The ++

Last Wednesday I had the privilege to host my very first full-length concert at Prelaten in Tromsø. With me in my band I had Henrik, Vegar and Sam, like last time, and they absolutely killed it. But I wasn't the only one to play, as Sam was able to enroll two other talented artists for the concert, filling the line-up. Ragnar Teisrud and Håkon Johnsen impressed with their solo performances, making it easy for me to sit down and appreciate the music before I was to hit the stage myself.

Sam himself had three songs to offer, most notably Monkey Says Monkey Do, so we opened by playing those, before the solo artists went on. I had the chance to play the bass guitar in a band for the first time, which was surprisingly fun. We got some monkey sounds from the audience, so I am pretty sure they were happy to see us monkeying about on stage.

For my concert, we played all of the songs from Joy and Pain Vol. 1 and a single I'll be releasing later this year, Sideways.

The ++ refers to a little thing I wrote for the event poster, to which one of the other musicians said, hey, I don't wanna be your "++", so why don't you name the event "Sivert Martin w/ friends"? I did that, but we later figured that ++ is a pretty neat name if we were to go together and form a band.