Eo Bender + Mikkel Wilstrup

Celebrating the release of the debut ep Ballads by Eo Bender, we hope you will share this last event of 2026 in Copenhagen with us <3

• Doors 19.00
• Music 20.00
• Entry 100 kr. (80 kr. in presale)

Mikkel Wilstrup

Mikkel Wilstrup is a drummer/percussionist, working in experimental genres, freejazz and rock music. active in groups
like spiderpeople, hands on fire, kakao intens and asta. He is a part of the collective movement shaped like a heart and
aims in all of his projects for community. He has released several albums and toured across denmark, sweden, italy,
switzerland and more.

Taking cues from freejazz, minimalist post-rock and electronic music, Mikkel works from physicality and repetition with
the goal of transcendence. A student of Anders Vestergaard and raymond strid alike, he plays with developing rhythms
over long periods, playing in flux and with a focus on elasticity. trying to morph beats, and create a pull within rhythms
like that of a rubberband. when mikkel sits down to play the drumkit, it is to find an emotional place, and to surrender to
a cathartic experience through repetitive beats with the audience.
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Eo Bender

Eo Bender is the solo project of Cologne-born, Copenhagen-based musician Ella Olivia Bender. Coming from a performance and jazz background, her work is rooted in the experimental alternative and indie music scene, where she has established herself as a solid, versatile artist. her music combines elements of folk, alternative, and indie pop to turn every song into a distinctive and intimate sonic landscape.

With her debut ep Ballads, she distinguishes herself via her ability to address existential themes with playful lightness
and deep, dark humour. Thematically, the ep is a self-described "lullaby at the end of the world," moving between grief
and humor, apocalyptic imagery and ironic self-reflection. 

This evening at Union will be the release concert of the ep.
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