I played at Blip Festival, which is the badest chip music festival to date. 40 musical and visual artists from Europe, USA and Japan rocked for 4 days just next to Wall Street! How about for example Anamanaguchi, Bud Melvin, Mark DeNardo, Hally, Quarta330, Virt, x|k and YMCK with visuals by C-men, Voltage Controlled, noteNdo? Well, too bad if you weren’t there! But there’s 1700 photos and 86 videos for you instead. :) And here’s x|k’s Goto80-tagged photos. And there’ll be a DVD out aswell, so don’t you worry. Be there next year though…………
LIVE
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.
Tallinn + Trendy Trash
I went to Tallinn to play at the Plektrum festival. First stop was Stockholm, visiting my brother and good ol’ Role Model. We had good times with expensive booze, Mark Knopfler, Tomas Ledin and Mikael Rickfors. I managed to fuck up my jacket by leaning against a newly painted wall though…
…which was fun at first, but I realised that leaning against a wall had made me all trendy! Which was quite disturbing. And the fact that it was disturbing, was also disturbing! I don’t want to care about my clothes, but hey – I don’t wanna look trendy either. Grrrr….
Anyway, I hoped that my new trendy look would help me get better treatment at the airport. But no. Everyone were assholes as usual. But I got to Tallinn safely (almost missed the plane, as usual), met up with Risto and after some happy confusion also C-men, Gijs Gieskes and Miniroc. I made an interview for Radio 2 aswell with my mad media skillz. Performances and workshops were great (except for my confusing mongo C64-“workshop”), and it was good to see Huoratron play for the first time. He didn’t let me down! We hung around at the Biker’s Club too, which I can recommend… Oh, and when I got back from the hotel I met a group of trashy looking boys with short hair, greeting me with ‘Heil Hitler’. Hmmm, well, naah…. I just went to sleep.
(make it out)
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)
Data Jam
Audiovisual datajam at gallery Big Love (rip) on Hisingen Island. It was me, Dino, Yoki, Booger, Mortimer Twang and Optiroc = top notch Hack n’ Trade Up Rough data elite. So we did assembler programming, PETSCII-stuff, Deluxe Paint animations, Protracking, LSDJing, JCHing, etc. Maybe we’ll get videos online some day, here’s two photos while you’re waiting. Oh, and yes – we destroyed so much that evening. It was beautiful.
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]
Goto80 and Intergalactic Gary at Hultsfred Festival
Me and Gary played the biggest festival in Sweden – Hultsfredsfestivalen. We were the first act of the festival, which was a bit strange. We did well though. Here’s a video of us performing the track Groovky Bitch (sid-file here). Note the usual screaming for videogame-music in the beginning (in this case it was Megaman).
Little Computer People 2001
Hack n’ Trade‘s mega 8-bit party Little Computer People, held in Stockholm. Everybody was there! Me and Role Model did a jam session with an LSDJ-baby and later me and Frantik rocked the house, perfectly backed up by our Hack n’ Trade posse. I won the music compo with Pappap. Oh hei. Check out the hot action:
Photo: A_lee_n
Photo: Spoiledbrat
Photo: Barbatron