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"I
did not expect a band from Norway to come out looking like a southern
rockabilly band.... they played a song that featured the sitar - it
seemed like some weird psychadelic 60's jam-band tune and the singer
sounded a bit like Jeff Tweedy."
"these guys have world class
talent. they are real entertainers and really talented musicians. I got
the feeling they could write and perform songs in any style they
wanted. and they were genuinely having fun performing."
"I'm so excited! Thanks for opening up our minds to this one. Sitar. 60's psychadelic!!! I'm in and listening close."
"i'm
surprised these fellows haven't gotten much more exposure in the states
yet, or at least the city. they've been stopping by the past couple of
years and put on a great show!"
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2008/10/real_ones_on_th.html
"The real weirdness award goes,
however, to a Norwegian sextet called Real Ones, which gave a
jaw-dropping performance at a South Street Seaport daytime show on
Friday. It seemed at first be a harmonically inclined, tall and
handsome troupe of country rockers. Then the band busted out a sitar.
Then it sang a love song to Slovakian capital Bratislava. Then it
slowly let the instruments fade away during a pretty little tune, lead
the audience in a brief call-and-response vocal blues, shifted the song
up a step to a new key and continued to lead the audience in an back
and forth a capella chant.
It was a challenge, but there was
something extra in it for anyone who tried to sing along: the Music
Marathon, as it is every year, is a user-defined experience. Those who
continually make the wrong choices will find themselves getting less
and less out of it, indeed having the “worst CMJ ever.”
As Real
Ones sang, quoting “Moon River” during the breezy number “Lonesome
Town”: “There is such a lot of world to see.” There was a follow-up
lyric, however: “Not all of it,” the band sang, “is worth it.”"
http://www.nypress.com/21/44/music/music.cfm
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