Made in Norway, 1981, grew up surrounded by snow and wind. Managed to trick a friend at the age 8 that it was in fact he that had invented 7up. (mr. Bergh can't remember this, but the friend says so even today.) Discovered music while young; Spike Jones, Ennio Morricone & Øystein Sunde records. At age twelve he got some cassette tapes from his elder sisters that wanted to shield him from the horrible dance music that everybody else was into at school. Thankfully still today, it worked. Raga Rockers, Motorpsycho, Beatles, Turtle Race, Dinosaur Jr, Jokke&Valentinerne and Nirvana filled the room.At age 14 he bought his own electric guitar (which he smashed on a concert three years later. It still worked though, so he smashed it again the year after. It broke.) and wrote crappy music until he was 20. Then he made music that weren't SO crappy. It's a good thing he discovered other music in his teens. Like brazilian, african, balkan and folk music.
After playing and singing in funny ways in bands like SAM HILL and TURBID UTILITY in his teens he joined forces with the younger second guitarist in Turbid Utility and formed LONE GUNMEN, the infamous slackerpunkrockband at age 20. They were soon joined by a proper drummer (Brynjar is really not that much of a drummer, even though he can play a little. He thinks he is better than he actually is. When it comes to air-drumming he is unbeatable) so Mr. Bergh picked up the bass. After years of living on the gutter (also called "broken home") with his fellow bandmate (the drummer was deceant and had his own apartment) the band took a break and Brynjar tried to work out something on his own.Also, he and LG-drummer Sigmund experimented with artrock in the studio-based FRIENDLY UNIT SHIFTER. This resulted in the SHIFTER EP. Grating feedback, heavy riffs and gutteral screaming. He also teamed up with Mr. Stensen (known from DOMESTIC DUCK, NERVØS, POLISH TRASH METAL, a.o.) under the aliases "STEINAR&KROIF" and produced and recorded the "1000.000$ EP", an electrical folk-electronica record with beats, beeps and bloops. They are still trying to make another record, and are currently playing with the idea of doing it in Ghana. Lots of cheap houses in Ghana. Back to mr. Bergh's story:
He moved to a part of town where "the alternative people" lived, but it turned out that most of them were only a bunch of snotty ex-punkrockers (and your usual record-store hipsters) that didn't like his face. There were lots of friendly people too, and the world's most wonderful pub/café.More from the bright side, his music weren't that bad anymore either. He could borrow equipment from the conductor which also helped him do mixdowns of his recordings. (He also sang in a choir; SVARTLAMON HARDKOR. He was soprano - it was horrible. But the concerts were always fun, because everybody would be drunk. For free!)It was in these years he found his long-lost brother, and they began working together. As in, Big Brother Stian came to help Little Brother Brynjar when he had to record something he couldn't do by himself.To weird for the usual environments, not punkrock enough to deal with the angry neighbours and completely worn out by the struggle of love, life, space, death and beer he got his act together, moved to his parents, worked non-stop at a factory and moved to Malmö in Sweden. Alas, it's better, but much is still the same.He will soon move back to Norway and earn money so he can go to Brazil and record with Mr. Medina. He is also gonna join his brother and together they will be CLIFTONBROS - and they will make interesting music, I'm sure of it. Will Brynjar Bergh ever achieve anything? Time will show. And don't bother about the myspace glitter graphics. As you can see, they suck!. Click here for Myspace glitter graphics and Myspace layouts
