MAGAZINE

I first noticed Norwegian singer Nils Bech in 2006 when my radical lesbian friend showed me this silly gay anthem, Easy, he’d made with synth-pop group, Snuten. Even then, Nils wasn’t just singing the songs he writes, he was performing them. These days, his musical productions veer more toward his classical roots with lots of pop flourish.
His show is a slightly camp re-enactment of his latest album, Look Inside, the record that came out of his ‘thirties crisis’ and details a love affair with a handsome stranger he met online. On stage, he sings, sometimes a capella, and improvises with objects, like sheets or ladders or sculptures or the walls.
I met Nils in Oslo, Norway to take his portrait, and then proceeded to chat his brains out.

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