Hell, I am lucky enough to make a gig report of the most cult
and underground gigs of the year 2003. As a matter of fact, only 200 people have seen that, and I feel forever honoured to
have been invited at Tore's 30 years birthday party!!! That OLD FUNERAL should play there with the reunion of the
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line-up, only for this gig, was a surprise. But hell, Tore was kind enough to tell it to me before... And how do
you want me not to become crazy while knowing that in advance???? Tore on guitar,
Olve / Abbath on bass and vocals, and of course Padden on drums... Argh, they haven't played a gig
together since 1991 or 1992. Can you imagine that? To give you an impression of the
total class of Tore and his band mates, I have to tell you a bit what happened to me
before I arrived at the place.
I was with a friend of mine and we had to take the bus to go to the birthday party place that is 35 minutes south from
Bergen, lost between two mountains, not so far from Lysekloster (where the picture of the first
IMMORTAL cover has
been taken). But we took the wrong bus and had to walk something like 5 or 6 kilometers in order to find this fucking
place we didn't know how it loooked like. Luckily we managed to find it, but the OLD FUNERAL gig had already taken
place!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAARRRRGGGHHHH!!!! We just missed the cult for one hour! I was happy to have
found the place and to meet Tore as well as some oher dudes, but quite disappointed
to have missed the most cult thing of this evening. When I told to Olve and Tore that I had not seen OLD FUNERAL, they
said it was possible that they take their instruments one more time... WHICH THEY FUCKING DID!!!!!!!!! Incredible! These guys
played the OLD FUNERAL gig again only for two french loosers! Can you imagine that? And once they were on stage, Tore
dedicated the gig to me!!!!! Argh! I will never forget this moment! Actually the stage had a drape
with the word "ALLRIGHT" written on, behind the drums. This because Tore is always saying
this word, maybe one time per sentence! hahah! He's such a fucking fan of MOTÖRHEAD that he always says this word! And then the
concert began with a cover of the almighty CELTIC FROST: 'Procreation Of The Wicked'. AAAAARRGGHH!! I think that
I could have died at this moment already! Uh! Uhrgh! As I am too 
young for having seen the true CELTIC FROST on stage, I
enjoyed this song covered by another cult band! And believe me it was the pure mayhem in the small audience!
Hahhah! I made Tore drinking beer while he played the guitar, and did a lot of stage diving! Ha ha ah!
The Norwegian aren'´t used to this tradition it seems, but still they received my shoes in their
faces! Hahahahaah!!! And then the guys played the OLD FUNERAL song from the "Abduction
Of Limbs" demo called "Skin And Bones"... Olve was totally brilliant, he's really a
great showman.
Showing the tongue and playing
on his knees like Gene
Simmons of KISS!!! Tore was quite furious too... I guess that the only thing he had in mind while playing was something
like: "Alright! Alright! All fucking right! Alright!" Haahahahah! Oh did I mention that
Padden did the backing vocals on the CELTIC FROST cover? No? Well it's done now!
Ha! And this was totally cult when the end of the 'Skin And Bones' song arrived, because Olve began to break his bass on the
stage like Cronos... Total madness!!!!! Yeah that was quite short, and only one song of OLD FUNERAL
has been played at this event, but hey, it was worth to see, believe me! And after that, Tore began to
play with his girlfriend on the bass, and Pez on the drums with his MOTÖRHEAD cover band called BOMBERS!!! It was fucking cool to
hear all the Lemmy's classics. Of course Grutle from ENSLAVED took the microphone on
'We Are The Roadcrew', and Olve sung on 'Ace Of Spades' if my memory isn't failing! It's
incredible how this man is able to sing like Lemmy himself... a great moment of Rock'n'Roll!!! The
crowd was totally drunk and I have to admit that I never saw such a moving and banging
Norwegian crowd! Hahahah!!! After the BOMBERS show, the band LOST AT LAST took the stage
and began to play cover songs of WASP, JUDAS PRIEST, ACCEPT and stuff like that... But
I can't tell you too much about that, as my brain was bathing in alcohol, and my stomach was
busy to reject any relief of food that was inside it! Hahahahaha!!!! Anyway, it was a hell of a party, believe me!!!!
And the organization was fucking perfect. I can't thank Tore enough for having done such a cult party. Yeah it was far
from the usual birthday parties where we all got bored to death with shitty music and stuff!
Ha! This was a total cult to Rock'n'Roll! AAAAAAALLLLLLRRRIIGGGHHHHHTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!