17-11-2012 Turbonegro

Venue: Klubi, Tampere (Finland)
By: Milla Smile

“Turbonegro” is that kind of band you’ve seen once you’ll never forget. The Norwegian band started its way to rock the world in the late 80’s, broke the punk mentality by “Apocalypse Dudes” right before Millenium and with a several renovations they back in denim this year with the ninth album “Sexual Harassement”. The “denim demons” manifested the own style of music as “deathpunk” and treated denim as new black (guess what kind of music could play Norwegians).

The overcrowded “Klubi” waited for return of Apocalypse Dudes and sang aloud “I got erection” (probably the most popular song written this band). When the curtains finally fell down the band saluted the audience-wearing-all-in-denim with “Hello darkness” and everyone gone wild. The absurdly looking musicians song by song beat out hell of equipment, audience, everything. You know the combination of the skillful and technically flawless punk rock music, sharp and ticklish lyrics with persons which made this music everyone wearing heavy make up as pinky blush and lipstick or heavy bright blue shadows all around the eyes is much explosive. And it was bombastic conversation between the band (mostly bass player Happy Tom and singer Tony Sylvester) and the audience. The old songs as “Get it on”, “All my friends are dead” or especially “I got erection” provided the real blast of crowd’s emotions. The last mentioned track sang with the might audience’s chorus in accompaniment and “wall of death” was also suitable for that moment. Can I mention word “touching” for the darkest songs such as “F**k the world” or “We gonna drop the atom bomb” with solid guitar solos? Because it was so and even more powerful. But not only the oldies were preferable, the new tracks welcomed very warm too. What could be wrong with the track, for example, named “Shake your s**t machine” while so massive arse shake itself from the stage. So there was punk. The culmination of bands’ performance was the returning for the first encore (yes, there were two) with “The Age of Pamparius” where singer Tony Sylvester shown up in royal stuff as crown and mantle. During the last and pretty dark track the only thing can hit your “no, it can’t be the last one”.

I could write something like if you are under 21, please, don’t read it and stay away from “Turbonegro” as far as you can! But don’t you dare do it!