Protestera mot att Debaser Slussen blivit uppsagt i förtid.

1,2, FYPR give (cyber)space to rock club Debaser to protest against town hall in Stockholm. The words are Debasers and in Swedish only (sorry)

http://www.debaser.se/nyheter/1514/

DEBASER SLUSSEN UPPSAGD I FÖRTID

Publicerat: Ons 5 Jun

Debaser Slussen är uppsagd till sista september i år. Av stadens tjänstemän får vi veta att det är på grund av att förberedelser för "Nya Slussen" ska börja.

Stadens förslag "Nya Slussen" har inte klarat sig igenom de juridiska processerna ännu och kommer inte att kunna göra det på väldigt lång tid. Vi anser alltså att vårt uppsägningsdatum är satt långt innan arbetet med "Nya Slussen" lagligen får påbörjas.

Om "Nya Slussen" eventuellt blir godkänt i Mark och Miljödomstolen återstår fortfarande tre processer:

"Nya Slussen" förutsätter en bussterminal i Katarinaberget. Den har överklagats till Mark och Miljödomstolen. Sen krävs också ny tredimensionell fastighetsbildning och expropriation för nya bergrum i Katarinaberget. Det kan ta lång tid eftersom flera berörda fastighetsägare sagt att de inte kommer att vara "samarbetsvilliga".

Mark- och miljödomstolen kan inte besluta om dom i miljö- och vattenfrågan förrän alla planer för Slussen trätt i laga kraft. De har tidigare planerat huvudförhandling till i höst men den blir med all säkerhet senarelagd.


SPEL FÖR GALLERIET
När vi ifrågasatt hur staden kan påbörja arbetet med "Nya Slussen" innan de juridiska processerna är klara, har stadens tjänstemän svarat att denna process är för omfattande för att stoppas nu. "Förslaget kommer att gå igenom" är svaret vi har fått från vad som snarast känns som hjärntvättade tjänstemän, som tar sina order från våra högsta politiker i Stockholms Stad med Sten Nordin i spetsen. Det låter på både politiker och tjänstemän som att den mångmiljonsrättsprocess staden är mitt i, bara är ett spel för galleriet?!

TILL VILKET PRIS SOM HELST
Allt tyder på att Sten Nordin och kompani ska genomföra detta förslag till vilket pris som helst. De har mutat sig fria från Glashusets protester genom att kompensera Glashusets ägare med markhyra och byggrätter, betalade av skattebetalarna i Stockholm. Det kan väl ändå inte vara lagligt? De har tagit in experter från olika områden, men då experterna yttrat sig negativt om förslaget, så har de helt sonika plockats bort och ersatts med någon som kunnat presentera den bild ”Nya-Slussen-projektet” velat ha. Se SvDs artikel-serie.

STOCKHOLMS SKATTEBETALARE TAR SMÄLLEN
Hela "Nya Slussen"-förslaget har redan kostat en stor summapengar, bland annat pga opinionsarbete, innan det ens har satt igång, och de som ska betala är Stockholms invånare. Kranskommunerna och staten har sagt nej till att dela på notan.

Innan Glashuset fick sin del av kakan, och innan bussgaraget i Katarinaberget planerats in, räknade man med att "Nya Slussen" skulle kosta 8 miljarder kronor. Samtidigt ska stockholmarna med trängselskatterna, som skulle gå till utökad kollektivtrafik, dessutombetala för Förbifart Stockholm i c:a 30 år framöver. Det hade inte Stockholms invånare informerats om, och inte heller finansieringen av Slussen knystas det om från politikerhåll.

PLAN B
Varför inte titta på Plan B istället? "Slussen Plan B" är framtaget av oberoende arkitekter. Det förslaget kräver ingen detaljplaneändring. Det förslaget kostar ungefär hälften och skulle ta hälften så lång tid att bygga. Dessutom skulle "Slussen Plan B" göras etappvis till skillnad från "Nya Slussen" där Slussen med omnejd skulle vara avstängd i 8 år med omdirigerad kollektiv och biltrafik.

