A Camp live at WFMU

A Camp covers EP

You’re gonna be walking on the edge of a razor blade, Nina. That’s my Pink Floyd with whom you’re flirting.

Nina live!

Nina sings! She has the voice of an angel:

It’s kind of shaky, ’cause I couldn’t figure out the least awkward place to hold my camera, being in the front row and all. It turns out that using a camera is awkward no matter what. Oh well.

I’ve been dying to see Nina Persson with The Cardigans for about five or six years. But they’re not really together anymore, so I had to settle for her solo project, A Camp, in which she is accompanied by Niclas Frisk on guitar and her husband, Nathan Larson (the dude with the black hair and goatee), on bass guitar. Nothing like a rocking band with a female vocalist to melt your face and your heart, respectively. I was really proud of myself for thinking of that.

This concert was excellent. The music was superb, and Nina possesses an intense vocal beauty. Plus I was in the front row. Plus I got a cool t-shirt. PLUS I got my ticket signed. Awesome.

Revelation about lasy singers in indie rock: they wear weird clothes.

You know that feeling

You know that feeling you get when you’re about to perform or speak in public or something?

That’s the feeling I get when I think of going to see Nina Persson with A Camp IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS!!!

Preparing to see Nina in May

“Losing a Friend” (live) by The Cardigans:

“You’re the Storm” by The Cardigans:

Just bought tickets

Just bought tickets to see A Camp on 6 May 2009 at King’s College Student Union. It’s been my dream to see Nina Persson in person for a many years. Although I would prefer The Cardigans because they are more rockin’, I can settle for A Camp. This may be my only chance to see Nina.

Beautiful ladies singing

As a follow up to this post about Nina Persson and this post about Jenny Lewis, this post is about the lead singer of another band, Ashlin Phillips, lead singer for The Eames Era. Kind of stuck on punk styles but with a hint of indie flavor, so you’ll get that repetitive bass line, but fun melodies and lyrics most of the time. Her voice is thick and without vibrato, which is interesting and sonorous when done well (see Astrud Gilberto).

Here is perhaps their best song, “Could Be Anything“:

Here is a kind of funny video for “When You Were a Millionaire“. It seems that Ashlin Phillips doesn’t like bras:

Here is another lo-fi video, this one shot in Brooklyn (which is odd because the band is from New Orleans), “Watson On Your Side“:

And no singer-songwriter is complete without a version of “Such Great Heights” by singer Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie and producer Jimmy Tamborello of Dntel, together known as The Postal Service. There’s only a couple dozen views of this video, it was cool to find it:

More beautiful, singing ladies

Following from a previous post concerning beautiful ladies with wonderful voices, I thought I would post a couple videos featuring another of my favorite lady singers (and yes I’ve stolen Tommy’s habit of calling females “ladies”).

This lady is Nina Persson, lead singer of The Cardigans, a very Swedish band. By the way, Swedish equals beautiful. The Cardigans are like this:

Oddly enough, it is very difficult to find a video of the Cardigans live that doesn’t look like it was shot by a retarded monkey.

Here’s a couple of interesting videos of Nina Persson solo. This first one is a pretty faithful cover of Whole Lotta Love, with Led Zeppelin just chilling out in the front row.

And this one is even weirder, an arrangement of Desafinado on some MTV program.