Eo Bender celebrates the release of her debut EP Ballads with this concert at Union, the last event of 2026 in Copenhagen from the collective Movement Shaped Like a Heart. Bender is the solo project of Cologne-born, Copenhagen-based musician Ella Olivia Bender, who moves between folk, alternative and indie pop and turns each song into an intimate sonic landscape. The EP describes itself as a "lullaby at the end of the world", swinging between grief and humour and between apocalyptic imagery and ironic self-reflection.
Drummer and percussionist Mikkel Wilstrup opens the evening. He works across experimental music, free jazz and rock, and has played with groups such as spiderpeople, hands on fire, kakao intens and asta, and has toured Denmark, Sweden, Italy and Switzerland. His playing is built on repetition and slowly developing rhythms, aiming for an emotional, cathartic experience shared with the audience.
