It’s cool not to leave out any songs and just play it all. It is nice and much rewarding after 25 years to go at last back on stage and play for you guys. We have a few fans around and they have been like the most loyal fans ever. We got a 40 minute set so there is limited time. In Brutal Assault, we are just a small (?!!!) band in a big festival. – By comparing the two concerts, I got to tell you that although I was in awe by watching you for the very first time in Brutal Assault, in Athens the concert and the whole performance was far more ecstatic! You played all your songs and it had a more theatrical, transcendental vibe that was definitely augmented by Carl-Michael Eide’s energy, despite his injury. I was in quarantine a week later because of my trip to Greece but it was really worth it. It was also my last concert and my last travel abroad. (p.s.laughs!!) It was a really good experience, meeting everybody again as i have many friends in Greece. I was a bit bewildered actually in Athens because everybody was so quiet but our sound guy is Greek and he told me that you were just amazed because you thought that concert would never take place. Now we did it the right way by going back, re-listening all of our old songs, learning them and performing them live again… We really got reconnected with what VED BUENS ENDE was all about…and the shows have been really fantastic. We tried starting VED BUENS ENDE again in 2005…What we did wrong then is that we just started making new material. How do you assess these six appearances? Was it as rewarding as your smiles of ecstasy in Athens’s concert? Brutal Assault and the gig in Athens, which in fact was the last one I have attended and will attend for the foreseeable future. announced a mini-tour of four appearances in some European summer festivals and two appearances in Greece, in early March. – Last year an unexpected but most welcomed reunion happened. I have been enjoying using things in my own set up but after all the cancellations of the shows I tried to shift my focus so in the studio working mostly. That has been my research and it has come to quite a good use now in the lockdown. It seems there was a hidden genius in not knowing what you were doing and i tried to connect with that feeling again. Things like AGNES OBEL (Danish indie folk/chamber pop musician and singer), which has a different wooden and pastoral atmosphere but still fits quite well into the general Black Metal vibe, a lot of piano music, classical music and most recently a lot of the 90’s Black Metal albums to get in touch with the roots or better the resonating atmosphere. I am trying to relax mostly but i have picked up a lot of things over the last few years. So you know when you sit down and spend everything from a couple of hours to maybe 8-10 hours a day in the studio doing pre-production and staff like that you do not really wantto listen to much music after all that music. Vicotnik: I have not listened to a lot of music but I have been making a lot music. – How the general lockdown has affected you, mostly as an artist in terms of inspiration? What’s your most listened music during that time? Book? Movies? I had to figure out something to do so it was an opportunity to make some music. Other than that, you know it has been a strange couple of months being locked inside with all the shows of the bands being cancelled. My kid is back in school as a matter of fact.
We are slowly opening up the society again. We acted properly, I guess there is a trust in the Norwegian people when sometimes it is best to do what you are told and stay at home and have respect for each other.
I think that we are probably one of the countries with the most modest outcome until now.We do not have a lot of deaths. Vicotnik: Hello George!! Nice meeting you…Greetings from the outskirts of Oslo as well. How are you and how are things in Norway with the Covid-19 crisis? Has the so called normality been restored? On behalf of THEGALLERY.GR greetings from Athens, Greece and thank you for your time. – Hello Yusaf! It is a great pleasure talking to you. As the climactic VED BUENS ENDE concert is fresh in our memories, we approached him in order to shed some light to the dark caverns of his musical outlets… His unconventional ideas have molded into some of the most thought-provoking musical experiences of the last 25 years. VICOTNIK) needs no further introduction to the Black Metal audience.
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