This was the first time I heard a full set of live versions of the songs from Maya Albana's excellent second album. We got all the album songs, and in addition they gave one song from Maya's completely overseen debut album, namely Spell Out The Truth. We also got GBE Interlude (which is in fact a brief laid-back version of God Bless Education), Country, which is a song from Maya Albana Trio's repertory and the neo-punked Generator. Maya sang an unreleased song called Pig. A song with wonderful lyrics, quote, I wanna be a pig, I wanna suck your cock ..." That's straightforeward poetry, and I love it when song by Maya! Finally we heard another unrecorded song, Under Your Star, which for me was one of the highlights of the night. A slow tune, song very passionately by Maya with closed eyes all through the song. Her husbond, Kashmir's Henrik Lindstrand played a wonderful keyboard accompaniment to that.
What a nice energy the band radiated, and what a professional performer Maya is! It's obvious that she loves to perform at stage and Maya holds this rare quality being rough and cool and sweet and feminine at the same time.
Half of Kashmir backed Maya Albana on stage and the other half of the band was present in the audience, like several more celebrities from the Danish music scene, who enjoyed this unforgettable concert. A pity that the tour is that brief, as many more should have had the chance to see this outstanding show.

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