Danish translations?

I would like to help.

I will try and translate a few, and post them here when they´re ready!

Ok, great Kat, then I will start working on translations for the concert reviews (the first and final link you posted).

The middle links are basically saying the same things about PJ and the Roskilde festival, but If I have time I will translate those as well.
Or maybe someone can take over with these...? Otherwise I will do that as well.

still working...and if no one takes the final two review links from Kat, I can manage to do those as well.

Pearl Jam
Forum Copenhagen 26/07/07
rated 5/6

After seven long years pearl jam refound their Danish Audience on -at times-magic evening at the Forum.
"we all walk the long road" Eddie Vedder chanted like a gatorade jesus in the first song of the evening. And the sortie of "long Road" couldn´t have been more suitible. Since the early nineties, where grunge delivered a swift kick in the nuts to a decaying rock genre, the concerts of Pearl Jam in Denmark have been irrevocably tied to landmark events, Both Roskilde in 1992 where Denmark won the european championship in soccer and -especially- the tragic accident at the same venue year 2000, where 9 people died. An accident that brought the band on the brink of instinction, and took seven years before the wound would allow another embrace with the danish fans.

In the order of merrit-badges on the pocket of the flannel-shirt; the connectedness with the audience has always shone with a special glow by Pearl Jam. For the same reason the Roskilde accident was a painful accentuation of the distance between band and audience - no matter how hard you try to be on the same level.

Maybe this was the reason for the initial awe from both band and crowd at the sold out Forum, where "Long Road" moved onto "Corduroy" When "Why Go" yet again proved that Eddie Vedder´s voice has a magnetic effect to steer migrating birds off course and make compas needels turn about confused.

Subsecuently the band moved into more rocky terrain with assorted flowers from "in Hiding", over "Love Boat Captain" and "Love Reign O´er Me" To "Severed Hand", which never really lifted itself out of the muddy bog that has a caracterrized a large portion of Pearl Jam´s latest albums. Somewhat a shame as "love Boat Captain" looms as the bands epitaf over the nine victims of the Roskilde accident. Meanwhile Eddie Vedder´s thanking the crowd and relatives was an unfocused ordeal, that didn´t bring relief. The steadfast applause of the good intentions though- were unmistakeable.

The unsurpassable strength of Pearl Jam is the breadth of their catalog, which means, that a single recognizeable guitar-riff can unite the entire room. And with "Light Years" there were once again -sing a long- on full. After this the band securely moved unto an intermediate plateau containing among other "Given To Fly", "I Am Mine" and Elderly Woman..." before turning the volume up a notch on "Life Wasted" and "Porch", the latter being played in a lo-fi/ ramschackle/ sound that would have benefitted the fresh sound of "Ten".

And then it happened! The last 45 min. were quite simply magic, showing why Pearl Jam are often called the best live act in the world. From "World Wide Suicide" with McCready og Gossard Hammering along like an avalanche hunting for Eddie Vedder´s voice, continuing the decend over hills such as "Once", Black" and "Alive" before we went into the encores where the lights of the Forum were turned on. And while McCready practically chiseled riffs in granite on "Keep On Rockin´In The Free World" The entire room emerged into a dancefrenzy very far from saturday´s coordinated pompous dancemoves of Justin Timberlake.

"This is how we say goodbye in Seattle" Eddie Vedder Grinned before "Yellow Ledbetter" ended a fantastic evening.

by Anders Frandsen

(attempt of) translation by biomega

Nice translation, biomega. Shure alot of ppl will find it interesting.
And welcome to the board!

The review from ekstra bladet is not worth translating. It is trying to explain about the band and the roskilde connection. And best of all: "pearl Jam does not have enough great songs to keep a show going 2 hours +".
But usually when this guy gives hard critisism the show has been outstanding. He is an old timer heavy metal freak from the ´90.

Soundvenue review (Danish magazine)
Rated: 5/6 stars.

“Hearts and thoughts they fade away”. Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder sang the classic line from the song “Small town” from the “Vs” album, and the sold out crowd at the forum replied :” I just wanna scream ‘hello’”. It´s been fifteen years since Pearl Jam played their first show in Denmark, and it´s been seven years since the tragic accident at the Roskilde festival. A few days ago the young girls screamed because of Justin Timberlake playing in Copenhagen, and soon old ladies are about too scream because of Mick Jagger, but it´s the baritone of Vedders´beautiful voice and the melancholic and painful lyrics that make grunge girls go crazy.

The heart-wrenching poetry of Eddie Vedder has, since grunge peaked in its prime-time, found a home in millions of melancholic hearts. With bands such as Nirvana, Alice in chains and Soundgarden, they added a new energy to rock music – inspired by punk bands, and a full frontal attack against glamrock such as Van Halen. With an authentic cutting edge and pure “weltschmerz” they made the sound of the over-produced eighties and their perfect guitar solos that fit more in the world of commercials than in the hearts of rebels, seem pointless. It was a hard-driven show with a lot of songs played from their recent Avocado album, but it was the old songs from “Ten” and “Vs” like “Why go” and “Small town” that the audience responded the most to. Those songs were also the peaks of the show. After 90 intense minutes the first set came to an end. Thereafter the mature grunge-gods came back and delivered “Black” and “Alive” to an ecstatic audience. Mike Mccready showed his guitar skills which are absolute world-class, while Stone Gossard, Matt Cameron and Jeff Ament once again showed, what a rhythm section is supposed to be like.

While Kurt Cobain paved his own road of wrath and committed suicide, Pearl Jam always showed the more melancholic/poetic aspect of the Seattle sound. The band and their fans have always had the community as their main focus point at shows, but also by releasing special bootleg sets and fanclub christmas singles . This makes it even more tragic that it was at a Pearl Jam show, nine young men died due to massive pressure in front of the orange stage at the Roskilde festival in 2000. An incident that has moved the band and their fans deeply. Pearl Jam have gone through a period of sorrow ever since Roskilde, and to many, this was a healing night. The band had invited the families of the victims, and Vedder gave a short remembrance speech before playing an extra set, beginning with a beautiful rendition of “Betterman” which led to “RITFW” from the Neil Young collaboration back in the Mirrorball days. By playing “Yellow Ledbetter”, Pearl Jam ended a beautiful and rocking night in an overheated forum full of feelings and rebellious energy.

Obviously, this article has its mistakes though (Young collaboration?) (:

pajo wrote:

Hey dreamcode and CharlieP,

thanks a lot for your translations and your willingness to help. Kat is not the only one who wants to know how our boys and their magical show in your country were reviewed in the press...
Thanks!

ditto! i'm really enjoying these.