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Göttemia is a really good punkrockband from
Norway. I got their three lastest records from
Laurits and it´s three brilliant records that
all should have. The interview is done in may
2024.
Tell me the short or the long story how you did
come together as a band?
Laurits:
We started out of boredom, living in the deep
forest in a small town near Värmland, Årjeng.
The town is called Mysen, a city full of
burglars and Amfetamins..
There were about three of us who liked music,
everyone else listened to Eddie Meduza or
Trance. It was me doing the bass, a singer
called Christer (quit in 2013) and Roy on drums.
We had a guitar player sometimes, but he was
more into Creedence..
It haven´t always been the same members? Tell me
a little about every member, age, work and
something bad about every one?
Laurits:
Before we landed Rolph, we had about 12 guitar
players.
We have had two singers.. Roy was out for a year
or two, in that period Magnus from Fork, Årabrot,
Regn stepped in.
Ricky joined around 2014/2015.
Rolph:
I joined around 2005?
Do you have any other bands on the side of
Göttemia?
Ricky:
I have a room filled with syntheziers and
sequncers.
Laurits:
I play keys in a band called Gringo Bandido, and
do Bass and vocals in a band called Laurits
Mosseby Orkester.
Rolph:
I play bass with Roy on drums in a band called
Good Time Barbeque Blues Band. Also guitar in a
band called Freedumb. At the moment Freedumb is
inactive
How is the punkscene living on in Norway right
now?
Ricky:
The youngsters are forming new punk bands
everyday. Check out Blindtärm
Laurits:
The punkscene seems quite good these days.. It
seems like its a bulk of positive smiling bands
and a more negative non smiling scene.
When you started to play, did you do your own
songs at once or did you start with some covers,
if you did which covers did you played then and
do play any covers nowadays?
Laurits:
We started out writing our own songs
immediately. On our new album we have a cover of
Four Tops, Reach out i´ll be there.. And we just
recorded a cover of The Knife, Pass This On..
I like the covers where you take music with
another sound and makes it fit into your own
song. We¨ve also played Sergels Torg once.
I hear that you have influences of many style of
punkrock etc? Favoritpunkstyle?
Ricky:
I never understood hardcore or skatepunk.
Laurits:
I ́ve never cared that much about genres. But I
get much inspiration from newer punkbands,
Pissed Jeans, Idles etc.
I like the once who seems to act as them self.
Descendents as a example, so cool in a uncool
way.
Dead Moon..
I got three albums from you, is the earlier not
possible to get in some way except Ebay etc?
Laurits:
They are available through our bandcamp (Tonehjulet
Kräftpest) and through most Norwegian record
shops.
What does punk mean to you , is it only music or
is it a life style?
Ricky:
Love the punkmusic scene and its people. But my
lifestyle consists of sweatpants, snus, beer and
tv. Not very punk….
Laurits:
It´s all around, doesnt matter if your a old
lady listening to christian music, a 5 year old
or whatever. It´s a energy. And not giving a
fuck.
Is there any good punkbands around in Norway
right now?
Ricky:
Blindtärm
Laurits:
Blindtärm, Wepsebol, Svartedauden, Live Aids,
Svarte Peeng, Pappasaft, Oslo Ess, The Good The
Bad And The Zugly, Lucky Malice, Fork, Daman
Shurek, Monotrons, The Christians,
Do you have any Swedish favorites?
Ricky:
Viagra boys, Ebba grön
Laurits:
Allan Edwall.
Cesars Palace, Leaders Off, Fanskapt, Kenta,
Georg Riedel, De Lyckliga Kompisarna, Strängen,
Fred Åkerström, Stefan Sundström, Vånna Inget,
Vanligt Folk, Imperial State Electric, Bob Hund.
Have you been here and played anytime?
Laurits:
As the tour booker of this band I´ve tried to
book Sweden everytime I book a tour, but I find
it superhard to get anything.. The rumour says
Swedish people is a bit uninterested in bands
from Norway, dunno if thats true.
Rolph:
Malmö, Vänersborg,
Bengtsfors, Stockholm, Göteborg, Helsingborg,
Karlstad
Is it many interviews?
Laurits:
Once in a while.. Check out Rassisme on youtube.
