- One of DKs most successful bands closed down Voxhall, giving appetizing samples from their coming 3rd album

By Niels Nørgaard. Translation: Martin Buck. Photo: Mikkel Stenbæk.

It was more or less the sleepy but stubborn remains of the SPOT audience, that found their way to one of Denmarks largest successes in terms of music export, when Saybia gave their first concert in 6 months.

They opened with 3 of the all together 20 songs, that they have written as basis for the new album. It sounded unmistakably like Saybia - melancholy, grandiose and fantastically promising in terms of radio hit potential and sing-a-long heart aches. The opening song "Soldier" showed an eccentric lead singer Søren Huss, whose great voice underlined the drama of the lyrics: such a great day. Lose it all and carry away. Nothing new is coming out of their hometown Nyborg, but Saybia seems the more solid - a firm, atmospheric and well played beginning of the concert.

The older songs had different levels of intensity and clarity in the performance. It was primarily in the new material, that Saybia was pushing their own limits - not really showing any interest in performing, what is all ready now classic pop songs in the Danish tradition. Though seeming a little lazy with the massive hit  "The Second You Sleep", the band patched up the fading connection to the audience with "Brilliant Sky" and closed down Voxhall as the absolute heavy weights of high end FM-romance with a comfortable, comforting edge.