Yesterday's crap is today's art

"Bored Teenagers" at Galleri Tonne is an exhibition of subcultural images from 1979-83, by punk rock "historian"/legend Tryge Mathiesen. He wrote "Tre grep og sannheten" (Three Chords and the Truth), the only book out there on the birth of punk in Norway.

The out-of-focus and overexposed photos featured at the exhibit reveal crazy party moments from when punk rock was an infant child in remote little Norway.

See the Buzzcocks backstage at Club 7 in '79, lots of drunk local punks, Norwegian punk pioneers Hærverk gigging in Stockholm, Einstürzende Neubauten's live debut in Oslo and plenty of other shady stuff.

In addition, there's also the paintings based on unpublished amateur photos from Sex Pistols' infamous concert at Oslo's Pingvin Club, in the summer of '77.

This Sect is both humbled and excited to play at the opening of the exhibit, on August 23rd, 14:00 o'clock SHARP. The exhibit lasts until until September the 7th.

Also: See the Facebook event for more info, and read this nice article.

Black gold

At the Adbusters-release, some smart people dug through their archives, and unearthed Norwegian weirdo filmmaker legends Wam & Vennerød's 1975 documentary "Oljeeventyret" (The Oil Adventure). The film, which set out to document the blooming Norwegian oil industry, was funded by Norway's state channel; NRK.

According to the (kind of eccentric) filmmakers, they never intentionally wanted to make crass criticism on what was going on with the wild wild west of the black gold. It just turned out that way. Some of those worker bees they interviewed didn't seem too happy...

When the finished product got screened for the channel's board of directives, they decided on not showing it. Until now, that it is. See it on their archival web-TV, NRK GULL.

Pics from Blå

Maria Dorothea Basch took some really nice pictures at the Adbusters gig. Check them out on her flickr page.

Rollercoaster of oil

Dagbladet did a nice article on the Adbusters-release. Sweet!