Still Grasping for an Excuse
I still don´t have an excuse for not updating regularly even though I have been blaming it on not having a decent scanner anymore. My cameras are my eyes and all of that…I´m a sorry excuse for a human being and I know it. It feels mighty good to be a bad seed..huh. For some reason, I´ve just gotten tired of the so called “local” scene. It seems as if it´s the same old bands touring the same old places and when I go there, I see the same old people wearing the same old clothes. New fresh blood would be appreciated. A breeze of fresh air, would be the term for all you vegans.
Some new things have started to happen. The rockabilly club at Inkonst as had it´s 2nd night and served us theGrape Stompers and a mad dj playing Chuck Norris and Dueling banjos.
I haven´t paid attention to most things happening at Inkonst as it´s usually not about punkrock and when it is, it´s poor punkrock, but this one was appreciated. Grape Stompers were a bit “light” for my limited taste but nevertheless, quite good. I like a man who can sing his guts out 
and will be crawling on the floor in an attempt to recollect them..These guys took turns singing, but they all seemed a bit mama´s boys to me and that doesn´t really go well with rockabilly?! But to their advantage, I must say that most people liked them and they seemed genuine.
A couple of days earlier, a bunch of women rolled into town to bring havoc and make men turn their heads and remember those teenage years when they listened to Girlschool and hid toiletpaper under the bed. The show was for free, a much appreciated move amongst gutterpunks and balding men, and Girlschool had a local band, Disco Volante as support act. If you ask a Donnas or a Tuuli fan today, they´re most likely unaware who Girlschool are, but to my surprise, a lot of underage girls had found their way to KB where the show was taking place. The band officially dissolved when these girls were barely born and most people just associate Girlschool with Motörhead and forget that they had more than dozen albums released.
Back to the show. The club was almost filled when Disco Volante entered the stage. This is a local band who´s been in the present lineup for a little more than 6 months but around for 2 years. They have gotten a lot of attention, a record deal and an extensive tour in Sweden, but to be quite frankly, I don´t think they´re that good. The guitarist and the drummers seems to know what they are doing, but what they perform as a band with the rest of the bad, has no feeling to it. It doesn´t seem as the music is the most important thing in their lives and they´re not absorbed by punkrock. There´s just 
something missing, but I guess if they had to get their fingers dirty and work like a dog without the backup of a big promotion/booking-agency, it might add something special to their music. That certain IT.
http://www.discovolante.nu
Girlschool though, they have worked like a dog and they look as if they have fun on stage.
A good thing; why play if you´re not having fun?! Just being in it for fame, money and free beer isn´t a good idea if you haven´t noticed it already. When a band is getting a kick out of playing live, it is infectious and all of a sudden, you have a crowd that´s acting like a big happy, beer stinking blob of meat. This should be essential to all bands but for some reason, you see a lot of bands who looks as if their heads are stuck between their buttocks. Girlschool made me happy that night. They proved that you do not have to have the coolest clothes, most oldschool tattoos or play the fastest to be the toughest. They had fun, rocked (to use a cliché), looked better in person than on their
posters and interacted with fans. A good night at KB, which to a lot of people, isn´t a common thing. Girlschool has just released a new album “21st Anniversary; Not that Innocent” which should be available at a record store near you. http://www.eccentrix.com/artist/girlschool/index.html
So, what is happening this month?! Well, not much actually, but White Stripes, hyped Detroit kids who truly likes red&white, will be playing at KB the 13th. Tickets are almost sold out so if you want to go, you should throw yourself on a phone and order a ticket. Do you remember Antiseen?! I thought their gig at Stengade the 14th would be the talk of the town. People would be lining up to get there first and plan which t-shirt to wear if and when Jeff Clayton bleeds all over the crowd. But I haven´t heard a thing, not even a buzz. If you´re free and available Thursday, be there! Their support act is a swedish band called the Accidents. Not many people remember Monster, a swedish band who kept drifting in and out of the skapunk scene in the late 90s, but their old frontman who´s not so old, has a new band, Moneybrother, will be playing at Mejeriet the 15th.
Girlschool photos submitted by Johnny. Thank you.
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