Important dates in OCTOBER 2012

Ungdomshuset will host a special 4-day 30th-anniversary party in october 24th-28th. During theese days there will be lots of different music, but what is most interesting for all you punk/d-beat/hardcore/metal-lovers out there is friday the 26th. This will be the "rock and the like" day, on which one or more old bands will reunite for this one time only. I can't tell you what it is yet, but damn is it good. So be sure to mark a big fat X in your calendar, i promise you will regret it forever if you're not there. Also shitloads of the best local acts will be there!

That was it for now.

June 2012: Mayhem ahead

For me, the most central event of this month will be the K-Town Hardcore festival, not only because i am involved in the whole thing, but also because so many new bands will be playing there as well as some of my personal favourites. Instead of writing a lot of yada about it, check the festivals own website here!

The rest of the month will roughly look like this. I don't have time for descriptions (i'm in exam-hell) but here we go. Sorry for the delay by the way...:

5th: ACID KING (us) + SUMA (se) + maybe 1 more tba @ Loppen, 21.00, price ?? dkk.
BANDLINKS: ACID KING [] SUMA

6th: AVFART 33 (se) + HEX ON THE BEACH (australia) + DJ SURVIVAL @ Ungdomshuset, 20.00, 30 dkk.
BANDLINKS: AVFART 33 [] HEX ON THE BEACH

8th: HARD ROCK KARAOKE @ Ungdomshuset, 22.00, donations

9th: DEAD INSTRUMENT (release party) + LOOKING FOR AN ANSWER (es) + 1 more tba @ Stengade, 21.00, 60 dkk. Booze and DJ's.
BANDLINKS: DEAD INSTRUMENT [] LOOKING FOR AN ANSWER

11th: CONTORTURE (se) + ANTIKLIMAX (fin) + TOTAL RECALL (fin) + INSIDIOUS PROCESS (se) @ Bumzen. 19.00, 30 dkk.
BANDLINKS: CONTORTURE [] ANTIKLIMAX [] TOTAL RECALL [] INSIDIOUS PROCESS

11th: ABORTED (b) + BILLY BOY IN POISON + MOLESTED (helltown) @ Lygten Station, 20.00, 70 dkk on presale, 90 in the door.
BANDLINKS: ABORTED [] BILLY BOY IN POISON [] MOLESTED

15th: MUNDO MUERTO (us) + JEALOUS COWARDS (se) + PRIMITIVE RITES (se) + THE WAR GOES ON @ Ungdomshuset, 21.00, 50 dkk.
BANDLINKS: MUNDO MUERTO [] JEALOUS COWARDS [] PRIMITIVE RITES [] THE WAR GOES ON

16th: QUEER FESTIVAL SUPPORT PARTY with tons of stuff going on @ Warehouse 9, 21.00, donations.

17th: NEON PISS (us) + DE HØJE HÆLE @ Ungdomshuset, 19.00, 40 dkk. BBQ and hangout before the gig!
BANDLINKS: NEON PISS [] DE HØJE HÆLE

22nd-25th: K-TOWN HARDCORE FESTIVAL 2012!

May 2012

Not as updated as i would like to, and i didn't have time for descriptions. I will do some soon though - promise!

2nd: Backtrack (us) + Hårda Tider (se) + Cornered (nl) + Primitive Rites (se) @ Hemgården, Lund. 18.30-22.00. 80 SEK (presale).

BANDLINKS: BACKTRACK [] HÅRDA TIDER [] CORNERED [] PRIMITIVE RITES

3rd-6th: HEAVY DAYS IN DOOMTOWN @ Stengade, Ungdomshuset and Loppen, K-Town. 

Tons of bands, tons of info. Easiest is, if you check it out by following the link. This is definately on of the things you should use your hard-earned money for this month. 

4th: Commemoration of Denmarks liberation on may 4th 1945 @ Halmtorvet, K-Town. 19.30.

