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sweden @ nite punk rock scandinavian-style with darling lisa
all photos are exclusive property of lisa madsen, © copyright 2002
There has been so many shows and I haven´t been there. I have had pneumonia for two months but that is not the only reason I´ve been staying in. It´s sad and it´s true but this month, I decided I was going to be a grandma and just stay home and knit. Not the "bitch & stitch" worldwide wonder, even though I am a proud bith and I do stitch, I just got so damn tired of the local scene. It´s the same old people and it´s the same old people trying to be something they´re not. Don´t get me wrong, ambition is a good thing but bigheaded people acting like they´re the hottest thing since Theo (former) Lunachick in Nerve, well then the creamcheese have gone bad a long time ago and those green things, well, they aren´t herbs I tell you...It made me loose interest for a while, Malmö lost it´s appeal and I´ve been looking more towards Copenhagen again. Unfortunately, Denmark is not known for it´s punkrock scene and it´s been the same two bands playing all along which must be damn hard work for them. We need fresh blood! A thing that did get my attention though, was the Le Tigre show at Mejeriet. I know this sounds odd to a lot of people who know me, but I was curious. I know the music isn´t my thing but so many people that share my taste in music have been raving about them, I had to know what the thing was. So, I brought my two cameras and went to a club that was sold out and filled with girls. I have never seen so many girls in one place in my entire life. The club seemed different even though it was the same people working and I guess it could be because the crowd wasn´t as loud as normal. You could hear yourself think and you didn´t get knocked over by rowdy people, but then the queue to the ladies room was There were two support acts that night and even though the first one, Hello Goodbye, had some moments were they sounded like the odd mix between the Cramps and B-52s, it wasn´t anything that got too many people knocked off their feet. I guess it must be a though job trying to steal an audience who´s waiting for the woman who´s the Poly Styrene of the 90´s, Kathleen Hanna to take the stage. Cause, to be blunt, even though it´s not pc to say so, but to atleast half the crowd, that night was a lot about re-living the 90´s and the riotgrrls movement and Le Tigre was just the tool to do so. She is an icon and a rolemodel to more girls than Maybelline´s ads will ever reach, and that is a whole lot. To be honest, I have to say I did get knocked off my feet. Not by the music and not by the message but the effort and the energy this band puts to life. It was 110% for 45 minutes and not a dull moment. It had been some concern before that a riotbarrier should be placed infront of the stage, as you could never know what the crowd would react like when the band entered the stage, but to my surprise it all went smooth. There was some fuzz in the beginning with people pushing but in fact, the band solved it all. I have never seen a band have that kind of magnetising effect on it´s audience but it was amazing. The crowd was billowing like the sea and the band was moving faster than my digital could handle. I´m not gonna go into the music cause it´s not my thing to begin with and writing about it, well, that would be as interesting as hearing Danzig´s idea on POD. I went for the show itself and I had a good time and let´s just settle with that. Le Tigre http://student.bard.edu/~ba935/front.html March 10, 2002 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 the Grape 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 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 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 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. February 2, 2002 Long time, no see...and I don’t really have an excuse. The last two months have been...well, kinda dull. The only thing that made me lose my panties the last month, was when I discovered that the magazine Tear now to be found in Swedish stores. An excellent mag that combines tattoos, art, music and fashion So, what is happening in the near future?! Well, not too much but at least there is something; 2nd of February at Mejeriet; International Noise Conspiracy 15th of February at Stengade; the Maggots + The Moods at KB; Black Rebel Motorcycle Club 16th of february at KB; International Noise Conspiracy 27th of February at Stengade; Flaming Sideburns November 27, 2001 So, I haven´t been writing here for a month or so. That doesn´t mean that nothing of interest hasn´t happent. It just means that I´m a lazy ass cow. I´ve been to too many shows to remember and I still have
