Turbonegro @ The Liquid Room

We're abnormal Norwegians rocking harder than any other band in town. And people like the Turbonegro live show, so now our intensity and visual extremes have become a ritual, a good ritual. Fans have a clear expectation, and have told us that if we changed our show it would be like the Pope changing the liturgy. The Turbonegro ritual is inspired by Northern European cabaret, by the decadence and sexual frivolity of Weimar Republic cabaret. Anathema to us is pretentiousness. I hate the idiotic fad of 'for real'-ness in music now: look behind the surface and you just see middle class kids posing. It's a similar romance to that of Hitler's Germany – the worst. All of us in Turbonegro know our references, and we're proud that we know what we're doing. We steal from the best and better it to make great rock 'n' roll. It's revolution with a smile, raising a finger to the man and mooning the system. Come rock with us. [Hank from Hell]