5th: Bicycle trip to sites related to the liberation after WW2 @ Frihedsmuseet, K-Town. 12.00.

7th: Helltown: Link (be) + Molested (dk) @ Elværket, Helsingør. 20.00-late. 30 DKK. 

BANDLINKS: LINK [] MOLESTED

9th: Danava (us) + Pyramido (se) @ Karavan, Malmö. 20.00-?. 50 SEK (membership required, look at the link. 

BANDLINKS: DANAVA [] PYRAMIDO

11th: The Spits (us) + Cola Freaks + Genital Hospital (can) @ Elværket, Helsingør. 21.00-late. 40 DKK. 

BANDLINKS: THE SPITS [] COLA FREAKS [] GENITAL HOSPITAL

12th: Helltown: Cluster-Bomb Unit (de) + Yacøpsæ (de) + Reactory (de) + Märesvin (k-town) + Ursut (se) @ Elværket, Helsingør. 20.00-late. 40 DKK. 

BANDLINKS: CLUSTER-BOMB UNIT [] YACØPSÆ [] REACTORY [] MÄRESVIN [] URSUT

18th: Freaks Night Out @ Ungdomshuset, K-Town. 21.00-late. 50 DKK.

A lot of stuff going down, expect a freakish night at Ungdomshuset. Check the link for full info.

19th: Party for your right to fight back - AFA's 20th birthday @ Ungdomshuset, K-Town. 21.00-late. 50 DKK.

A huge lineup, to huge for this page to handle. Check out the link. The list includes Oi Polloi (sco), Commie Cowboys (k-town) and Hårda Tider (se)!

24th: Torsdagsinferno vol. 3: No Rest (bra) + Solid Noise (k-town) + Royal Incest (dk) + Sepsis (k-town) @ Ungdomshuset, K-Town. 20.00-late. Price TBA. 

BANDLINKS: NO REST [] ROYAL INCEST [] SEPSIS

25th: DE HØJE HÆLE release party + Hunx and his Punx (us) + Tumor Warlord (k-town) + The Monoliths (dk) + First Flush (dk) @ Stengade, K-Town. 21.00-late. 50 DKK.

BANDLINKS: DE HØJE HÆLE [] HUNX AND HIS PUNX [] TUMOR WARLORD [] THE MONOLITHS [] FIRST FLUSH

30th-june 3rd: Distortion ripoff @ Folkets Park, K-Town

If youre not on Muskelrock, you should check this out. To be short: Distortion CPH sucks ass and commercializes street-parties, but now some fresh Nørrebro-people are taking the streets back. 

APRIL 2012 goes bananas (updated again)

Too many gigs, too little time. What a month!

3rd: CHURCH OF MISERY (jap) + DOGMATIST (k-town) @ Loppen, 21-late. Door 70 kr. Old japanese doom/stoner with heavy early Black Sabbath references supported by local hc-band Dogmatist, who has done a couple of really good shows already.
Bandlinks: CHURCH OF MISERY [] DOGMATIST 

5th: DEAD CONGREGATION (gr) + INFINITUM OBSCURE (mex) + UNDERGANG (k-town) @ Stengade, 21-late. Door 60 kr. Good death gig, two brutal bands. I don't know the mexican one that well, but Dead Congregation usually delivers quite a show.
Bandlinks: UNDERGANG [] DEAD CONGREGATION [] INFINITUM OBSCURE

5th: AGE OF WOE (se) + MOLESTED (dk) + Surprise @ Paramount DIY, Roskilde, 21-late. Doors 35 kr. Paramount DIY celebrates their 12th anniversary with two crusty acts, one from Gothenburg and one from Helsingør. Surprise-acts and happy-our will also take place.
Bandlinks: AGE OF WOE [] MOLESTED

