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Det eneste som er ulovlig i denne burgerbaren er smaken på maten. Her får du nemlig Oslos

råeste burgere.

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Den bittelille burgersjappa er også en bar og en nattklubb. Man skulle ikke tro det var plass til så mange her, men på kveldstid i helgene er det faktisk god plass til både å spise og danse. Illegal er naboen til The Villa og det er mulig å danse til og fra de to stedene i helgene.De har også en kullgrill på kjøkkenet griller kjøttet perfekt. Menyen er liten, men det er lik-evel vanskelig å bestemme seg for hvilken burger man vil spise fordi alle ser så himla gode ut! Det er litt enklere å velge tilbehør, det eneste man får er supergode potetbåter med aioli. Burgerne er laget av 100 % storfekjøtt og sausene er hjemmelaget. Du kan også få burgerbrød av fullkorn og er du vegetarianer kan alle burgerne erstattes med økologisk vegetarburger.Interiøret er lyst og delikat og prisene er rimelige.

Illegal burger er også kjent for sin profil innen design. Med flotte fargesprakende menyer, pak-kepapir, emballasjer og ikke minst interiøret.Designerne bak profilen er det oslobaserte designbyrået The Metric System.

Så er du sulten en dag, eller en dag derpå, trenger imøtekommende personer til å lage maten din, god service, hyggelig klientell og ikke minst en fantastisk god hamburger, er Illegal Burger helt klart et godt alternativ.

Besøksadresse: Møllergata 23, Oslo.

Illegal burger ligner ikke på noe annet sted i oslo. dette er en vennlig burgerbar med velsmakende burgere, ølservering og dansegulv.

tekst ditt oslo foto kristian bakken

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Illegal burger byr på fersk og hjemmelaget mat. Og det er også mulig og ta seg en halvliter når du først er innom

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Interiøret er fresht og rent. Ikke alltid man ser det ettersom det er mange som spiser her

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Menyen er enkel, med bare 7 forskjel-lige burgere. Men de er også knallgode

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Anthony Gonzales er endelig klar med opp-følgeren til mesterverket Saturdays = Youth fra 2008. Med Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming! har franskmannen overgått seg selv med sin fantas-tiske drømmepop. Singelen Midnight City må jo være årets låt og vi får frysninger på ryggen av saksofonen i slutten. På dette albumet har han blant andre jobbet med produsent Justin Meldal-Johnsen (Beck, Nine Inch Nails, The Mars Volta) og øvrige bidragsytere er  Zola Jesus, Brad Laner på gitar og Saturdays = Youth vokalist Morgan Kibby. M83 spilte for et utsolgt John DEE i 2008 og nå gleder vi oss til en magisk kveld på Rockefeller!

Billetter fås kjøpt på www.billettservice.no

Han er aktuell med det kritikerroste albumet ”hurry up, we`re dreaming!” Og nå kommer M83 til Rockefeller!

SATURDAYS = YOUTHVirgin Records2008

Hurry up, We’re DreamingNaive records2011

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-Hello Sacha how are you?

-Well, I don’t know. Not so good. And you?

-I’m good. So, what do you do Sacha?

-Im eating crabstick salad with bread haha. what do you mean exactly?

-haha, I mean what’s your occupation? Your work?

-What brings me money to survive is tattooing, but painting is my work. But it doesn’t bring me any money.

-How long have you been tattooing for?

-I opened a shop in 94. In Strasbourg. Its still open and called primitive abstract, but before this I was just making some crap. I started in 92 maybe. Spending some time in the faculty des plastique in sasbourg which is an art school.

-Why did you start tattooing?

-because I wanted tattoos on myself, and it was the job that the capitalistic society offered me, to bring me money. I wanted to do something I could appreciate, and i wanted to look myself in the mirror and think that this is interesting to do for me.

-Why did you choose the old school tattoo-ing style?

