9:48AM Jess McGuire | Can we please have the attention of the class?
Right. Being a pop culturally savvy lot, we would expect you to be familiar with the pocket rocket dynamo that is Swedish sensation Robyn. However, if you’ve been skipping “school” to go and “sneak the odd cigarette in behind the gym” – this metaphor is quite confusing, but essentially we mean to say that we understand some of you may not be aware of the career of Robyn – we’re happy to give you a refresher course.
Back in the late nineties, Robyn has a MASSIVE WORLDWIDE HIT with a little ditty called
Show Me Love. Then she disappeared from Planet Earth for many years (NB: not really, but we didn’t hear much from her in Australia) only to reemerge in 2005 with a fucking killer album she named Robyn because it was easy to remember.
Our beloved UK Correspondent Will sat us down after ordering the record over the interwebs and made us listen to every single track until we agreed with his opinion that it was indeed wonderful. About a year later, JJJ started playing a track from the album called ‘Konichiwa Bitches’, and suddenly the coolsie kids who would have freaked out at the idea of owning a record from the bird who released ‘
Show Me Love’ a few years before were dribbling excitedly over what they viewed as the Second Coming of
Annie. Whatever helps convince ‘em to listen to something other than Hilltop Hoods, eh?
And then? A couple of months back Robyn – along with Kleerup – put out the amazing amazing amazing
With Every Heartbeat and scored a number one hit in the UK. In short, Robyn is “quite hot right now” overseas.
So cut to November 2007 – over two years after Robyn ‘birthed’ Robyn, she’s now doing an official tour thingo for it in Oz. Huzzah! Having been one of the lucky few to catch her a month or so ago at a small show at Miss Libertines, we can wholeheartedly endorse her live show and strongly recommend our pop loving readers do everything humanly possible to get themselves along to the gig.
Melbourne kids can attend the show at
Roxanne Parlour this Thursday night, and Sydney residents can scoot along to the
Oxford Art Factory. Tickets are available through
the Modular store.
Of course… perhaps, just perhaps, you won’t have to buy a ticket at all!
(CUE DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(AND STAY TUNED)
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