In September, Orup acclaimed show Viva la pop to Gothenburg. We meet a secretive artist who refuses to let baubles and long monologues stand in the way of the music.
– Damn epigt. The glitter is just påsprejat!
Orup scratch with your fingernail along a shimmering microphone stand. We are backstage at Rondo, where his soul filled popshow will relieve the Alcazar as the restaurant’s big drawcard in September.
At the moment, however disco that comes here on the premises, and the gentleman dressed Orup certainly looks like a odd bird sitting among all the glam stuff.
On his own show, complete with 14-piece band, it becomes more sparse with scenographic delusion. They may simply not fit. Not even a golden cowboy hat is to glimpse.
– No, God, I have retired long ago. Whenever I do something now, I want the music to be in focus. Therefore, it is I, the band and the music that make up the whole. It’s an age-old concept in a kind of soulpoptradition, with James Brown and Elvis Presley in the lead. It’s also the sort of behavior I myself like, say Orup.
What distinguishes your show from a regular concert then?
– Yes, it is question: what is a show anyway? I usually do not call yourself Viva la pop for a show. No one has directed it, except me then, and there is no horseplay, not so much empty talk. I do not like shows with so much talk in, so we have not included.
– But okay, like this then: There is a concert of show element. So we can say. And since we’re pretty spontaneous, it becomes actually some anecdotes some evenings.
Now we are sitting on Rondo’s upstairs, in a room with large, comfortable leather furniture. On lågbordet stands a bowl salted nuts Orup picks in.
He and the production team has just arrived from Stockholm by train, and to tugget and the cool, soft seating surfaces must feel like a small blessing.
Soon the conversation turned to the inevitable: So much the better, and what really attracted him to the program. TV4 production is sometimes referred to as a last chance for artists who have left their best days behind him, while Orup career on paper seemed to go by train in 2014 with the show, best-of album and its own radio station (!), Just to name a few things in orbit.
– There are very few programs that take the music seriously. How much better is one of them. I usually have to look at it and have long known that I wanted to be with. What I remember in particular was amazing to sit around the table and see others perform songs – songs that maybe they could not quite yet and were unsure. I then got involved in this process. It is rarely that happens.
In Kajsa Grytts programs were artists bind respectively wreath to symbolize a wish or honor someone. You going aside then. Who was your wreath to?
– You’re actually the first one to ask. There was a person very close to me who had just passed away. The day of shooting I was told and therefore felt it best to be alone with my wreath.
You pressed not to talk about it at dinner?
– No, they would only have dared.
secrecy about their own privacy has become one of Orup hallmark. It is not just because he himself dislike to talk about it, he says, but he keeps lid on even for the sake of relatives. Neither his wife nor their five children have chosen celebrity.
One should therefore not expect any memoirs of pop runner, though he soon has been 40 years in the industry.
– Honestly I think it would be a pretty boring book. I work the only and provides a lot of kids all the time, says Orup.
Facts: Viva la Pop
The show has gone on Hamburger Exchange in Stockholm since autumn 2014. When the spring season gigs are over the Orup performed it about 100 times.
On the Rondo in Gothenburg planned in the current situation 55 concerts, premiering September 17.
Tickets to the show are released Monday, March 16th at 9:00 am.
Last year launched the service I like the radio a Orup radio station called Viva la Pop, where only the singer’s own songs were played, and the music he has written for other artists.
Last winter, he released a best-of album, also called Viva la pop.
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