The Mighty Dogfood

After the demise of the Regulators in autumn ’89 the two psychobillypunks Simon and Arve teamed up with acdc/stones fanatic Steffen and jazzfunk drummer Helgar to form the legendary “the mighty dogfood” (TMD). After a televised concert at Folken in Stavanger, May’90, together with bluesman Reidar Larsen and “the September When” (featuring national pop star Morten Abel) the scene was set and this opportunity led to a series of concerts in Stavanger.
In autum n’90 a 4 track EP was recorded at West Audio, produced by Torbjørn ”Tuba/Kodak” Solum and released on February 22 1991 after a big release party at Folken. Concerts in Bergen, Trondheim and Oslo followed, and a new 7 track EP, also produced by Tuba, was released along with a cd consisting of the 2 EPs in May’92.
By this time a new manager, Erik Eriksson (dj friendly), had appeared and fixed TMD an economical support (with a binding obligation to play a certain amount of concerts…) and this also gave TMD the opportunity to buy their own car – “the dogmobile”. Some strange concert experiences took place in certain places around Norway, but also bigger venues in main cities like Oslo, Bergen and Trondheim were played.
A visit to Newcastle, – a ”Cultural exchange”, also took place in the beginning of 1993. TMD did 4 concerts in 1 week and stayed at the homes of local heavy-band XLR8R which also came to Stavanger to play a few gigs. Late ‘93 saw the end of the mighty dogfod and only a few “one-off” concerts have been performed since that. TMD will appear in the Norwegian film ”Mannen som elsket Yngve” based on Tore Renberg’s book. Premiere for this film is scheduled in February 2008.
Check out more info at http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mighty_Dogfood