Let´s start with the Hydromatics.The band which should have a BIG audience, but the audience haven´t really found the band yet..or vice versa. It´s Scott Morgan from Sonic´s Rendezvous Band, which should be enough to get most people´s pants to fall down in approval, and a bunch from Nitwitz, a punkrocknroll band from Holland which has been around for 20 years. In the beginning, there was also Nicke from the Hellacopters, but he has since left the band. One record is released, "Parts Unknown" and a second one should be on the way. They played live at Mejeriet with the Nocounts som förband a month ago and it was quite a show. 3 encores on on stage more than 80 minutes. Not quite what I am used to, but I fully enjoyed the first 40 minutes. Then I went for beer. I ike things fast and furious and even though I like the album, I don´t like it when shows get too long and people try to milk it. Do your thing and then get off stage, don´t come back a third time, cause then you´ll never stop.... http://members.tripodnet.nl/hydromatics/hydro.htm I also went to see Hellride, another of White Jazz´ releases, at Smålands in Lund. They haven´t toured this parts for almost 3 years, so it was about time. Hellride have released a bunch of 7" inches and their first fullenght "Making out with Fire" was released almost a year ago, but press has taken no notice. Now, the band has reformed and regrouped. 3/4 of the Norwegians have been replaced with all Swedes and the singer is no longer the singer, but sologuitarist. A good choice. There wasn´t too many at the show which is quite funny when you think of it; all the punkrockers and the punkrockposeurs are complaining that there are no shows, but when there are, they´re just sitting at home, trying out their new studded belts and sewing on cool patches for their denim jackets, so that they can look cool if they were at the show. The show itself was good, new singer with a deeper voice and more action and running around on stage. Hamell on Trial is somebody most people haven´t heard about. It sounds like a bad movie with Michael Madsen and that doesn´t really make your knees weak. Hamell on Trial though, didn´t make your knees weak either, but he was funny, not in the "ha-ha kind of way", but more in the "aha ha way" and entertaining. Fast, rattling guitar with lots of echoes, clever songs about life and somewhat stand up comedy between songs. He did his thing on the small stage at Mejeriet a Thursday night while half the audience seemed to be smoking cigars, drinking southern comfort. There have been a bunch of bands seen but not mentioned in this update, but more are the come in a week or so when I have the rest of the photos developed and scanned. Right now I am too damn lazy to write more and I guess you are too damn lazy to read more, so, bye for now. October 6, 2001 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...
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. 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 and Hellride, two Scandinavian garage/punk rock bands who have never played in the south of Sweden. For more info: 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.dk Copenhagen 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/ 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. June 25, 2001
Last week, it was the Hultsfredsfestival. I have been there 2 times before, -95 and -96. I loved being able to go to shows every hour, but I hated the tent and the dust. You found dust everywhere, in your coffee, in your sleeping bag and even in your knickers. It all got to me and I stopped going to festivals. I never went as a photographer either. Partly because of the bands usually pplaying to big stages for it to be really fun to take photos, but also for the fact that most people become fusspots backstage. If I go to a show or a festival, I go as a fan. I love the music, that´s why I am there but I hate all that comes with trying to make a living as a photographer and a writer. I can´t stand the meet&greet and I can´t stand people trying to act like they care about what I have to say when they´re in fact just standing there in order to try and look as cool as a rockstar in front of the cameras. So, I pay to get in. To all shows and all festivals. Basicly cause I am a fan and I don´t try and pretend like I am something I´m not. But this year, Hultsfred was the Festival with a big F that almost made me appreciate dusty knickers. With bands like Rocket From The Crypt, Nomads, Danko Jones, Nashville Pussy and Iggy Pop on the list, I could not stay at home working and still stay sane. So, I went. I didn´t bring my camera, just a small one that I would miss if it got smashed in front of a stage. Met up with a couple of Stockholm-chicks and lived in a tent. Drank vodka and kool-aid to be able to sleep in the tent and walk in the dust. Tried to avoid to go the the portable toilet and if I had to, well, some more vodka for me. I waited for the Saturday, the day that they somehow had managed to put up all the great punkrock acts. In the meantime,one of the band I went to see was Godsmack, the american metalpunkcore band Magnus had told me about. They were surprisingly good. Usually american band this genre makes me puke cause they have no sense of humour and act like it´s the doomsday. This band though, did not only have a good singer that would make Layne Staley doubt his own resources, but stage presence, threw beer at us, was tight and seemed to have fun on stage. With Limp Bizqit playing at the festival too, it was a relief to see that some