Long time, no see
I haven’t been writing in a long time, but that doesn’t mean that I haven’t been here… But, to be honest, these last few months, I haven’t been roaming around in my usual business. No rock, no action, no shopping, no booze. I almost became the poster-child for the Nuns and by that I do not mean the band The Nuns… But now I’m back with a vengeance, but without Bruce Willis or whatever lousy actor that played the hero…
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The only thing that happened this last month(s) worth mentioning was the Turbo Ac´s show at Smålands. This is mostly worth mentioning cause I have a confession to do: I thought the show was gonna suck. I thought they were boring.
In real life, they had a little aerobics class before the show, ran out on stage and impressed the heck out of me! There was none of the “new-rocker-attitude” I was expecting but instead punkrocknroll with spine, balls and guys who were quite comfortable on stage. Turbo Ac´s have released three albums and their latest one, “Fuel for Life” (Nitro) is the best of the lot. More diverse and yet more together than the first two. Right now, they are gonna tour the States, so have a lookout.
For more info and some quicktime files: http://www.turboacs.com/
This fall is going to be a good fall for rocknroll – at least in Lund. The club Mejeriet has finally got their pieces together and realized that Lund needs rocknroll and you can’t just leave it all up to the small clubs who sweat and bleed to bring us action, they have to do something themselves. And, so they have. Their program includes Hydromatics and The Dirtbombs as well as Entombed.
http://www.kulturmejeriet.se/
http://members.tripodnet.nl/hydromatics/hydro.htm
http://www.thedirtbombs.com/
http://www.entombed.com
In Lund is also Smålands, the students union which is also a good rock club where many women, cause it has mostly been women, have booked and organized shows. This fall, there are new bookers and they have managed to get quite an interesting program for the fall including the Defectors andHellride, two Scandinavian garage/punk rock bands who have never played in the south of Sweden. For more info:
http://www.smalands.lu.se/
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Garage/3365/
http://www.hellride.net
In Denmark, things are still going strong. Deadbeat Magazine especially, it has now evolved into one of the best resources on punkrocknroll and garage on the net. Good work (says the girl who once wrote for them but got to darn lazy to write regularly….) Take a look at Deadbeat and bookmark the site: http://www.deadbeat.dkCopenhagen is close and mostly, the bands we see over here are the same bands that play in Copenhagen a day earlier or later. But sometimes, it becomes quite evident that Copenhagen is more than just the frosting of the rocknroll-cake and that this is the place where the cool bands want to play. Flaming Sideburns is one of those and they will be playing at Loppen the 20th of October. American Heartbreak is another and they’ll be playing at Stengade the 26th of October. http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~latvis/yhtyeet/flaming.sideburns/
http://www.americanheartbreak.com/
That is all for now. I guess there are plenty things more I should mention, but keep in mind that I have not written for almost three months and you should be glad I wrote at all…. I guess I should go take my Prozac now…haha.
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