– It’s going to be hot. That’s what Edvard Smith Save says, one of two frontmen in the rock band Brenn. – We are betting that no one burns out, but who knows. Maybe there is potential for a little burnt arm hair, continues the 25-year-old. Together with partner Rémy Malchère Pettersen, he and the rest of the band will play their first concert on Øyafestivalen’s biggest stage, Amfiet. – We will give the iron, give hard plastic, recycled cardboard, we will give everything we have! Rémy Malchère Pettersen (tv) and Edvard Smith Save are looking forward to playing for a packed audience on the Øya Festival’s main stage. Photo: Trygve Heide / news On Wednesday at 3 p.m. they are thus kicking off what will be the first full-scale festival in Tøyenparken in three years. – It will be an experience like no other. It will be a bit like a paintball birthday, kissing and lots of pizza right in the mouth at once, says Smith Save. It is still not the first time Brenn has performed at the festival. After the breakthrough in 2019, the rock band managed to play at both Øya and Roskilde in Denmark, before the concert business came to an abrupt end during the pandemic. Rémy and Edvard like kissing – sometimes with each other too. Here from a concert at the Slottsfjell Festival earlier this summer. Photo: Eskil Olaf Vestre / news P3 It was to remain this way for three long years. It was on the verge of putting an end to all of Brenn. Therefore, the reunion with the audience will be an extra great joy when they will perform again at Norway’s biggest festival. – We are three years older, mature, my hairline is worse, I am five kilos heavier, but my energy level is at its best! So I’m not stressed, says a laughing Smith Save. Edvard Smith Save (tv) is ready for a concert. But with a slightly worse hairline than three years ago. Looking forward to welcoming people The Island Festival counts around 100,000 individual visits during the five days it is on. Inside the festival area itself, there is room for 20,000 a day. The Thursday pass was already sold out in December last year and the remaining tickets were snapped up in mid-June. – We are quite satisfied with that, says Jonas Prangerød, Øyafestivalen’s PR manager. – After two summers of uncertainty, one also wonders if people want to return to the same thing. So it’s great to see that’s what they want. PR manager Jonas Prangerød is looking forward to watching the crowds during this year’s Øya Festival. Photo: Kaja Staude Mikalsen / news The program features international heavyweights such as Gorillaz, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Florence + the Machine alongside Norwegian favorites such as Emilie Nicolas, Aurora and Girl in red. Last year, a scaled-down event was held in Tøyenparken, for 1,000 audience members divided into two cohorts. It was nice then, says the PR manager, but far from the normal festival experience. – This is what we want to do, a full-scale festival. Marie Ulven, better known as Girl in red, has garnered positive attention internationally. Now the artist from Horten is ready for his second Øya concert. He himself is looking forward to seeing the influential Nick Cave and the slightly lesser-known French metal band Alcest. – But it’s probably so much about standing and taking in the audience’s enthusiasm. There are several concerts where I look beyond the audience as much as I look at the stage. Good atmosphere and baluba Brenn promises the audience a terrific show. – I hope the audience is tuned in to a show that contains controlled chaos, baluba, good atmosphere and lots of honking and driving! Just enjoy it. My God, it’s the Island! exclaims Smith Save. Rémy Malchère Pettersen plunged into the sea of audience during this year’s Slottsfjell Festival. Perhaps Edvard Smith Save will follow in the same footsteps when the two perform at the Øya Festival. Photo: Eskil Olaf Vestre / news P3 Pettersen agrees: – For us, it will be the biggest end of the whole summer. I hope it will feel like that to be there too.
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