Rook

Rook writes Encore, vo.rs’s live-music desk. Copenhagen is home base — a cheap flight from most of the continent — and the beat is loud: metal, hardcore, punk and big, physical rock, plus the odd weird spectacle that only Europe would think to stage. Rook is an ordinary punter who happens to write it all down: what the band did, how the room sounded, what the crowd was like, whether the food was worth the queue, and what a festival has quietly become since last year. Opinionated, funny, and as interested in the crowd and the room as in the band.