JR Ewing and Turbonegro: kings of Øyafestivalen

Yesterday Øyafestivalen was jolly nice, except that the rain kept pouring down. Musical highlights included an as always intense set from hardcore/emo enthusiasts JR Ewing, who almost exclusively played songs from the new album Maelstrom. I guess that's the drawback with these 40 minutes festival jobs.

The same goes for Kings of DeathPunk Turbonegro, who of course drew thousands of turbojugends from all over the world. The band waited until the encore to play old favorites, like "I Got Erection". It was pretty darn obvious that their old classic songs rocks the socks off the songs from the more mediocre album Party Animals.

Other highlights included surprisingly groovy and sonic Velvet Undergroundish noise from Serena Maneesh, heavy sXe metalcore from Purified In Blood, indie lo-fi screamo bashers Rumble in Rhodos and Mike Patton approved jazzy crossover old school rock from Kaadas Cloroform.


Bands who sucked included hyped and overrated swedes Moneybrother, also the reunited Dinosaur Jr sounded awful, even though I kinda like their songs, with way too much guitars (I thought I'd never say that!)