Half of the concert group at Betong has been exchanged since last semester. All the same they promise a spring semester filled with exciting concerts, including styles such as afrobeats, electronica and metal.

– The frequency of arrangements will be on the same level as earlier, and this year we also want to try many new things, says new leader of the concert group, Ingrid Marie Urdshals.
Times have been hectic for the concert group Betong. Half of the board has since September last year been replaced with new people. Urdshals welcomes the task of being the leader, and promises students who are interested in music a concert program just as good and packed as in the fall semester.

Wants to surprise the audience

– We want to broaden our horizons, so in stead of only booking indie bands, we want to surprise our audience with for example African or electronic music.
This far, the concert program for this spring looks rather thin. Betong has not presented immensely large names, except for the double concert with drone metal band SunnO))) a couple of weeks ago, and the canceled Superfamily concert last Saturday. This, says Urdshals, is due to all the work concerning the board’s generational change.
There has been a lot of work, and I doubt that the complete semester program will be ready before March. But we will release names on the way so people will know about the concerts at least a month beforehand.

Goes for metal

In addition to promises about African nights and electronic flings, Betong will also go in for concepts that have been successfully arranged earlier, according to booking chief Hannah Breistrand.
– We will work with the metal concept South Of Heaven, on which we have received great feedback. We are also maintaining the acoustic concerts in BokCaféen. These are arrangements that are great experience and training for the new people in the group, and they also pull a lot of audience.
Even if the group works for getting exciting artists this spring, Breistrand thinks that people will have to wait until fall before the juiciest artists come to the students´ own concert place.
– Usually we book more famous artists in the fall since that’s when people come back to school, and artists are more available. Therefore, spring won’t be as juicy. But we still make a point of arranging parties we personally love and vouch for, she says.