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News from FABS Fanclub...
The FABS has released a new cd with a collection of 26 recordings from 1967-2008, 10 with Norwegian and 16 with English texts, 72 min. The FABS has composed all the songs on this album. FABS is mostly a prog-rock group, with a sound and style similar to a mix of Jimi Hendrix, Cream and Doors, but also with a touch of punk .
The cd includes 4 punk cuts, earlier released on the first Norwegian punk-single from august 1979, by FABS with Graxelaget. A.o.t. these recordings were in the 1980s frequently played on Radio Libertaire in Paris. Three of the punk cuts from the cd were played on the punkradio Aggresso in Bergen, together with an interview with Timian Sabatini, the primus motor of FABS, in September and October 2008. The latest recordings on the cd are "Highway To Anarchy" (2008) and "We're Gonna Change The World (2004). The cut "Feit Føderal Pønk" from the cd was listed among the beste records of the last 6 months and played on the punkradio Aggresso's X-mas special. Also a book about FABS is released, with the collection cd and Norway's first rock-video/dvd, "Monter" 28 min. featuring FABS with the Culture Syndicate from 1968, and interviews, pictures, different line-ups, lyrics, etc. The book was updated with new material in September 2009.
In the early days the band had jobs at Club 7, Rondo, Poppy Club, Drop in etc. in Oslo, but played mostly in Follo where it was based. The band was also interviewed several times, a.o.t. in Det Nye. The FABS hold a releaseparty for the book and the collection cd 01.11.2008, and it was a great, full booked, party. FABS also played live, besides presenting the collection cd plus the book.
Recordings from the live concert, including a.o.t. "Anarchy In Oslo" and "Anarchy Bird And Butterfly Revisited", were released on a cd in the autumn 2009. The new cd called "Punk Out For Fans Only", also includes two new (2009) compositions, called "Punk In" and "Punk Out", recorded in June & July 2009, the interview with Timian Sabatini at the punkradio Aggresso, and some older live material, punk and some pre-punk recordings.
"Punk In" and "Punk Out" are both inspired by early Kinks, Sex Pistols, FABS' opera-punk and the 1966 record Objections Overruled, and given a new FABS punk-dimension updated per 2009, with a clear anarchist message. Click and play "Punk Out": http://www.anarchy.no/fabs1.mp3 . The Anarchist International's Culture Syndicate has called "Punk Out", "the best punk record of the world so far in 2009/10" , and "the new year tune 2010". Feel free give us a feedback regarding "Punk Out" and tell us what you think about the record - click on the mailform below, and write and post a comment!
The FABS hold a releaseparty for the cd "Punk Out For Fans Only" 19.09.2009, and it was a great party, with a "Punk In And Sing Out" program. The cut "Punk In" from the cd was played on the punkradio Aggresso in Bergen Wednesday 23.09.2009.
The FABS is now working on "FABS Suite: Anarki I Norge [Anarchy In Norway]", mostly instrumental, but also with some lyrics in Norwegian, with rock, punk and ballade parts. It will be released on a cd in 2010 or 2011 and is planned to be about 25-30 minutes long. Thus, this will be a major composition from the FABS.
The FABS 1967-2008 collection cd and "Punk Out For Fans Only" cost 160 NOK each in record shops and are distributed by Atle Skift's recordshop. The book included the dvd "Monter" costs 600 NOK ordinarily, plus postal charge for sending it to you, but both the book and the cds are available from FABS Fanclub with 10% discount.
Membership of FABS Fanclub is free - join today (see below)! Members of FABS Fanclub receive e-mails with updated news about FABS, and can buy posters, records, etc., at discounted rates!! Order the FABS book or the cds alone today!!! To the press: Interviews etc. with Timian Sabatini can be arranged by contacting FABS Fanclub.
Anarcho-punk greetings from
A. Kristoffersen
for
FABS Fanclub
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