Jämförelser mellan förslagen:

”NYA SLUSSEN”
Ombyggnationskostnad: 8 miljarder + bussterm
Byggtid: 8 år
Schaktmassor: 400 000kbm
Sprängmassor berg: 400 000kbm
Nya kontorshus Stadsgårn: 6
Nya hus Södermalmstorg: 3
Tid för byte Nackabuss – Tbana: 8,3 min

PLAN B
Ombyggnationskostnad: 4,5-5 miljarder
Byggtid: 4-4,5 år
Schaktmassor: 200 000kbm
Sprängmassor berg: 0
Nya kontorshus Stadsgårn: 0
Nya hus Södermalmstorg: 0
Tid för byte Nackabuss – Tbana: 2,8 min

AGERA NU
Tiden är knapp, och vi måste börja avveckla vår verksamhet vid Slussen nu om vi inte får vara kvar längre än till sista september. Det verkar så fruktansvärt dumt och onödigt, att vi och andra hyresgäster åker ut innan staden ens vet vad de kan bygga!


Hjälp oss gärna att meddela Sten Nordin vad DU tycker om detta och skicka honom ett mail på: sten.nordin@stockholm.se

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.

Review - Street Dogs, Greta Kassler, Spotlicks and Twopointeight

Saturday July 7, two concerts roughly at the same time.
At Broder Tuck was the line up Spotlicks, Greta Kassler and STYGG
At Debaser Medis was the line up Two point eight and Street Dogs (US)

STYGG didn´t get any review because I missed them because of Street Dogs.

The Places

Broder Tuck

The Broder Tuck Restaurant is rather big, the concert room in the basement are small, very small.
The contrast between the gangster look´a´like door men, their general clientel on the ground level and the Anarchists, Metal Heads and Punks in the basement are striking. The sound is mostly terrible, and loud. Very loud.

Debaser Slussen
Debaser Slussen togheter with Debaser Medis, Strand and Rocks the only decent rock clubs in Stockholm City. Debaser Slussen and Medis are mainly built up around concerts. The Stage a Debaser Slussen are however a photographers nightmare because most of the light are pointed towards you, not at the band. But the sound are generally much better than most of the clubs and stages in the City. Debaser in general attracts mostly a rock audience, not necessary a punk crowd. Tonight there are a lot of punk fans in the bulding, along with rock n rollers.


The Crowds

Broder Tuck

If you consider that Street Dogs are giving a free concert two subway stops away and most people are away on vacation it´s amazingly much people at Broder Tuck this particular night. As I written before, Broder Tuck got a horrible little basement as their concert room. And the bands seem pleased that so many showed up.

Debaser

Not only were we blessed this last days with high air humidity, which isn´t too common in Stockholm, the Debaser Slussen club was packed and hot as well. When I arrived more than halfway through Twopointeight´s gig there were like an wall of warm sweaty air to team up with me when I enter. It was packed so I can´t say I have a very good place to see the end of their gig from.

When it comes to the Street Dogs I got a perfect spot just outside the moshpit, and If I been in better shape I would most certainly been in the middle of it. Even the Boston lads in Street Dogs complain about the heat. Where I stood there were a fan blowing so it was OK, but still I got a sweat soaked T-shirt after the gig.


The Gigs

Broder Tuck


Spotlicks

First out this lovely, warm summer night was Spotlicks. A three man band, or should I write two men and one woman band, a woman that  was the main singer even if all of them were on vocals. The style of their punk is mostly based in early Swedish 78 punk. The songs are built up around power chord riffing and Swedish lyrics. The sound was really bad and didn’t gave the band the chance they deserved, but got a bit better toward the end, it is a bit pity that the sound was bad in the beginning, the band was better than the sound. And it was mostly a loud treble that reach my ears. The song that stayed in my mind was about you are good as you are (Fatta att du duger) But the songs were good, they played it like I like it. No noncense here, no arty stuff, just riffs pretty fast and vocals and Clash and Ebba Grön style of drumming. I liked it and a better sound would been better, at least to more clearly hear the vocals.


Greta Kassler

Greta Kassler mix D-beat and Trall Punk. They played fast. Live that night they did it convincingly even if the sound wasn´t the best, but loud as the sound waves moved me physically a cm or something. Much better than the sound Spotlick´s had to cope with though. It was fast and tight and the two singers different voices gave the music a different feeling even if the speed was mainly D-beat. And they sang it, not shouted, not chanted or growling it. It´s political and angry. Tonight they convinced. Too bad I couldn´t stay for the last band ST. But then I had to hurry to even get in to see the Street Dogs. I didn´t have time to say goodbye to the people there.

Worth the money, 100Skr (10 Pounds)? Yes, but this came to be in the shadow of what the Street Dogs did.


