The Airportline: Observations

So we went to Melkweg and spilled beers on our arms when we tried to dance to Peter Bjorn And John. And they played new stuff but threw in some older songs as well. And Denis wanted to injure the light man while I thought he was pretty good. 'This song in not about, and will never be about, Rotterdam', Björn said with his base on his stomach before kicking of the first hang over sounding baselines in their Amsterdam tribute song Amsterdam. Other high points was their new single Nothing To Worry About which most people had never heard. At first the giant base caused confusion among the crowd, have Peter Bjorn And John become a hip hop act? Maybe there was fear of a Joaquin Phoenix (Hollywood star turned aloof hip hop pretender) type of development? But at the end there was dancing going on before the band decided to end the evening with my favourite song, Up Against The Wall. This slow building gem was prolonged into a 15 minute whirlwind of energetic rocking which made me wonder how a real rock album from these guys would sound like. After that I bought a t-shirt for 5 Euros that said 'Peter Bjorn And John T-shirt'. This goes in line with the bands backdrop which says: 'Peter Bjorn And John backdrop'. Swedish functionalism has found it's way into contemporary pop. And so had giant hip hop beats, apparently. It could be worse. Much worse.