7th: NIGHT FEVER (k-town) + DEATH TOKEN (k-town) + HÅRDA TIDER (se) + SKURV (k-town) @ Ungdomshuset, 21-late. Door 40 kr. Some of the without a doubt best local hc-acts and a never oi-punk act goes together to support the new label called Raw Birth Records.
Bandlinks: NIGHT FEVER [] DEATH TOKEN [] HÅRDA TIDER [] SKURV

8th: PORCO DIO (fin) + DEMOKHRATIA (alg) + MÄRESVIN (k-town) @ Ungdomshuset, 21-late. Door 50 kr. Hardcore in various forms from no less than 3 countries, including the first african band to do a gig in Ungdomshuset as far as i know.
Bandlinks: PORCO DIO [] DEMOKHRATIA [] MÄRESVIN

11th: HARD SKIN (uk) THE WAR GOES ON (k-town) KING CARROT (k-town) @ Ungdomshuset, 20-02. Door 50 kr. Something as rare as an oi-punkband swings by Copenhagen, and it's supposed to be good stuff. A good night for all the punkrockers out there.
Bandlinks: HARD SKIN [] THE WAR GOES ON [] KING CARROT

13th: UNGDOMSHUSET GIG CANCELLED

14th: ABRASIVE WHEELS (uk) + WAR OF DESTRUCTION (dk) + THE WAR GOES ON (k-town) @ Stengade, 21-late. Door 60 kr. Straight-up punk provided by two good 'ol 80's bands both danish and british, supported by local punkrock.
Bandlinks: ABRASIVE WHEELS [] WAR OF DESTRUCTION [] THE WAR GOES ON

16th: VICTIMS (se) + BLACK BREATH (us) + TORMENTED (se) + BEYOND PINK (se) @ Hemgården in Lund, 18-22.00(?!). Presale 80 SEK, door (not gonna happen) 100 SEK. Good mix of swedish punk and d-beat/hardcore combined with death. Lots of genres, lots of fun. But come on - how can you fit 140 people into that place?
VICTIMS [] BLACK BREATH [] TORMENTED [] BEYOND PINK

18th: FLIPPER (us) + LOWER (k-town) + BRUDTE LØFTER (k-town) @ Stengade, 21-late. Door 80 kr. Classic punk from 1979 reunited in late 00's supported by two good local punkacts, both newer ones.
Bandlinks: FLIPPER [] LOWER [] BRUDTE LØFTER

20th: TUMOR WARLORD (k-town) + GLOW KIT (k-town) + DUST BUGS (k-town) @ Råhuset, 21-late. Door 50 kr. 3 x release party for a bunch of the stranger local punk-ish bands.
Bandlinks: TUMOR WARLORD [] GLOW KIT [] DUST BUGS

20th-21st: KALDET FRA DYBET @ Ungdomshuset, 21-late (both days). Door 50 kr each day. Dark and gloomy mini-black metal festival with interesting local bands and two anarchist black metal bands from Canada.
Days: FRIDAY [] SATURDAY

21st: INSTINCT OF SURVIVAL (de) + AVFART 33 (se) + SEPSIS (k-town) @ Elværket in Helsingør, 16-very late. Door 40 kr. Heavy duty gig, and i've mentioned it before. New since then: Instinct of Survival are supposedly doing new tracks at their current gigs, and Sepsis will release a demo for you to buy at the gig.
Bandlinks: INSTINCT OF SURVIVAL [] AVFART 33 [] SEPSIS

21st: CONAN (uk) + SINISTER CREATION (k-town) @ Beta at Amager, 21-late. Door 75 kr (presale). Not possible to go to Helsingør? This would be the solution then. Doom from the UK combined with locals heavily influenced by NWOBHM and doom.
Bandlinks: CONAN [] SINISTER CREATION

25th: UMBERTO (us) + more TBA @ Stengade, 20-late. Door 40 kr. If you didn't get enough horror on the 13th, this is a good solution. Freakish tunes that would fit perfectly with an 70's horror movie will be provided.
Bandlinks: UMBERTO

