KaninKanon V

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Was amazing! We were pretty tired and Martin, Duncan and Nick kept trying to sleep on the floor or on each other. Ditte was brilliant, not only did she sing with us later than night, but she found us a nice cafe where we drank the smoothies and ate cakes to wake ourselves up.

The lineup was superb, I'd met Rebecca and Chris from a smile and a ribbon before and it was great seeing them again. I'd made electronic contact with Anders from Soda Fountain Rag so it was good to finally meet and have a chat. I'd also met Mads and Louise from De Agtige (and Scaredy cat) last year. There were so many people I chatted to that I completely forgot how tired I was.

I managed to get stuck in the backstage room with Allesandro and Ombretta from Le man avec les lunettes for Tiergarten so we listened from the back , had some cous cous and I learnt to speak some italian :) Tiergarten were excellent even from the back room.

I was back out with the band when De Agtige came onstage and they were amazing. All tiredness melted away in the face of rapid-fire synth pop - punk songs. A smile and a ribbon sounded brilliant and Rebecca looked superb in a bright blue wig. I was kept busy between bands lending out equipment, the Rough Bunnies borrowed Nick's guitar and sounded great onstage. Le man avec les Lunettes borrowed our synth and really blew me away with their songs. Definitely a band to make the effort to see if they play round your way.

We were on next and managed to borrow a shoelace from Mads so we could get a strap on the acoustic guitar. The set went brilliantly, it was amazing looking out from the stage and seeing all those people dancing and even singing along to our tunes! We had a little dance contest which Duncan judged. Emil managed to win, but it wasn't anything to do with us already being friends, his moves were amazing ;) It was lovely having Ditte onstage and when Mikkel ran onstage and started playing drums on our last song, we all knew we'd just had the most fun we'd ever had as a band. Definitely our best gig!

Soda Fountain rag were excellent, the mix sounded great and everyone in audience was clearly having a great time.

The after gig DJing was superb. All sorts of classics from indiepop to punk. We danced and talked until we exhausted and then caught a cab back to Morten's.

Thanks to everyone involved in organising KaninKanon for making it so much fun.