-Where I come from in France there was abso-lutely no tradition of tattooing. The first shop opened in 1960-something which is quite late compared to London, Copenhagen or Hamburg where you’ve had tattoo shops since 1880. So tattooing in france 20 years ago was totally lame. Because they skipped all this roots of electric old school tattooing. People didn’t know about it. So for me it was a form of art which I thought was misunderstood and totally free.Because tattoos were misunderstood in general. Tattoos were shit for fucked up people. For the

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scum of the society. In this way of artistic expression, because I think it is an art, there was absolutely not a single institution control-ling this stuff. So I looked at it like a very free landscape, and I think i was right, now tattoo-ing has exploded. Everybody has tattoos, many people wants to be tattoo artists, and it’s cool to have tattoos. Before it wasn’t cool. You were a shitbag if you had it then. Just like people can mistake me for being something I’m not, just because of some ink underneath my skin.

But the tattoo world itself can be lame, because people is trying to control it. There’s for exam-ple a institution in france who controls it now.Because I see it as a total art form, an expres-

sion of freedom. And for the people who wears them, they express freedom, but for the tattoo-ist its not a totally free landscape. You always build a tattoo with and for your costumer. But if you build up your own iconographic universe then you will have costumers that understands what you are doing, and then you will feel free tattooing the right customers that choose you.

-How did you learn how to tattoo?

-When you went into a tattoo shop and asked to learn, they would throw you out. And I was young and I thought I knew everything about anything. So I Iearned it by myself, and made a lot of mistakes. And it took a long time for

me to understand, but later I was traveling a bit and I met other tattoo artists who showed me how it works.

-So, how did you end up in Norway?

-In france they didn’t understand my work. Be-cause I’d say that copying stuff even if its well done, is a total lack of interest for me. So due to the shortness of history of tattooing in france, I mean now its better, but some years ago people didn’t understand old school. They think that if you draw bold lines and bold color stuff you weren’t able to copy realistic stuff and making portraits and so on. But It’s just technique and tracing paper. So, as i forbidded myself for many

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years to look at things and drawing them, I started to draw them in a rough simple way. So it was hard for me to get recognition of my style in France. Because i didn’t make these no-outline-greyshaded portraits and so on.

What I think is hard when it comes to tattoo-ing is when it comes to technique itself. Like stitching in proper lines and solid color.This is technically hard. So I think that comparing, not speaking about the creative part, but comparing the making of a traditional old school tattoo with bold lines and solid color or to copy a realistic portrait without outlines. The traditional old school style is harder. That is the reality. But the people who have absolutely no knowledge

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in imaging in general, they will understand very easily which road you have to take from an im-age, to copy it and then you will see the result, its easy to understand for the people and they will be impressed. But this is very mainstream because to build up your own world and know-ing how to compose and balance images, that’s real work. This is art. You can spend all your life working, working and working to become a good technician, but if you don’t have the feeling of this balance you wont get it.

-Where did you start tattooing in Oslo?

-I started at lucky 7 with Pero, my friend. He helped bringing me here. I came here a lot of

times and was working at this shop. I had a lot of costumers, and met a lot of nice people. And I enjoyed it a lot. But then I was fed up with my life here and I’d been saying the last 15 years that I don’t wanted to live in france but i was always there. So I came here more often, and the people i knew said “oh, your gonna end up here man”, And I said never. Then I met a chick who gave me the strength to move out of my life in france, so I came here and I stayed one week with this chick. Then I worked at Lucky 7 for 7 months and at the same time I found this place that i built slowly. And when it was done i stopped working at lucky 7 and started working here at Primitve Abstract. Now it’s been 3 years and I opened another shop in oslo

called Tiger city. So it’s okay. What the fuck am I saying. What was the question? How I got to norway? It was maybe because of the feedback of my work. Staying one year here gave me ten times more feedback then 10 years in france. People don’t like me there. Not talking about my customers. I got full reports of my work in tattoo magazines from America, England, Germany and other skandinavian countries. But in France? Never.

We also had a big tattoo convention in Stras-bourg in 2004. We brought 15 or 20 japanese tattoo artists. Some very good who never came to europe, and some who only came to the am-sterdam convention. One guy named Sabado,

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who was totally against the traditional japanese style, and who didn’t tattoo the japanese yakuza, made something called sushi tattoo. It’s a mix of traditional electric tattooing but with japanese spirits inside. And it’s cool, its very big in japan now, but he was the first. He came to Strasbourg. But the tattoo people in france didn’t even speak about this event. None of french magazines wrote about it. 9000 people came and about 120 artists were there from 35 different countries. And then a german magazine came, and it went on the cover. I don’t understand what happened in france. Im really happy i don’t leave there anymore. And in norway people are cool, and its cool here.