How did the name came up? What does Göttemia
means Which is your favoritbandname
alltime?
Laurits:
My favoritte band name of all time is maybe ,
BOB HUND(!!), Amyl & the Sniffers, Dead
Kennedys, NoMeansNo, . The band name came up
outa us being 17-18 and thinking there was so
many bad band names, we didnt wanna grow tired
of it, so we picked a name that was so bad that
we was tired of it from the moment we picked it.
It means Götte - Götteri - Godis & Mia (the
name). Götte also is a slang for the
female genetalia.
Could you feel that you have released a record
if you only put it out digitally?
Ricky:
Some may feel that. But we dont
Laurits:
To me its important, doesn´t feel real before
you have the fysical LP.
Do you buy much records yourself? Do you have
any recordstore left in your hometown?
Ricky:
Yes alot.
Laurits:
Yep.
Rolph:
Some. We have a local record store called
Sjokkrock.
Are you listening to any other music than punk?
Any band you really like but you “shouldn´t”
like?
Ricky:
Kid Rock
Laurits:
One thing I hate about punk, and other subgenres
is all the narrow minded people you tend to meet
everywhere.
I listen to Carpenters alot. Old Norwegian
cassette artist like Håkon Banken og Stein Ove
Berg, Erik Bye.
Which is your personal Göttemia favoritesong and
which is the audience’s choice?
Ricky:
Mine is New Ass/More Guts. I think Total Eclipse
of the Brain is a crowd pleaser.
Laurits:
Favorites is Final
Warning, Dig In, Look at you now, On & On..
Audience likes Slow Motion Suicide, Fat Shaming,
Caligula.
Which is….
-the album which make
you wanna do music and play yourself?
Ricky:
Fresh Fruit for
Rotting Vegtables-DK
Laurits:
Beatles - Revolver,
Beach Boys - Summer Days & Summer Nights, Poison
Idea - Feel The Darkness, Pissed Jeans - King of
Jeans, Amyl & the Sniffers - Comfort to me.
-the album which is
the reason that Göttemia sounds like you do?
Laurits:
Velvet Underground &
Nico
NoMeansNo - Wrong
The Mormones - Guide
to Good and Evil
Camaros - Glad, Evil,
Bad
Yardbirds - Having a
Rave Up With The Yardbirds.
Sonic Youth - Goo
Rancid - Rancid 2000
Turbonegro - Ass
Cobra
The Hives - Veni Vidi
Vicious
Sex Pistols - Never
Mind The Bollocks
Ramones - We´re Outa
Here
Rolph:
Dinosaur Jr - Beyond
-the album you have
been playing/singing on, I mean any other bands
classic record?
Laurits:
I sing some
vocals with Fork, our very good friends that we
have toured with many times, check them out, the
album is called 1890 Antislum and the song is
called Puste.
I will also recommend
Gringo Bandido with the album Chief Police where
i do the keys.
-the album you must
have in the tourbus
Ricky:
We listen to alot of
Allan Edwall
Laurits:
Whatever.. Have good
memories of listening to The Byrds.
Rolph:
Johnossi, over and
over again.
-the album which was
the first you ever bought?
Ricky:
Spice Girls
Laurits:
The first tape was
Thriller the first CD was More Music 1..
Rolph:
Im not sure, probably
Metallica the Black album on tape when it came
out.
-the album you´re
ashamed of that you own but you like anyway?
Ricky:
I love em all
Laurits:
There is no guilty
pleasures. I liked the bands JJ72 and Manic
Street Preachers in the early 2000, they havent
managed to keep up with the time.
Rolph:
Hoobastank.
Foto:Veronica Van Groningen
How is it to live in
Norway right now, political, bad economy,
racists etc?
Laurits:
The political right
rices, the so called left keep on privatise and
selling out. Racist wise it´s not like Sweden,
but the far right is rising. On the economical
side, prises rise all the time..
If you have the
chance to rule Norway for a week, which have
been the first thing you have been changed?
Ricky:
The price of tobaccoo
Laurits:
That every big
desicion was up for voting. And stop privatising
everything, there is no profit in quality
service for the young and the old.
Do you think that
politics should be in music? Which is your most
political song?
