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Denmark’s ten must-see concerts in April

With clocks being set ahead an hour on Sunday, spring is finally ready to hit full bloom. Here are our picks for the best concerts to help you ring in the new season.

Published: 28 March 2015 09:08 CET

Denmark's ten must-see concerts in April

American post-rock master Russian Circles hit the Jazzhouse on April 28th. Photo: Chris Strong

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April: lo and behold, a rightful end to the dour fortunes of winter and a return to better climes (though one must admit that the current weather makes this seem like a faraway tale).

But enough about weather, let's talk music. The Local's favourite venue Vega has several good concerts lined up this month, though some of the best ones have already sold out. South London poet, rapper and novelist Kate Tempest is our pick of the bunch. The young Mercury Prize winner will surely raise a few eyebrows with her witty word wizardy.

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Nørrebro's Stengade is well represented again in our listings, with a farewell show for one of Copenhagen's legendary alternative country bands, Sink Ships and yet another Rub-a-Dub reggae Sunday to add to the many.

The end of the month is highlighted by a pair of American rock trios – Russian Circles and Helms Alee – who promise to blow the roof off the Jazzhouse, each in their own special way.

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New songs mark sixth anniversary of French star Johnny Hallyday's death

Hallyday, blessed with a powerful husky voice and seemingly boundless energy, died in December 2017, aged 74, of lung cancer after a long music and acting career.

After an estimated 110 million records sold during his lifetime – making him one of the world’s best-selling singers -Hallyday’s success has continued unabated beyond his death.

Almost half of his current listeners on Spotify are under the age of 35, according to the streaming service, and a posthumous greatest hits collection of “France’s favourite rock’n’roller”, whose real name was Jean-Philippe Leo
Smet, sold more than half a million copies.

The two new songs, Un cri (A cry) and Grave-moi le coeur (Engrave my heart), are featured on two albums published by different labels which also contain already-known hits in remastered or symphonic versions.

Un cri was written in 2017 by guitarist and producer Maxim Nucci – better known as Yodelice – who worked with Hallyday during the singer’s final years.

At the time Hallyday had just learned that his cancer had returned, and he “felt the need to make music outside the framework of an album,” Yodelice told reporters this week.

Hallyday recorded a demo version of the song, accompanied only by an acoustic blues guitar, but never brought it to full production.

Sensing the fans’ unbroken love for Hallyday, Yodelice decided to finish the job.

He separated the voice track from the guitar which he felt was too tame, and arranged a rockier, full-band accompaniment.

“It felt like I was playing with my buddy,” he said.

The second song, Grave-moi le coeur, is to be published in December under the artistic responsibility of another of the singer’s close collaborators, the arranger Yvan Cassar.

Hallyday recorded the song – a French version of Elvis’s Love Me Tender – with a view to performing it at a 1996 show in Las Vegas.

But in the end he did not play it live, opting instead for the original English-language version, and did not include it in any album.

“This may sound crazy, but the song was on a rehearsal tape that had never been digitalised,” Cassar told AFP.

The new songs are unlikely to be the last of new Hallyday tunes to delight fans, a source with knowledge of his work said. “There’s still a huge mass of recordings out there spanning his whole career,” the source said.

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