-So you’ve been here for 3 years?

-Yes 3 years now. But i haven’t found the time to learn norwegian. I’ve found time to open this shop, and have a love story and fucking it up. And another woman also. Now I have to concentrate to learn norwegian.

-What words do you know?

-hahaha

-haha, yes you may tell the shitty ones.

-I know many, I know jeg esker deg, en øl vær så snill, flatlus.. Fitte. I can say “jeg elsker båtis, men jeg snakker ikke norsk”.

-What do you think about Oslo?

-Oslo is a nice place. Maybe a bit too long lines for the pubs on saturdays. And a bit grey. But it’s nice. There is so much happening, its crazy. All the gigs and everything. Its a small city but its so powerful. I’ve never seen this before. Paris which has six million people living there has less stuff happening than in Oslo. And Oslo has like eight hundred thousand people or something.

One thing I find shitty is that the bars closes at 3. But it also saved my life a lot of times.

-Where do you go out?

-The last two years when I was with my girlfriend, I didn’t go out so much. I just went to gigs and interesting stuff. But now, maybe Revolver some

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I times, and maybe Aku Aku for cocktails. Im open to a lot of stuff.

-But back to tattooing. What do you think is important for people to think about when they want to get a tattoo?

-The Artist. This is important. The person who can give you what you like. If you want like, spooky, surrealistic, black and grey, then you don’t have to see an old schooler. You at least have to make an effort to find out which type of craft you want. Maybe also choose someone who makes custom tattoos, which is an artist. And then you will sort it out easy. Just let the artist free, cause he knows what he’s doing bet-ter than you. Han he will give you the best he can considering your request. So then you just have to come with an idea, and were you want it on your body.And then let it go. If you know who you are talking to, and who will suit you, it’s better.

-When did you get your first tattoo?

-When I was 17.

-And the next one?

-A month after.

-What did you get the first time?

-I got a scull with a candle on the head. You want some pineapplejuice by the way?

-Yes please. So what is your plans for the fu-ture?

-Feel better with myself. In three months I haven’t painted anything. I don’t have the guts. But this is the process you know. When you have some-thing to say, you cant spit it out all the time. You have to leave, and then find the sponge later and suck it all up, and then spit it out. But not yet.

Not now. Ill come back, but not these days. Im planning to make a big self portrait of myself. A big painting of my face, to see through myself a bit better. Im gonna start it soon. Taking some drawing classes. It’s cool. I’ve never done one, but now I think It’s time. Im old you know.

-How old are you?

-43, but I look 27 as you can see.

-haha that’s true. Anything else you want to share?

-Just follow your feelings and live your life 100%.

-Thank you!

-Værsågod.

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Har du lyst på en old-school tatovering av ypperste kvalitet, er du i trygge hender hos denne karen. Sjekk ut primitive-abstract.com for mer info. Og flere tatoveringer.

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Blå bygd opp på dugnad. Stedet slo an fra første stund med fokus på jazz, men ingenting var ute-lukket. Mantraen var å synliggjøre det usynlige. Den 28 februar 2008 fyllte blå 10år, siden da er det skjedd mye og det har vært utrolige mange konserter og andre arrangementer opp igjennom årene. Her har Konsertforeningen blå vært en viktig bidragsyter igjennom årene. Året er 2012 og blå-booking har vært innholsleverandør siden januar 2007. Blå-booking vil overraske, utfordre, engasjere og fokusere på nerve innen de fleste sjangre og kulturelle uttrykk. Det finnes noe bra innen alle sjangre. Om en først må definere sjanger vil vi holde oss til jazz, elektronisk, hip-hop, pop og rock samt krysningene mellom disse. De vil fylle det gamle diamantlageret til randen med kultur. Blå fokuserer ikke bare på flinke folk på scenen. De har knyttet til oss godtfolk over hele linja og de ligger ikke på latsida.  Tilsammen arrangerer Blå ca.380 arrangementer per år.

