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Hell yeah! At the very least I can make two Friday and two Saturday shows in the usual haunts right on my doorstep (kinda). What a gift! And then some as cherry on top, let’s see. DK/SE likely at the start of the tour which would make Bremen the tour finale. Epic. Not sure everyone will get the toungue-in-cheek tour title but who cares ;-)
What a summer night! Nice event, spectacularly located in a fortress above Erfurt. Decent crowd but venue could have held twice the amount of people. You could walk right up to the rail during the set or lie in the grass on the hillside with perfect sound and get high. What a setting, really! Bent, Snah and Ingvald delivered right from the start and the A-sides concept worked very well for me. So good to hear those songs and with the jamming later in the set they turned this into a proper MP show. Great version of “Go to California”, beautiful “Patterns” and the new song is really cool. I devoured a creamy soft ice while MP jammed out “Rock Bottom” in a cool way and the setting sun was blinding my eyes while I gazed out far into the distance overlooking Erfurt from our location atop a mountain. JUST EPIC. As good a summer ’24 moment as it will get. Later we got 14 fantastic minutes of “Mountain” and a super raw and dirty “Into The Sun” that totally brought the house down. Perfection! Afterwards Kadavar took the stage with authority and simply slayed, a band who has not reached their pinaccle yet, something that maybe cannot be said for our heroes from Trondheim……..
Erfurt 29.06. e-Ticket for sale, 30€. The girl-friend can’t attend after all. Anyone? => schulze.alexander@gmail.com
Appropriate festival set. Please help me out here: “Quick Fix”, what’s that? Also when and how was “Psychonaut” a single…?
From the socials:
Hey! This summer we’ll be presenting our ”dryhumpin’ for dollars” shows all over the place! We’ll strictly be playing a selection of our single a-sides this whole tour, and since there are more than 30 of the rascals to choose from, every single show will be different. We have never really focused on this side of our ouvre, so this is a new and interesting challenge for us: Why all the choruses? Why all the tricky vocal harmonies?? Why wasn’t that song a single??? Why weren’t all these stonkers bigger hits?!? So many questions, so many commercial failures … but so much fun! Come help us sing these tunes!
The Gothenburg date is a festival appearance: Viva Sounds. So who knows about the fall tour…Would not put my money on it, I think a spring ’25 tour is more likely…
Hometown headlining show announced (I think) for June 9th @ Verkstedhallen.
Alright, I get it. Wasn’t so sure about that because “acoustic air pollution” rather sounded like a compliment — or a cool new genre ;-) Dyse are a fun band for sure and this billing is quite brilliant for this festival.
I take your comment on the Erfurt festival appearance as concern about the set-lenght, but it has to be said that this is an excellent line up. MP and Kadavar have a friendly relationship. I do believe that what we’ll lose in set-lenght we will gain in high spirits. Really looking forward to this regardless of set-length…
That is already quite a festival season! Quite a concerted effort in the domestic market. I wonder if additional international festival appearances will be announced…
Bent on maracas!? Thanks for the review. Really curious how you will like the magnificent Zwolle gig…
Anders, many thanks for the review! Fantastic read and very valuable to seek out highlights in these recordings. The good documentation allows for a a very balanced assessment of the various shows, without the attendance bias that always happens when we review shows the day after the gig. Please keep them coming, I would love to reexpereince this tour that way. Happy couch-touring
MOTORPSYCHO’S TRONDHEIM (September 2023)
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In September 2023 I traveled from Berlin to Trondheim to meet an old friend and see Motorpsycho in concert, in the band’s hometown. While MP would also play in Berlin on this tour they had a different drummer and different repertoire for the Norwegian leg of the tour.
I had dreamt of going to Trondheim for over 25 years, ever since becoming a MP-fan in the Nineties. This pilgrimage to the origins of the band led us to sites where the band has worked and lived, rehearsed and performed during their early years.
And it all began with Svartlamon, a little anarchist enclave, like a smaller version of Copenhagen’s Christiana. It’s a a little unkempt area of the larger Lademoen neighbourhood in the East of the city center, basically just a triangle of three streets tucked away between the old harbour and the train tracks, where you can find wooden residential houses, two alternative pubs, the concert venue Verkstedhallen (where they played on this tour), some self-built huts, shacks and eco-houses, community gardens, a kindergarden, chickens, dogs, bicycles, murals, street art and graffitis. It was here in Svartlamon, that the band and their companions lived, worked and ran their business (their office supposedly still operates from here), embedded in this special enviroment, a product of this special milieu.
MP fans will of course know that Svartlamon was immortalized by the famous bike-ride in the music video “Wearing Yr Smell” (a song off of 1994’s masterpiece “Timothy Monster”), in which the band rode bicycles through their hood. Motorpsycho have also performed in Svartlamon through the years, the most notorious clip on YouTube being a 1995 version of “The One Who Went AWay”. The band has last performed the very same space in September 2023 during the annual Eat The Rich Festival and the stage schedule announcing their set for Saturday at 6 pm was still hanging in Gregus’ backyard when we visited.
What you can see in the videos, especially the iconic backyard of the red house, which they call “Gregus’ backyard, is still there, only the trees have grown and the trains run behind a wall now.
Just a stone’s throw from Svartlamon, across some defunct cargo train tracks, is Dora, a giant former Nazi submarine bunker where the band has rehearsed for the better part of the 1990s, taking advantage of three meter thick concrete bunker walls.
Also in the old harbour area, a short walk away, Rockheim can be found, the national museum of Rock music. Motorpsycho have a worthy display there, all virtual and digital, but though at first skeptical we indulged in music videos, immersive displays and pictures of various memorabilia and ultimately we could have spent much more time on checking out all sideprojects, related and local bands.
Scattered across the town we also looked for or came across many venues Motorpsycho have performed or recorded at through the decades, which we knew by heart from concert histories or bootleg lists. For the early days of the band UFFA was the most notorious one (the first EP was recorded here in 1990), Studenter Samfundet another one (they performed here from the mid 90s to the mid 00s) and Byscenen is the venue where the annual Christmas gig takes place, and there were also Café 3B, Ramp and Rosendal Teater.
This was a fantastic walking tour of Motorpsycho’s Trondheim and we washed down the impressions with a cold S.T.G. beer — whose name references one of the most performed Motorpsycho songs — at the cosy Antikvariatet Bar before heading to the sold out hometown show at Svartlamon’s Verkstadhallen by our heros — the one and only Motorpsycho from Trondheim.
