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This is ancient history, so I may be wrong, but didn’t Bent say that he felt that Killer wasn’t a good enough drummer? Didn’t he say something along the lines of Killer not being able to drum on some of Bent’s newer songs, and that he waited for a new drummer before he shared those songs with the band?
But I do believe that he also said that Killer had excellent taste in music, and that he kept introducing Bent to music that expanded his taste and knowledge of music.
A review from the most recent issue of Mojo:
Norwegian psych veterans set the controls for the heart of the rock.
Part of the artwork accompanying this Motorpsycho album – approximately their 25th, depending on how you count – shows one space-soldier carrying his fallen comrade across an intergalactic battlefield. Whether or not that’s supposed to be Bent Sæther and Hans Magnus ‘Snah’ Ryan – the surviving founders of the 1989 incarnation – is unclear, but it’s an image that matches Motorpsycho’s fierce last-band-standing commitment to rock’s outer limits. A cover of Black As Night by Dick Wagner’s group The Frost sets the hands on the clock spinning in reverse, while TSMcR makes it feel as if reality itself is being back-masked all around you. The Oracle, a dreamcatcher woven from Robert Plant’s hair, or the patchouli NWBOHM head-rush of Fanny Again, Or, add to the retro patchwork. Motorpsycho’s commitment to their heavy cause is admirable, but even part-timers will benefit from a day trip through their universe. (3/5)
Victoria SegalI bought tickets to both Landmark shows, but something else have come up which makes me unable to attend them.
Does anybody need tickets? I paid NOK 666 for each of them; they’re yours for the same price.
E-mail me at jymbre¤gmail.com.
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/
