Promises the stage show of the times next time they come here
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Friday gave Highsasakite is no less than for new singles, «Love Him Anyway» and «Autopsy». It’s a good pointer so what awaits next year.
Dobbeltslipper shows, firstly, that it will be an active year, secondly that they are thinking big, and thirdly that it will be exciting in the new music they will present on their sixth album «Mother» which is released January 28th.
– We thought for a long time about a double album, where the two albums were different, with one inspired by really dark Berlin disco. Well it will be just a single album, but the extremes will be there. When we had to choose the first single, it was difficult to find a single song that gave a good signal about the direction of the album, says Ingrid Håvik.
Two sides of the same band
– While “Love Him Anyway” is a radio-friendly pop song with a 70’s feel, which is a special last part of “Autopsy” something completely different, Trond Bersu says about the drone-like slightly psychotic trance mood, which partly consists of a sample of a woman who talks about anxiety and paranoia. – This probably represents an extreme point on the upcoming album, says Bersu.
It is perceived as a special grip to give out to singles at the same time, but in the old days it was normal. A vinyl single always has sides, and in pop’s heyday it was not uncommon to have a double a-side, with The Beatles’ “Penny Lane” and “Strawberry Fields Forever” as the crowning example.
– That a vinyl single has two singles is logical, but we are far too young to remember and know that, producer and drummer Trond Bersu grins as we sit with him and Highasakite’s frontman Ingrid Håvik at a mall café on Lade on a windy November morning 2021
A lot has happened in ten years
It was the two who started and of the last decade’s most significant and international popular Norwegian pop band, and after a turbulent and strengthened media-lit process a few years ago, it is again just them to be official members of the band.
It is almost exactly one year since the undersigned experienced Highasakite on stage for the first time, during Uka 2011 they played at Knaus in Studenteret as a trio with Øystein Skar. It was a strong concert that gave us high expectations for the band – without it suggesting either the level of ambition or the musical genre spread that would later reveal itself.
Highasakite has not landed yet
– We were something else at the time, yes, laughs Ingrid. – We have been preoccupied with developments all the way, and we have definitely not landed yet. It gets a little interesting if every album release or every tour is just a variation of the previous one, she says.
Like everyone else, Highaskite has been strongly influenced by the fact that the community has been shut down for a year and a half. But they have had plenty of time to do their thing.
Looking forward to playing for drunk people
– At the beginning of the lockdown, we wrote separately for each other, so we were together in the studio and played them. We have had a much better time yet, the two say. There have also been a few concerts, most recently in Trondheim and Tapperiet this summer, when the band in front of a heavily pregnant Ingrid played for a strong corona-adapted hall.
– We are probably all starving for a social life, and I am very much looking forward to playing for full people again, says Ingrid.
– You mean, like, saltines and their ilk, eh?
– Yes, that too, But I meant too drunk people. An audience that stands close together and swings and sings with, people who are out to experience great things with others, says Ingrid Håvik, who since the previous visit to Trondheim is no longer heavily pregnant, but a nursing mother who will soon have to return to base in Oslo to perform its primary task right now. Therefore, there is reason to get over it, to defy the weather and explore the area around EC Dahls at Lademoen / Lilleby in Trondheim. The large area that previously housed editions of Trondheim Rocks with, among other things, concerts with Iron Maiden and Iggy Pop, will in the summer of 2022 be the arena for the pop festival Neon, where Highasakite and Sondre Justad are among the artists who have been released so far.
Rammstein was an inspiration
At the Neon Festival in June 2022, Highasakite will for the first time unfold to sit new extremely ambitious stage shows. – We have been thinking in that direction for a while, and the ambitions were probably visible on the tour in 2019, but now we have come extremely much further. We decided not to think about what it would cost, make it as magnificent and beautiful as we can, both visually and acoustically, utilize the entire arena as scenography and use elements from the theater world
– Which artists have you seen courage as inspiration?
– I do not know if I dare say it, but we are very inspired when we saw Rammstein at Ullevaal in 2019, and also The Knife on Sentrum stage. The latter it was hardly possible to know about even being on stage during the concert, but we definitely have to. We must be at least as visible on stage as ordinary people, but then we get everything else in addition, says Ingrid Håvik.
They have hired capacities for scenography, choreography, video and lighting, and are working towards a very active 2022. They will have their first concerts in March, at big clubs in Copenhagen, London, Berlin and Copenhagen, but full stage production will not be. before at the outdoor concerts this summer. The only announced concerts precede are festivals in Oslo, Grimstad and Bergen, but first and foremost is the Trondheim and Neon festival 11–12 June.
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At the inspection a little over six months in advance, it rattles in waves, the rain whips and finds Ingrid’s umbrella upside down. That said, no glamor. The Neon Festival’s security manager Birger Henriksen points out and explains how the festival area is planned for the rig and where the main stage will be. Hopefully it has rained before June 11, 2022. Highasakite itself is certainly not intimidated:
– This is going to be super good here, says Ingrid Håvik and Trond Bersu.