Go Go Berlin, second band of the night before D-A-D, felt it important to get the ranking straight among the artists of the night, and announced that Taras had been the only support band whereas they themselves were guests, and every chance they got referred to D-A-D as “the grown-up’s”, having it sound as if that was the last thing in the world anyone would aim for, going as far as saying, wittily perhaps, that instead of watching the main act later on people could just come over to the merch stand and hang out with the Go Go Berlin group instead.

Go Go Berlin is a relatively young band which started out back in 2010 or 11, and have since released a single album. Yet, their splash in the popular music scene, at least here in Denmark (don’t know about the foreign market) have been considerable and they seem to be every radio stations new rock darling. They look and sound like they’re building a career based on raiding their grand-parents closets and album collections, finding the most hideous early 70ies outfits they could possibly mismatch up, and having their music go in the same direction, stealing everything they can carry from early Rolling Stones and the like.
Still, people have fallen for it, and when it was their time to go on stage the Super Arena had considerably more people in it than it had had for Taras. People were now actually also shouting for the show to begin, which was quite a shift in attitude from before!
After a bleeping intro the show was opened with what I believe to be the song Gimme Your, and large parts of the crowd let their delight be heard – someone even threw a shirt up for bassist Emil Rothmann! And I’m not going to lie, the band knows how to perform! The shift from Taras was like night and day – here we had a band that was all confidence and balls, acting like they owned the world and would do with it what they pleased. It was lively, raw and energetic, with people rarely staying in the same place for long. It was too bad for them that the lights had not yet been turned on over the catwalk, because it was a favourite place for vocalist Christian Vium to strut around. He’s apparently also one of the guitarists in the band, but much like Sweden’s Per Gessle, treated his instrument more like an accessory and only strummed the strings when it fit into his dance-routine.

“How do you like Go Go Berlin? It’s not like the grown-up’s, is it?”
- Christian Vium (vocals/guitar)

Many in the audience were showing off their own dance routines as well, half-drunk and entertaining as they might be – others were simply singing along, and others still had a hand or two in the air to show their love. One thing was clear though, D-A-D was not the only big attraction of the night for the general public.
With their pop-flirting rock music and their lively act, Go Go Berlin also delivered an easily digestible 40 minutes set which, support band or not, got the crowd warm in their clothes.
While not having anything more to ask for in pure delivery, I still wasn’t very impressed with Go Go Berlin. For me they came off as a band with a lot of attitude, and very little else to back it up – a lot of form over matter as it were. Since that is what works on the masses I’m not surprised with the bands success, but I’m not sure how long it will last if they keep going down this road. But sure, if you’re looking for a live soundtrack for downing beers with your friends and switching off the old thinker for a while, you could do much worse!

Setlist (incomplete):

Gimme Your
Electric Lives
Darkness
Castles Made Of Sand