Rootvälta & babatunde Tony Ellis.

Me and My sweet wife is going to attend these great musicians at Katalin in Uppsala Sweden tonight. This Will be my way of salubrate my birthday..

Why don’t you join us??

Photography-job at Klub Krom and HELLTRAIN.

I had the oppurtunity to be the official photographer at Klub Krom in Uppsala Sweden last weekend.

The band Helltrain was playing, and it was magical..

Here is a link to the gallery with all the photos.

And here is a sample of the pictures..

Mad guitarrist..

Mad singer..

Mad bassplayer..

Full contact rock!!

Here´s a little about the band, and a couple of links to their free downloadable albums..

Helltrain plays an own style of stonehard rock ´n´ roll with a glimpse in their eyes and a large sense of humour.. The members have been playing with The Duskfall , Everdawn, Gates of ishtar, Raised Fist, The 21st Impact and Scheitan among others.

Their new album “Rock n roll devil”  can be downloaded here.

Helltrain - "Rock n roll devil"

Helltrain – “Route 666″ download here

Helltrain - "Route 666"

Dark side of the Dome 2010..

I am attending this musical event, and it´s going to be great!!

Explore the dark side of the cathedral…

At the 10:th of february it´s time again, “The Dark side of the Dome 2010 – the concert you don´t want to miss out!! Last year it was sold out, so buy your ticket in time!

Where?: Uppsala Domkyrka

Who?: UPS ( Uppsala PopSolister )
Anna Dannfors, Felicia Blomquist, Carl Fagerström, Anna Lie,
Sarah Litte, Erik Osterman och Johanna Sundqvist

The band?: Anton Linsjö, Rickard Mattsson, John Berglund, Anton Dromberg m fl

Tickets: Ticnet, Domkyrkans Butik

CONTACT: niclas.andersson@svenskakyrkan.se

When?:  10 februari 2010

music by:
MADONNA
DEEP PURPLE
& PINK FLOYD

A couple of samples from 2009:

Hank von Helvete spelar Cornelis

Hans-Erik Dyvik Husby A.K.A Hank von Helvete

Hank von Helvete spelar huvudrollen i Amir Chamdins kommande film “Medborgare, god afton”. Den norske Turbonegro-sångaren ska spela Cornelis Vreeswijk i filmen om trubadurens liv.

Hank von Helvete spelar huvudrollen i Amir Chamdins kommande film “Medborgare, god afton”. Den norske Turbonegro-sångaren, som egentligen heter Hans-Erik Dyvik Husby, ska spela Cornelis Vreeswijk i filmen om trubadurens liv.

- För mig var det viktigt att hitta min personliga tolkning av Cornelis och i och med Hans-Erik föll projektet på plats. Först då kände jag mig helt säker på att göra filmen och att den även kommer att vara relevant för en publik i dag, säger Amir Chamdin i ett pressmeddelande.

Hank von Helvete har under hösten spelat titelrollen i “Jesus christ superstar” på Det Norske Teatret i Oslo. Turbonegro släppte sitt senaste album “Retox” 2007.

Inspelningen av “Medborgare, god afton” startar i februari och har beräknad premiär i november 2010.

Från TT-spectra.

God damn it!! What a tough weekend!!

Me and the joy of my life ( my lovley wife, that is.. ), took a trip on a boat this weekend. A little thing called “Rock at sea”. Now I know that this does not sound as if I should be overworked in any way, but if you add large amounts of alcohole and lots of energy-filled music and say about 2000 persons. THEN things really start to get kind of hard.. We had an A2-cabin, wich is one og the nicer ones on the boat.

A2-cabin, undestroyed by rockers..

Some info about the boat:

VIKING LINE

M/S Cinderella

Built                  1989

Length                 191 meters

With                        29 meters

Passengers     2560

Cabins              2500

M/S Cinderella

Here is the lineup on the 2 stages available:

Molly Hatchet (US)
SHAM 69 (UK)
Adagio (France)
Sator (SWE)
Stella Blackrose (DK)
The Ramonas (UK)
Sparzanza (SWE)
Witchcraft (SWE)
Blindstone (DK)
All Ends (SWE)
Cecilia & the Happy Happies ( SWE)
Abramis Brama (SWE)
Dr Harmonica (US)
Barbe-Q-Barbies (SF)
Belford (SWE)
Generation Swïne (SWE)

A very, very special thanks to Sator!!! Not many bands can “jump-start” a slightly hangovered crowd like you boys! Never stop what you´re doing!

Thank you July Morning Records AB for having us onboard..

 

 

Laibach!!

At the 13:th of february 2009, 19:30 I am going to a concert with a couple of friends at Uppsala Konsert och Kongress, to see the band Laibach!

For those of you that don´t know wich Laibach is, I´ll gladly tell you..

Laibach is a Slovenian avant-garde music group, strongly associated with industrial, martial, and neo-classical musical styles. Laibach formed June 1, 1980 in Trbovlje, Slovenia. Laibach represents the music wing of the Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) art collective, of which it was a founding member in 1984. The name “Laibach” is the German name for Slovenia’s capital city, Ljubljana.

Laibach has frequently been accused of both far left and far right political stances due to their use of uniforms and totalitarian-style aesthetics and also due to the Wagnerian influence found in some of their music, notably the thunder in “Sympathy for the Devil (Time for a Change)” and releases such as Macbeth. They were also accused of being members of the neonationalism movement which reincarnates modern ideas of nationalism. When confronted with such accusations, Laibach are quoted as responding, “We are fascists as much as Hitler was a painter” .