26th: VULCANO (bra) + BLODFEST (dk) + OGDRU JAHAD (dk) @ Stengade, 21-late. Door 80 kr. A now legendary brazilian metal band on the edge between NWOBHM, black and death supported by local black and a debut-concert.
Bandlinks: VULCANO [] BLODFEST

26th: TOTAL CRUST DETONATION: DEATH REIGN + AUTONOMA PARADISE @ Bumzen, 20-late. Door 30 kr. Raw crust/hardcore and crustcore on a thursday. I'm a fan.
Bandlinks: DEATH REIGN

First bands for K-TOWN HARDCORE FEST 2012 released!

So, the first bands for the K-Town Hardcore Fest have been released, you can have a look at their Blogger-profile here. A facebook-event is up as well.

There will be more bands (up to 20!) added, so keep looking at their site.

Shits going down: MARCH 2012

Tons of stuff to do this month! There has been some minor changes in the way i do this, hope it works out for ya. I'll of course update if neccesary.

1st: March 1st Demonstration from Dortheavej 61, 17.00

As most of you know, some Christian fucktards decided to destroy the old Ungdomshuset on this day, five years ago. In remembrance, some activists have arranged a demonstration, going from the new Ungdomshuset, past Jagtvej 69, ending at Folkets Park.

2nd: Spiders (se) + Doublestone at Stengade, 21.00, 60 kr.

Sounding a like the soundtract to a Tarantino-movie, Spiders will be a really good gig, no doubt! To be honest, i have no idea on what Doublestone's about (but i've heard they are really good!).

8th: Grave Desecrator (bra) + War-Head (cro) + Sejr at Mayhem, 21.00, 40 kr.

Brutal black/death from Brazil supported by Croatian thrash, whats not to like? A local (to me unknown) band called Sejr will appear as well. 

9-10th: No Borders Fest // Ktown meets Malmö at Ungdomshuset, two days, 50 kr a day.

Two days of punk, hardcore and crust. A massive lineup that deserves its own blog-post. Check out my bla bla bla here.

10th: Documentary-premiere: "Bombemordet i Søllerødgade" at Støberiet, 19.00.

A terror-attack on a socialist group, ending with one dead, has extra attention this year, since it is 20 years ago on march 16th. A producer-team presents their brand-new movie on the bombing.

10th: Cerekloth + Pustulation + Mold at Stengade, 21.00, 60 kr.

Mean and evil death in various forms. Both Cerekloth and Pustulation should be checked out, Cerekloth did a great gig at KTDF as far as i remember! Mold is brand-new, and word on the street says they delivered an impressive concert last time they did a gig.

12th: Crude (jp) + Backlash (fin) + Dogmatist at Stengade, 21.00, 40 kr.

Crude speaks for itself, this will get messy. Backlash is straight forward hardcore and Dogmatist is one of K-Towns newest HC-installments. Whats not to like?

16th: "Duk dig ikke, duk op", at Blågårds Plads, 17.00.
Demonstration in remembrance of the above mentioned terror-attack.

16th: Moonless album-release party, at Loppen, 21.00, 40 kr.

One of my absolute favorite bands at the moment finally has a record release (so far, only a demo and some online stuff has been released). The gig features Moonless, The War Goes On, Torchlight and one more tba!

23rd: Dig og Mig + MOR + Afdeling O + Dj Rabalder, at Elværket (Helsingør), 21.00, 40 kr.

Up for some catchy (all most too catchy) pop-punk with lyrics taken from an old No Hope For The Kids song? Well then you should go for this gig, with Dig og Mig, electro-punk locals Mor, a to me unknown band called Afdeling O and DJ Rabalder.

24th: Miasmal (se) + Molok + Hekla, at Elværket (Helsingør), 21.00, 40 kr.
I'm not really into black, so i'll only be able to say some words on Miasmal.
A heavy deathband from around Gothenburg that did a killer gig at KTDF (was it last year??). Got a crusty edge, and it is clear, that some one in that band has done several d-beat acts before. Some of the best death scandinavia can show in my book!

