The Gibson Club is located in the middle of the Zeil, the main shopping mile in downtown Frankfurt. Can rock'n'roll really bloom there in blues rock style? As part of the multi-day "Women Of The World" festival, Sweden's Blues Pills with their Norwegian support Pristine have announced themselves there. In the afternoon we enter the club through the back door. The Blues Pills are still on stage at the soundcheck.
Not yet in stage outfit, but with T-shirt, jeans shorts and flip-flops Elin Larsson is almost as energetic as later in front of an audience. On the other hand, a little later Heidi Solheim is already strolling into the club in showdress. Before the red-haired vocalist goes to the interview with eclipsed, Elin welcomes her warmly. The two talk excitedly in Swedish, which most Norwegians can understand and speak well.
Solheim is a volcano on stage. She sneaks up to the microphone, bends slightly forward: "Carry Your Own Weight" from the 2008 album "No Regret" is the right basis for her vocal acrobatics. Unfortunately in the evening only 300 people will get lost in the club, and not even a third of them are there on time at half past seven. The band effortlessly puts away the almost yawning emptiness. The third track "Don't Save My Soul", which Solheim intones alone with guitarist Espen Elverum Jakobsen, becomes an emotional showstopper. You can literally feel the goose bumps of those present.
The band "Ninja", the title track of the new album, proudly presents such a small auditorium on their side. Drummer Kim Karlsen and bassist Åsmund Wilter Kildal Eriksson are putting their foot down. This is the sound of a future band classic. The 40-minute gig ends with two more "Reboot" friends: "Derek" and "All I Want Is You".
