Month: January 2019
NOMINATED FOR THE GAFFA AWARDS 2019
Martin Hall’s recent concerts and performances have earned him a pre-nomination for The GAFFA Awards 2019 (Denmark’s biggest music magazine) in the category "Best Live Act of The Year". The shows were his first live concerts as a singer with full band for more than five years.
The musicians accompanying Hall at all events were Christine Raft (piano, violin), Johnny Stage (guitar, sitar), Una Skott (guitar, keyboards), Andreas Bennetzen (bass) and Sisse Selina Larsen (drums). Furthermore Inge Shannon, the singer from the post-punk/coldwave bands SS-Say and Pesteg Dred, joined the team to perform the internationally acclaimed single “Care” at all shows.
Although most of the material played at the concerts was gathered from recent years – such as several songs taken from Hall’s collaboration album with Andrea Pellegrini and Tanja Zapolski If Power Asks Why – a fair selection of older were songs also played.
Apart from "Care" featuring Shannon, Martin also played his 1984 club hit "Free-Force Structure" at the end of most of the concerts. It was the first time for more than 33 years that he performed the song. You can see an audience recording of it here:
In October GAFFA awarded the Copenhagen concert at Bremen Teater with a staggering 6 out of 6 stars rating. You can read the full review here.
CURRENT RADIO FEATURES
In relation to Martin Hall’s recent concerts and record releases a line of fairly compressive radio features have been made with the singer. The programmes cover everything from the early 70’s tacky pop music, the radical experiments of the post-punk scene at the end of the same decade and Hall’s relation to the metal scene in the 80’s (such as his studio experience with King Diamond). Last but not least, there’s also a documentary made by Hall about 1968.
If you have any understanding of the Danish language whatsoever, the list goes like this:
- The Forgotten Seventies – part 1 (1 hour and 33 minutes).
- The Forgotten Seventies – part 2 (1 hour and 20 minutes).
- Hall’s Feast – with Queitsch and Lynggaard (2 hours and 2 minutes).
- P6 – Black Sunday.
- P1 – My 68 (montage starts at 36.05).