The book City Rockers 1978–1980 was the first book published in a new book series about Norwegian punk fanzines (Hærverk forlag). The series is collaboration with the National Library of Norway. City Rockers and other Norwegian punk fanzines from the 1970s and 1980s will be digitalised by the National Library and made available to the public over the coming years. City Rockers was started by Jan Olufsen, Harald Fossberg, Svein Paulsen and Carlos Platou.
All the articles in City Rockers were written in Norwegian. The fanzine covered a range of topics but had a strong focus on Norwegian and British punk. Their focus on British punk included live reports and features of reggae artists that were associated with the British punk movement and British punk audiences in the late 1970s.
Most of these reggae articles were written by my father Jan Olufsen and Svein Paulsen, who have given me permission to share some photos of pages from the original fanzine. The text itself will be incomprehensible to many, but I include these photos nonetheless to share a visual impression of the DIY-aesthetic and hybrid cultural aesthetics that surrounded the meeting of reggae and subcultures in Norway and other Nordic countries in Europe in the 1970s.
