Emil Gam Klinkby

Emil Gam Klinkby is a Danish historian from Aarhus University who graduated in 2024. Emil focused on the field of cultural history on his master’s degree, where he glimpsed the opportunity to work with punk music and culture at his internship at Aarhus City Archives (Aarhus Stadsarkiv). Without ever having worked on punk before, he wanted to do a “preservation-project” of the local punk environment in Aarhus from roughly 1978-1988, which included collection and digitalisation of local zines, posters etc. as well as doing interviews with local participants from the punk scene in Aarhus.

On the period of 3-4 months of his internship, Emil collected and digitalized a vast amount of material, interviews and wrote a handful of articles which would serve as a reference work to the punk music and environment in Aarhus.

Beside his studies and work, Emil is a musician himself. He’s the drummer in the Danish Stoner- rock band Sonic Moon, in which he has released music and toured with since 2016.

Photo: Anders Teibel

Aarhus Stadsarkiv punk page: https://aarhuswiki.dk/wiki/Punk_i_Aarhus_(1978-1988)

Emil Gam Klinkby profile www.linkedin.com/in/emil-gam-klinkby-68b29921a