29th: Fuck The Facts + Slaktattack + Green River Killer + Solid Noise, at Ungdomshuset, 20.00, 50 kr.

One hefty lineup closes down this month (lets see if more turns up as always...). Fuck The Facts does an insanely good grind-act, Slaktattack brings the crusty edge with d-beat as only swedes can provide, Green River Killer mixes metal and grind, and last but not least, Solid Noise is a brand new promising grind-band from Ungdomshuset!

31st: Århus for mangfoldighed 

Important demonstration against fascists from EDL and DDL, not to miss. There will be buses from Copenhagen, so no excuse...

Closer look: No Borders Fest at Ungdomshuset

The No Borders-fest at Ungdomshuset, march 9-10th, will present some of the new-ish bands from the K-Town and Malmö scene. Because of that, i'd like to line them up, and add some links and words on the bands. The order of bands is not availible at the moment, so they are in random, except date of course.

You can find the organizers invitation here

Friday, march 9th, doors at 21.00, 50 kr.: 

URSUT (malmö)
From Malmö and the surrounding area, Ursut is in-line with the swedish crusty d-beat tradition. Having just released a new LP (which is really good, and way beyond the first stuff), Ursut will be an interesting concert. Last time they visited Ungdomshuset was at DIY Punk Fest 2011, one of the best concerts at that festival.

LAUTSTÜRMER (malmö)
Well, it's hard to say much about Lautstürmer that hasn't been said before, especially since they've been on the scene longer than i, haha. Brutal d-beat madness, about to release (very soon!) a new 7'', the rumour says.

SUBHERO (k-town)
Subhero emerge from the Ungdomshuset practice-spaces, and took over the cross-over sound that Chainsaw Brigade (sometimes) did. Then add some serious guitar-shredding, and there we go. Having just released a demo and continuously writing new material, it will be interesting to see what these guys are up to.

BRUDTE LØFTER (k-town)
Brand new band, doing the more traditional K-Town hardcore-thing. Reminds a lot of Amdi Petersens Armé (absolutely not a bad thing). They have just recorded some fast demo-tracks, but have already gotten shitloads of gigs. 

UPPGÅNG OCH FALL (malmö)

There is something with swedes and catchy as hell punkrock, and this is another proof of that. Another (almost) brand-new punk band, that could be placed genre-wise close to swedish Terrible Feelings.

Saturday, march 10th, doors at 20.00 (remember afternoon-programme from 16.00), 50 kr.: 

ANATOMI 71 (malmö)
Well, on with d-beat again, another one of the käng-torchbearer bands. This one has a lot of records and gigs behind them, so you're in for a treat. Actually i've never seen them before, so i'm very pep myself!

COMMIE COWBOYS (k-town)
Good, cathcy and snotty punkrock with references to the late 70's. Promising band that has done quite a few gigs during the past months. Gotta say i love the name too, especially 'cause it fits the genre so well.

DÅRLIGT SELSKAB (k-town)
"Old" punx (from tons of old bands - the ones every k-town punk knows) get together, and starts a new band, making the name "Bad Company" (translated) even better. No one has heard them except themselves, meaning it will be a must-see concert.

CRUTCHES (malmö)
New d-beat madness with members from various Malmö-based bands. Releasing a demo very soon (rumour has it that you'll be able to buy it at the festival) with a good amount of their material. More hardcore-inspired than the classic käng-styled bands, and damn, its fast!

THE WAR GOES ON (k-town)
Where to start... This band has members from all around the K-Town scene, but frankly it speaks very much for it self. Dangerously cathcy melodic punkrock with the most embittered lyrics you'll find - ever. Really good, and one of my favorite live acts.




Thats all the bands! DJ's will appear as well, and much more stuff is going on, but i'll leave the non-musical parts to you. Check the link at the top!