With their May date at London’s Scala sold out, Norwegian alt-folk-country-rock mavericks Katzenjammer will return to the capital in November for their largest UK headline show to date.
Music-News.com also managed to catch up with the band on their recent London trip, scroll down to see our exclusive interview below.
One of the most accomplished, instinctive, charismatic and nonconformist bands around, Katzenjammer are all impressive singers and multi-instrumentalists, sharing lead vocals, instruments, song-writing duties and, as The Guardian observed at a recent London gig, an enormous sense of fun. Prior to the Shepherds Bush Empire gig Katzenjammer will bring their genre-mixing, full-on riotous show to Britain for a headline May tour and summer festival dates:
Friday 8 May Rescue Rooms, Nottingham Saturday 9 May Oran Mor, Glasgow Sunday 10 May Ruby Lounge, Manchester Monday 11 May Scala, London Thursday 30 July Cambridge Folk Festival, Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire Thursday 13 August Cropredy Festival, Cropredy, Oxfordshire Sunday 23 August Beautiful Days, Escot Park, Devon Tuesday 17 November O2 Shepherds Bush Empire, London
Nothing if not utterly distinctive, four smart and super-talented Norwegian musicians - Anne Marit Bergheim, Turid Jørgensen, Solveig Heilo and Marianne Sveen - met at music college in Oslo and have mastered a thrillingly diverse blend of country, folk, blues, pop and rock.
Katzenjammer released their third studio album ‘Rockland’ in March to great acclaim and, as well as notching up sales throughout Europe, received long-overdue nods of approval from the British press. Produced by Victor Van Vugt (Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Beth Orton) the album is a joyous and uplifting record, refreshingly lacking in pretention, nigh-impossible to define and, as Songlines wrote, “a peppy life-enhancing joy from start to finish”.
Check out the exclusive Music-News.com interview with the band below.
