We love to shop but we are also huge fans of vintage clothes and using old clothes. Do you encourage your fans to bring Cherry Pies to your shows? You strike me as four very spontaneous, fun loving women – do your shows change from place to place or night to night? Anne Marit Bergheim from Katzenjammer. Really? Anne Marit Bergheim – instruments, vocals; Solveig Heilo – instruments, vocals; Turid J. Honerud – instruments, vocals; Marianne Sveen – instruments, vocals; Additional musicians. Toward the end of the set, though, that’s when they go crazy. Things just happen, because it is meant to be at that moment. By Tony Bell On Nov 11, 2015. Musicians Anne Marit Bergheim, Solveig Heilo, Turid Jorgensen and Marianne Sveen of Katzenjammer pose for a group portrait at Watt on March 8, 2010... Marianne Sveen and Anne Marit Bergheim of Katzenjammer perform on stage at Watt on March 8, 2010 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. I think our German label has the best description of us: “Katzenjammer – Genre: No genre.”. Do the four of you see much of each other when you are not touring? We all write songs, and they’re about everything. We found him in a shady corner of a German bar about 6 months after we started, and he already had the cat face on him. I think you can tell that on the record. He’s called Akerø, and we have another bass called Børge – they’re named after a Norwegian TV presenter. No, Norwegian of course is that. I only discovered Katzenjammer recently, and only because I was purchasing music online by another Scandinavian band – the well know online shop suggested that I might like to look at… I did and I was hooked. Sure, of course we had a lot of ambitions and ideas and dreams of where we could end up and I think, to be completely honest, I think we all saw the possibility to get there because we felt something really really special happened when we got together. I think we do that just to show the 4 separate corners of the band, to show our diversity, so that people can’t pin us down. It becomes just better and better – London is good too, bit is just a different vibe of course. When we came back together, we had very similar ideas about where we wanted to go. 1,062 Followers, 144 Following, 10 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Anne Marit Bergheim (@annemaritbergheim) It took the guy who owned it a lot of persuading, but we managed to get him, and he’s been with us ever since. 3. We’ve been touring a lot, we’ve learned a lot more about ourselves I suppose as human beings and as musicians. Image of singer, concert, event - 26298940 Katzenjammer - Anne Marit Bergheim Editorial Image - Image of singer, concert: 26298940 Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images Does there tend to be a theme when it comes to song subjects, or do you write about many different situations? Norwegian female quartet Katzenjammer are a multi-instrumental, multi-genre force of music. He wrote the songs in English, and we like singing in English. Lisa Redford: Virtual Music Lessons Available. Lets face it Irish music and bluegrass, its not that big a difference. CD Review: Katzenjammer – Le Pop. They were amazing, we weren’t surprised because the English audience is fantastic especially the further away from London you come. It’s less about us settling down, and more about us just getting older. When you read descriptions of you by critics, you find a whole host of genre categories, including country, folk, pop and even Balkan. When in Germany, however, if our show is meant to start at 8, everyone will arrive at 8 and no later. Marianne Sveen. You’re performing in Manchester on May 10th. I’m fine thank you! We just finished loading all our instruments into our van, I don’t know what we were thinking! We don’t write songs together at all, we only arrange them together. But I don’t think you can ever actually imagine this becoming a reality before it actually becomes a reality. The first time I saw Katzenjammer, was at their debut concert at byLarm in 2007 or something. So many instruments! Lyrics By, Music By – Anne Marit Bergheim, Mats Rybø: 3:58: 9: My Dear Lyrics By, Music By – Solveig Heilo: 3:04: 10: Bad Girl Lyrics By, Music By – Solveig Heilo: 03:56: 11: Rockland Lyrics By – Mats Rybø Music By – Anne Marit Bergheim: 5:01 Posts about Anne Marit Bergheim written by delarue. Facebook gives people the power to share … Oh – Cambridge Folk Festival… there is something really right with Katzenjammer at Cambridge Folk Festival. I have a confession to make. We listen to it a lot here in Norway and if you want to go abroad and become international it is a very smart move to write lyrics in English of course! Bewaard door Danny Kirkland. The thing with Katzenjammer is that nothing is ever planned. Actually there was… I think it was in 2011, we got a lot of cherry pies – we decided to stop eating them all because otherwise we would come home like twenty kilos heavier! Carving out a unique niche for themselves in the bosom of folk-pop, Anne Marit Bergheim, Marianne Sveen, Solveig Heilo and Turid Jørgensen’s latest effort is often raucous, occasionally majestic and close to brilliance. Image of solveig, music, band - 26298810 Katzenjammer - Anne Marit Bergheim Editorial Image - Image of solveig, music: 26298810 Thank you Anna Marit, it has been a pleasure talking to you. They’re always so polite, too – if we’re playing a ballad, they sit still and listen. Join Facebook to connect with Anne Marit Bergheim and others you may know. We are really glad to have the crew that we’ve got. Tony is a freelance photographer who first started taking pictures for Grapevine Magazine many years ago. Former band member Marianne Sveen left the band in the beginning of 2016. Get recommendations for other artists you'll love. I interrupted Anna Marit during filming in Oslo recently for a quick chat ahead of the band’s latest UK tour. 36 notes. I really like that they are sharing their musical worlds and also that you can see the resemblance in the folk music. I don’t think I ever actually thought we were outcasts, but we were all very different! Anne Marit Bergheim—acoustic guitar, backing vocals Turid Jørgensen—contrabass balalaika, backing vocals Marianne Sveen—drums, percussion. (Laughs!) The latest Katzenjammer album is Rockland, to me it sounds “softer” than the previous albums. 1. Kinds Of Music My Music Music Stuff Musicians Singer Concert Women Sun Cats. Every country, every city, has its own vibe, and we like all of them. Yeah – the banjo and me we’re a good match… at the moment, yes. Amund Maarud – guitar on "Old de Spain" and "Curvaceous Needs" Jørgen Nordby – drums on "Rockland" References NOV 17 TUE O2 Shepherds Bush Empire London, GB 19:00 Anne Marit Bergheim is on Facebook. I’ve been listening to her a lot lately. © 1991 to 2021 - Mansion House Publishing Group | All Rights Reserved. But is important to us that we keep a spontaneous feel to it anyway that we can relate to the audience and not make every single show identical, that would be boring for us as well. I’m fine thank you! Photo about MusicianAnne Marit Bergheim of the band Katzenjammer, in Stuttgart, on 23 August 2012. Add or edit the setlist and help improving our statistics! Follow. But first I had to navigate Norwegian voicemail…. Katzenjammer’s new album Le Pop is pretty amazing, a strong contender for best of 2010.With their gorgeous harmonies, old-fashioned instrumentation and frequently lush production, the accordion-driven all-female Oslo quartet sound like the Dresden Dolls but better (more energetic, less cutesy and a … Norwegian female quartet Katzenjammer are a multi-instrumental, multi-genre force of music. Website Design: Musical Marketing © 2000 to 2021. But they were really really tasty and we were really glad to have them. Though they're Norwegian, Katzenjammer sing their songs in English, something that has helped their international appeal greatly, whilst still keeping them popular back in Norway. It was very eclectic with a lot of flowers and big dresses and skirts. We definitely write songs about personal experiences though; for example, “Lady Grey”  was written by Marianne (Sveen), as she used to be a nurse, and the song documents the first Alheimer’s patient she worked with. 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