Jens Lekman @ TT The Bear’s Place, Cambridge - July 22, 2006

Oh You're So Amazing Jens! Playing to a sold-out TT's in Boston, Jens Lekman put on an awesome show that was engaging and cute. He had the stage presence and charm of Stuart Murdoch of Belle & Sebastian, right down to same lilting, accented voice when he speaks to the audience. With a band of six women for support, Jens jumped right into making sweet, beautiful live music. When the ladies were taking the stage, the crowd noticed that the drummer brought two garbage bags onto the stage with her. Near the end of the set, we found out what was in those bags - balloons!

After disappearing offstage, Jens came back for an encore with touring parter, Frida Hynvönen. After a bit about how he didn't speak English, with all the phrases he knew the result of sounding it out phonetically, he and Frida did a song all in Finnish. Before he started singing, he uttered a few phrases in Finnish and Frida provided the translations, very much in the fashion of "languages on tape" - highly amusing.