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It seems as if the Bergen show sold out fast – tickets went on sale five hours ago. Luckily I got out of bed early enough. Maybe we can hope for another double-header in Bergen?
Aftenposten review:
Motorpsycho med større riff enn på lenge
Det koker fortsatt godt på laben hos Motorpsycho
Robert Hoftun Gjerstad
4/6
Med stadig skiftende trommeslagere bak dem, er Hans Magnus «Snah» Ryan og Bent Sæthers Motorpsycho en maskin som bare går og går. Du skal være nerdete anlagt for å vite akkurat hvor mange album bandet har gitt ut siden starten i 1989, men det er ikke få. Her er et nytt.
På sitt hvasseste, byr Kingdom of Oblivion på den røffeste, riffbaserte rocken Motorpsycho har gitt ut på lenge. Kutt som fortsetter i takten etter majestetiske «Dreams of Fancy» fra forgjengeralbumet The All is One. Noen av oss slutter aldri å elske slike låter.
Mer streit hardrock
Fremst i rekken her står ni minutter lange «The United Debased». Et ypperlig, gitardrevet eksempel på det som var utgangspunktet her: Ideen om å samle alle store riff til ett rettfrem hardrockalbum. Det hadde vært snasent, som et nikk tilbake til bandets opprinnelse.
De tunge rifflåtene er også flere. Både åpningen «The Waning» og det påfølgende tittelkuttet følger formelen med gitardrivet i sentrum. Det samme gjør bunnsolide «The Transmutation of Cosmoctopus Lurker» gjennom sine elleve kreative minutter.
Men i kjent Motorpsycho-stil ble hverken innspillingsprosessen eller sluttresultatet helt slik bandet først tenkte. Det kommer alltid noen ideer ramlende inn underveis, og hvem er Snah og Bent til å si nei?
Burde vært hedret
Milde mellomspill som «The Watcher» fungerer ypperlig som kontrast. Samtidig blir det litt mye av de motorpsykedelisk utflytende, men ikke alltid like spennende arrangementene.
Dette er selvfølgelig avhengig av smak, men en låtrekke som «Atet», «At Empire’s End» og «The Hunt» oppleves som nokså blodfattige progrock-skisser som ikke har fått innpass tidligere. Akkurat denne delen, det mildt progressive, har bandet levert mer følsomt og bedre før.
Med tre album i den såkalte «Gullvåg-trilogien», fjorårets knallplate med Ole Paus og denne utgivelsen, er det opplagt at det koker godt på laben hos Motorpsycho. Men det er kanskje derfor ikke alle kutt griper like sterkt, også?
Uansett, og siden det nå er 30 år siden debutalbumet Lobotomizer, burde tiden vært inne for en hederspris for både innsats og kvalitet fra Spellemannprisen, som ble delt ut fredag.
Det var en tabbe ikke å gi den til Motorpsycho nå.
@bartok: The entire programme is not available online, but you will find the Motorpsycho interview here (9 minutes). https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p05pp9nb
"You've not gone totally Eagles on me on this record, have you?"
Lacktr is the author Johan Harstad. As you may know, he published a book about Blissard in 2012. He also wrote "Manifest for folk flest" in 2013, a short book that MP quoted as an inspiration for their "En konsert for folk flest". In 2015 he published the absolutely excellent novel Max, Mischa and the Tet offensive.
@Juergen: It says that due to new and stricter corona regulations, they have sold too many tickets for the Motorpsycho shows. That's the bad news – the good news is that there will be an extra show in Porsgrunn on the 19th (a day when they were supposed to play at Blitz, Oslo). And the even better news is that there are tickets available for this extra concert.
Nice list, with lots of favourites, but also plenty of unknown names.
Does anybody know if Bent dislikes Bergen? I cannot find any bands from that city on his list. I would definitely add The Aller Værste! to the list, probably also Barbie Bones.
I absolutely agree – what a man. I don't listen much to the radio these days, but in the 1990s I spent a lot of time listening to Harald Are Lund's programmes. Whenever a new Motorpsycho album was released, he would devote a large section of the programme to them. He played all kinds of music, and introduced me and others to a lot of bands. A Norwegian John Peel, I guess.
Or, if you want to take a break from looking at digital screens: Read Johan Harstad's novel "Max, Mischa and the Tet Offensive". Harstad has, as you know, written a book about Blissard.
