With Arms Wide Broken
You probably haven't heard from This Sect in quite a while. Don't worry, it's not due to your growing paranoia and consequent isolation, but the simple fact that our guitarist Tomak broke his left arm.
The accident actually happened a couple of months back, but as Tomak is a Swede guy he chose to enroll in a very experimental new form of fracture treatment. As you can see in the picture, the medical trial involved plastering his entoire body to treat the broken limb. We don't know the scientific theories behind this (the doctor mumbled something about "healing through frustration"), but the fact remains that it took Tomak's arm almost twice as long as normal to heal.
A bit frustrating for the rest of the band, as we had to let him set up his annoying Casio Rapman for band practice. Believe us, there's nothing worse than a man in body cast flopping his broken arm on that "scratch disc".
But all this is in the past now. Tomak is free from the cast and has shaved off his goatee. We have started to practice on a regular basis again and have actually churned out a few secty new tunes. This Sect hopes you're still a sectist by heart and we promise to keep you up to date and musically satisfied in the time to come!
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In addition, there's also the paintings based on unpublished amateur photos from Sex Pistols' infamous concert at Oslo's Pingvin Club, in the summer of '77.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.
Dagbladet did a nice article on the Adbusters-release. Sweet!
But all this is in the past now. Tomak is free from the cast and has shaved off his goatee. We have started to practice on a regular basis again and have actually churned out a few secty new tunes. This Sect hopes you're still a sectist by heart and we promise to keep you up to date and musically satisfied in the time to come!
