Last month I went to see a Rammstein tribute band called Rammsund, who have translated a number of Rammstein songs into nynorsk (New-Norwegian). It was a great night, with the whole crowd singing slightly different lyrics as we all quickly translated from the German in our heads. I guess you could say it was one of the most linguistically challenging gigs a lot of us had been to in a while, and there was a good deal of heckling when the band had changed the words so much that they just weren't what was said in the German at all. The vocalist in particular was extremely entertaining, and everyone in the room had to constantly swivel round as he climbed up the rigging and onto the balcony, or swang from the ceiling etc. After one song he was left hanging upside down from the rigging, and there was a lot of sniggering as he mused 'dette var ikkje særleg gjennomtenkt' ('this wasn't particularly well thought through'), not helped by him shrieking and flapping his arms as people tried to help him down.
Rammsund on stage (didn't get a photo of him hanging upside down, was too busy laughing)
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