ready?


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A survey carried out by Megafon for TV2 has found that 71 percent of parents have handed over children to daycare in spite of them being sick.

Moreover, 21 percent of those surveyed admitted to medicating their kids with paracetamol, such as Panodil, before sending them to school.

The FOLA parents’ organisation is shocked by the findings.

“I think it is absolutely crazy. It simply cannot be that a child goes to school sick and plays with lots of other children. Then we are faced with the fact that they will infect the whole institution,” said FOLA chair Signe Nielsen.

Pill pushers
At the Børnehuset daycare institution in Silkeborg a meeting was called where parents were implored not to bring their sick children to school.

At Børnehuset there are fears that parents prefer to pack their kids off with a pill without informing teachers.

“We occasionally have children who that they have had a pill for breakfast,” said headteacher Susanne Bødker. “You might think that it is a Panodil more than a vitamin pill, if it is a child who has just been sick, for example.”

Parents sick and tired
Parents, when confronted, often cite pressure at work as a reason for not being able to stay at home with their children.

Many declare that they simply cannot take another day off, as they are afraid of being fired.

Allan Randrup Thomsen, a professor of virology at KU, has heavily criticised the parents’ actions, describing the current situation as a “vicious circle”.

“It promotes the spread of viruses, and it adds momentum to a cycle where parents are pressured by high levels of sick-leave. If they then choose to send the children to daycare while they are still recovering, they keep the epidemic going in daycares, and this in turn puts a greater burden on the parents.”