still had talent and wasn´t stuck with the ass in MTV´s couch. For more info on Godsmack, http://www.godsmack.com The same day, Thursday, I also saw the band that by more than one, have been linked as a wannabe-Backyard Babies; the Spitts. Hailing from Örebro, I understand that they want to be something. For some reasons, most bands from Örebro are longing to be somebody else. maybe it´s something in the air or water. But, this is still a good band. I really likle their music and they would be a great swedish band to be proud of if only the singer either quit the band or learned to relax and not try so hard. He looks like a 14 year old SexPistols fan on acid and doesn´t really sing better than one....They´ve released a 7" and a cd and you can find soundclips from them at http://www.thespitts.com/indexf.html Twopointeight didn´t really play at the festival, atleast not officially, but they´ll be featured here anyways since they´re Twopointeight, the fellas who told Safety Pin to go stuff it when most bands kiss ass and do whatever they can to get their name on the label of a 7". They played on the small Digfi stage. They´ve just released a new demo and in order to promote it, they did a short gig. Soundclips from it can be found at http://www.twopointeight.nu I desperately wanted to be upfront at Queen of The Stone Age. Call it nerd-alert, call it what you want, but I had to be there. I waited for 35 minutes and I was there. I´m lucky I was. Nick Oliveri and Josh Homme in the same band, how could it be anything else than something you loose your panties, and the dust in them, over?! Experimental, furious and brittle all in one. http://www.qotsa.com The best part with festivals is that you get to met people that live in different part of the countries. I met a bunch of people who did the same music and that I have on my Icq, but I never get to see. It´s always fun to see how people are in real life, do the act the same? Look like you expected them to? Most important of all, do you get along?! It´s almost like bingo, you´ll never know...Then there was Saturday. The big punkrock-day. There is no way I can write about all the band without making this the longest update in Coolgrrrls´ history. So, I won´t write about it at all. I won´t write about any of them, in fact. If you weren´t there, you missed a great deal. http://www.rockparty.se June 7, 2001 Go! Baby! Go! Rock the house This how it all starts. Martin says , "Wow, LisaFisa, it´s Möllefesten/Folkfesten/Whatever in a week or so. Let´s go, it could be cool. Pretty girls, beer and good bands". I say "Nah, boring bands and ugly kids in too much makeup, I´d rather stay at home with Patsy Klein"... This time, there were 3 bands I wanted to see, but they were playing with a 2 hour pause between them. A 2 hour pass that held nothing but rain, boredom and beer that for some reason, didn´t get your more intoxicated than the rain itself. I came just in time to see Eilert Pilarm. He´s not only spokesman for a brand of swedish dairy products, he´s also an outstanding Elvis interpreter. Well, he´s not even that, he´s beyond that. He deliver Elvis-songs the way no other man has. I you didn´t know it´s Elvis, you´d never guess it. Eilert doesn´t really care that much about rhythm or if a song´s in a certain time, he has his own rhythm and time! Most important of all, he´s having fun. You can see it clearly, this is no old has been that wants to give it another go. Eilert loves performing and he loves Elvis. So, he combines that and creates something unique. As always, some people don´t really get it...I heard a lot of booing and people laughing. He´s not young, he´s not hip or trendy and..."oh, damn it he doesn´t even look like Elvis!". Later, one magazine even wrote that he was retarded...Whatever happened to recognize something for what it is and that somebody having fun, trying to entertain us?! Why should everything be like on MTV, shiny, glossy and no texture?! Nah, I like Eilert, I like people that are having a go at what they like doing instead of just living their lives according to some standard sheet from the retirement annuity!
Then again, there was a big pause. We looked at kids stalking poor Dregen in the rain, goths trying to save their makeup from the merciless rain, hippes playing with their kids and at the line to the bar in the tent get even longer, bigger and wider. It all scared us, so we did the only thing possible, we stood in line for some beer...Unfortunatley, they had the most terrifying music in that tent, everything from 80´s synthblipp with "I´m so deep it kills me"lyrics to a wannabe Black Sabbath who didn´t know when to stop and go buy some beer… So, we stood in the rain instead. For almost 6 hours, in the rain. As evident as ketchup is red, I had a serious cold the next day. I still do, in fact. Backyard Babies...well, they were the pulp of the peach that day. Not only on the posters but also to all the kids who came. 40 minutes before they were supposed to go on, about a 100 of kids had gathered in front of the stage to be sure to get a good spot. Even if the majority of their fans right now are kids under 18, atleast they´re faithful..