Blå i ett nøtteskall: Ja da. På klubbsida skal de være helt i front og de har en unik scene som små og store artister får utfolde seg på. Dessuten har de, etter eget utsagn, Oslos fineste uteservering.

Lovlig kapasitet inne er 420 (de anbefaler 380 maks). Den 28.februar 2012 går Blå inn i sitt 15.år som konsert- og klubbscene i Oslo. Så bli med å feire!

blå sin historie startet den 28. Februar i 1998. Hjernene bak blå var Kjell Einar Karls en og Martin Revheim. De tok seg en tur langs Akerselva og fant det gamle oppbev aringslageret for gull og

diamanter i Brenneriveien

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Bilde er tatt fra en av mange søndager på Blå. Da opptrer nemlig Frank Znort Quartet som spiller en god blanding av funk, jazz og andre sjangere. Noe som absolutt er verdt turen.

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På selve bygget og i området rundt Blå er det veldig mye fine skulpturer og fin gatekunst.

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Hei hvem er du?

Jeg er Mr. Barstow.

Hva driver du med?

Jeg lager musikk, skriver tekster lodder elek-tronikk, snekrer bokser, lager hjemmelagde midikontrollere, og pusher bølgeformer til det ekstreme på fritiden.

Hvilke instrument spiller du?

Jeg kan egentlig spille hvilket som helst instru-ment på synthen min.

Når begynte du med musikk?

Jeg vil ikke si at jeg egentlig begynte skikkelig brått med musikk, men mer en slags gradvis

voksende interesse for feltet computer music fra 11 års alderen.

Og du jobber med musikk også?

Ja jeg skriver musikk og gjør lyd etterarbeid i mitt eget firma, Klinger. Også er jeg med Cap-tain Credible som lyd/lys/video DJ når vi gjør rikskonserter på skoler og greier.

Hvordan har det gått?

Det har gått veldig bra siden Klinger ble startet i 2009/10. Vi har jobbet tett med et filmselskap ved navn FIlmfaktisk som gjør mye kult og som hjalp oss mye i starten.Rikskonsert/skolesekk-turneene er veldig gøy. Da pusher vi bølgeformene inn i ørene på den Norske framtid. De som skal holde landet og verden vedlike forhåpentligvis. Vi har fått veldig

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Mr. Barstow’s hjemmelagde synther og knapper

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mye bra tilbakemelding for den produksjonen, som er veldig inspirerende for oss.

Hvordan vil du forklare musikkstilen din?

Det er elektronika i bunn. Inspirert av mye for-skjellig musikk, men uttrykt med digitale og analoge lyder. Hvor kommer navnet sky barstow fra?

Ja det var en mann ved navn Magnus, som kalte meg sky en dag. Vet ikke helt hvorfor han sa det, kan hende pga min ekstreme høyde. At jeg titter ned fra skyene . Har aldri spurt han hvorfor men det satt liksom fast i meg fra da, og så ble det på en måte bare slik. Barstow er mitt etternavn.

Har du noe nytt på gang nå?

Morsomt at du spør! Jeg holder på å ferdigstille mitt andre album as we speak. Det blir en del mer dansbart en første album. Mer bruk av Nintendo og Commadore lyder, tekster som er tidvis mere utadrettet og politiske. Og jeg gleder meg til å slippe den. Har også en musik-kvideo på lager.

Når kommer den neste skiva di?

April-ish

Og når får vi se deg på scenen igjen?

Uvist. Først må albumet gjøres ferdig. Så skal

jeg og Daniel (det er min live-slave) begynne å øve på hvordan dette skal gjennomføres live. Er ikke bare å stemme gitaren for oss.

Noe du har lyst å fortelle oss?

Jeg skal gi ut på mindblastrecords.com som er plateselskapet til Christian Augustin. Han har mad skills på true 8-bits og Adlib program-mering og er en skikkelig kul svenske! Sjekk ut hans band: Dammit I’m mad, Soldier One og DJ Scheißefritz. tekst og foto | kristian bakken

(For oss som husker dette spillet)

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