Unreleased 2013-2014
If you can create something that can actually help people, you should not keep it to yourself.
At first, when Made Management tried to make contact with Aurora, she resolutely said "No!" to meet them.
Luckily, her parents kept encouraging her to give it a chance and hear them out. The final argument that persuaded Aurora, was her mother's words: "If you can create something that can actually help people, you should not keep it to yourself."
Aurora and her parents met her future manager Geir Luedy around March-May 2013. Geir proved himself as an honest, patient, professional and experienced man. He advised her to not agree to any contracts with any management for a while. Not even them (from Made). Instead, they came to an agreement to take time, get to know eachother and try to make some music together.
Geir has all along pressed the importance of having fun with the music, and not pushed her more than what she was ready for.
During the year 2013 she did some small performances and photoshoots to familiarize her to the settings and help her "find her voice and looks". Geir Luedy called this to "build the product"; what and how to perform, how to dress and do the make-up, who and how to produce the recordings and where to perform and do interviews (^4.1)
Through the year 2013 she performed at Nordahl Grieg high school in February, June, August and December. My guess is that this was booked directly with her, since this was the school she was attending. After a few days in August 2014, she decided to quit the third school year (^4.2)
The autumn of 2013 Aurora starts to do minor shows in galleries and academic quarters, until her first gig outside of her hometown area. This was Høstlarm in the capitol, Oslo - Cafe Mono, the 3rd of October 2013. This gave her some attention, and helped her break through at By:larm 2014, as the rumors had preceded her and people were standing in line to watch the show at "Herr Nilsen" (^4.3) - (more on this in future song story).
In addition to performing some of the later releases Awakening, Runaway and Conqueror (and maybe Walking in the air and Life on Mars?), it is known that she performed the songs I have included snippets of here in the clip above (^4.4).
Samples of unreleased songs:
When I'm Gone
We Were Going To Do That (25.8.2014)
My Heart Is A Storm
Blue Valentine
Sources:
4.1 - Ballade - Slik ble Aurora til
https://www.ballade.no/populaermusikk/slik-ble-aurora-til
4.2 - Myrbråten, Charlotte. Ungdommen nå til dags. Klassekampen, 2.3.2015
https://arkiv.klassekampen.no/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20150302/PLUSS/150309952&template=printart
4.3 - VG - Stjerneklar
https://www.vg.no/rampelys/musikk/i/w163d/bylarm-stjerneklar