Backyard Babies plays at this years Hultsfreds festival too, at 17 o´clock Thursday. For more info about Backyard Babies go to http://www.backyardbabies.com and about the Hultsfred Festival, http://www.rockparty.se/
So, what else is new and what´s happening?! Well, as mentioned, there is the Hultsfreds Festival which I apparently won´t be going to this year as I´ll be working. The 14th of June, Nashville Pussy will be playing at Loppen and the day after, Dropkick Murphy at the very same place. That´s about it and this was it. May 30, 2001
This Ain't The Summer Of Love Most people know about the Nomads. Most punkrock and garagebands list them as influences. So, I guess that an explaination isn´t really needed, but I´ll do a short one: Nomads has been around for more than 20 years, they infact just had their big 20th Anniversary where they had every bandmember and additional musicians, joined them on stage and where also Sator and Flaming Sideburns were playing. Quite a party I was told and I guess that is what you expect from this band. More than 20 7" and a dozen full-lenghts released, well now, that´s almost a complete recordcollection. They just released a new album "Up Tight" on White Jazz and are currently on tour in Germany to support it. But, a week ago, they played in Malmö and their support was the Turpentines. Nomads have never been my cup of tea. I have two 12" from the mid 80´s and I am satisfied with that. They´re a little bit too experimental for my liking. I like pure punkrock´n´roll, so I went to KB just to see Turpentines. Nomads were a bonus but nothing I´d pay extra for…Apparently, KB was having a party for the regular customers and when I entered the door, I first mistook the place for a highschool disco. People were wasted as they had been serving free and cheap, cheap booze at KB. Then I saw Björn and Kalle and figured out that it had something to do with free booze and not with underage girls...even though you´ll never know…I had just bought my first beer when Turpentines went on stage. KB usually have nightclubs starting at midnight and they just wanted the rock´n´roll to be over, so that they could put on Destiny´s Child and Sonique for the nightclub people. Always the rush, the rush..
So, the Nomads.... What did I do?! Did I just sit in the bar, inventing new drinks while sporting my new outfit, waiting for people to buy me drinks?! Not really, it´s not really my thing...I was front row with my camera of course. It seems that Nomads had more fans they´re than Turpentines, way more fans. But I guess, with 20 years in the buisness, you´d expect more than just some drunk regular customers up front..There were a lot of jumping, screaming and singalong. Worse than a Spice Girls show but with people way over 20. I was quite amazed. I knew they were good live, but not that good. I admire people who can act normal in front of a big crowd. Chat with them like they were old time friends. No rockstar-attitude, no posing. Just being yourself and playing your music. Being able to change the setlist during a show cause some fans were screaming for a certain song...and coming back on stage not only once but twice cause the fans were screaming. The Nomads website is located at http://w1.855.telia.com/~u85508172/ May 14, 2001 Delirium hits Lund and life as we know it is replaced w/frozen yogurt I am Ginger, not Ginger ex Wildhearts but Ginger as in GingerBread cookie. That is what happen when you challenge the sun and go on a bikeride for 3 hours wearing nothing but a little Motörhead-tanktop. It seems, I am still wearing that top actually, cause I´m creamy white as frozen yoghurt where it used to be...Motörhead forever. You see, it´s darn hot here and my body never reacted in a good way to heat. I think I have actually had a sunstroke cause my head is blank and seem to have been filled with...frozen yoghurt instead. So, let the keyword of this update be frozen yoghurt, it is silky smooth and cold....A couple of days ago, another kind of delirium came to town, After the last record, things just went insane, mainstream media had someting about BB in every issue and every 15year old, especially the girls, had a BB album... and had screamed "Dregen/Nicke, I love you!" on at least 2 different shows...Now, as you know me; I am not too very fond of screaming 15year olds. They can scream as much as they
Not that I don´t think it´s cool that their album sells and that they have fans who love them, but I want to go to a show, not a circus.I´m an old sour bitch and I am proud. A drunken circus in fact; it was almost sold out when we came and we came early. Smålands sell cheap beer and even cheaper drinks. It´s a wonder that they´re weren´t any fights that night. The show started early, a couple of minutes past 11 at a place where they bands usually don´t enter the stage before 12 and I had to fight my way through the crowd to get to the stage with beer in one hand, camera in other. Another new thing, was the crowd. Smålands must have sold a big bunch of new memberships, cause the majority of the crowd looked like they just came from a hockeygame; testosteron and hormones. A lot of fingers in the airs, saluting, screaming, wanting to shake hands with the band and begging for picks. When I think of it, it was more of a ¨"festival-behaviour", when there are no rules more than; A) have FUN Not the typical punkrock behaviour, but it was fun for a change. So, what about the