Shining (Nor) @ The Underworld Camden

Nightshift Promotions presents...

Shining (Nor)

plus:
Caligula's Horse (AU)

About:

Shining is a Norwegian avant-garde music band from Oslo. Thirteen musicians have been a part of the band's line-up in its history, with singer, guitarist, saxophonist and songwriter Jørgen Munkeby as its leading force and only constant member.

"A study in co-ordinated whiplash!" - The New York Times.

One part aggressive metal, one part stinging free jazz, the whole thing solidified with a fine industrial polish – that is what the Norwegian Blackjazz band is!

With a new album being released later this fall, this hard-hitting group from the cold north is again ready to hit the world across the forehead with their patented signature sound. With their both genre-defying and genre-defying album "Blackjazz" from 2010, the band set a new standard for heavy music altogether. Since then, they have churned out one lauded album after another.

In a live setting these guys are known for bringing the energy of an atom bomb, coupled with unrivalled musicianship. Expect nothing less than full on assault on your senses and a new understanding of what music can be! Energy - sweat - aggression - all executed with musical precision.

To test their musical mettle against nature at its most daunting, the band recently brought in helicopters to fly over 2,000 kilos of heavy musical equipment up to a remote and precarious Norwegian cliff-top ('Trolltunga'), with a straight 700-metre drop stretching down below; here, they played a concert where no-one believed a concert could be played! It's clear that Shining are more than prepared to put their money where their mouths are!