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Landmark is a very intimate venue. There is no stage, so the band and the audience are at the same level, and they also stand very close to each other. I saw Motorpsycho play two excellent shows there in 2016. I cannot find any photos from those nights, but the link below will show you a photo from a Sugarfoot gig at Landmark in 2019 (a fine gig, attended by around 30 persons).
https://kulturguffen.blogspot.com/2019/11/sugarfoot-landmark-bergen-41119.html
I saw Kanaan/Ævestaden in late October, with Ingvald on drums. Great concert, but much shorter and far less intense than an MP show.
Glad to see that they are still cooperating with the legendary director Theo Buhara. 977 copies – that’s the same number as the initial run of orange CDs of the soundtrack they made for that other Buhara film, back in 1994.
A humble request: It would be nice if those kind souls who uploads shows to the Archives can make a note of who played at each show. Snah and BS are everpresent of course, but it would be helpful to know what other musicians were present.
And well done, Francesco! If I’m not wrong, you’ve been at the front of every show this tour, and you have posted setlists minutes after the end of each show. We met briefly before the Haugesund show; I’m glad you made it to the end.
Slightly off topic: At the annual Vossa Jazz-festival, Kjetil Møster performed new music that he was commisioned to write . He invited seven musicians to join him, including Snah. It was a marvellous show. There is a short review (in Norwegian) of the entire second day of the festival here (https://salt-peanuts.eu/consert/en-lang-og-fin-andre-dag/) – if you scroll south a bit, you’ll find some paragraphs about Møster’s show.
From the latest issue of Mojo (May 2025):
It only took 34 years. Motorpsycho have finally named an album, their 24th, after themselves, reflecting a reset for the founding core of guitarist Hans Magnus Ryan and singer-bassist Bent Sæther, now trimmed to a zealously multi-tracking duo with orbiting drummers and textural-cameo guests. The effect is a sprawling unity of hard-psych marathons with wrecking-ball swing – the motorik entrance Lucifer, Bringer of Light, the dawn-light charge of guitars and vocal chrome in Balthazaar – bridged with jangling dynamite (Core Memory Corrupt) and duelling axes power-blues with Dungen’s Reine Fiske (The Comeback). There is knife-edged solace in laird of Heimly and Bed of Roses, evoking the cello-lined tensions of Creem’s Wheels Of Fire, while at 21 minutes, Neotzar (The Second Coming) is a whipsaw momentum with all of those extremes – an extended peak in this epic, non-stop rebirth party. (4/5)
David FrickeIn case anybody is wondering who Balthazar is – look no further: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HNGciQjawI4&pp=ygUPQmFsdGhhemFyIGNoaWxk
The cartoon was shown regularitet on Norwegian children’s TV in the 1970s. Watch until the end, and you’ll recognize the three descending “Balthazar”.
@Krist: When Motorpsycho first mentioned the Comeback Tour on their Instagram page (October 10th), they @-ed onkelfuzzbass (obviously), @reinisen (semi-obviously) and @ingvaldvassboe. No mention of Olaf O. there. My guess then was that Ingvald would do the entire tour, but his tendonitis may stop him, of course.
Theo Jak seems to be Stockholm-based – he’s listed as one of the tattooers here: https://infamousstudio.com/
Did anybody attend this? Yesterday in Skien, Snah and Bent talked about music and life, and apparently brought along their accoustic guitars.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=818530490302507&set=pb.100064366916553.-2207520000&locale=nb_NO
(Adding it all up, in addition to correcting ThorEgil’s misprinted date for the Bodø festival.)
27.04.2024 AUS, Echoes of Erebos, Vienna
12.06.2024 NO, Bergenfest, Bergen
14-15.06.2024 NO, Vervenfestivalen, Horten
26.06.2024 NO, Tons of Rock, Oslo
29.06.2024 DE, “BANDHAUS ÜBER ERFURT”-Festival / Erfurt
10-13.07.2024 NO, Rootsfestivalen, Brønnøysund
16-17.07.2024 NO, Alta Live, Alta
18.07.2024 NO, Moldejazz, Molde
19-20.07.2024 NO, Buktafestivalen, Tromsø
27.07.2024 NO, Månefestivalen, Fredrikstad
16-17.08.2024 NO, Parkenfestivalen, BodøI told my friend that I had published his thoughts here, and he is now unstoppable:
He has changed his mind – he thinks the song with the jam was Whip That Ghost (which makes sense), Both Ryan and Fiske had great (and very different) solos.
His hearing isn’t too good, he’s deaf in one ear. Still, the sound seemed to loud, a view that was shared with others he talked to post-show. He couldn’t make out the lyrics at all.
A friend from the area says that it was not a full house, probably three quarters full. It was a hall with seats, so, with the exception of a woman in front of him who danced while seated in her seat
, nobody danced. He saw many strangers, and guesses that many in the audience had come from afar, including other countries. The band was in good mood, even if they only played one encore. My friend is not a diehard Psychonaut, and does not know all the song titles, but says that one of the Yay!-songs had a longish jam/improvisational part.
About Oluf, he says that he noticed his stiff upper arms. He felt that Oluf did what he should, but adds (with a smiley) that his favourite drummer is Ralph Molina.
A fine concert, with several glorious moments, but still: I’m not gonna go all “Tomas forever, Ringo never!”, but there was something missing last night. Looking at the setlist, they played nothing from the Kapstad era and only two songs from the Järmyr years. It may be a coincidence, but I felt that they picked songs that were more suited to the drummer at hand. No long songs, no long and far out jams, and hardly any song that didn’t follow a 4/4-beat.
Still, plenty of highlights. The accoustic set was very fine; I especially enjoyed “Mad Sun”. Also, before the final accoustic song, somebody shouted “She Used To Be A Twin”. Bent looked almost surprised, and answered “Good call! We’ve forgotten that one. Maybe next time”. Hopefully it will re-surface.
Also, it is always nice to hear old favourites from the 90s. The two encores from Demon Box brings back memories for an oldtimer like myself.
They opened with “Cold and Bored”. I had thin hopes that they would make this the first Motorpsycho-concert where the opening and closing songs rhymed. Unfortunately, no “Golden Gore” appeared.
More ramblings here (Norwegian only): https://kulturguffen.blogspot.com/2023/09/motorpsycho-usf-bergen-1692023.html
