– I’m just really looking forward to playing the cool songs together with the nice group in front of the big audience. It’s something we haven’t done together in almost ten years. That’s what vocalist and songwriter in the band, Janove Ottesen, says. Janove Ottesen is a vocalist and songwriter in Kaizer’s Orchestra. Photo: Thomas Ysatrøm / news news meets the band together in the mezzanine of the Stavanger concert hall. The sound of a pump organ fills the room. It is here in the concert hall that they will have their first reunion concert next autumn, in the Zetlitz hall. Oil drums, pump organ, Jærs dialect and gas mask on stage. The rock group Kaizers Orchestra gained legendary status both in Norway and abroad. After playing together for 13 years, they ended their career with several concerts in DNB Arena in Stavanger. 44,000 audience members caught the latest Kaizers did on stage. It’s almost ten years ago. Although it has been several years since the Kaizers last played together, the music flows like never before. The song “Hjerteknuser” has gone viral on TikTok. Have good memories Since the band left the stage last time, Janove has started up as a solo artist. But now they are ready to feel the euphoria and joy of being together. That’s why they reunite. – Which Kaizers are we now getting? – I don’t quite know that. We haven’t started playing and rehearsing yet, but I think you’ll get a fairly grown-up, stylish rock orchestra that you recognize well, and which also has something new with it, says Ottesen. Kaizer’s Orchestra didn’t just become big in Norway. The success spread to Sweden, Denmark and Germany. In autumn 2013 they held their last concert in Stavanger. Photo: Kai Erlandsen, P3 Terje Winterstø Røthing, guitarist in the band, says that for many years he did not want to play with Kaizers again. Now, however, he only remembers the good things, and he wants to relive the moments with the gang and make people happy. Terje Winterstø Røthing is a guitarist in Kaizer’s Orchestra. Photo: Thomas Ystrøm / news – We are quite ambitious with regard to these concerts that we are going to do. We are not going to surf the way things have been before. We have ambitions for how it should appear and how this should look. We have big plans, says the guitarist. In the next year, they will find out what Kaizer’s version 2.0 will be. The plans are many, the musicians reveal. And guitarist Jan Zahl adds: – On one level, it can never be the way it was, because it was in that time and we were as old as we were. Now it’s a new time, a lot has happened, but at the same time I think it can feel like it did in many ways, says Zahl. Geir Zahl is guitarist in Kaizer’s Orchestra. Photo: Thomas Ystrøm / news And the idea for a comeback? It came when drummer Rune Solheim stood up at the band’s annual Christmas party a couple of years ago and asked: “Is it allowed to dream?” Thus the seed was sown. – Great way to do it Bård Ose, music journalist at news, thinks it’s an original way to launch a comeback. – I think it’s a great way to do it, but it’s nothing new. There have been artists, both in Great Britain, and the United States and perhaps elsewhere in Europe, who have done the same. For example, when Led Zeppelin were to release their fourth album in the autumn of 1971. But he believes it is new in the Norwegian context. Music journalist at news Bård Ose believes that the way Kaizers launch their comeback is new in Norway. Photo: Roy Hilmar Svendsen / news – I don’t think I have any other examples of that so far. So this is brilliantly done. Very fun that they release little by little. And then you as an observer have to guess! He adds that if this is a foretaste of them announcing a Norwegian tour next year, then they can fill Oslo Spektrum and the like throughout the country throughout the summer. – Ten years is quite a long time for the fans who had just turned 20 when they toured last. My son saw them when he was a teenager. And he is one of those who will run and get tickets. Kaizer’s Orchestra at Koengen in 2013, an outdoor concert venue in central Bergen. Photo: Remi Presttun
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