May 12 - AG3

Trondheim had an active punk rock scene. Like I said a couple of days ago, Sex Pistols visited, and there was no shortages of multicolored mohawks and creative uses for safety pins. The music scene was also thriving, but no band became as big as Wannskrækk, which later changed their name to Dumdum Boys. They started in 1978, right on the heels of the big Sex Pistols revolution, and their final transitional recordings were in 1985, although their final concert was in 1984. That meant that I was a little too young to see them live, but I made up for that later with seeing Dumdum Boys quite a few times.

Wannskrækk was simply a great band. The live recording of their farewell show (still not available on CD, unfortunately) shows that it was the case both live and on their two studio recordings, 12" from 1982 and the single Faen Kuler Treffer Aldri Riktig from 1981. The song of the day is from the latter, AG3.