Recent updates to the site: corrections, additions, and notes from the label. Newest first.
The China tour diaries, the JEF history, and a bigger press archive
The letters Kjell wrote home from the road are now pages. All four China tour diaries, 2006, 2009, 2010 and 2011, rendered into English at full length, stop by stop, with the itineraries. JEF gets its full band history, 2000 to 2006. And the press archive grows from 23 to 27 articles, now including the American, German and English zine and magazine pieces.
China: the four tour diaries in English. Eight shows with JEF in 2006, the twenty-day Refreshing Power tour in 2009, the volcano tour in 2010, and the strange summer of 2011. → The China years
JEF: the full band history, from three of us in a rehearsal room in 2000 to the last concert in Beijing in 2006, with all ten records and the coloured-vinyl tracklists. → JEF history
Press: four articles join the archive, 27 in all. The Reading Rocks feature on touring China, the Razorcake review of Refreshing Power, the Ox Fanzine review of the 2016 red vinyl, and an Os Rockeklubb programme box from 2005. → Press archive
Sound Of Confusion: the whole story, as short as the career, plus the seven-song running order of the 1989 album. → Sound Of Confusion
The big archive wave: label story, gig logs, press pages, stories
The largest update this site has had. The full label story from 1995 to 2023, the catalogue consolidated to 83 releases with three series pages, two full gig logs (82 Punishment Park dates, 60 JEF entries), 23 press articles with their own pages, the Punishment Park band history, two songbooks, the roster of 56 bands we booked, four long stories from the book, and a page-by-page sources index for Rockedrømmen.
The label: the whole story of Hate You Records and October Party Records, from a 512-copy cassette in 1995 to 220,000 free CDs in China. → The label
Catalogue: all 83 releases from 1995 to 2023 on one wall, plus three series pages for The Hate You Years, Norwegian Wood Music For China, and Not On The Radio. → Catalogue
Gig logs: every documented date, 82 for Punishment Park (1991-2022) and 60 for JEF (2001-2006). → Punishment Park gigs
Press: the 23 archived articles from 1989 to 2017 each get their own page, with short quotations and the story behind them. → Press archive
Punishment Park: the full band history, year by year, plus a songbook with all 35 surviving lyrics. Sound Of Confusion gets its six-song book too. → Band history
Bands we booked: 56 bands we put on stage, took to China, or pressed on the Beijing label, from GBH and UK Subs to SMZB. → Bands we booked
Stories: four long ones from the book, told at full length. The first Norwegian punk CD, the DAT heist, Serbia 1992, and the ten signed copies. → Stories
Rockedrømmen: a sources page cross-referencing 21 anchored book pages against 29 clippings and flyers from the archive. → Sources
K-JELL press list trimmed
One entry removed from the K-JELL press section.
K-JELL: one 2009 press entry removed from the press list. → K-JELL
OPR wordmark, Punishment Park 1991 album, and JEF archive backfill
The original 1990s OCTOBER PARTY RECORDS wordmark, vectorised from the archive scan, now sits on the front page. The Punishment Park 1991 debut album gets its actual cover artwork and a full lyrics archive. Twenty JEF archive files were lifted from OneDrive: real JEF band photos (replacing the K-JELL placeholder), the 1990s JEF logo, the 2006 China covers for the Alternative and Xenophobia EPs, and a new Archive, Photos section spanning the April 2006 China tour, Saxmundham UK, Hamburg, and Bergen.
Front page: original OCTOBER PARTY RECORDS wordmark restored from the label archive as a scalable SVG (light-paper block between the hero and the “Why It Exists” statement). → Home
Punishment Park: front and back cover for the 1991 debut album wired in, replacing the placeholder on both the release shelf and the Spotify embed. → Punishment Park
Punishment Park: 1991 Archive section now opens with the album cover (front + back). → Archive, 1991
Punishment Park: 1991 lyrics section added, twelve songs (Dead Fear, Not So Lucky, Helt blind med et sykt sinn, Conscious, Historien gjentar seg selv, Teat, Punishment Park, World News, Twice Is Too Much, No More Wars, What Do They Know, Black Blood). Norwegian titles preserved. → Lyrics, 1991
JEF: hero photo swapped from the K-JELL placeholder to a real JEF band photo; the 1990s JEF logo wired in as logoImage; Katy Penny dedication rephrased to "In memory of JEF singer Katy Penny". → JEF
JEF: new Live in China video grid, three April 2006 clips (two Wuhan with Wuwei from SMZB, one Beijing with Kang Mao from Subs) sit above the Listen section. → JEF, Live in China
JEF EPs: Alternative and Xenophobia now show their 2006 China-pressing covers on the release shelf and Spotify embeds (original blue/yellow 7-inch sleeve scans still pending, those attachments require re-sharing from OneDrive). He Knows He Hears EP cover upgraded to a higher-resolution scan. → JEF, Releases
JEF: new Archive, Photos section with sixteen images covering the April 2006 China tour (Beijing, Wuhan, Changsha, Guilin, Shanghai, Xinxiang), Saxmundham UK with Greenland Whalefishers (2004), Hamburg, Det Akademiske Kvarter in Bergen, band photos and posters. → JEF, Archive
JEF: new Story section, six-paragraph band biography (formation, name origin from No Mean No’s sound engineer, the 2001 EPs, NRK Urørt and Garageband.com, the Germany / Poland / UK / Italy tours, the April 2006 China tour, the 2006 hiatus) translated and condensed from Kjell Moberg’s "Historien om JEF så langt". → JEF, Story
JEF: new Tour archive, 58 dated events covering every JEF concert, record release, and media moment between 2001 and 2006, parsed from Kjell’s Bokmål source document. → JEF, Tour archive
Catalogue corrections and Punishment Park additions
A round of fixes based on Kjell's notes -- bigger K-JELL front shelf, more Punishment Park lyrics, a memorial line on the JEF page, and an English-translation note on Rockedrømmen.
Home shelf now shows the full K-JELL catalogue (2 singles, 3 albums, the 2016 red-vinyl LP). → Home
Rockedrømmen page translated to English; English-translation and e-book editions both noted as in progress for 2026. → Rockedrømmen
Rockedrømmen chapter index: the 'Actually Too Old' music video moved from Chapter 22 to Chapter 20. → Rockedrømmen
Punishment Park: Sweetie EP lyrics added to the main lyrics index; the Blendwerk → Party history is now told consistently across the page; heading wrap fixed. → Punishment Park
JEF page now dedicated to the memory of Katy Penny; China-CD / China Mobile distribution and the international compilation reach documented. → JEF
Sound Of Confusion: the full-album YouTube link is now distinguished from the live clips. → Sound Of Confusion
K-JELL: Trond "Tronna" Bergsvik and Steinar Hjelmbrekke added to the studio band lineup. → K-JELL