| ...sometime back in 1980 in
the suburbs of Malmö in south of Sweden. In a small dusty room four guys
are doing their best to play their instruments. Per on guitar and
Fjalle screaming vocals...they call their band
Moderat LikvidationMeanwhile in
Malmö City bands like Hjärnsubstans and Black Uniforms are doing the very
same. Hjärnsubstans had Stefan on drums and Sami played the
bass, while Cliff was the drummer in Black Uniforms.In 1981 Per and
Fjalle starts to hang out with the punx in Malmö. They often meet up in a
cellar behind the central station where bands like R.P Savoy(where both
Cliff and Stefan have played drums), Black Uniforms, Sterila Stenciler and
Cell 13 (Tobbe) among others rehearsed, or just hanged around. Soon
Sami and Stefan joined Per and Fjalle in Moderat Likvidation. Songs like
10 Timmar and Brända Celler are being made.In the beginning of -82 Sami
got tired of the bass, and hung up his bondagepants in a closet somewhere.
His substitute was Cliff, who quit drumming for Black Uniforms, to pick up
the bass in M.L. The band does two rehearsals at a pigfarm in Svingsta
before they make a chaotic gig on a youth recreation centre in Malmö,
supported by bands like Disaster and Hjärnsubstans(now with Tobbe). The
newspaper the day after had a story about punk, disorder and discharged
fire extinguishers! This year Moderat Likvidation also makes their first
studiorecording at Startrack Studios in Malmö. They record Nitad, White
rastas, Hiroshima, Marionett i kedjor, Proggrebell, Brända celler, Tio
timmar and Enola gay. The songs end up on different compilation cassettes
and- years later- cd´s. There is also a cassette-release called "Before
EightyFour", but none of the guys knew where it came from!? Songs are
played on the radio and now people starts to hear about Moderat
Likvidation for real.Sometime during 1983 Fjalle
quits and get replaced by Tobbe. The band started to get more gigs now,
among other things they play as main attraction in Malmö Folkets Park- two
times the same year. They feel ready to hit the studio (Startrack) again
and they record the songs Nitad, Sprängd, Dödens Barn, Tio Timmar, Enola
Gay and Atombomb. This recording became the original 7` ep, much thanks to
Per who made an effort gathering money to this selfpaid album.Only
4 days later(!) it was time for M.L to record again. This time it was a
recording paid by the Swedish National Radio, which took place at the
Victoria Theater in Malmö. The songs this time was Köttahuve, KKK, Sne 83,
SPD and Våld. When it was done they realized they had 10 minutes left of
the time given. In this 10 minutes they wrote music and lyrics for the
song Anti Fag. The most difficult part in this was to prevent Tobbe from
laughing when singing the lyrics. It didn´t fully succeed, which can be
heard in the song. This recording became the cassette Anti Fag Music,
which made some people wanna discuss the meaning of the title.They
now started to have a more intense period of gigs. Memorable among others
are two gigs in Göteborg with Anti Cimex. There was also a gig in
Helsingborg where a bunch of nazi-skinheads showed up and wanted to
discuss the song Köttahuve (Meathead), which was all about…naziskins. This
“discussion” took place in a dark alley after the gig. However, when Tobbe
started waving with a Magnum 44 they didn´t wanna “talk” anymore but ran
away. They didn´t know it was a plugged gun. There was a story about this
incident in a local paper, and nobody knew how it got there!?. But the
outcome was to the punk-rockers satisfaction, cause there were less
incidents like this afterwards. This story is the reason why "Tobbe=Clintan"
was carved out on the original EP (Clintan= swedish nickname for Clint
Eastwood). After some gigs in -84 Stefan quits the band. The band finds
another drummer and continues playing more gigs...they also have some
plans about changing their name to Liquidation, and to start playing songs
with english lyrics. They write the songs Soldier Without Fear and Speed
Trap but finds no time recording them. There’s a big turbulence in the
Malmö punk scene these days and things are not quite the same anymore and
in the end of -84 Cliff leaves the band.Tobbe and Per continues for a
little while, selling the EP, raising a few more gigs with a stream of
different band members (even Fjalle got back a short moment to play bass)
– none of them able to match the successful combination of Stefan and
Cliff. These turns by the end of their career was most unfortunate, for
about the same time as the saga of Moderat Likvidation ends, their work
had finally started paying off. By late spring 1985, when Tobbe and Per
finally gives up and dissolves the band, they were requested for touring
in Finland, England and Italy.But as the guys in M.L.
says: “We were never into becoming famous, we just had a Good time playing
punk rock, getting pissed and raising hell”. Ironically history has proven
them wrong, and despite their anti-heroic attitude (or maybe thanks to it)
the name of Moderat Likvidation has reached out around the globe as a
signum for early 80’s Scandinavian hard core punk. (r.i.p). But..the corpse was not completely dead and late 2005 the band made an official website to gather all the true facts in one place. They also collect the old tapes, re mastered them at Cutting Room in Stockholm and re issued all the stuff at Havoc Records in the end of 2006.In the end of 2007 the corpse finally decided to crawl up from the grave for another round. Circumstances suddenly made it possible for the the guys to get together again and...one thing led to another and suddenly they end up rehearsing again, having more fun than ever. Dejv from the old punkband Puke joined to pick up the bass and the band makes a successful reunion gig 26/1 2008 in Lund. More to come... |
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