Song of the day: “Let your fingers do the walking” by Sort Sol

I am certainly not an expert when it comes to Danish music bands (despite the fact that I’ve been in Denmark for quite a while now: it is high time I knew more about the topic….), but I start to sort of form some preferences among the few bands I was “introduced” to. One of my favourites (and also a favourite of every single Danish woman I have talked to about Danish music!) is Sort Sol (in English, Black Sun), which is one of the ‘oldies’, but still very much appreciated in Denmark. Unfortunately their website seems to be down at the moment, so here’s a very short wikipedia entry in English. They are classified as ‘punk, post punk, gothic rock’ when it comes to the musical genres they practice (though the Danes certainly seem to have a different idea of what the label ‘punk’ represents, than the Dutch, for instance…). My favourite song – so far, haven’t listened to all their albums- from them is the great piece “Let your fingers do the walking” (lyrics here), which is also the song of the day. Unfortunately I could not find other clips from Sort Sol on YouTube, although it would have been very nice to find at least “Shaheeba Bay” and “Popcorn”, which were also hits of their most successful album, “Glamourpuss”, released in 1993.

But without further ado, here’s “Let your fingers do the walking” in two different live performances: the first is from a concert in Skanderborg, Denmark, in 1993, while the second is from a festival from Sweden, in 1994. With a fantastic guitar play by Peter Peter Schneidermann (the guy that left the band in ’95, unfortunately) in both of them!