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Wee, just got an e-mail saying that my Blissard 4CD box has been sent! If my postman is quick, maybe I'll get it tomorrow
The B-side version of Drug Thing sounds very much like a demo (the sound quality is a bit inferior) And yeah, I recognised that Never Judge riff :lol:
The thing that surprised me the most is the Pidah version of The Nerve Tattoo. I'm not going to spoil too much, but it seems like they re-recorded that one almost from scratch in Oslo.
And that whole When The World Sleeps album… With the exception of Mad Sun which is uptempo and catchy, those other songs seem really slow, dark and atmospheric. Even the version of Flick sounds slower than the original. I have to admit MP did the right thing not releasing this as the Timothy sequel (and with the exception of the Black W'abbit cover, those are all Sæther originals)
The Øya Festival takes place in the Medieval Park. Just a short walk away from the Opera, actually (5-10 mins).
Yet another ugly vid (La Lethe):
Great shows both of 'em, even though they were more or less identical.
The sound made the difference for me: At the early show I had a seat up on the balcony. And there the sound was GREAT from start to finish! The strings did get drowned out occasionally, but for me the first show was very well-balanced soundwise. Loud, but in a positive way.
The second show however I was seated way up front. And there was the more familiar MP loud wall-of-sound. But the performance of the late show was better; they seemed more at ease with their playing then. And a couple of the versions were longer too (The Hollow Lands and La Lethe)
I was also impressed with the singing tonight. The only exception being Mutiny! which they still can't sing for shit.
Nice visuals, too! Not an overkill of effects and lights, but a nice steady & stable package of visuals.
Napoleon: Yeah, it was mentioned earlier in some other article that they were going into studio in October to lay down some tracks. My personal guess is that they've recorded some of the rocking new stuff they've played live lately, like On A Plate, Dog Parade and Whiskey & Rock N' Roll.
As far as TDDU Part 2: I really hope the material from the concerts in Nidarosdomen and Oslo Domkirke are part of that. They really deserve to to be released.
Thx for the link!
The interviewer said they're rehearsing 14 songs. TDDU has 13, so the big question will be: Which is the 14th song?
Here's a transcript of the Roxrevyen interview.
The book-money has now been withdrawn from my Paypal account. Will be exciting to see when the book arrives in my mailbox :lol:
We won't really know until the box is released. But Pidah did engineer those original Blissard sessions with Deathprod. So I wouldn't be surprised if the Pidah mixes are the original mixes that they weren't very happy with.
And here's the tracklist:
Tracklist
Disc 1: Blissard vol. 1 The Original Album
01. Sinful, Wind-borne
02. "Drug Thing"
03. Greener
04. 's Numbness
05. The Nerve Tattoo
06. True Middle
07. S.T.G.
08. Manmower
09. Fool's Gold
10. Nathan Daniel's Tune From Hawaii
Disc 2: Blissard vol.2 – When The World Sleeps (The KiT-sessions, 1994)
01. Stalemate
02. Flick of the Wrist
03. When the World Sleeps
04. Black W'abbit
05. The Ballad of Patrick & Putrick
06. 7th Dream
07. Mad Sun
Disc 3: Blissard vol.3 – The Pidah Mixes
01. Sinful, Wind-borne
02. "Drug Thing"
03. Greener
04. The Matter With Her
05. 's Numbness
06. The Nerve Tattoo
07. Manmower
08. Like Always
09. True Middle
10. S.T.G.
11. Stalemate
Disc 4: Blissard vol.4 – The Ones That Got Away B-sides, rehearsal tapes, the Atlantis psychosis files…
01. The Nerve Tattoo
02. Of Beacons & Beams
03. The Wheel
04. Pale Day
05. Mad Sun (short version)
06. A Saw Sage Full of Secretion
07. Heaven and Hell
08. Sterling Says
09. Never Judge
10. Baby Scooter
11. In the Midst of All That
12. Silver Tongue
13. Dave Gave Up
14. That Dying Breed
15. "Drug Thing"
16. A Shortcut to the Stars
17. La Luna
18. Atlantis Swing
19. Familjen tar plats i studion/Fyra kvällar session
20. Jazz på trøndska
Extremely excited, to say the least
But I wonder why the Manmower EP version of 7th Dream is missing? That one was recorded in Bent's livingroom, while the one on Disc 2 most likely is an alternative version… 
Other than that, the last half of Disc 4 sounds VERY exciting. The song Dave Gave Up was played 12 times live in 1995 according to Dampsaba, other than that most of those songs we probably didn't even know existed!
