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KRISTIANSAND: I dag føyde bookingsjef Andy Inglis to nye band til Quarts festivalprogram, i tillegg til å svare på lesernes spørsmål. Tre nye navn vil bli annonsert på Quart sine hjemmesider senere i dag.

  • Thanks for all your questions! I need to go now and book some more bands, practice tie-knots, and drink more of your delicious tap water. Before I go, I’d like to announce two new additions to the bill. One who I’ve loved for a couple of years, and one who I just heard about, and many of you will know. Also, don’t forget to check quart.no later today for more band announcements.

  • Andy Inglis

SPANK ROCK (USA)

Spank Rock, eller Naeem Juwan, som han egentlig heter, lager crunk-hop beats i en salig blanding mellom hip hop og elektronika og er blitt beskrevet som en blanding mellom Beastie Boys, Beck og Missy. Hans første skive, YoYoYoYoYoYo, ble produsert av Armani XXXChange. Både YoYoYoYoYoYo og oppfølgeren Fabric Live 33, ble møtt med stående ovasjoner av musikkritikerne. Du kan sjekke ut Spank Rock her: http://www.myspace.com/spankrock

..and KEEP OF KALESSIN (NO)

"Keep Of Kalessin's brand of black metal is fast, brutal, and evil. Blackened thrash riffs are played at breakneck speed, but they also manage to sustain a lot of melody. Guitarist Obsidian C is the star of this show. The former Satyricon shredder delivers some really creative riffs and melodies. Their style leans more toward the old school, but the production is crystal clear and modern." - Aboutheavymetal.com

Du kan sjekke ut Keep Of Kalessin her: http://www.myspace.com/keepofkalessin

Les Andy Inglis svar på lesernes spørsmål her:

Releaseparty When Where?

Andy, when are you planning to make the releaseparty this year? Will it be in Oslo or Kristiansand? And what kind of artists are you planning to book?

Anders Olsen

Hi, Anders.

It’ll be both and we’ll let you know when, soon.

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Psychic TV

_Any chance of getting Genesis P-Orridge and his bunch to Quart, to keep up the tradition of high graded conroverses, which I think suits the festivals' reputation perfectly, thank u ..;-) I miss the 'uneasy-listening' bands..

Stein Leer_

Hey Stein.

That’s an idea. Maybe we can convince him to bring Throbbing Gristle along too¿

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Luminaire

_Who is responsible for the SAQ on The Luminaires website? Very funny!

Pål Wehus_

Hi Pål,

That was me! I wrote the whole thing. It makes a change from booking bands sometimes!

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Absent Elk

Currently signing up with Universal, under management with Steve Morton at AngelicUnion, Absent Elk will be launching their studio album summer/autumn on the UK market. They slightly resemble The Kooks, Franz Ferdinand and The Enemy. Although primarily Brighton based, their lead singer is from Grimstad just next to Kristiansand. Perhaps you could make a scoop by signing them for the Luminaire, then the Quart as well. What do you think?? I know of a fan base in Grimstad would be well pleased, heck a few of us might even come accross to the Luminaire as well... What do you think??

Best regards, Michael Mørland

Hi Michael,

Sounds good, please send me a link to some music online.

Thanks, Andy.

Save Quart

_The only thing that can save the quart festival is bands like coldplay, rhcp or metallica.... something reaaally hip... and the who is NOT hip... eventhough they’re famous as hell and we love em.. we must save the quart festival...

Petter Berg_

Hi Petter,

One of the problems is that bands like Metallica and Coldplay want enormous sums of money and they are becoming more likely to play big arena shows, where they get all of the ticket money, and they can control the production. Coldplay aren’t coming out until August and Metallica.. well, the money being asked for by Metallica was...

.. .a lot.

And aside from that, they’re not around in July.

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Which Festival is the best?

_Hi! which festival do you personally consider to be the most interesting when it comes to booking, location, program etc?

Ingrid Hansen_

All Tommorrow’s Parties and Dour are my favourite, Ingrid.

The both book awesome bands, don’t care about spending millions on big headliners and just focus on the whole even being the most exciting they can possibly create.

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The Daves

_would u be interested in booking The Daves(east london) to this years Quart festival? I think they will please you, and I can set u up with the guys if you’re interested. hear them on myspace.welovethedaves. good luck!

Sindre Grimestad_

Hello Sindre,

Send the myspace link to my andy@quart.no address and I’ll take a listen.

Thanks,

Andy.

Band Of Horses

_Hi, Andy. You are doing an impressive job so far. Band of Horses is touring Norway in march. Please make sure that they leave Norway with a signed Quart 08 contact :) I am not able to go to any of the shows in March so I hope to see them at a festival this summer. What about Coldplay as a headline with Band of Horses and Kent?

Jostein Andersen_

Hello Jostein,

I really like BOH and I promise you, if we don’t get them it won’t be because we didn’t try!

Andy

British football

_What british football team do you support, Andy? Celtic, Rangers, or maybe an english team?

