Karl Backman

Swedish artist, punkrocker and guitarist in Acid Blood, and previously in the T-55's, AC4 and the Vectors. See also: karlbackman.com facebook.com/karlbackman.art artmoney.org/users/karl-backman ACID BLOOD: facebook.com/acidbloodumea AC4: facebook.com/AC4official The T-55'S: facebook.com/thet55sa

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ACID BLOOD - “Wartimes” (official video directed by Nicklas Viberg).

Song taken from the “Dagger Eyes EP” released August 25 2017 on JanML Records. Limited editions in yellow, purple and black 7″ vinyl.

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THE T-55′S - Fire In The Hole

New video for one of the songs on our “Power Up” 12″ EP.

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Umeå Punkfest XII, Verket Umeå April 2-4 2015.

THE T-55’S / MOB 47 / DISPOSE / DUMB FUCKS / BITCHCRAFT / VANVETT / PROTESTERA / PERKULATOR / SKÖRBJUGG / LINN ULWEBÄCK / KORP / BEAT UP BETTY / DEATH BY SNOO SNOO / SVÄRTA / PÄÄSTÖ / BY THE WAY / SVETTAS ELLER DÖ /ROTTEN MIND / UTAN TVEKAN

Poster by Mårten Bläckberg.

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Last Mosh For Charlie! Farewell gig to Umeå Hardcore's secret gig place.

THE T-55'S / D.S.-13 / LESRA / MISANTROPIC / LATEST FASHION / EPIDEMICS / TROTS / FRU DÖRR / LYCKA TILL / BAD NERVE. 7 FEB 2015.

Poster by Mårten Bläckberg.

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THE T-55’S - Power Up

The title track from THE T-55’S “Power Up” ltd ed 12” EP, played over original footage of the liquidators who gave their lives to clean up after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.

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017 Karl Backman 2011 Acrylic on canvas 56 x 69 cm

From my July/Aug 2011 solo exhibition at the Museum Of Porn In Art, in Zurich, Switzerland. Layla Rivera on a background of stenciled Stalins.

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BIAM Artmoney note KarlBackman2011-013 2011 Acrylic on paper 18 x 12 cm One of my notes for Artmoney. This was a small acrylic sketch based on a photograph I took in Pripyat, the abandoned city near Chernobyl, inside the Exclusion Zone in Ukraine. A floor filled with tousands of discarded, radioactive gasmasks left by the clean-up crew.

Artmoney is a global, alternative currency made of original art. Artists make their own money. Companies accept artmoney as payment. Collectors buy artmoney as inexpensive, original art. The international banking industry hates it.

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Composition 6 Karl Backman 2007 Acrylic on canvas 111 x 144 cm

Composition 5 Karl Backman 2007 Acrylic on canvas 111 x 144 cm

Two of my abstract pieces from a 2007 exhibition at Kungsgatan Gallery, Umeå, Sweden.

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EPRS Karl Backman 2005 Acrylic on linen 211 x 145 cm.

One of my very few self portraits. The title EPRS is short for Expose Punk Rock Sex (from the Sedionaries King Kong t-shirt by Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood 1977). 

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Reactor 4 (c) Karl Backman 2011 Acrylic on canvas 93 x 70 cm

The third (c) painting in my Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Reactor 4 triptych. This is not based on one my own Chernobyl photos, but on a photo in the first official Ukrainian disaster report.

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THE T-55’s - Government (Gotta Get Out)

Government is people and people always suck Greedy, jealous, petty, most of you are fucked

Gotta get out, get out of here

Permission is for children - children and slaves If you're not one of them you've gotta find your own way

Gotta get out, get out of here

My new band The T-55’s. This is the closing track from the Power Up 12” EP on JanML Records. Lisa Linder vocals, Karl Backman guitar, Erik Klingvall bass and Elias Jonsson drums.

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Love.

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This was the last photo session we did with the original line-up of AC4. I think it was for Hysteria magazine. It's from the Arthouse in Melbourne, Australia, anyway, taken in April 2011. The venue is gone now.

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“A member of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition plays the bagpipe for an indifferent penguin, 1904.”

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Two days ago nazis attacked antifascists in Malmö, Sweden.

One well known antifascist and football supporter almost died from the head injury and stabbings. He is one of the founders of Fotbollssupportrar mot homofobi (football supporters against homophobia) and a good friend of my friends. He is now in a medically induced coma and we don’t know if he’ll be alright.

Kämpa Showan!

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It’s now very common to hear people say, ‘I’m rather offended by that.’ As if that gives them certain rights. It’s actually nothing more… than a whine. ‘I find that offensive.’ It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. ‘I am offended by that.’ Well, so fucking what?

-Stephen Fry

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THE T-55’s - As Dead As Religion

My new band The T-55’s. Official video for the song "As Dead As Religion". Edited by Luke Jones. Filmed by Magdalena Jonsson, Fredrik Lyxzén, Jonas Björkholm and the Soviet Army. The track is on our forthcoming 12” EP on JanML Records.

Lisa Linder vocals, Karl Backman guitar, Erik Klingvall bass and Elias Jonsson drums.

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THE T-55’s - Power Up

My new band The T-55’s. This is the title track from our the forthcoming 12" EP on JanML Records. Lisa Linder vocals, Karl Backman guitar, Erik Klingvall bass and Elias Jonsson drums.

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