The two major newspapers Politiken and Ekstrabladet rated this fridays show at Skanderborg Festival with five stars, and called it a “break through concert”, and “the best show on the festival so far”.

Link to Politiken
Link to Ekstrabladet

Silas @ Skanderborg 09 by Linda Johansen

We’re home from Liverpool Soundcity and SPOT festival and have spent all sunday recovering from excessive amounts of party and musical exposure. Below are a couple of generous reviews from our SPOT show at Voxhall friday the 22nd, which we know that many people missed because of a completely full venue. We hope to catch you next time we’re in town or around.

Soundvenue (5/6)
“Turboweekend enjoys a buzz and a popularity only given to few acts at the SPOT festival, and the trios reputation as an energetic and dedicated live band made sure that Voxhall was filled to the brim with dancefloor disciples friday night. The groups name says it all, you might think, but it’s only half the truth.

Turboweekends latest album ’Ghost of a chance’ is less rave-oriented than their debut, and even though the group’s intense, new wave inspired popmusic still inspires dance, it is never without melancholy and despair digging their claws into your shoulders.

In the world of Turboweekend you ”trust” your loved one madly, and ”fall” under her spell, that is when you’re not shouting for her attention. And the most dancable tunes bear titles like ”Erase Myself” and ”Something or Nothing”. The latter was, along with the single ”After Hours” and concert opener ”Trouble Is”, this evenings high lights, but generally the new songs work really well, pumped up to dancefloor format.

Bass player Morten Køie bounced like a flexing muscle under the entire set, while live addition Anders Møller supplied even the most energetic outbreaks with dark atmospheric synth layers. Lead singer Silas Bjerregaard is a monster of energy, several times throwing himself into the arms of the audience with a cowbell or tambourine in hand, and even the evenings sole ballad, new song ’Sweet Jezebel’, played out more groovy (and better?) than the album version. Tonight turboweekend added new tonnage to the weight of their name and the disciples sang all the way home.”
Link: http://soundvenue.com/live-anmeldelser/2009/05/23/spot-2009-turboweekend–melankoli-i-dansegulvsformat

GAFFA: (5/6)
Voxhall is absolutely crammed this SPOT-friday. Last concert of the evening on this venue is with Turboweekend, and from first note it promises to be one of the better. A heavy, groovy bass sets off the first song of the set, Trouble Is, which also demonstrates lead singer Silas Bjerregaards vocal capacities brilliantly. The sound is hard, energetic and very danceable, and the predicate heavy-dance, that was used to introduce the band, suddenly makes sense.

The well packed audience has little room to move on, but are never the less jumping and dancing to the catchy melodies, infectuos rhytms and uncompromising synth-noize as if their lives depended on it. Voxhall is close to melt down, and one gets the impression that the band is filled with so much energy that they simply cannot contain inside, and must channel out through the music or burst up them selves. They make no detours, playing tight and self ashured of the quality of their material. The festival crowd is having a party, and are willfully instructed by Silas’s cowbell to clap along before he throws himself into their arms and is carried around as the rest of the band drives the beat to a climax.

But the evenings concert was not all high powered energy. There was also time for more down tempo songs, like Sweet Jezebel, which the band skillfully performed to a concentrated audience, proving that they are a band very much in control of their musical methods. Turboweekends music invites both party and second thoughts. The layers are many and after tonight’s display of power the band is more than wellcome to turbo up my weekend any time.”
Link: http://gaffa.dk/anmeldelse/32763

Phew! What a weekend! No pun intended….seriously.
We played a giant stage at Present Århus on friday, with Birk Storm and When Saints Go Machine, and during the general chaos of packing down, our new keyboard players macbook was stolen from the backstage area (volunteers are great, but lack of proper security and supervision sucks). Apart from all his personal stuff, the macbook contained Ableton Live set-ups not only for Turboweekend, but also for the three other bands that Anders plays with regularly, including Birk Storm and Non +.

Anders uses these Ableton setups to control such things as samples, program changes, effects, and a bunch of other stuff, and they are the result of many, many hours of concentrated work and creative consideration not easily recreated. On top of this, the Time Machine backup system that Anders had been running, has somehow failed and not backed up for the past 5 months!!! Besides his macbook, Anders also lost his 80 GB iPod with his entire collection of music, his custom molded In-Ear headphones, some nice clothes and a book, which where all in his suitcase, so he was naturally a bit beaten down.

Never the less he managed, with great self discipline, to muster up the strength to create a make shift setup in three hours, which made it possible for us to play most of the songs in Odense the day after. We were quite nervous when we went on stage saturday, but it turned out to be a great concert for a great audience, and we’re so happy we didn’t decide to cancel the show after all. I’d like to think we took it home on energy and raw skills

Thanks to everybody who helped look for the laptop, and to Hans for letting us borrow his macbook for the saturday show. And ofcourse, if you have any idea who the thief might be, please contact us – anonomously if you wish. The most important thing for Anders to get back is the Turboweekend, Birk Storm and Non + folders on the desktop.

On the brighter side, the new photo section is up today with pictures from Vega, apr. 3rd, and we’ll add more tour pictures soon. Enjoy!