The Inebriated Diary of The Tremolo Beer Gut
by Sune Wagner

On Saturday April 15th we gathered in Kastrup Airport. Our destination was London! A very big thing had happened.... The Man Himself - The King - The Godfather of Us All - Mr. Jon Fucking Spencer and Mrs. Christina Martinez had asked us to play with Boss Hog on the North European leg of their tour. Without hesitation we accepted the offer, scraped together a bit of the ol' cash, said bye to family and friends and found ourselves there at the airport of Copenhagen. Right from the start, this week of our lives turned out to be very interesting, a week where we learned a lot about ourselves and - even more so - a lot about eachother!

When the plane took off from Copenhagen, 5 happy people leaned back and enjoyed themselves. The only problem being that we had booked 6 tickets for this flight, and this is where Per Sunding enters the equation - and he will do so many times in this story. Per Sunding aka "The Swede" did not make the plane!!!! Curiously, nobody had the slightest idea where he was. An hour and a half later we found ourselves in Heathrow - one bassist short - in dire need of a fucking Pint! Per arrived on the next plane and we spent the rest of the evening under the influence of alcohol! At this point I have to point out, that none of us has ever been the object of such a quick flow of nick names as did Per aka "Verschwunding" aka "Liget i Øresund" aka "Øresunding" aka "The Psychopath".... On monday the 17th we were on stage in London - the first gig on the tour. London Astoria 2 was packed with eager Englishmen and ladies, and they got their Pounds worth. A Team of Tremolo in very good form entered the stage in such a fucking wild manner that even the most boring Limey bastard had to succumb to our charm and enthusiasm! In other words.... We kicked the ass of the Brits! Boss Hog did a nice show too, but anyone that had just witnessed a killer Tremolophonic outburst knows that.... need I say more?

TBG rocking the house at the LA2 As we sat on the plane to Amsterdam the next morning, we again had to realize the astounding genius of Per Sunding. During the night he had lost his suitcase and all his treasured belongings in a taxi cab in London! As we flew over the English Channel we were in a hung over state of euphoria, and we had to take to the small bottles of Wine (Swine) the Brittish Airways so generously distribute to perverts like us. After all this is the patented Sune Wagner cure for heavy hang overs!

When we arrived in Amsterdam we were pretty inebriated and it was just after Noon. Amsterdam was so inviting in the nice spring sunshine, that Yebo had to do the only right thing to do: Order 5 big Heineken, which we enjoyed at the airport. The rest of the afternoon was spent on the town square near the Melkweg venue, where we had more beers and exotic Dutch dishes such as Garnalen and Lapping.

The Show that night was once more an actionpacked megasucces and the stoned Dutch audience witnessed a show of the most delicious kind! After the concert Jengo and Yebo got a crash course in the local herbs and stole 2 double whopper meals at the nearby Kurger Bing. Once again, very very early the next morning, we sat in a plane. This time heading for ol' CPH. We had a few hours in Copenhagen to get some strings and Yebos drums and some new "Surfer Girl" t-shirts. Unfortunately we were not playing in Copenhagen, as Boss Hog had booked the only Scandi gig in Malmö, where Per was on solid ground on his own turf .... NOT! The Swedes chose to stay home and... and ... what the hell do we know? KB wasn't even half full and we played a half shabby gig - and the audience loved it anyway! Leaving all that aside we ended up back home in copenhagen at Hong Kong in Nyhavn dancing and drinking like crazy! The Beer Gut had flown enough, and the next day Sunding picked us up in a top notch Swedish car with OK leg space - and he even got there on time!!!!! Rud - our main man - joined the group as driver, and we set out for Hamburg loaded with buckets of high spirits and a few bottles of Swine! In Hamburg 2 hard core Tremolo-fans Heike and Crille (we love ya) had arranged a big The Tremolo Beer Hog After Party. The German audience showed to be very supportive even before the show, and - o! - what a wonderful show! The Markthalle was filled with cool Germans on this evening (Hitlers Birthday as it turned out - we thought of a lot of Hitler jokes but decided against using them...). We felt success in the air as we entered the stage with a bang, and our expectations of the Germans came true: they were chocked and shaken as you can understand. They especially loved our respectful version of Kraftwerk's "Das Modell" and also the cover of Sonic Youth's "Death Valley '69". Christina Martinez from Boss Hog had promised to do this song with us, but didn't make our show, but we got our revenge the night after in Berlin! Boss Hog did their very best show in Hamburg and there were plenty of reasons for a intensive night "On the Bottle" at our very own party at the Repperbahn: The Tremolo Beer Hog After Party. The Germans were certainly not shy about putting a lot of booze into their cocktails. We all mingled with Spencer and Co. and had a terrific time at the dance floor and on the tables! Man of the day must be Yebo who passed out on the edge of his bed after a delinquent visit to a Türkish Döner Shop - almost naked in his shorts and with his pants hanging from his right foot. A perfect end to a fabulous night! Berlin - last gig on the tour (for our part) - turned out to be in a league of it's own. After a 20 minute version of "Death Valley '69" where Christina once again "didn't make it" to the stage, we had to see ourselves beat... we thought. But when Boss Hog ended their encores under heavy applause, the audience refused to stop clapping and cheering even though the houselights went on, and they put a tape on the PA. After 15 minutes of this, we realized we HAD to go back BOTH bands and do the long awaited version of "Death Valley". Spencer chose to do the front of the house sound on the superior constellation of The TBG featuring Hollis and Christina on vocals, Mark on keyborads and Jens watching from the side - smiling (for once!!!).