band?! Well, they were actually better than I expected. The songs I´ve heard from the new album hasn´t really struck my fancy, a bit too sleazy for my liking, (even though there were bits from Nirvanas "Negative Creep" baked in) so I was a bit worried that they would have gone all soft even live. Drenched the sound in syrup and spandex. Some of the songs sound a lot like mid 80´s hard rock. I guess I wasn´t the only one who´s first record was a Twisted Sisters...The sound was a bit different live, a bit smoother but I´m not sure what exactly made it so. The singers voice has gone cleaner, it´s not so rough anymore and I guess he isn´t putting that much strain on his vocal cords anymore. My guess is vocal lessons. Sounds better and he´ll be able to sing in 10 years from now. More backup, singalongs, handclaps, screamalongs, well just more of everything. They played songs from both the new album and the last one, but none from the first one, which I was quite happy about. That album wasn´t even mediocre...The band has grown since I last saw them. Back then it was mostly about Dregen and Nicke but the bassplayer Johan has grown in to quite a stagepersona; posing, having fun and keeping contact with the crowd and interacting with it. The gig lasted for almost an hour with encore included. The crowd was more than pleased and the band seemed to be enjoying themselves. I had fun, even though I had to fight a couple of guys to keep my spot up front at the riotfence but it was okay, got rid of some latent agressions for free. My legs are all blue and purple, looks like..frozen yoghurt with blueberries. It was quite a battlefield up front and at least one girl fainted...The rest of the night was spend in the bar with my new drinking-compadre Caroline who has the same opinion as me; there is never something called too much!! As I never found the merch-table, (probably due to too many vodka russian) I had the more money to spend on booze. And so I did.... For more info on Backyards and to listen to some samples from the album; http://www.backyardbabies.com/ So what is up next?! Well, there is the Devil Dolls festival with Thee Ultra Bimboos, Launderettes and On Thursday the 17th they´ll be playing at Mejeriet in Lund and the day after, the 18th, at Stengade in Copenhagen. Also, on the 17th, Loppen are having a little Birthday Party with the Burnouts and Tremolo Geer Gut on stage. 24th of May is the date when Nomads and the Turpentines take in Stengade and 26th of May is the big day when some of Denmarks best punkrockers salute and remember Joey Ramone. Some of the bands that will be playing at Loppen are President Fetch, Heatfarm, Los Retardos and Hellroute16. The first of June, El Curado at Mejeriet are coming back in big style. Not that they were in any way gone, they are just doing a summer-party big style; Danko Jones, the man who sounds more like Jon Spencer Blues Explosion than Jon himself. The party will not only give you this man, but also cheap booze and barberque. Now, this was all for me for this time. Martin is waiting at the coffeshop with another story about Ronan Keeting and I can´t wait to hear it...or atleast get some coffee and blueberrypie...with frozen youghurt. May 8, 2001 March 29, 2001 15 March 2001 Peeping at Gluecifer 25 February 2001 So, I finally got my thumb out and my hands on the keyboard. There are so many other things that keep me busy that I forget all about writing about the rock, I just go see the rock and then head home. A couple of weeks ago, Club El Curado had their finest night up to date according to the happy bunch that were dancing their feet blue. The Neanderthals were visiting and were appreciated. They are what their name indicates; basic punkrockabilly stomp delivered by banditos in fake fur cloths. The singer was beating a drum with his club. The drummer looked like he was found out in the wild, raised by wolves. Also at Mejeriet, Club Massattraction is holding court. Or, at least they were. . . As I have been nagging; you can´t sit at home in your expensive punkrock outfit complaining that no big punkrock bands play at your local club, if you don´t support it in the first place by going to the shows. It is simple. It is basic mathematics: if you go on a regular basis to the small gigs, paying an insignificant amount, you give the club a stable income. With a stable income and the knowledge that the club has a crowd, they can take a chance and book some of the big bands, like the Queers or the Donnas, without risking having to pay the loss with their rent money But, if you and all your cool friends just stay at home, nothing will happen and soon, the club will be no more. This is what happened to Club Massattraction. They got tired of working hard for free, trying to make a cool place where all the punkrockers and garagerockers could hang, when everybody was just to damn lazy to show up. So, if you don´t get what I am talking about and you call yourself a punk and have a DIY-badge on your jacket….Well, then take that badge off and start hanging in front of your MTV listening to Offspring and other bands who don´t have to think about every nickel they spend, cause you don´t know shit. The last Massattraction show was with Demons and Stabb on stage. Demons were headlining and Stabb came for free, but I guess that Stabb had a bigger audience than Demons, at least that night. . . A couple of years ago they released a demo which was frequently played