These are the pictures I took at The Gathering '97 at Hamar. Hope you'll
enjoy them. :). They are sorted in chronological order so let's begin the
small report. email axelsson@freenet.hut.fi for free sausages.

thor    .jpg - thor/tpolm showing up his face. this is here our journey
               began to TG. at the centralstation in stockholm. is it me
               or is thors nose a bit abstract :).

primon  .jpg - oh well. this is what we first met when we arrived to the
               finnish bus that were going to tg. he's called primon/radio,
               and as a busorganizer he almost took care of us, he told us
               that they'd been waiting since 6am in the morning for us (we
               arrived at 9am, but that's what he told us :)). also he
               forgot to reserve 2 seats for us so I (axl) had to sit on
               the floor next to thor. (just for a bit, then when the guy
               next to thor (called charly) were going to the toilet, so he
               snatched his seat. now when charly exited the toilet, he
               just went to seat somewhere else. ;)... (well he wasn't
               elite, said lemming) ;>. 
               
lemming .jpg - this is lemming/orange showing up his cute face. dressed in
               his normal everyday clothes he introduced us for the rest of
               the bus. (notice the pripps ”l? ;>)

primwrit.jpg - this is our faithfull partyreport notepad just being torured
               by primon. this party report should be written down soon and
               will be published in some mag (probably Caustic Verses).

dmq&raz .jpg - damaq (near the window) and razorback of doomsday productions.
               they were our neighbours during the whole trip, razorback
               translated a somewhat "nice" poem from a hirmu-magazine :).
                               
suomi1  .jpg - from left: apatia/coma and jmagic/complex. they are currently
               standing as you can see. but! they weren't standing the whole
               trip, because they had seats!.

caveman .jpg - hoho. this is caveman/coma, he was kinda weird :). but still
               one of the coolest on the bus. he had negative thoughts about
               swedish folk”l (2.8% alcoholic beer), and he loved to sing
               swedish drinking-songs :). maybe he just had been drinking
               alot of that finnish alcoholic fluid :).
              
recc1   .jpg - now i told caveman to take a picture of recc/japotek+tpolm,
               and he did.

recc2   .jpg - took even two.. now you can make a slideshow demo with these
               pics.. have fun :)

wehide  .jpg - never trust a finn, they pointed my camera towards us.. and
               it was here we hide all the 10 hours it took for us to get to 
               TG. well. uh. the two finns in that pic are from left: 
               miggim/coma (the founder himself) and testis. (i dont know 
               about his group relations, but he's very adept in kicking 
               streetlamps and amusing finish sceners with 10001 stories 
               how he kicked them in finland, too, but norway's were way 
               more challenging (thanks recc:>) 	   

resting .jpg - First stop for resting. and unlike the cascada bustrip where
               we had to beg for resting (except the one that were planned)
               the finnish bus stopped at atleast 6 places :). on the pic
               you see (from left) him, recc and you can see half of
               fear/tbl :).

busview .jpg - here you have the view of the bus from my seat. there you have
               the tv showing all kinds of movies, on that moment seems to be
               thelma&louise (though, they mostly showed hiphop-movies and 
               crazy hongkong ninja movies :).. yeah ... and some of that
               adult thing too (but that's another story, almost))

uerator .jpg - this is uerator/coma. yes. it is. :)

toilet  .jpg - here you have the toilet we had to live with in 10 hours. A 
               little more space in that toilet wouldn't had hurt.
			              		       	           
resting2.jpg - here we stopped again, now we're at the borderline between 
               norway and sweden. here we found alot of swedish 'raggare', 
               and they seemed quite confused when they saw all the crazy-
               looking finns walking around in the store :).

aqua    .jpg - finally at the party, in all the chaos we met (where do we pay?,
               do we get discount? why does this party seem to suck? etc etc) 
               there were some happy norwegians there :).. like Aqua/dr.dyregod. 

jisemdu .jpg - jisemdu/dr.dyregod.

dreamer .jpg - and dreamer/sublogic. those were the one we met at the 
               information before we finally registered and got some 
               silly nametags. :)

nametag .jpg - this is how they looked. with information about you and 
               your age :).

soda    .jpg - thor and i walked around the party looking for people, and 
               strange enough we found them all. :). wow! only 3000 of them, 
               including alot of girls. though, we didn't know all of these 
               people, and i think most of them were just there for porn, 
               warez and gamez :). well.. this is a picture of someone
	       who pixeled porn most of the time, soda/tpolm. doesn't he 
               look like one of those people that frequently rob banks? ;).