Tommy Sveinungsen_

Well Tommy, I’m a big football fan, and used to follow Dundee United when I lived in Scotland, and also my local team, Falkirk. No English teams. I do go to a few games each year, but, I like to go to small clubs like Barnet where you can stand up and get close to the players and opposition supporters, and give them plenty of abuse. When the Norwegian season starts, I’ll watch Start. By the way, this is my favourite football quote of all time –

Der blåser han! Der blåser han! Norge har slått England 2-1 i fotball! Vi er best i verden! Vi er best i verden! Vi har slått England 2-1 i fotball! Det er aldeles utrolig! Vi har slått England! England, kjempers fødeland – Lord Nelson, Lord Beaverbrook, Sir Winston Churchill, Sir Anthony Eden, Clement Attlee, Henry Cooper, Lady Diana, vi har slått dem alle sammen, vi har slått dem alle sammen. Maggie Thatcher, can you hear me? Maggie Thatcher, jeg har et budskap til deg midt under valgkampen, jeg har et budskap til deg: Vi har slått England ut av verdensmesterskapet i fotball. Maggie Thatcher, som de sier på ditt språk i boksebarene rundt Madison Square Garden i New York: –Your boys took a hell of a beating! Your boys took a hell of a beating! Maggie Thatcher: Norge har slått England i fotball! Vi er best i verden! (Bjørge Lillelien)

Andy

The new Parko stage

_What kind of music are you planning to book on the Parko-stage. This is a great idea. Will it be for families and or will you have DJ's or rock or HipHop in the night?

Anders Olsen_

Hi Anders,

We’ve plans for the city, but we’re not quite ready to reveal them yet..

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Bookinghelp from Toffen and Øya

_Hello Andy! Great many bands you have booked, but not many that poeple have heard of before. Have you considered to ask Toffen or your friendship-partner Øya festivalen for help with the booking now?

Bjørge Teigen_

Ha ha!

Na, I think we’re quite capable. I know Claes and Arnt from Øya and so sometimes we meet in secret in a forest, under the cover of darkness, and talk about booking Metallica, U2 and Johnny Cash on the same stage..

Andy

The Enemy

_Thanks for booking the Enemy, they are absolutely amazing, one of my favourite bands at the moment. Did you catch them in BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge with Jo Whiley? Love the Madonna-cover, hehe. Anyway, I've got a HOT tip for you: Fleeing New York. Seen them live twice at Water Rats in King's Cross, they're great :-)

myspace.com/fleeingnewyork_

_Anyways, looking forward to Quart, hopefully I'll be able to go this year, If I'm not stuck in London... Nothing like the summer in Kristiansand. Well done on the booking so far, keep up the good work.

Toby Tellefsen_

Yeah FNY are really good Toby.

They’ve played my club a couple of times, but they’ve been pretty quite for a while. Thanks for the kind words, and good luck with the underground in London if you get stuck there in the summer!

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Still waiting

What bands will you release today? It's pretty exciting what you are doing to the festival. Who are your new bookings that will be released today?Christian Monson

Hang around for a few more minutes Christian and you’ll find out..

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Kool Keith

_Hi, Andy!

How do we know that Kool Keith really is coming? I saw his show at Blå this winter and it was DEFENETLY not him. Everybody I talked to said the same thing. He's got thousands of alias', always ware his golden mask and he is known to send other people to do his gigs. How do we know?Steinar Haaversen_

We found a sample of his DNA inside an SM58 microphone in a club in the Bronx in 1985. We’ve loaded in into a molecular scanner and when he arrives at the airport, we’ll see if it matches. If it’s not him, we’ll have him arrested and charged with hip-hop fraud.

Andy

Festival plans

_Hi! im already making festival plans for the summer. And It would really help me and many others out there, if you could tell us when we will see some headliners? Thanks in advance ;)

Hans Henriksen_

Hi Hans,

Yep, everyone’s asking me, and we’re asking the bands’ agents and as soon as we confirm them I’ll let you know. Or, I might just go around their offices see if they’ll confirm them in exchange for a lap-dance. Take a listen to the other bands we’re announcing too though. You’ll get to see some of the headliners of 2010, now..

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My bloody valentine

_You've booked Asobi Seksu, maybe you should go for the godfathers of Shoegazing; My Bloody Valentine or the recently reunited Swervedriver?Keep up the good work!

Inge Blankvandsbråthen_

Confirmed for Roskilde and Oya, today. Sadly for us, the deal they had with Roskilde meant that they couldn’t play in Norway at any point in July.If you fancy seeing Swervedriver, jump on a plane to London:

http://theluminaire.co.uk/live-music-February-2008-688.php?PHPSESSID=779fa423a56ae8d917cdaac0028f2e49

Thanks for the support Inge. It means a lot to us.

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Chillout area

_Hi Andy,

Can we please get a small stage in the chillout area this year? Arman van helden, fatboy slim, frankie wilde (if you can find him), tiesto, carl coxx..... I can remember when fat boy slim and basement jaxx came to town...

Maarten Berge_

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The Cult

_Hi Andy,

I wish you would concider booking The Cult, one of the coolest british bands ever. I've seen them live: It was awesome. Well, what do you say?Johan Andreas Bucj_

Hey, Johan,

I don’t think there’s a band we haven’t considered! Well, apart from the Spice Girls. We haven’t considered the Spice Girls.

