Pussy Riot as shown on Swedish Televisions site,

Pussy Riot - Live in Sochi (Rus)

Asta Kask- Fredagsmys

Asta Kask - Fredagsmys (Swe)
Single (2014) taken from the album "Med handen på hjärtat" (2013)


Fredagsmys can be translated as cozy friday.

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Pussy Riot arrested at the Olympics

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26240794

Here we go again. The russian punk/art collective Pussy Riot have been arrested after
a manifestation at the Sochi Winter Olympics.

Punkrock Allstar GBG - Ensam i natt (Lädernunnan cover)

Punkrock Allstar GBG - Ensam i natt (Swe)
(2014)


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Devo Guitarist Casale Dead

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/devo-guitarist-bob-casale-dead-at-61-20140218

Conceptual American Punk/New Wave band Devo´s guitarist Bob Casale is dead at age 61, in heart failure.

Get well soon Wattie

After Wattie Buchan (the singer in the Exploited) ended up in hospital after heart conditions
the Exploited fans now send their best wishes.
Watties wife thank all and sais on Facebook it helps to cheer him up.

Tequila Girls and Psycho Daddies at Tucken (Review)

Tequila Girls and Psycho Daddies
at Tucken, Broder Tuck, Stockholm

Psycho Daddies
Up until a few weeks ago I didn´t knew about Psycho Daddies. As they were booked at the Tucken club, I had to do my homework and found a bunch of aged original 77 punks doing a very personal thing with a flavor of The Professionals, Ramones and Angelic Upstarts (the last, did they claim, they never heard). Catchy tunes that got your attention real fast, not least with their quirky twist in the lyrics. Live they were a bit more raw and rough, than on record. In which I saw nothing wrong.
The new, unrecorded song, “Working for the Stasi” was both their best as well as funny and reached way beyond the first funny impression. A future possible hit?
They ended with a surprise.  As guitarist David was an original member in Bitch Boys and wrote “Jag hatar dig” (I Hate You), the Bitch Boys singer Frobbe was invited on stage (well almost, he was more or less running around like a punk rock idiot ala Iggy Pop as he used to, in the crowd the whole song) . To sing that old Bitch Boys tune. Yesterday´s ass holes in the lyrics was exchanged to SD party leader Jimmie Åkesson.
A rare but not an unpleasant experience. We were all 16 again, Hilarious!
 

Tequila Girls
Tequila Girls have been around forever. In fact I had to ask if they were the same band as I saw a million years ago. Well almost, some new members and some old.
I can´t remember when I last saw them but it must been in the late 80ies.
They used to be such a band that was around when the Nomads roamed at the clubs of Stockholm.
Back then they were one of some folk/rock/punk bands. A kind of Dropkick Murphy´s, Flogging Molly before those bands were invented. And if I don´t got it wrong I think I had some bad not band related memories from seing them the first itme in the mid 80ies, chick trouble or something I think. But that can also be wrong, don´t really remember.
Tequila Girls, a band that only contains men, did their thing like they use to do out in Europe.
That they even appeared in Stockholm was a rare thing. And to be honest I think I would rather seen this on a much bigger stage with a huge audience. Because that was the feeling of it. This was a big concert in many ways. The energy, the eye catching energetic singer/lead guitarist, Totte, put on was amazing. The band a whole was skilled and tight, even if they complained that they did some mistakes, it was nothing that stood in the way for the greatness of it all. The Hypnotic power of the performance of the song “Wake Up” was something magical, a song that is more of a bit of old school Swedish progg rock than punk.
You might get fooled by the fact that they play rather slow for the punk genre. But that was just an illusion. The intensity of it was so amazing that it would probably take the piss out of any screaming hard core band. The concert as a whole was something that stood out as one of, to date, best performances I seen this year.


A great night with a big crowd that left me with a big smile.

A selection of good Swedish punkblogs

For readers in Swedish there are some blogs I recomend as good reading.


http://barbedwirelove.blogg.se/   Covering the scene especially the Swedish and Oi!

http://sirling.blogspot.se/  Turist i tillvaron is a blog as well as Punk Compilation of contemporary Swedish punk.

http://www.kjellhell.se/whellcome.html   Kjell Hell the blog has pretty much moved on to Facebook. Still the archive is rich, Especially from a Oi! POW. The guy behind it is the Guy behing the Pretty Shitty Kjell Oi!/Street Punk  festivals. And a record company.

Exploiteds Wattie sick in a heart attack, all European tour dates canceled

Exploited´s singer Wattie Buchan (57 years old) have suffered from a heart attack during a gig in Lisabon, Portugal.
However luckilly he survived but the band cancel all dates on their European tour. Which includes the gig at Pretty Shitty Kjell Oi! festival in Stockholm.

1,2 FYPR says, get well, and then come here to sing about our Dead Cities.


http://news.stv.tv/west-central/264186-punk-singer-wattie-buchan-has-heart-attack-on-stage-in-lisbon/

Rancid - Hooligans

Rancid - Hooligans (US)
From the album "Life won´t wait" (1998)



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