Friday 31. december 2004:

How ´bout welcoming the new year (it´s too easy to write `tear´ instead of `year´!) with a dirty, rotten, live punkrock cd, eh??!
Check the review-section and see what I got the other day - the brand new live cd with The Åsmunds!
It´s so good to see that Hit Me! Records is back in the game again - the folks that brought us the I Got Erection 7" by Turboneger, Shitty City 7" by Gluecifer, Monster In My Cadillac 7" by Backstreet Girls and some fine-fine
Fuck Ups releases. Last man to the counter is a fucking sissy! Or if you don´t wanna read my review - check the guestbook!!

Cry a tear in your beer, or whatever you´re having, for those who has lost their lives in Asia. Some friends of mine were in Thailand for almost the whole of december - and their flight they´d booked back to Sweden, flew out only hours before the flood. Talk about timing!!! I´m glad you made it back safe boyz - www.denimzine.com

I wish you all a Happy New Year - and hope for all good things to happen. /xxx

Sunday 26. december 2004:

Some new shows added at the top - Twistaroos and the Oowees. And a brand new review of the Oowees brand new 7" ep is up in the reviews-section. Great ep!!

Some bands and artists are putting up Christmas presents for their fans on their web-sites, here´s some you gotta check out:
www.nikkisudden.com & www.jetsurfers.com
Nikki´s got two unreleased songs there now, including one beautiful acoustic number recorded live on radio, Nothing Left. The Jetsurfers has put up their own hillbilly version of Winter Wonderland - go get it santas!!!

See some of you in the bar during tonights show with Null$katte$nylterne, right on!!

Friday 24. december 2004:

So it´s Christmas Eve, and I´m finally ready for some time off from the world. I´m at my parents house and all is good -
I think I even saw the moon blink at me today! So here´s my X-Mas gift to all you darlings and sweethearts out there, I wish you all a very Merry Christmas - and so do The Yobs: http://www.tappedinto.no/theyobs/

Tuesday 14. december 2004:

Added some new links - to the Elm Street Rock Cafe in the scenes-section, and to the great, great Swedish Sleaze in the fanzines-section. Check that out, both are very cool sites, and it will take me some time to go through all those links that Swedish Sleaze has put up. Looking forward to it!

Also added the Null$katte$nylterne gig on the top, they´re live and sweaty here in Trondheim on the 26.!

To satisfy the needs of a glam-rocker, the always adoring Scarecrows have put up three brand new songs on their temporary web-site, for all you to download. A little change in style but the same cool attitude, don´t miss out on them!

C U all on thursday at the Valentourettes gig!
*Never trust a blonde*

Wednesday 1. december 2004:

Two new reviews are up - UK´s The Divine Brown and american/australian Johnny Casino´s Easy Action.

Nikki´s on tour in Italy with his Last Bandits, the Dogs D´Amour are set for a december tour of England - sometimes it would be just wonderful to sell a lot of the crap one got and sail away! Maybe try and save a little of my income... But a ragged soul has got to live too, I´m a bit tired of staying in most of the time now, ´cause my money is gone and I don´t know where it is! But ain´t that the case all year round??
Well well... I can count the days on my toes and fingers before I´m off to, hopefully, a good, good weekend in the norwegian capaital. Anyone coming to join me in the bar for the Tenderhooks show? Let me know...

Friday 19. november 2004:

Finally some progression here on this site! The review-section is updated with three new ones, and the brilliant
Scandinavian Wanker cdep by Bithammer! is up for sale in the shop. That one you ought to have a listen at!

The Boys Are Back!!! Yeah, that´s right - The Boys are doing a gig again, the last one being in december 2001. This time
it´s a festival in Berlin, 23. january. Find out more: www.theboys.co.uk (it will be updated this weekend I think)
Need some hard-to-find rock´n roll? And if it´s good, check out this one: www.musicblink.com
It´s Cas´s own site to give to you the finest in norwegian rock´n roll ever, and some of his friends from abroad.

Now I´ve got my plane-tickets and concert-tickets for the 17. december, then I´m off to Oslo again! I had such a great time last weekend, some up´s and down´s, but without them it would´ve been boring! Dave Kusworth is flying in on thursday 16. - this is gonna be a weekend of partying I´ll never forget! So come on - join the fun and get your tickets now! There´s some very special guests for the Valentourettes show, it´s in the papers, so find it out there. Ta-ta!

