So Jens Lekman came to our house a few weeks ago. It was one of the best shows I've ever seen. I think everyone else there felt the same way. Here are a few of the songs he played for us.
Part 1- A Sweet Summer's Night on Hammer Hill
Jens was supposed to come to Denver two years ago to play the Gothic Theatre but his tour bus was caught in a snowstorm in Wyoming. A few weeks ago, someone in Denver booked him for a wedding. He sent out feelers looking for a house to play the night before and through a few texts our friends at the Illiterate Gallery connected us Jens and now our house became the venue for Jens Lekman's Denver debut.
This show was magical and the perfect kickoff for the Summer. "A Sweet Summer's Night on Hammer Hill" might as well have been about this night.
I've never heard this room so quiet. This was a secret show, but we still had more people then we could really even hold in this tiny room and every single one of them were in awed silence, hanging on Jens' every word.
Part 3- The Opposite of Hallelujah
Jens Lekman starts this one off with a story about why he loves to play house shows. I couldn't agree more with him. The kind of intimacy you experience when you're packed into a tiny room with friends and strangers, mere feet (sometimes inches) from the performer that just can't be replicated on any kind of stage no matter how small. This song is one of my favorite of Lekman's and I was ecstatic that I got to see him play it live in my dining room.
Jens Lekman Part 1- A Sweet Summer's Night on Hammer Hill
