Hulen ('The Cave') is a student-driven rock club in Bergen, Norway, that opened on 17 May 1969.[1][2] Hulen has its premises in an old bomb shelter below Nygårdshøyden in the city center of Bergen. The shelter is rented from the Norwegian Civil Defence.[1] During its 40 years of existence Hulen has been threatened with banruptcy etc., but has managed to continue because of their volunteers and supporters.[1]
Hulen was once an air-raid shelter, which in 1968 was converted into a club for local students in Bergen, and opened on the 17th May 1969.[3] The reason was partly that the students' old resident, Parkveien 1, was torn down.[3] In over 42 years that have elapsed since that time Hulen has also always served as a cultural alternative for students and music people.[3] Hulen is driven by pure idealism.[3] Around 80 people sacrifice some of their best years to keep the wheels rolling in the cave.[3]
Coordinates: 60°23′06″N 5°19′28″E / 60.3851°N 5.32455°E
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In the shuffling madness
Of the locomotive breath
Runs the all time loser
Headlong to his death
And he feels the piston scrapin'
Steam breakin' on his brow
Old Charlie stole the handle
And the train, it won't stop goin'
No way to slow down, oh
He sees his children jumpin' off
At stations one by one
His woman and his best friend
In bed and havin' fun
And he's crawlin' down the corridor
On his hands and knees
Old Charlie stole that handle
And the train, it won't stop goin'
No way to slow down, oh
No way to slow down
He hears the silence howlin'
When he catches angels as they fall
And the all time winner
Has got him by the balls
And he picks up Gideon's Bible
And it's open at page one
I think God, he stole the handle
And the train, it won't stop goin'
No way to slow down, oh
No way to slow down, oh
No way to slow down, oh
No way to slow down
No way to slow down
No way to slow down
No way to slow down
No way to slow down
No way to slow down
No way to slow down