Catguts & Horsetails

A close, atmospheric intimate concert in Tivoli at Cornerteateret – where the audience sits near, the bar is within reach, and the music gets to breathe right up close to you.

Catguts & Horsetails are a dangerous duo in the cabaret noir landscape, and invite you into a dark, seductive universe where the melancholy beautiful meets the raw and boundless. With gallows humour, raw nerve and unexpected elegance they serve stories of alcohol, sex, violence and death – all woven together in strong melodic lines and intense lyrical delivery.

This is music that creeps under the skin. The duo, consisting of Anlaug Fantoft Grutle (vocals, cello, concertina and ukulele) and Hanne Mjøs Persen (accordion, double bass and percussion), creates a distinctive soundscape that both entices and challenges.

In the Tivoli format you get up close to both the performers and the expression – here there is little that hides behind stage edges and distance. Perhaps with a glass in hand, perhaps leaning slightly forward in the chair, you let yourself be drawn into a universe that is equal parts beautiful, dark and uncomfortably captivating.

In Norwegian.