The most artistic and experimental of the Danish alluders to Wallraff represented in my PhD work was the late Claus Beck-Nielsen who is obviously still alive. Beck-Nielsen announced his own death in 2001 and has been performing under various pseudonyms since then.
In writing he has adopted a peculiar persona who is travelling through Copenhagen and Iraq, mostly by foot, and reporting back to his fellow Danes in a seriously dry and alienated tone.
All the more wondrous to watch him ('Some Body') perform live last night in Odense - reporting back from Iran and from his personal life - in song.
Along with him was a band totally superior in their toned-down Black Christmas double bass, drums, guitar and steel accompaniment, and, well, the show made me acutely aware of my usual quite exclusive focus on the written word. So here's a link to Claus Beck-Nielsen Memorial at MySpace where the band is currently fighting the "feel-good-tyranny" of MySpace from within by encouraging visitors to sign up as "friends" of the band in order to become their enemies. Since,
To be a friend or not to be! That's no question. That's tyranny!