Laibach is notorious for rarely stepping out of character. Some releases feature artwork by the Communist and early Dada artist/satirist, John Heartfield. Laibach concerts have sometimes aesthetically appeared as political rallies. When interviewed, they answer in wry manifestos, showing a paradoxical lust and condemnation for authority.

Richard Wolfson wrote of the group:

Laibach’s method is extremely simple, effective and horribly open to misinterpretation. First of all, they absorb the mannerisms of the enemy, adopting all the seductive trappings and symbols of state power, and then they exaggerate everything to the edge of parody… Next they turn their focus to highly charged issues — the West’s fear of immigrants from Eastern Europe, the power games of the EU, the analogies between Western democracy and totalitarianism.

Laibach is also known for their cover versions, which are often used to subvert the original message or intention of the song—a notable example being their version of the song (“Live is Life”) by Opus, an Austrian arena rock band. In this example, Laibach recorded two new interpretations of the song, which they titled Leben Heißt Leben, and Opus Dei. The first of these two interpretations was the opening song on the Laibach album Opus Dei (1987), and was sung in German. The second version, Opus Dei, was promoted as a single, and its promotional video (which used the title “Life is Life”) was played extensively on American cable channel MTV. Opus Dei retained some of the original song’s English lyrics, but was delivered in a musical style that left the meaning of the lyrics open to further interpretation by the listener. Whereas the original is a feel-good reggae anthem, Laibach’s subversive interpretation twists the melody into a sinister, rolling military march. With the exception of the promotional video, the refrain is at one instance translated into German, giving an eerie example of the sensitivity of its lyrics to context.

Other notable covers include the entirety of the Beatles album Let It Be ( 1988 )—with the exclusion of the title track—and their maxi-single Sympathy for the Devil ( 1988 ) which deconstructs the Rolling Stones song of the same name with seven different interpretations of the song. Opus Dei—itself entitled in apparent reference to their cover of Opus’s reggae anthem “Live is Life”, the P2 lodge, and the eponymous Catholic organization—features a cover of Queen’s “One Vision” with lyrics translated into German under the title Geburt einer Nation, starkly revealing the ambiguity of lines like “One race one hope/One real decision”. In NATO (1994), Laibach also memorably re-work Europe’s glam metal anthem “The Final Countdown” as a Wagnerian disco epic.

In 2004, Laibach re-mixed the song “Ohne Dich” by Rammstein in a significantly altered version. Unlike the solo male vocals in the Rammstein original, this re-mix features both male and female vocals (supplied by Laibach’s Milan Fras and Mina Špiler from the band Melodrom), and the orchestral sound of the original has been supplemented—and in some sections even replaced—by a more electronic element. The lyrics of the song were also subtly altered, most noticeably in the chorus: the original version was “Ohne dich kann ich nicht sein” (roughly: “without you I cannot exist”), whereas Laibach’s re-worked the chorus declares “Ohne mich kannst du nicht sein” (roughly: “Without me you cannot exist”).

 Although primarily a musical group, Laibach has sometimes worked in other media. In their early years, especially before the founding of Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK), Laibach produced several works of visual art. A notable example was MB 84 Memorandum (1984) an image of a black cross that served as a way to advertise Laibach’s appearances during a period in the 1980s when the government of Yugoslavia banned the name “Laibach”. Cross imagery, and variations on the cross are apparent in many Laibach recordings and publications.

The visual imagery of Laibach’s art (or ‘Laibach Kunst’, as it calls itself) has been described as ‘radically ambiguous’ , An early example of this ambiguity would be the woodcut entitled ‘The Thrower,’ also known as Metalec (“The Metal Worker”). This work features a monochrome silhouette of a figure with a clenched fist holding a hammer. The work could be seen by its original Slovene viewers as a poster promoting industrial protest, but the poster could have also been interpreted as a symbol of industrial pride. Another aspect of this woodcut is the large typefaced word ‘LAIBACH’, evoking memories of the Nazi occupation of Slovenia (when the capital city was briefly known as Laibach). This piece was featured prominently during a TV interview of Laibach in 1983, during which the interviewer Jure Pengov called Laibach “enemies of the people.”

Some early Laibach albums were pure industrial, with hard industrial percussions, heavy rhythms, and roaring vocals. Later in the mid-80´s, the Laibach sound became more richly layered with samples from classical music—including from Gustav Holst’s The Planets. The band began their tradition of cover songs in 1987 with the album Opus Dei, where their sound was changed again to take on a more pop sound with classic pop structures.

Here´s a couple of videos..

 

Link to Laibach´s MySpace-page. And a link to their official site.

I´ll get back to you later to tell you about how the concert was..

/Miqe

Klub Krom in Uppsala, Sweden.

I had a great night last saturday ( 24/1 ) out with friends and my lovley wife  in Uppsala. Started at the restaurant Texas Long Horn, where we had some really nice steaks and some good beers. Later on we went to Klub Krom, to see a coverband called Crazy Crüe, they where of course playing Mötley Crüe-songs, and they did it quite good..

Here´s a link to their MySpace-page.

Crazy Crüe

 

I would like to thank ALL good, drunk, funny people that I met that evening! A very special thanks to Freddan, for picking me and my wife up at 03:10, giving us a ride back home! Also want to thank Nadja, for taking good care of  little Alice, so that this actually could happend!

//Miqe

Edit:

Found a picture of me and Thessan from the Klub Krom..

Miqe and lovley Thessan on Klub Krom.