Ge fan i mej - Attentat

Attentat - Ge Fan I mig (Swe)

From the Single (1979)

Attentat at Debaser Slussen - I click on the "Like" button (live review)

Ther will be pictures later, please stay tuned.

The Crowd

Some smart ass booked Attentat the same night as Sweden played an important qualifying match for the next Football (Soccer) World Championship. Or maybe did they know what they were doing. The Club Debaser Slussen had to have open anyway and I can´t think of many bands that could attract such crowd under the same circumstances, than Attentat. Let´s say it was almost half full and it was decent from a Gothenburg band that tries to convince Stockholm about their greatness. On the good side, there wasn´t any trendies or hipsters around because of the hype, this was real to the bone punk fans, and even to the core Attentat fans. The young with studded jackets, skins and mohawks, in front jumping around, in the back the beer bellies chanting in every chorus of the old songs like they hasn´t done anything else the last decades than practice on chanting that they don´t want a new Opera house, that “you” should leave them fucking alone and they are birds without legs. Surprising to see so many young and old skinheads find their way to Attentat, I click on the “Like” button.

The Place

Debaser Slussen´s days seem numbered because of the rebuilding of the whole area, and I won´t feel sorry about it. I don´t like the way they have lit up the stage or the club in general. Tonight the bar service is great and that makes it OK.

The Bands

The Nature

It is a horrible booking to let The Nature up on stage as a support act to Attentat. It doesn´t give the band The Nature the chance they deserve and the crowd (me) the right mood. The Natures trashy indie pop should be fine any other night, but now I can´t relate to them as anything else that something that should end as fast as it is possible. Too bad, another night I might liked them, but not last night.

Attentat

Attentat was a most important *band in the Swedish punk flora, starting out as a hard 77 type of band in 1978, they transformed to a mainstream rock punk band that attracted attention from national broadcasted media in the early 1980ies, to be back at small pub gigs at Tre Backar in the end of the decade. The ever young teenager (at least in his lyrics) singer Mats Jönsson seems to know how to speak to young and frustrated generations in his lyrics.

I can´t think of any other punk band that can play a ballad of fear and shortcomings and get some stone faced skinheads, mohawk punks and beer bellied drunks to sing along in it, all together. Attentat get such a thing going, very natural. Maybe because they are very honest about NOT having any Macho issues shown in songs like “Manskomplex”, a song from a never released demo* in 1981 but still a big crowd pleaser. It is a lot of Woahhh waouhh aeaeaeahh in their chorus that makes it easy to sing along with. But it doesn´t come for free to the band. As I pointed out many times, the Stockholm crowd is a rather stiff crowd, Attentat seems to take that as a challenge, and with their bond to the crowd and routine they manage to get the crowd going and it looks like that most people have a jolly good time. I know I got it.
But it isn´t all trouble free, there is one annoying thing with the band onstage, too many new songs. The new songs isn´t played with the same obvious Attentatness as the old tunes.  The new album “Fy fan” is a complex album and all of the songs doesn´t manage to compete with their old classics at such a night as this. Not that they are bad songs but there is better song from their old days that are better. On the other hand, I fully understand them, they are here to convince us that they have a future as a vital band full of new ideas and strength more than a punk revival act to cash in on old glory.  “Fattiga och rika” and “Dö som en hund” make their way to my heart. “Gilla mig” doesn´t have the same strength, but seems like it is very much an open gateway to Mats Jönssons frustrated heart. He introduce it as song about a pathetic phenomena, to spend our days going for the most “Like” clicks on Facebook. Mocking himself, the bass player Crippa (I often “Like” click his posts, haha) and us in the audience. It is funny and thoughtful but I rather seen them played some of their old classics like “Hej Gamle man”, “Hårding” or else of their song treasures.


And so...

Worth the money? 100SKr Yes! Just to see the Bass player “Crippa” do the 1,2,3,4 count, in Stockholm dialect (this time only, he claimed) was worth the price of a beer.