on Radio p3´s Musikjournalen Rock and one song, "Tired" was featured on the soundtrack to a Swedish high school movie, Välkommen till festen, and from that, they found quite an audience. I never heard much more from them, never saw them touring The only thing known was that they were still unsigned. Then, all of a sudden, they entered Mejeriet´s stage. Singer Belinda is basically what it´s all about. She has a voice that you remember and either you love it or hate it. A mix between Janis Joplin and Heather Nova. The music is also hard to define, but a mix between early Afghan Whigs and Serial Cynic, will do just fine. A lot of increasing and decreasing of the tempo. Not much of a wild stage show, even though the bassist gave it his best shot, but quite frenetic and captivating. Stabb have released one 7", "Until Dawn Comes" and a self-titled full-length containing all previously released material. More info on Stabb is to be found at their website http://www.stabb.fanglobe.com If you go to archives here on Sweden@nite, you will see Demons once more, then from their gig at Gearfest Stockholm. I wrote something along the lines that I know nothing about them and that it felt just fine that way. . . And now, 6months later, I say the same. Not that there is something wrong with Demons, it´s just that it feels just fine not having all the unnecessary shit stuffed down your throat again and again. If you ever listen to Gearheads Radio,(paste location http://166.90.143.156:12834/ into your Real Player) there´s a big chance you have heard Demons. Both their full-length and their ep is released on Gearhead Records. On stage, they´re the cool cats. Not to many smiles, not too many moves. But they rock, they sure do and the look like they couldn´t care less if you think so. In a world of poseurs who´d do anything to get you stomping your feet and swinging your wallet chain, it´s quite refreshing with people who couldn´t give a damn. Straight forward punkrock, the same lane that Devil Dogs and Electric Frankenstein has gone down before them. For more info on Demons and some bite size sound files http://w1.825.telia.com/%7Eu82503079/ Everybody ( well, almost..) was staying quite calm and sober at the Massattraction night, cause we were heading for another show the night after. 69Hard and C-Men were playing at Stengade30 in Copenhagen. With it being 2 of my favorite bands, especially live, there was no way I would miss that because I was too hungover. 69hard have played at Stengade30 before and C-Men are almost at Ungdomshuset (rip) every other weekend, so we knew that they had a crowd there and it shouldn´t be all empty with just 3 girlfriends klapping. But, it seems like even the Copenhagen scene is getting smaller and smaller. A lot of the people I used to see at shows, have stopped going and there aren´t too many new faces. The trance-scene in Copenhagen is taking over (!?!) and directly after the show, the place turned into a trance-club and all the punkrockers ran down the stairs to the basement and the dressing room/backstage to hide. . . But, at least there was a punkrock-show and a stage for the bands to enter, so I guess we shouldn´t whine too much about it. 100 people paid to get in and it was a helluva show. Both bands have great singers who know how to make an audience paralyzed and get their way with it and skilled and soulful musicians. What could go wrong?! Nothing did. We saw naked skin, a drunken Danish humping an unwilling guitarist, heard all the hits and drank cheap beer.... So what else is up?! Well, tonight I am off to a Gluecifer show..and soon, the Burnouts will be opening for the Hellacopters at Loppen in Copenhagen. The 1st of March is the date of the event. Gaza Strippers are at Loppen the 7th of March, the KnockUp on the 21st and the Queers on the 23rd. Seems like Loppen is regaining it´s old reputation as THE club in this area. Good. We have missed that. On the 1st of March, Frank Black and the Catholics will be playing at KB in Malmö. On the 16th of March, the Hives and the Savages will be playing at KB and the day after, Mazarine Street, a swedish poppier version of New Bomb Turks, will be playing at the same scene. Further down the road, the Donnas will finally be heading our way, but unfortunately, they have the poprock-brats of Sahara Hotnights as support for the entire European Tour. I don´t know if their management never heard Sahara Hotnights or if they want to be sure of that the Donnas will be the most kickass band on stage, but it´s a lousy choice if you ask me. Another thing worth waiting for, is the 1st of April, when Club El Curado at Mejeriet, is doing it again; they´re bringing Weeping Willows to Mejeriet. So, it seems like it might be a great spring.
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I’ve banged my head in the wall, hoping for some action, and now, early February, things start happen again.
both bands records and I've seen both bands, therefor I don¥t need no mediocre copyband.
Gluecifer though...they know how to rock. Ok, they've been around the block a couple of times and they know what it's all about.Their latest release "Tender is the savage" (White Jazz) is leaning more towards AC/DC than their earlier releases, but they manage to do it just fine.
caracters, one is THE guitarhero of the band and he seems to have planed his moves carefully, the drummer is throwing drumsticks at, no, not to, AT the fans....
satisfied.