anders  .jpg - the anders. for those who doesn't know, it's the artist 
               formerly known as calvin. (the one that drank too much on 
               the asm96-ferry and had to stay in bed all the time ;)).

dune    .jpg - dune/orange RUNNING away from the camera. :). maybe he was 
               too afraid for swedish cameramans, well, i dunno. i think he 
               screamed too ;).

someone .jpg - first pic in the series, who the hell is this :). if you do, 
               please contact me. 

party1  .jpg - here you have a small view how the party looked when standing 
               down on the floor. like a normal party, and it was dark unlike 
               tp6 where the whole hall 3 had lights on all the time. :)
               
caramel .jpg - here's another crazy norwegian, caramel/fascination. tada.

boffcuri.jpg - well, after some hour we finally found some other swedes, these
               are from left: boffman/pooh and curion/do. they were working on
               their demo (which never got finished :)). this is where we were
               seated at the rest of the party.

martyn1 .jpg - martyn got sick at the party, this is how a sick scener look
               like. and he diseased the rest of the gang around that table
               too. evil. :).. though we had fun. when you cant avoid it,
               become one with it (the flu in this instance).

ircpic  .jpg - this is what we mostly did, ircing ;). though, if you couldn't
               find them among 3000 people, they surly were on irc. and I met
               most of the people who i knew where there :)
               
mux     .jpg - here's one.. multiplex, in charge for that cheese mag :). 

vio     .jpg - another one, violator/tdm, a regular #swedescene:er :)

sign1   .jpg - okey, then next day.. thor and i went to the gasstation buying 
               some breakfast or something like that. hmm. on the way there we 
               passed some strange and interesting signs. here is a'roadpass'
               sign.

sign2   .jpg - and even more nuts, the norwegians have 2 reds and one green, 
               on the trafficlight. :). maybe they were out of yellow, or 
               they just thought that it would be cheaper? :).. heck, i dunno.

overvie1.jpg - here's the party from the seating places. :)

overvie2.jpg - another overview.

norway  .jpg - this is some of the norwegian scene. i dunno how some are, so
               i better not try to explain who they are. just guess :)
               
coolthor.jpg - thor bought some pink sunglasses at the gasstation, and is 
               proud to show them up for the camera. :)

comalogo.jpg - this is one of the evil comalogos that were put up on the 
               party :)

axlmartn.jpg - from left: axl and martyn tests the auto-trigger on the camera.
          
malkvian.jpg - malkavian/pooh biting his nails :)).. maybe there's a nasty bug
               and there's only 2 mins left to the deadline. he entered the
               4kb-compo and placed 6th.

silver  .jpg - this is silver, some norwegian dude who hung with us at the wild-
               compo which lasted for too long (50 entries or so :)). 

1for3   .jpg - hey. they are really cheap with chairs at the party, from the 
               begining we actually had 1 chair each to rest our legs on, but
               as the amiga-democompo approached, people stole them from us,
               and left us with one :)).

mrtynslp.jpg - martyn fell asleep during the pcdemocompo. maybe the demos 
               were too boring? :). boffman making fingers to give the
               picture a whole new dimension.

thorslp1.jpg - after we got back from the pcdemocompo, thor had taken martyn's
               sleeping bag. and as revange he took some nasty pics of him.
               really scary, uh? :)

thorslp2.jpg - and another one.. really painfull.

codec   .jpg - another pooh member :).. codec

someone2.jpg - and here's part 2 in, who the hell is this? :). 

bigscrn .jpg - the small "big"-screen :). almost too small, maybe the 
               organizers couldn't afford a bigger.. (yeah, right :))

cara-jis.jpg - caramel and jisemdu after the tg-prizecermony, they've 
               just won the musiccompo and are very happy :).. 

aftertg .jpg - ooh no, everyone left. this is how the party looked after the
               prizecermony. nice? :).. and as always, i'm not glad i were
               the one who would have to clean up this mess .

silencer.jpg - on the way out i met silencer, who's happy (ofcourse) because
               with his 3rd place in the musiccompo, he got a synth (XP-10).
			   
fndr    .jpg - oh. you always meet everyone at the end, here's fndr. :)
               
tv      .jpg - here's another picture of the tv, too bad the cameras flash
               didn't like the tvscreen or else you would have seen a 
               snapshot from some swedish amature movie. ;)

axlthor .jpg - yeah, one final shot of us after 10 hours in that finnish
               bus.. ugh :).. finally over. and thank god to taxi's.


/ axl. :)