Newsflash!

QUART NOT BOOKING SPICE GIRLS!

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Headliner

_Kent is a headliner for me. And so is Bo Kaspers. Get Bo Kaspers at the same day as Kent, it should be possible. It's silly to wish for STADIONBAND as Coldplay, Greenday and Metallica.

Ole Jonassen_

Hi Ole,

Do you want to join our PR team?

;)

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Ying and Yang

_Hey man. I gotta have just one questions for y'all: why did you move to this itsybitsy town and do the promotor-thing? Didn't yours club in London needs you? We are very happy, joy joy, for you being here, but then somebody has to be sorry for you not being there? You know, Ying and Yang...

Magne Knutsen_

Na, no-one misses me Magne.

No-one cares.

They threw a big party at Luminaire when I left, with huge banners that said ‘Piss off to Norway, Andy, where the air is clean and the people are civilised and the bands are great and the have Kvikk Lunsj.

Sure, I said.

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New Bands

_Hello, would it be possible that Mika and Plain White T's will be playing at Quart this year?

Anne Pettersen_

Hey Anne,

If this was a cheesy American TV show I’d be saying ”Stay tuned, Anne! Stay tuned!”

Lucky for you it’s not..

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Pakito

_Hey, what do you think about Pakito? Any chance you could get him? I really want to see him!

Kjell T. Ring_

Ah yes, Mr. Julien Ranouil.

I’ll pass this suggestion along to my colleague, who’s looking after some of the electronic programme for me.’

Thanks Kjell

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The Dykeenies

_Hi Andy,

Would you consider booking The Dykeenies? A cool up-and-comming Scottish band :-)

I wouldn't mind a ree-run of Flogging Molly either... Great bookings so far!! Keep up the good work

Espen Berge_

Hi Espen,

I’m aiming to bring a few of my countrymen and women over so let’s see what I can do¿

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Club-Quart

_Do you have any plans for ClubQuart?

Are Dahl_

Lots of plans Are. Lots of plans.

I’m a big fan of electronic music - I used to DJ and run clubs back in the rave days, so Club Quart is very important to me..

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Skral festival

_Hi Andy

What do you think about the great Skral festival in Grimstad? Do you comprehend them as a competitor to The Quart festival, as you probably do with Hovefestivalen.

Snorre Land_

Hey Snorre,

I haven’t been to Skral yet. I don’t look at festivals as competitors – I just try and stay focussed on this one, but for sure it doesn’t help that there are so many festivals in a small country, all trying to book the same bands. Norway has the same population as Scotland but there are far, far more festivals here.

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Money

_Hello Andy! Do you think it was wise that the board of directors allowed Jørgen to offer NOK 14.000.000 (GBP Sterling 1,3 mill Pounds) for two bands when the festival actually was broke?

Stewart Finnestad_

Hi Stewart,

Well, maybe it’s best to not believe everything you hear or read, but I’ll tell you this much– half of the people I talk to don’t care if we spend 999.000.000.000.000.000.000.000 on bands, as long as we get “headliners”, and the other half recognise that some of the bands are asking for far, far too much money.

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Unknown bands

_Hello Andy!

I’ve recently seen your booking of some rather unknown bands. (at least to ablot of norwegians) Anyways, I got told by some friends that some of them where really promising and "hot" regarding the future. Obviously the booking is far from finished, but is it a possibility that Quart'08 will be like the legendary Quart'96? I really hope you guys can nail the success this year. I really think you DO as well :)

Keep up the good work!!

Anders Olsen_

Thanks very much for the email Anders.

It’s great to read that people are willing to explore new music. At one point, U2, Metallica, REM.. every band was a new band. Every band was unheard.

So all it takes is for you to listen to one song by each band and then they’ll be known to you. I’m personally excited about Future of The Left, Three Trapped Tigers and¿ well, you’ll see who else I’m excited about when we release some bands at quart.no tonight..

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Single?

_Hi Andy,

How single are you? Are your nipples sensitive?

Maria Hotness_

Hahahahahahahaha!

Finally!

Someone has asked ”the question”! I’m 100% single, though my laptop would tell you we are married. And as far as the other thing is concerned...

I think I’ll respectfully say “no comment!”

Andy

Ties and knots

_Andy, since you are very into ties and knots, and Daniel has a thing with long scarfs. If Jørgen started wearing ribbons or something like that. Do you think this might be helpful in the bookingprocess? That you will look more like team.

Eyvind Finne_

Thanks very much for asking about tie knots, Eyvind.

It give me a chance to talk about them.

(you can all go and make a cup of tea for five minutes now)

Did you know that there are only 85 possible tie knots that can be tied? 13 are called the aesthetic knots, and the others are just variations on those.

If you’re interested (no.. I don’t think anyone is..), there’s a great book on tie knots:at amazon

I’m not sure I could ever get Jorgen into ties or ribbons though!

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IK Start?

_Who do you think is better? Glasgow Rangers or IK Start?

Anders Inlang_

The politician’s answer – IK Start! Go Start!

The truth – Glasgow Rangers. Sorry.

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