Electric Prawn

Today's update is dedicated to one of our favourite bands, Infernal (aka. Lina Rafn and Paw Lagermann). We've been fans for years and their latest album, Electric Cabaret, was one of our most-loved and most-played in 2008, despite the fact that hardly anybody outside Denmark got to hear it.

Recently, a Deluxe Edition of Electric Cabaret was released. Seeing as we like to help keep the Infernal flag flying here in the UK, and we know how popular our Lina and Paw pages are with our Danish visitors, we've made over a thousand high quality screen captures of both the live concert and the music videos featured on the new bonus DVD.

We begin with the main attraction, the live concert. We've added hundreds of screen captures to dedicated pages on the Lina and Paw galleries.

Filmed in Skanderborg last summer, it's one of the best live DVDs we've seen in years. The performance and production are both superb, the dancing is amazing and the tracklist is the perfect mixture of new and old, plus all the big hits.

We've never had the pleasure of seeing Infernal live before, so we were particularly intrigued to see a different side to Paw. We always saw him as a bit of a quiet type, happy to let Lina get all the attention. So you can imagine our surprise when he unleashed a whole different personality on stage, peaking with a shout of "Yippee-Kay-Ay MOTHERFUCKERS!" during a particularly energetic performance of Banjo Thing.



Lina didn't get left out though. Her vocals were on top form and she looked sexier than ever, complete with five costume changes:

A Britney-style circus ringmaster costume...



...an all-black outfit...



...a flowing white dress...



...which she later removed...



...our personal favourite, a military-style beret and vest...



...complete with a very short skirt and knee-high boots (we thought she looked a bit like Jill Valentine from Resident Evil)...



...and finally, a sparkly silver dress.



Other highlights included Lina looking up the kilt of the bagpipe player (it's not often we have to write those words)...



...and Paw overtaking Billy Zane as Prawn Cufflinks' King Of The Sex Face.



But it's the last twenty minutes or so which offer unbeatable value for money. Paw really lets himself go while Lina never misses a step or a note, and the whole thing just turns into some kind of Alan Partridge lap-dancing fantasy mixed in with a bit of Ross-from-Friends keyboard/bagpipe craziness.

And obviously, that's a very good thing.

They even throw in a bit of the Ghostbusters theme, complete with "Who are you going to call? / Infernal!" (well, the Danish equivalent, but you get the point). The only thing missing was that little bit from Burning Up which sounds like the Inspector Gadget theme, but then they really would have been spoiling us.

Yes, it'll take a lot to beat the Electric Cabaret DVD this year. Who else is going to chase a guitarist with a bottle of vodka (in a very camp manner, we might add), before pouring it over his head?



And if that wasn't enough, there are plenty of extra features.

Firstly, a behind-the-scenes documentary which we've capped and added to the end of Lina and Paw's concert pages.



Secondly, all of the music videos from Electric Cabaret in glorious high resolution:

Downtown Boys (Lina / Paw)...



...Whenever You Need Me (Lina / Paw)...



...Electric Light (Lina / Paw), in which Lina shows off her amazing legs even more than normal...



...and their latest single, Redefinition (Lina / Paw), which features a man in stockings who looks like he regretted his costume choice as soon as he got on set, but at the same time couldn't resist the feel of silk against his thighs. We've all been there.



Finally, to bring our Infernal pages completely up to date, we've added a couple of high quality photoshoots to the main Lina and Paw galleries.

That's it!

Gareth & Louise