FEAST: This year’s Vårmarken ended with one confetti of an evening, one Kinderegg 450 had the pleasure of experiencing.
The evening started with Per Henning Rake, local troubadour who delivered a varied repertoire from Bruce Springsteen to Bjørn Eidsvåg. He was initially sold as an outstanding troubadour with a versatile repertoire, and the experience of hearing him lived up to expectations.
– I’m actually a surgeon, but in my spare time a troubadour, Rake opened.
There was a good atmosphere in the rows of benches, and when Jan Rune Holdhus went on stage, a roar of laughter could be heard echoing out and filling the tent. For three quarters of an hour, he lived out his role as “June Municipality”, and delivered nuggets of gold in a row. It was an inexhaustible Holdhus that stood on stage.
– This is my youngest grandchild Yngve. Can I tell you the joke you told Grandma, because it was so good. It was the two toothpicks who went for a walk, then a hedgehog came by, and then one toothpick said to the other… Look, there goes the bus.
People almost laughed themselves to death at “June Kommune”, who is a Prime Minister. Prime minister you ask surely?
– A Prime Minister is the one who takes care of incompetent politicians, says Holdhus, and listed a whole series of politicians who had recently been in trouble, and Sindre Finnes, who is not a politician, but whom a Prime Minister is happy to take in in the heat. Holdhus made humor out of the ring that Finnes wore for an education he did not have, and Holdhus said…
– Finnes would go dressed as Gollum in my Maskorama, he is so fond of such rings.
Then Bjørnar Moxnes heard it, Holdhus continued to talk about political Maskorama, better political satire will take a long time to find.
– Moxnes wanted to dress up as David Toska, and I said; no, you can’t dress up like Tom Cruise, then you get to wear the glasses you stole at the airport.
I think there were few who were left with dry eyes, not because it was sad, in any way, but because they laughed until they cried.
Towards the end, he made a statement that Randaberg municipality had introduced a ban on singing Wham’s “Last Christmas” in nursing homes, nonsense of course, and took a trip to the dementia choir. One by one of those who sat at the front were made fun of, whether it was membership in a dementia choir or that they were family members. More often than not, someone who is a guest in stand-up is insulted, but Holdhus has jokes with a twinkle in his eye.
Jan Rune Holdhus came directly from Stavangeren, where he has played 13 sold-out houses with his show of “UNE KOMMUNE – Norges Stasminister”.
Below you can hear “June Kommune” singing songs you shouldn’t sing for those with dementia.
Then there was Inger Lise Hope in the end, after she joined “The Voice” the whole of Norway has her name on their lips.
– So insanely nice to be here and end the celebration of a fantastic day, says Hope.
She received a standing ovation, and it is clear that Hope has many fans in Randaberg.
Yesterday, by the way, she progressed to the quarter-finals, and tonight she served the Randaberg bow some of the hits all of Norway has heard at the music competition, plus some of her own production. What an end to a rich evening in the tent in the city centre.
Below you can hear one of the songs she recorded, plus see photos from her performance;
