Saturday came around, and I, being hungover for the fourth time in five days, was exhausted. As I pulled my curtains and discovered that the rain was pouring down, the motivation to head over to the festival to stand rainsoaked in a crowd of equally tired people waned some more.
Neverthless, I’m a brave dude, and [...]

Datarock has been touring the world for years now since releasing their self titled debut album in 2005. It’s been working out well for them thus far, and as long as crowds have showed up to concerts and the album has gradually gotten a bigger release, the band has avoided pressure from their label to [...]

I have no idea what on earth happened. Jay Reatard traveled the 4500 miles from Oslo, played for thirty minutes, but probably within that time frame played more songs than any other band at Øya, did some eh, crowdpleasing, and left.
The current face of punk rock is not one to make any compromises, and he [...]

A few years ago, there was a lot of talk in Norway about a wave coming in from Bergen, a city amidst seven mountains in the west. That wave is currently pummeling the Øya festival with awesome power and might.
Previously mentioned Lars Vaular was the first installment, but yesterday was really the day when absolutely [...]

Oslo is going haywire weatherwise lately. At about 3 am Tuesday, I woke up thinking my apartment had exploded. It turned out to be the most ridiculously loud thunder I have ever heard. And after a splendid day at the Øya Festival yesterday where I was mumbling disappointingly to a friend of mine that I [...]

Kåre and the Cavemen is undoubtedly the most classy rockers around. Dressed in matching turtlenecks on stage and delivering smooth instrumental surf rock. I was my friend Judy who is fashionably in love with Knut Schreiner, the lead guitarist, and who would just not stop smiling throughout the show. And who can blame her.
Knut [...]

I’t 5.30pm on Tuesday and I’m in the lobby of a movie theater, having beer and popcorn watching Lars Vaular, the hands down most gifted Norwegian rapper as of today performing a short and sweet set on a small stage set up just for this. His lyrics are Norwegian, but that didn’t stop the SXSW [...]

… which is actually deceptive, because contrary to the Bukta Festival which takes place in Tromsø, on the same latitude as northern Alaska, the Øya Festival kicks of in the capitol of Norway, Oslo. We have the light version of the midnight sun, meaning it gets dark in the summer, only not for very long. [...]