The Wombats...

Our favourite marsupials... The funniest band in the world? Guess who! The Wombats!!! This band always knows how to cheer you up with their britpop/pop/punk songs like "let's dance to joy division" and "backfire at the disco". This band from Liverpool (with one exeption) has given already two great performances at London Calling in Amsterdam and they totally blew everybody away! The one exeption is Tord Overland Knudsen, this cute bassist is from Norway. Tord might be the shortest of the three, but he is definately the biggest character from the band! I haven't seen a lot of rockartist that smile that much as he does:) It just fits the music, the songs always make me smile. Especially the accapella song "girls, boys and marsupials" It goes like this: "Tales of girls and boys and girls and marsupials" that's actually the only sentence in the song... But they clap and make funny noises during the song and that makes it completly unique and brilliant! Tord also knows how to entertain, he sings the song "postman pat" accapella on stage, but....in Norwaygan:) Murph, the singer of the band is totally crazy! But in a funny way...He might not be the greatest vocalist, but that doesn't care! This band is not the one to listen critically at, it's the band you should laugh about and have fun with! Sometimes I just don't understand why people can't enjoy a concert, when the atrist don't play brilliant. At a concert you just have to go with the flow, most important is the performance and the Wombats will get an A for that!!!

Here is one of their lyrics and the video of "Let's dance to joy divison"


I'm back in liverpool and everything seems the same
but I worked something out last night that changed this little boy's brain
a small piece of advice that took 22 years in the make
and i will break it for you now please learn from my mistakes
please learn from my mistakes

let's dance to joy division and celebrate the irony
everything is going wrong but we're so happy
let's dance to joy division and raise our glass to the ceiling
'cos this could all go so wrong
but we're just so happy yeah, we're so happy

so if you're ever feeling down grab your purse and take a taxi
to the darkest side of town
that's where we'll be and we will wait for you
and lead you through the dancefloor up to the dj booth
you know what to ask for
you know what to ask for

so let the love tear us apart
I found the cure for a broken heart
let it tear us apart let the love tear us apart


So what does this song mean? I think that it is about having fun, despite of the fact that everything is going wrong.