Un abrazo muy fuerte, Null$katte$nylterne

January 2003
Hey ho again dear website visitor! It’s been a busy autumn for Null$katte$nylterne. The last weekend of September we visited Sweden for the first time. Kooljunk Productions and Pelle Jansson had organised a great evening in Stockholm, and we spent some funny hours at the Eldorado Club. The time schedule in Stockholm was tight so there was no time for sightseeing. Eirik the Viking who have been the busiest of us this autumn arrived by plane in Stockholm 1 hour before the gig was supposed to start. While the rest of us spent the day in a VW Caravelle, he spent the day punching his double bass and eating foie gras at a well-paid business event. That’s what we call Punk Rock. Due to the few hours spent in the Scandinavian metropolis the highlights (of course except the venue, the audience, the gig and the promoters) were therefore the quite high number of good-looking girls we spotted on the way from the venue to the hotel. Hope to have some more hours off next time we are visiting the nice city of Stockholm. From Stockholm we flew directly to Madrid for six shows in Spain. The day off on Sunday were spent waiting on Arlanda Airport in Stockholm, drinking Cava and Brandy on the 4 hour flight and teaming up with our man in Spain; Eneko Gurrutxaga in Madrid. Eneko and Roadhouse Productions did an excellent job managing us on the Iberian Peninsula. The week in Spain was fun, but hard. We played our asses off every night, we were forced by local promoters and the audiences to drink substantial amounts of alcohol, we lived on a diet of Calamares and Pulpo Gallego (octopus) and spent up to eight hours a day in an increasingly stinky Citroen Jumper. So there is no doubt we’ve paid our dues - I guess that’s what you’ll call show business. Norwegian readers can check out this tour diary published in Adresseavisen for further information on our Spanish experience; http://www.adressa.no/ut/article.jhtml?articleID=391827. Spanish readers can check out this review published in Empuje and Sonic Wave Magazine from our gig in A Coruña; http://www.empuje.net/moscatel_mardi.htm We spent the last week of November in Germany supporting JBO on 5 gigs. It was absolutely perfect to be on a tour as professional as theirs. Calle, Cristoph, Alex, Nicole and the rest of JBOs excellent crew of 20 people were so fun to work with. Fulfilling silly childhood dreams of touring with night liners (one with the European driver of Bon Jovi behind the wheel), trailers, great sound and light systems, excellent catering and sleeping conditions. Having more than 6500 people attending our shows also helped on our motivation. A big thanks goes out to the great boys of JBO; Wolfram, Vito C., Ralph and Hannes. A special thanks goes out to our hard working and extremely good sound engineer; Matzo who provided us and the audiences with loud and clear sound. If everything goes as planned we hope to come back in 2003 for more gigs with JBO. Check out JBOs homepage at http://www.jbo.de for more info on JBO. There you’ll also find some pix and concert reviews of us as well. You’ll find a tour diary from Germany published in www.spot.no here: http://www.spot.no/34150.html Our upcoming debut album “Fortar, Hardar, Høgar” (Faster, Harder, Louder) is set for release in the spring of 2003. During these days the young and talented sound engineer George Tanderø is turning the knobs on the mixing desk in one of Norway’s finest studios. We we’ll keep you updated as soon as the date for release is set. Happy New Year and hope to see you all in 2003; Best regards, Null$katte$nylterne

July

Hello everybody! We had so much fun in Germany! Thanks to everybody that showed up at our gigs. Hope to see you all soon again. We also had the pleasure of working with dedicated promoters and an excellent crew. A special thanks goes out to the Euroschack boys, Markus from MKM in Berlin, Tom behind the mixing desks and Mats sweating blood and tears to keep the backline running at every show!

We are heading for the studio in the middle of July to record some brand new songs. We have tried them out live for a while and we know they rock on stage. Hope the result turns out equally good in the studio.

May

Hola amigos! We are just back from some exciting days in Spain. After spending four hours with standby tickets in Frankfurt due to a delayed aircraft from Oslo, we were able to touch ground on the penisula 2 hours after the Bilborock soundcheck was supposed to have started. After 1 hour of sleeping the night before the flight and a lost bass we were quite stressed at the airport in Bilbao. But both Bilbao and Bilborock turned out to be a great experience, lots of people and lots of fun. Playing inside a old church was quite unfamiliar to us, except for the Viking who has been punching his double bass in churches all over Norway. Good sound and a great audience made the Bilborock a pleasure filled evening for us.

After spending the night and most of the day in bed at the luxury hotel NH Deusto we set out to shake our rumps in Barakaldo were we played together with Baskerlands fine punk rock combo Nuevo Catecismo Catolico. A great evening were local promoter Eneko did a splendid job, sold out and lots of good looking female spaniards in the audience.

Barcelona greeted us with kebab and free booze - a good combination, and even by our "high and hard to reach" standards we did a quite good show in the Catalan capitol.

Several promoters are keen to work with us in Spain and we really hope something turns up, because we would love to see you all again soon.

March
Gabba Gabba Go! The confirmation of our first Spanish tour have justreached the headquarters.We are all looking forward to this trip to the country of excellent rock'n'roll, tapas and wine. We will do our very bestto adapt our stomachs to the iberian's fine cusine, and I am sure we willbe able to put in substantial amounts of "patatas bravas" and other longtime favourites while we are there.The crusade will start in Bilabo, thengo on to Madrid - rock capitol of el Mundo, before the catalans inBarcelona will getspanked by our fast and furious live show.In Madrid we will once again be joined on stage by the one and onlySeñorTurmix, while in Barcelona we will try to get into the famous ProduccionesBarbudas Studios to work withlegendary producer J. Vidal, known fromspanish rock'n'roll mastadonts like Berlin 80 and Suzy & los Quatros.The song recorded there are to be released later this year on a Kiss tributecontaining international top acts like Hellride, Electric Ladyland,Craseee and Rickshaw.

Dec:
Hola Amigos! It's been a busy autumn at the headquarters. Mr. Toto is now completely integrated in the 5 headed Troll of Null$kate$nylterne, and this autumns concerts have been a total blast. In Ås we had the pleasure of participating in the "Pubdagene"-festival. Close to 400 people squeezed in at the local Pizza Parlor to see and hear us kick in the overdrive. Due to a few minor drum technical problems - that's the way it goes when your blessed with a hard hitting' drummer like Tommy - we had to postpone our stage entrance with approximately 40 minutes. Anyway, when we finally hit the stage we had an absolutely great time. Reports from our beloved audience after the show told us that several glasses, t-shirts and even bra's where lost during our set. Not have we only played some stunning concerts this autumn, we have also had the opportunity to taste some of Norway's fine fast food kitchens. In Moss we ate an absolutely delicious dish made of noodles and shrimps. Together with our fellow companions; the Carburetors, we were all stunned by the extremely good price-quality ratio that the restaurant were able to deliver. 50 NKr. for a tasty and complete dinner, what more could you ask? So fans and other fast food lovers - the gourmets of Null$katte$nylterne strongly recommend you to explore the dining facilities in Moss Rock City as soon as possible. Talking about recommendations we would also like to remind you about our new release on HappyRape Records. We have put 2 tracks on their superb sampler Norwegian Nihilism. If you are (once again) late with your present buying for Christmas - we strongly recommend you to check out the sampler. Containing 19 tracks of fine family entertainment it is this years recommendation and a suitable gift for mom, dad, other family members and of course friends. If you would like to improve your chances on a potential girl/boyfriend the sampler is an absolutely must, success is about to come your way if you are the thoughtful giver of this fine item.