Ricky:
Yes it should!
Untermench, Norway 2019 and Working Class
Laurits:
I think so, Look at
you now is a example.. Name 5 good bands from
the political right, thats hard. Those people
aint got any taste.
Best political
band/artist?
Ricky:
The Clash, Ebba Grön.
Laurits:
Phil Ochs, Imperiet,
Lucky Malice, Honningbarna, Gatas Parlament,
Bøyen Beng
Rolph:
Kanye West
You sing mostly in
English, why not in your own language? Is it
easier to write songs in English?
Ricky:
It´s much easier. But
i like bands that sing in their native tounge
Laurits:
I tried shitloads of
times but its hard. There is not many people who
manage to make good lyrics in Norwegian. Theres
so many times I wished I was Swedish, it´s a lot
richer and more musical language. One guy who
mastered to sing in Norwegian was a guy called
Jokke, check him out, like the song Halv.
It feels like you are
a really good liveband, is it sweaty on your
concerts?
Ricky:
Yes, and bad smelling
Laurits:
I´m not happy with my
own contribution if im not totally tired and
sweat after a gig.
What the most
craziest thing which ever have been taken place
on a concert with Göttemia?
Laurits:
Must be somwhere in
Czech Republic, or the Baltics.
Drunkass people
dancing around.. One time we played at some kind
of memorial concert for dead anti-fa guys. We
was told that it was a big chance that neo-nazis
was going to show up.
Guns, drunk anti-fas
and some kind of militant vegan-police solving
the drunkenness-problem with violence.
Another time we
played in the Basque, some kind of “midsommar”..
Total chaos, wich can be seen in our music video
Style.
Which type of people
comes to your concert?
Ricky:
The best kind. All
kinds. All ages.
Have you been playing
a lot outside Norway?
Laurits:
We have toured quite
much, Norway is a very long country, so when
living in the south east makes it more tempting
to go outa the country.
Rolph:
Denmark, Sweden,
Germany, Holland, France, Spain, Ireland,
Northern Ireland, Czech Republic, Slovakia,
Austria, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia,
Finland.
Please tell me a
little about the following songs?
-Vulva, gateway to
hell
Ricky:
Just a classic I hate
my life tale.
-Gulag/Living la vida
Lockdown
Ricky:
Killing boredom by
trying new selfharm/sexual activities
-Yack
Ricky:
Hating my adult life
and wife.
Future plans for the
band?
Laurits:
Try to play a bit
more in Norway and Sweden. We´re in the process
of writing new songs.
For yourself?
Laurits:
Keep on dying. Keep
on trying. Trying to have a good time. Play/make
more music.
Rolph:
Im a cat-person, iI
simply love those small artfull little dodgers,
so cute, I own 8 cats now. Perfect my
Fårikål skills:
Fårikål:
(Norwegian
pronunciation:
[ˈfòːrɪkɔɫ, ˈfɔ̀rːɪkɔɫ])
is a traditional
Norwegian
dish, and the country's
national dish.[1][2][3]
It consists of pieces of
mutton
with bone,
cabbage,
whole
black pepper
and occasionally a little
wheat flour,
cooked for several hours in a casserole,
traditionally served with
potatoes
boiled in their skins.
I do beer myself and
I really like beer. You haven´t any thoughts of
doing a Göttemia beer, if you do it what have it
been called and which type of beer would it have
been? Or maybe you´re straight edge?
Laurits:
We are a beer
drinking bunch, always been. Maybe a 6,5% Bock.
Götte-Bock. Hell yeah!
Rolph:
Göttemia Moonshine
sounds better!
Wisdomword?
Ricky:
Våga Böga
Laurits:
Life's a piece of
shit
When you look at it
Life's a laugh and
death's a joke, it's true
You'll see it's all a
show
Keep 'em laughin' as
you go
Just remember that
the last laugh is on you
And
Always look on the
bright side of life..
Rolph:
Fuck you! I drive a
VOLVO!
Something to add?
Ricky:
Laurits:
If you wanna book us,
please take
contact.laurits.mosseby@gmail.com
Rolph:
https://northwildkitchen.com/farikal-norwegian-lamb-cabbage-stew |