Debaser Slussen

Twopointeight

There are a certain hype around Twopointeight, mostly because their commercial, radio friendly rock heavy influenced by the Clash and Rancid. And that´s what is bothering me with the band, it´s a bit to mainstream and radio friendly for my taste. Not only me BTW, other just hates themfor other reasons. They are trying too hard to be the Swedish Rancid so they lose any originality. On record the smart productions lack the energy or punk. With Greta Kassler still ringing in my ears, TPE are way too slow. OK, it´s unfair to compare a part of a gig with a full gig but tonight Greta Kassler wins, not because better voices or better tunes, but because Greta is fast and full of energy, Twopointeight was slow and seems to be too cool to get dirty, that and the total lack of energy was a let down on me, others seems to like it. Not even their best song, Red Eyes, worked for me that night. Gubbrock (Old Mans Rock) is a word they are dangerously close to it. But it seems like I am not in phase with the crowd next to the stage.


Street Dogs

It is a bit surreal to be seeing a class act as Street Dogs for free. The former Dropkick Murphys singer Michael McColgan quit the Murphys to fulfill his dream to become a fire fighter just as Dropkick broke in the punk scene. Since then he is a  Street Dog. It stood clear last night what Mc Colgan brought to the Dropkick Murphys debut record Do or Die (which is my favorite DKM record). The speed, the energy and the punk. Street Dogs lacks most of the Gaelic stuff that DKM based their career around, it´s more just punk.
First I have to take a deep breath before I go on and tell you about it, because the memory itself gives me shivers. And point out that sometimes you feel that you are in the right place at the right time. This gig was one of those moments. So seem the band feel about it as well.
I feel sorry for those suckers that ware at the Roskilde that night to see Bruce Springsteen, when it was at Debaser it was happening.

From the beginning the band showed that this was for real. The best sound all night, Loud but not as loud as during Greta Kassler. Fast and hard and mercy less! Most of their known songs, as well as a few covers and DKM songs. The two songs I missed was Power in the Union and Skinhead on MBTA (Will I ever hear my favorite song live?) but that didn´t matter tonight. Tight, heavy and fast (not D-beat fast but fast.) and with all the energy TPE didn´t showed.  
The best was the Dropkick songs near the end with old “Do or Die”  and “Get up”, the DKM songs and covers. Especially the song Do or Die (for a moment my eyes met Mikes as we were chanting out the lyrics as he pointed at me and I answered with a raised fist).

Wow, is the only word that describes it all. The Crowd did go absolutely mental from the first song. The band and the crowd ripped the place apart totally, I saw a bar table go wasted and the Gods only know what else broke, the blood was pouring down people foreheads, smashed bloody in the euphoria this night gave us. Energy, mosh pitting, sing a longs, stage diving, you name it, The good singer himself was crowd surfing as well. This was everything a punk rock concert should be about, it was there! The band seem to enjoy themselves, loving the crowd, the crowd loved the Dogs onstage. Some fans loved the Dogs onstage and was welcomed by a friendly band.
The band assured us that this moment will stay a long time in their hearts. I It will in my as well.

When the band as the second song in the encore burst out in Sham 69´s Bostal Breakout sung as Boston Breakout, then I thought both me and the whole place should explode. And so it went on throught the rather generous encore. What a night!. We all need a little Punk Rock n Roll.

It was pointless continuing drinking beer or chatting with old friends after. Because all I could think of was how blessed I´ve been to be there. So I went home rather quickly.

I went home with the worst Tinnitus in a long time, a big smile and a memory of seeing the light.
A light lit by some Street Dogs, Working class punk from Massachusetts.

Worth the money?……It didn´t cost anything, but let´s say this was one of the best concerts I´ve seen.      
Next chance for me to catch them is at West Coast Riot in Gothenburg July 26.

Greta Kassler Vs. Street Dogs, Broder Tuck Vs. Debaser

Broder Tuck Vs. Debaser

This saturdays clash between two punk band events will be interessting. In the south corner will be the Brother Tuck restaurant with its small cellar stage. On stage that night will be Spotlicks, Greta Kassler and S.T.Y.G.G.

and in the North corner will be Rock Club Debaser Slussen, with hyped up Swedish band Twopointeight and former Dropkick Murphys singer  Mike McColgans working class punk band Street Dogs.


Personally I find it annoying that such event ends up the same day. It´s cool that there is somethings happening. Too bad its on the same time.

Ligisterna - Aldrig dö (Cover)

Ligisterna from Debaser Slussen, May 2Oi2

Ligisterna - Slav at Debaser May 17 -12