When singers go solo they usually go in one of two directions. Either they totally discard their back catalogue and refuse to play their old hits even though the fans would love to hear them (there's no point in shouting out Voices Carry at the Aimee Mann concert next month). Or they figure it's a shame to let good songs go to waste and play whatever songs they feel like. Thankfully, Grant-Lee Phillips belongs to the second category. It hadn't occured to me that he was going to perform solo, but as it turned out it was pretty cool, because it gave him a chance to talk between songs and just play whatever he felt like. And the old-school fans went nuts. He played a lot of Buffalo songs and even threw in hits like Fuzzy and Mockingbirds. But as my brother pointed out: "Fuzzy doesn't really sound like itself, when it isn't followed by a letter from a depressed teenager" (you'll only get that joke if you listened to Danish radio in 1993 I'm afraid).

Grant-Lee Phillips was in excellent form and started the show by saying that he was happy that he'd finally made it to Aarhus and he couldn't believe it had taken him so long to get here. He then asked if Shania or P. Diddy had played here, and since they obviously haven't (Voxhall holds about 500 people) he said that he would have to pick up the slack from his Hollywood homies. Later, he introduced See America by saying, "This next song is about how sometimes you have to get lost to get where you want to go. And right now it seems like the driver of our collective American cab is completely lost... So buckle up!"
There's a pretty good review in Danish (with a setlist) over at Gaffa, which you can check out for the full play-by-play. But I'll add that even though I didn't know that many songs I really enjoyed myself. And I was really impressed by Grant's voice. Not only does he have a killer range, but he also has a very unique voice and he had no problems reaching the audience in the back even though it was just him and a guitar (he played piano on a couple of songs as well). Oh, and the fact that the place was packed with familiar faces didn't hurt, either.

Camper Van Beethoven plays here on Monday and I'm seriously thinking of going. So I'd very much prefer it if you're going that you don't bring any pepper spray. Seriously though, if anyone as seen Camper on this tour I'd like to hear what kind of stuff they play and if they sneak in Cracker tracks during the set. So leave a comment if you've seen them recently.

Did you like Rock Star? Roger Avary did and so did I. So how excited was I to hear that The Crüe are getting back together to make a movie about their career? I like Judas and all, but a movie about The Crüe is going to kick ass!

If you're more of a punk rocker than a metal head you'll probably be excited to hear tracks from the forthcoming White Stripes album Elephant [via Catchdubs].

And finally you've gotta feel sorry for Mariucci. After taking the 49ers to the playoffs four times in six years he now has to coach the Lions. That poor bastard.