This novel is stunning – it's the only time I've finished an 1100-page novel and wished for 1100 more pages. Look it up, it's available in English, German, and probably numerous other Languages as well.
Not to my knowledge. But after Geb left, Bent did drum on Black Hole/Blank Canvas (except for one song).
After the opening number Øyvind Holm said something like "it's good to be back in Bergen. The last time we were here, three years ago, 30 tickets were sold in advance, but only 18 people turned up". Last night I counted around 30 persons in the audience, so there is some progress there.
The show was very enjoyable, and the band certainly enjoyed themselves. I had to leave at the end of the main set, as I had to catch the last train to Voss, but as the main set lasted (at least) 1h45m, I have nothing to complain about.
Seeing that Johan Harstad is mentioned above: There are references to Motorpyscho in two of his novels.
His 2006 novel "Buzz Aldrin, hvor ble det av deg i alt mylderet" opens with a quote from Vortex Surfer (And never stop, etc.). It covers 640 pages, but is dwarfed by his 2015 novel "Max, Mischa og Tet-offensiven", which reaches 1080 pages. The Mischa in the title is the artist Mischa Gray. Printed on the cover is a list of her exhibitions, and in 2011 she took part in an exhibition called "Year Zero, Again".
Both books are excellent, by the way.
Might as well include the rescheduled Tromsø gig as well.
04.04.2019 – NO Bodø, Sinus
10.04.2019 – NO Haugesund, Høvleriet
11.04.2019 – NO Bergen, Hulen
12.04.2019 – NO Bergen, Hulen
13.04.2019 – NO Stavanger, Folken
03.05.2019 – NO Trondheim, Verkstedhallen
04.05.2019 – NO Ã…lesund, Terminalen
10.05.2019 – NO Hamar, Gregers
11.05.2019 – NO Oslo, Sentrum Scene
14.05.2019 – DK Aarhus, Train
15.05.2019 – DK Copenhagen, Hotel Cecil
16.05.2019 – DE Hamburg, Markthalle (w. Elder – 25 Years Stickman anniversary)
17.05.2019 – UK London, 229 The Venue 2
19.05.2019 – NL Utrecht, Tivoli Vredenburg
21.05.2019 – NL Groningen, Vera
22.05.2019 – BE Leuven, Het Depot
23.05.2019 – DE Hannover, Faust
24.05.2019 – DE Wiesbaden, Schlachthof
25.05.2019 – CH Lausanne, Les Docks
27.05.2019 – AT Wien, Arena
28.05.2019 – IT Trezzo Sull'adda (MI), Live Music Club
29.05.2019 – IT Bologna, Locomotiv Club
30.05.2019 – IT Avellino, Teatro Partenio
31.05.2019 – IT Roma, Orion
01.06.2019 – IT Genova, Goa Boa Preview
02.06.2019 – DE Reutlingen, Kulturzentrum franz.K
28.06.2019 – NO Trondheim, Trondheim Rocks
31.07.2019 – NO Trondheim, Byscenen / Olavsfestdagene – Motorpsycho with friends
10.08.2019 – NO Oslo, Øyafestivalen – Motorpsycho with friends
13/14.09.2019 – ES Madrid, Ochoymedio (Get Mad Festival)
20.09.2019 – GR Athens, Fuzz Club
28.09.2019 – DK Odense, Posten
29.09.2019 – DE Bremen, Schlachthof
30.09.2019 – NL Amsterdam, Paradiso Noord
01.10.2019 РDE K̦ln, Gloria
03.10.2019 – LU Luxembourg, den Atelier
08.10.2019 – CH Zürich, Rote Fabrik
15.10.2019 – DE Frankfurt am Main, Mousonturm
16.10.2019 – DE Leipzig, Conne Island
17.10.2019 – DE Berlin, Festsaal Kreuzberg
18.10.2019 – NL Hengelo, Metropool
19.10.2019 – NL The Hague, Paard
05.12.2019 – NO Tromsø, Driv
@punj: Tomas played in a Joy Division tribute band earlier this week (http://byscenen.no/event/joy-division-a-tribute/); maybe that's his reason for wearing the shirt.
I woke up early in my hotel room, and decided to write some impressions from the Bergen shows on my blog (Norwegian only).
https://kulturguffen.blogspot.com/2019/04/motorpsycho-hulen-bergen-11-og-12-april.html
