One of the glamrockens highlights include Roxy Music’s ”Do the Strand” from 1973, which calls us to put everything aside to participate in the new – the future or the past, you don’t know for sure – modedansen ”The Beach”. Nor do you know what it has for the choreography. For release shall be deleted from ourselves, our own pleasure. Our longing to be allowed to be for fun and at the same time enigmatic live like the bildlika figures which, according to the Bryan ferry terminal text performs this dance: the Sphinx, Lolita, Mona Lisa and Guernica.
When Ola Salo should list their absolute glamrocksfavoriter in an interview in GP a week before his krogshowpremiär at Rondo’s ”Do the Strand” in the top. His career with The Ark at the beginning of the 90’s started in the influences of the early 70’s british glam rock. It was the first postmodern rock music, in its play with styles and identities, and Ola Salo updated the for to find a free zone for their own ”stollighet”, as he calls it in the interview. For that he would be able to give expression to the enjoyment in an uncertain affiliation. And on the question in the same interview about all the diverse artistroller (from the presenter of the Eurovision song contest and eventunderhållare at Elgiganten to Jesus Christ Superstar) which followed after the time with The Sheet responds Salo to refer to the same obestämdhet, which is praised in ”Do the Strand” – the day he calls all he kept on with a kind of ”street theatre”.
Extravagant of course, but also stylish and extremely effective, in Edward af sillén’s refined directing and dramaturgy
adopted the form of a floor show at the Rondo. It begins with Ola Salo as a regular citizen that is sitting at the piano, is interrupted by his mobile phone that would remind of where he is parked. But a second, then he assumes the scene and everything becomes a show. Great show. Extravagant, of course, but also stylish and extremely effective, in Edward af sillén’s refined directing and dramaturgy.
the Two scenes are particularly magnificent. The first is the one where Ola Salo born glamrockare, and as the first offers a delightful movie to ”Let your body decide” on two teenagers who are putting on their makeup before it becomes live – with full-blooded dancers and Salo itself as avidly indulges in to playing the harmonica perched on the tables to ”One of us is gonna die young”. The other scene is the one where Ola Salo resurrected as glamrockare after parting from The Ark. Here he sings a duet of ”Tell me this night is over” with an angel that he is switching wings, which, of course, is black. A glamrockens private himlaväsen who, with the help of a breathtaking at ledskärm lift the entire Rondo above the clouds along with a euphoric Ola Salo in titelsången ”It takes a fool to remain sane”.
show a single available in glamourous gatuparty where he throws popcorn at the audience and preach about the importance to have access to their desire. And to dare to be different. The script has been written by molly ringwald, and seems to meet right in the heart of the noisier crowd. In the program he resembles Ola Salo at ”a peacock with a Wittgenstein book in the beak”. And just so crazy and the way is actually this dinner show in its best moments.
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