And - O! - what a magnificent version we did, an orgy of all the rules of noise, a pearl, no less! Sonic Youth would have been proud as popes had they witnessed such an intimate, intense masterpiece, lasting half an hour. [The last bit is in Danish as it is not translatable] Lydeffekter fløj som de fucking for vildeste kamikazepiloter rundt i salen, det var - i ordets egentlige forstand den fucking for vildeste optur siden farmor døde!!!

TBG meets Jon Spencer at the CMJ, USA
by Crunchy Frog

As a special addition to the Crunchy Frog show case on this year’s CMJ Music Marathon in NYC (where both superhereos and Learning From Las Vegas are also playing) The Tremolo Beer Gut will hit the states for the first time. The gig will be at Luna Lounge in Ludlow St (near the corner of E. Houston St.) on saturday 18th September at 4pm. If you happen to be anywhere near there, don’t miss it!!! The Beer Gut just released their debut album in May, and has also already been released in Japan this summer. The band pretty soon reached the #15 on the hit list at the Beach-radio in Tokyo. This is a station only broadcasting on the many beaches in the Tokyo area which have 100s of 1000s of visitors every week. What could be more approproiate than listening to Tremolo chilling on the beach?

Sune and Yebo surfin’ away at their latest gig at VibraCrunch. A red hot and pretty damned inebriated performance that was the culmination of the many gigs Tremolo played in Denmark and Sweden during summer. And now the US of A - the birthplace of both surf, western and garrage rock - will be the next stretch of beach for the Tremolo guys to conquer. Yebo, Jengo and Per will meet up with Sune who is already residing in Seattle, Washington, where he is forming a new band after Psyched Up Janis broke up this summer. Much against their ordinary style the band just might do a small rehearsal before the New York show (this summer they played 10 gigs and rehearsed only once!!! damn professionals!). The reason for this break with a fine tradition is the pretty big possibility for Mr. Jon Spencer from The Mighty Blues Explosion being in the audience.

When JSBX played a gig in Malmö in the spring, Magnus from The Cardigans - who is himself a devoted Tremolo listener - handed over some copies of "The Inebriated Sounds of The Tremolo Beer Gut" to the Blues Exploders. Then nothing happened for a long time. Then suddenly 2 days before JSBXs show at Århus Festuge in Denmark their manager called the danish promoter and asked if Tremolo could support the gig. Unfortunately Sune had just gone to the US, and Jengo was in Paris (for once...!) so the band was much against their will (and wildest dreams) unable to play. But Yebo decided to take fate into his own two trembling hands, and went straight to Århus to give Spencer, Bauer & Simmins some vinyl singles that features songs not available on the album.

When he finally met with Mr. Rock himself it turned out that Jon Spencer is a great fan of the Tremolo album. Can you believe that? Yebo couldn't, but he had to deal with the unreality of it all later, as Spencer asked 100 questions about the record, and praised both the Tremolo songs and the Tremolo sounds. Well, if The Tremolo Beer Gut had to pick only one person in the whole freakin' Universe that they wanted to like their record, it would definitely be Jon Spencer. Not too fucking shabby at all! The O'l Tremolo Beer Experience at the CMJ show case. The Tremolo Beer Gut tries the local brew at McSorleys Ale House - the oldest bar in New York. Damn fine beer. Mr. Jon Spencer of the Blues Explosion showed up together with his soundman, and enjoyed Tremolo's gig at Luna Lounge. you can't get a cooler audience than that!