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In my humble opinion, there can never be too much Sondre Lerche in anyone's life. Which is a good thing, since after going to the Sondre/Mountain Goats concert about a week and a half ago, my roommate April and I went to a second Sondre Lerche concert last night! Only, instead of opening the show, this was Sondre's solo concert. Yes please.
I had heard about this Monday night solo concert a couple weeks ago, but I didn't think that I would be able to get anyone to come into London with me on a weeknight. But after Sondre mentioned this concert at the previous concert a week and a half ago, April immediately said "I wanna go!" So we decided to go. In addition to the excitement of the concert, it was so neat to go into London on a Monday night. Because we could and we wanted to. And that was awesome.
The concert itself was beyond amazing. It was at The Slaughtered Lamb - a pub slash concert venue. First of all, I love the name of the place (when Sondre came out to perform, he said he was going to start out with some of his black death metal music to match the name of the venue). And it was such a neat space because it was so small. Sondre hadn't been kidding when he called it an intimate concert. There couldn't have been more than a hundred people there (probably more around 70-80) and since we got there early, we grabbed a nice comfy couch center stage.
The opening act was amazing. I feel so bad because I can't remember her name and I can't find her name online. But she was fantastic. She was kinda Ingrid Michaelson-ish, except she was absolutely hysterical. Throughout the course of her set, she played the guitar, the maracas, her chair as a drum, and finally the slide whistle. It was such a good start to the night.
Then, Sondre time!!! He was fantastic in the huge hall a week and a half ago, but he was absolutely brilliant in this smaller space. It felt like we were just hanging out with him and he was playing his music just for fun. He was so adorable and funny and Norwegian. He even shared this Norwegian proverb - never sell the skin of the bear before you've shot the bear. (After he shared that, he figured he should throw out his "skin" patter for the night - ha!) It was so great to just hang out with him, and then the music. It's a given that I love his music, but the music is even better live because he takes such liberty with his songs and keeps the music alive. I could rave on and on (and probably not interest anyone), but the point is that it was so incredibly fantastic and brilliant and everything!
The one downside was that we hadn't realized that Sondre didn't start performing until 9:30. And our train left Paddington Station at 11:30 to go back to Bath (because that's the last train of the night). So we had to sneak out during the final encore (which was a sing-along to "Modern Nature") to be sure we that we caught our train and didn't end up stranded in London for the night. We were sad because this meant we didn't get to see Sondre again after the show and I had really been looking forward to singing along to "Modern Nature". But on the plus side, we have something to look forward to the next time we see him in concert.
So the point is, going to a Sondre concert in London on a Monday night is always a good idea. Too bad it can't happen more often.