Skitliv!, a fanzine which during its three year existence interviewed bands such as Wolfbrigade, Skitsystem, Disfear and Massgrav has released it's 10th and last issue. In the extra thick release it is revealed that the whole thing was a joke from day 1.
"Challe" and "Fisen", the two guys behind the zine who always came across as a couple of sexistic and immature drug addicts are actually:
Joakim Andersson of Human Waste, Opposition and Döden loggar in and Joakim Staaf-Sylsjö, aka Sylen, from Dödsdömd, Human Waste and Totalt Jävla Mörker.
The two musicians wanted to loosen up the Swedish punk scene which they believe takes itself a bit to serious. They also wanted to see how far a joke could be taken and if you actually could joke about anything.
Having interviewed the guys a year ago I got to know the truth behind the zine already then but was never told who the brains behind it actually were. No doubt was I surprised when I last week found out who I had been emailing with. On top of that Sylen, after having seen my wish list here on Nordic Flames, said he wanted to send me Totalt Jävla Mörker's CD for Christmas. What a sweetheart!
Now that the truth is out the duo has been getting a lot of different response. Many think that the band Warvictims which was born out of the zine now has died too but this is not the case. Warvictims and the record label D-Takt och Råpunk Rec are in fact planning releases for the future.
When asked if it was all worth it, Sylen answers:
- It was so fucking worth it! Even though it meant insane amounts of work which was not always motivating the fun bits made up for it. It has been a great relief to be able to leave this behind and move on. Also not having to lie to friends any more feels very good. I'm not mourning.
So Skitliv! may not be mourned for long but it may well have succeeded with its goal to stir up a storm or two in punk Sweden. If nothing else then big thank you to Skitliv! for a good laugh.
Read more about the set up, the reactions that followed and Jocke and Sylen's own comments(and why not check out my essay which is up there while you're at it?) on http://dbeatrawpunk.blogspot.com
For Swedish readers check out www.criticalmass.se for a longer Swedish article
