“Norwegian Dada punk sounds like the next great thing,” it was written about Pushwagnergruppen when only the demos were out. Just one year later, the world’s only Dada-punk band has released two albums and overturned stages all across Norway.
After the band’s ruff-collared frontman, Surrealismus, had smashed yet another valuable painting during the Bukta Festival in Tromsø, one could hear Eagles of Death Metal’s frontman thunder: “If you don’t know this band, you’re a fucking idiot.”
Pushwagnergruppen brings DADA back, with Honningbarna’s Edvard Valberg on one track, comedian and artist Amir Asgharnejad on another, and two alpacas on the next. Surrounded by a new Twenties, we are once again in the interwar years. Pushwagnergruppen heals you from it, even though they are completely useless, just like everything else in life, even though they have no pretensions, just as life itself should have none.
The band consists of Spellemann Award–winning Tor-Arne Vikingstad aka DA GAMA on bass (Sløtface, Embla & The Karidotters), Per Åsmund Reymert aka TAM-TAM on drums (Dead Movie Animals, Despereaux, THE IV), and Geir Magne Staurland aka SURREALISMUS on vocals.