* I travelled miles to see Attentat as one of my first live punk shows in the early 80ies, collected their early singles with a certain eager as many others did.

**  Now you can find it on compilation albums.

Fy Fan, Attentat!

Attentat releases a new album today, Fy Fan (transl. Damn It)

Lyrics in Swedish and in the tradition of their previous records.

A handfull singles been released during 2012.

Possible will I review it in a couple of days, will listen to it first.

Attentat- Manskomplex Stockholm 1.12 2012

Attentat - Manskoplex (Demo early 80ies.)

Live at Gatan Musik, Fryshuset, Stockholm dec 2012

Record Releases Winter Spring 2013

After a tremendous punk live concert year (At least from my Swedish Stockholm point ot view) we can now look forward to a great? year of record releases?
I will keep on updating the way I have the time to do it.

Recordreleases 2013, stay tuned for updates.

8th (Irl/UK) 9 (US/Can) 11(Global) of Januari  Dropkick Murphys (US) - Signed and sealed in Blood (Listen to it here)

22th of Januari Crash Diet (Swe) release party at Jan 30

6th  of februari   Attentat (Swe) - Fy Fan  (CD/LP) (Attentat was founded in 1978)


6th of March  Köttgrottorna (Swe) - (More info will follow)  (30 celebrate 30 years as a band)
Releaseparty at Debaser.


From what I heard we can look forward to releases from Vänsternäven, Rancid, Nej, (Possibly Ligisterna?), Nicola Sarcevic of Millencollin and more...

Troublemakers etc at Fryshuset dec 1st

Attentat, Troublemakers, Alonzo & fas 3, Bitch Boys and The Bristles

Will play a benefit concert for the homeless in Stockholm at Fryshyset, Stockholm.  Saturday Dec 1st

Door opens at 5pm (17:00) First band at 7 pm (19:00)

New Single, Attentat - Occupy Wall Street

Attentat release their 3rd single this summer, Occupy Wall Street.

http://new.thelounge.com/de/flow/store/release/1792236-Occupy-Wall-Street

Attentat - Fy fan Svenska man

Attentat New Single

Attentat - Fy Fan Svenska Man

Attentat was one of Swedens first and longest lasting punkbands.

Founded in 1978 in Gothenburg where they fast became one of the main acts engaged in the GBG punk scene. With the years the added more and more pop punk to their sound which made them known

even outside outside the punk scene all over the country.

Most notably is their Woaoaohw Chorus chants, their main trademark.

According to Attentat on Facebook they climbing on I tunes toplist with

the new single "Fy fan Svenska man", passing many established mainstream acts.

Possible is that a sign on how missed by people they been after a few years of silence.

The record, is it any good? Well, it´s catchy as a poprock tune, they got a certain heavyness

in their sound, the lyrics are sharp and a bit naive as allways, but not as catchy as they use to be.

There is something missing, I dont know what, my youth maybe?

Anyway, Welcome back!

Listen to the single on ITunes

Attentat movie.

A concert clip from todays Attentat.

A few days ago the London band Cockney Rejects was the subject on a new Doku. Now the Swedish veteran punk band Attentat is next. With the working title "Glöden som aldrig slocknade" (The fire that never went out).
Both new and old material will be in the film. Attentat was on of the first band in Sweden and one of the biggest back then. They were very active in the Gothenburg scene that gave birth to a lot of bands. Some of both Attentat and the Gothenburg scen is found it the band Troblemakers today with it´s members in different bands back then.

Attentat homepage

Attentat was saved by cloning!

Source http://www.attentat.nu/asp/news.asp#154

Legendary Swedish original punk band Attentat from Gothenburg got their new record fucked up, or more precise the studio hard drive crashed with all the material from their next album on it. Resque-it.se saved the day or at least the songs by cloning the hard disk and restore the information.
Im looking forward to my teen favorites next album. Until that you can listen to old stuff from the middle ages.

and a Live clip when Jönson sings Ge fan i mig (Leave me fucking alone) with his teenage son in 2010.