Monday 15. november 2004:

Ooh-la-la! What a show Backstreet Girls put on on saturday - with great help of lots of friends from Silver, Trashcan Darlings, Cockroach Clan and Carburetors (don´t really remember who all on stage were) as well as legendary Pål "Krisa" Kristensen and Steinar Ramberg. Bless ´em all! On friday we managed to put on our own show, I think, at the Elm Street Club. Me and r´n´r drive-along buddy for the ride, Sondre, arriving there around  9.30 pm started right away on the beers and those wonderful screwdrivers. Since my day started at 5.50 am, went to work for six hours, then a seven hour drive - I got very drunk pretty fast! But it was fun, very fun in fact! One of the first we met was Trashcan Darlings´ Chris Doll, so we sat down with him and Jay, bassplayer from finnish rockers Shotdowns, and his girlfirend Aija. Then Strange? Gentle and Mute Magazine´s Marianne Jemtegård joined in. They were going to see The Nomads at the Mono club, and we thought about it too. But it was all sold out, so we stayed at Elm Street which was fine with me anyway. Lots of nice people had a few drinks with us including Patrick from Paris who had come all the way to see the Backstreet Girls! Hope you enjoyed the gig and that it was worth your trip. The 20 year anniversary is one night for the books - everyone there must have had one hell of a good time! Maybe except for one or two who didn´t get in and had to spend the night in the drunktank. But it was nice meeting you at the party before. Hard Rock Cafe has this slogan: Love all - serve all. And I gotta tell ya - almost the same thing has to be said about Rockefeller. One of their security-guards, a very nice lady, told me to get some air sometime during the show, something which I got really upset about. I didn´t wanna be thrown out before the show was over, and especially not before they´d played Sweet Little Rock´n Roller with Casino Steel! So I went outside and then she let me in again if I didn´t drink anymore. You know what, I didn´t have another drink either - this would not have happened here in Trondheim at all! So love all, but not serve all. It´s allright. The show was filmed so hopefully a dvd release will see the light of day soon. Thanxx to all of you we met and got drunk with, I love you! And a big thank you to Angel-Marte for letting us spend the night there, and a no thank you for letting me sleep in the park the first night! Read car, but it was almost just as fucking cold! Now it´s time to book a flight for the Trashcan Darlings X-Mass bash in a month.

No real news at present... just be sure to find your copy of the terrific Rolling Stones Some Girls sessions bootleg! It includes an awesome take on Hang Fire, and lots of cool unreleased tracks such as Never Make Me Cry, No Spare Parts, Everlasting Is My Love and Do You Get Enough.

Monday 8. november 2004:

Hello there!...Malcolm....
As most of you, hopefully, has noticed - this site has now officially moved. I´m now paying for this shit!
In time it will be relaunched with a much better layout. I´m working on it right now together with my brother, the computer whizz, but I can tell you now - it´ll take some time! As long as I still can´t figure out upside down on a computer, very much lies in the hand of him. But already we´ve done some major improvements that´ll look fantastic when it´s finished.
In the meantime, a man can´t just sit around, lots of upcoming shows as you can see on the top, and I´ve got more than a couple of books to read - at once!
I have booked my tickets for this saturdays Backstreet Girls anniversary, and the Hanoi Roxx show in Oslo early next year. Hopefully the fins will turn up this time....

I know I´ll see a lot of you on saturday, last man to the bar is a cissy!
And bring cash - the first four Backstreet Girls albums is sold at the venue, remastered with bonustracks!
And maybe get there early - support acts are oi!oi!oi! punks Cockroach Clan and rollers The Åsmunds.
Oh, and if I got the cash and get down to Oslo in right time, The Nomads are playing at Mono on friday night.

xxx

Thursday 28. october 2004:

Hi everyone!
I´m sort of back on track here, I´m very sorry to all of you who´ve sent your records and not getting a review earlier. But some of them are up now, so go and check out the reviews-section - there´s some bands there waiting for you people to check them out!
Las Vegas was a perfect high in the last days of september, more on that when the new site is on-line. There´s no more space to use right here right now, so the new adress will be: www.rraf.net Nothing there yet though, but you´ll get there the next time you´re visiting here.

Don´t forget The Carburetors and Grand Cafe at Sake in Trondheim on saturday!!
C U there!