[ATTENDED: March 7, 2024] Daði Freyr
I saw Daði Freyr about a year and a half ago on his first tour of the United States. So now I’ve seen ALL of his appearances in Philadelphia (two). I enjoyed the first one so much I grabbed a ticket for my wife and daughter as well. Turned out that my daughter had a school thing she couldn’t miss. And had I looked up the details, I would have seen the the show was sold out and I probably could have sold my ticket. I never would have guessed it had sold out, but look at that poster–sold out up and down the country.
To my knowledge, Daði Freyr was only known from his Eurovision songs. I had no idea that he made any kind of inroads into the US. When I saw him last time there were some die hard fans at the show. But this was crazy. There was a woman in front of us who, when he sang “Sunshine” nearly passed out saying “I can’t believe he’s real.”
Fascinating.
I went last time as a lark. I went this time because I enjoyed his show and thought my family might too. It was quite eye opening.
Like last time, the band was a trio–Daði is on synths, guitar and bass, Ylva Øyen on drums and keys and Pétur Karl on guitars and synth.
Center stage was a giant inflatable head of Daði and there were two giant hands on either side of the stage. There was an announcement before the show in which Daði thanked us for coming and told us to look into the eyes and the souls of the people around us and get ready to dance with them.
They came out on stage and the crowd went nuts. Appropriately, they started with “Thank You,” a classic synth pop song. His voice is surprisingly deep and yet very warm at the same time.
last time, he followed this up with the rather amusing “Shut Up” but this time he jumped right into an older Icelandic language song–and the crowd went even crazier. (more…)
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