Live: Tank Farm Future Sounds Tour w/Shout Out Louds, Nico Vega, Johnossi

Sweden’s Shout Out Louds ended their Tank Farm/Future Sounds sponsored American tour with Nico Vega and Johnossi Monday night at Los Angeles’ Henry Fonda Theater. All stops were pulled out and people waiting in line were treated with a skate demo on Hollywood Blvd and an invite only pre-party took place on the Fonda’s roof with complimentary red bull and vodka’s and some tasty burrito’s. An after party also took place with Dim Mak head Steve Aoki helming DJ duties. Big thanks to Tank Farm Future Sounds and Plus One Music for the great night!

Fellow Swede’s Johnossi started the night with their energetic bluesy two man operation. Sounding like a European Two Gallants, the guitar and drums duo gained some brownie points with the Hollywood audience when they played “Santa Monica Bay” as well as some others of their self titled debut album. Locals and Myspace Records’ darlings Nico Vega went up next and, well, let’s just say that they were a little out of place on the night’s bill and leave it at that.

Shout Out Louds took the stage a little before 11 and spent about an hour playing numerous tracks off their current album Our Ill Wills and 2005’s debut album Howl Howl Gaff Gaff. Easily being one of the best sets I’ve seen all year, singer/guitarist Adam Olenius lead the Swedish five piece through highlights like “The Comeback” and “Impossible” while keboardist/vocalist/nordic babe Bebban Stenborg stole the spotlight for a couple numbers including “Blue Headlights”. The biggest surprise of the night was when the group was joined by Spider Stacey and John Fearnley of The Pogues for a cover of the legendary Irish group’s “Streams of Whiskey” which was a b-side to the “Tonight I Will Leave It” single. The welcomed surprise guests had everyone in the audience beyond enthused. The guys from Johnossi also joined the band later for a couple numbers including the Cure-ish set closer and current single “Tonight I Will Leave It” where Olenius left his guitar behind and played only bells while crowd surfing through the Fonda audience. An encore was imminent and Shout Out Louds came back out for 3 more numbers and finished the night with Howl  standout “Very Loud”, which is a great enough song in itself, but this night they would splice some of The Clash’s “Train in Vain” into the middle, making it an even more impressive hi-point to end the night on.

Photos by Dan Tana

Johnossi

Nico Vega

Shout Out Louds