Microdisko Oslo has put up a live recording from the shows of me and Meneo. These shows went on without any harm, which wasn’t the case the day after in Stockholm where Meneo and Entter were thrown off stage 3 times for some sort of indecent exposure which is illegal in Sweden (newsflash!). Hello.
LIVE RECORDING
Some kind of Tour
Hm, this tour thing started off pretty retarded. After spending a whole day watching regional weather reports and sitcom re-runs, I had to repair a broken live-set, fix tickets, commit fruit fly genocide and pack my bags in the first morning of this 2,5 week “tour”. I was going to the Formanova Festival in Denmark by train. To cut a long story short, I missed 2 trains, managed to get a ticket sales person to say “There is no way to complain. There are no names here. It’s all your fault, for using Internet.” and arrive 20 hours late to the festival. Totale Friday the 13th stylee! But me, Korvex and Cris got to the festival in time to see Duracell and Karsten Pflum do their thing! Other highlights of the festival included Isan, Rumpistol and the mysteriously wasted Dan – normally spotted passed out at microparties in Malmö. Here is a 10 minute video of most concerts of the festival.
Ok, pause in Malmö with falafel slacking and looking for scales to see if my luggage fit that damn Ryan Air 15 kilo limit. My friend Kim came to the rescue, and then we went on a Varberg-esque frenzy around Malmö, featuring projectile goose-shit catapult fountains and intoxication. Later that evening we lost the scales and got our first hardcore gay harassment in the toilet at Debaser! Ajaj! Next day I managed to find the airport and flight, and arrived in Madrid almost 2 hours late to find Rubeck who’d been watching a passed out stoner teen being harassed by security people at Nuevos Ministeros. Got to Bilbao the next day for a few days of hard data labour with Entter. We remixed C64 audio and visuals with RAM-hacking and worked on the forthcoming data karaoke. We also played a concert at Euskal Encounter – a huge demo/lan-party which was surprisingly silent and tidy. First time I got to sign an autograph on a laptop!
I found my way back to Sweden in time for the pre-pre-BFP-party with the cream of the 8-bit underground elite squadz. Non stop hard data action, until going to the pre-BFP party in Fabriken, Helsingborg. The following day the party started, and I was conveniently trashed but kept on computing and in the end I had at least 5 songs in the competitions, under various pseudonyms. Me and Autoboy also did a dual-C64 tracker jam concert! I can recommend all the amiga music, Cool Ska Cool by Up Rough (youtube), Appetizer by Durex, Goa Brudbilder 2 by Hack n’ Trade (text art), Deep Throat by Durex (cassette art), and so on. Watch photos and download everything here
My photos from this whole ordeal is here.
Video of Goto80+Entter @ Bilborock
There are some mighty compressed videos from the G80+Entter gig at Bilborock May 24th. The titles are messed up though, which is my own fault, below are the correct ones. The set is not jaw-dropping because of tiredness, not-trying-to-tired-ness, trying to please a jury to win money and not seeing the audience. Blablabla! But anyway, there’s excellent visual and vocal input from Entter! Viva!
01 Rofon
02 Overhang
03 Datahell
04 Pappap
05 Member
06 Killer Piller
07 Microcolorado aka something else
08 Fantasy
09 Spill
10 Spit
Goto80 live at Worm, Rotterdam 2006-01-26
You can now listen to my live-set here. Click on ‘Stage’ and then ‘Dance to the Bit’ in the bottom left corner. The other sets by DMDN, DMGPlantlife, Jeroen Tel and Pornologic is also available so run for your life and stop there.
Tracklist for my set:
00 Afternorm
03 Exy
06 Wombatman
08 Tänk Om
10 Ull8
13 Let’s Go
16 Soft Commando
20 Bullcactus
23 Member
25 Datahell
27 Pappap
30 Killer Piller
34 Feed the World (eek)
37 Cracker’s Delight
41 TV-Gamer
44 Spit
Espana de puta madre!
Me and Entter made two shows in Spain. The first one in Barcelona was tight, über-sweaty and almost-fainting style, together with AMB. Totally perfect! The second one was in a mega mighty dance club in the south party area of Alicante. Beside artists like ADA and DAT Politics and more people, I tried to introduce chip music to loved up Spanish techno heads. A tough job, but someone’s gotta do it! Doing a cover of Chimo Bayo always helps though. I did it twice in Alicante. :)
And here’s me signing autographs for Mario in Yes,Robot before going to the venue to be surprised by the TV-team to do a TV-interview.
Goto80 + Jossystem sizzling summer action
As a warm up for the summer, me and Dan from Jossystem were (supposed to have been) working on our audiovisual propaganda in May. And we did a gig at the wonderful Oro Gallery in Gothenburg.
In July we did a gig at Backslash (Robots + Naked Chicks + Lasers) and then hung around in the Jossystem HQ in King’s Ear for a week, doing some heavy data work. That’s when I got into Myspace. :) We finished off our data psychosis with a gig at Arvikafestivalen. We didn’t play as a part of the festival really, but in the tent of Galago/Vertigo/Ordfront by the entrance. Chaos ruled the gig, and afterwards I found my C64-disks in the dirt, stomped on by the mad crowd! Woops. I spent the night in the tent of Bromander and Amaurot, but I managed to keep my clothes on. Well, I had to because it was freezing and I didn’t have any sleeping gear. I got up early next morning and took the train to Gothenburg to play at the internet headphone apartment festival (!?) Totogo. I was sort of trashed when I got there, and I tried my best to clean my C64-disks so they would work. Some of them did, but I lost some of newest acid-tracks. Error! Error! Brrrrrr!
We also made a mini tour in August: 8-bit festival 2 (Tampere), Assembly (Helsinki) and Pirat-fest (Stockholm). Finally I got to go on one of the ferries between Sweden and Finland. They’re famous for being trashy, tacky, lo-fi, alcoholic, sleezy, etc. It was great! The photos and videos we took during our trip (and nothing more) were used to make the Volksing-video. Here’s three of them: (shot by Björn Bengtsson)
SWÄG organised the 8-bit festival. (check their mp3-downloads!)
nice socks, nice crowd
swingin’ an a filmin’
And there’s a video of my gig at the 8-bit festival.
The party in Stockholm was arranged by the big and beautiful Piratbyrån, and it was a good ending to another mini tour. Rickard Falkvinge was there to see the massive release of Jossystem’s Jag heter Rickard Falkvinge. Björn Bengtsson and Psilodump took photos, and here are the absolute worst ones. (unhealthy insomniac ferry style)
We also made more shows this summer together with Entter, but that’s a different story!
Russian Adventures
Russia is fantastic! Chipcult set up shows for me in St Petersburg and Moscow, and I was spending a week or so chilling around worn down Soviet architecture, good people, crazy police, trashy industrial style, etc. I should get around to writing more about this, but I probably won’t. Go to Russia and see for yourself instead, aiit?
Some photos here and there.
Goto80+Entter live at Electro Circus
The wonderful Freesson collective arranged a two day festival in Carpentras in southern France. Artists playing included Plaid, Jason Forrest, Crystal Distortion, Tepr and Leonard de Leonard.
I also had a top notch workshop with C64 and Gameboy tracking….
(Photos by Christophe Siutat, last one by Per Gustafsson)
You’re Up Global Bassacre Rave-o-Lution Tour 2005
Me, Rolemodel, Katja and Rebecca went on a European tour in a wreck! Remind me to update this entry, but for now here’s two live-clips:
[which are now defunct]