Dawson`s and Zachary`s musical adventure started about couple of years ago when Zachary was working in Finland sending cars and tires to Africa, meanwhile Dawson was traveling around U.S. in a Greyhound bus collecting experiences around the nation that gave birth to country, folk, blues and other styles that influence the music of Beacon St. Radiants.
After his trip to America the beautiful, Dawson spent time in the U.K. to be exact in London, where he spent most of his time partying with rock bands, naturally first seeing them play at some legendary venues.
Back in Finland Zach was busy playing more or less progressive rock in small clubs, staying up late before waking up for his day job at a radio station.
Dawson was maybe homesick, out of money or just wanted to see old friends and family, but he decided to come back home to Turku, Finland.When he arrived he had no place to stay, so he found a home at Zach`s studio apartment`s couch.
One morning, while Dawson was playing his acoustic guitar, Zach started
fooling around, playing slide with a normal butterknife, over the sad chord progression Dawson was strumming. The first song for Beacon St.Radiants
was born. It was later named She said. Lost loves, broken hearts and just the fact that finnish people are somehow depressed, were the driving forces to start the
band. They wanted to play music that would touch people, the way Lemonheads,Wilco, Neil Young,Chris Isaak and the Boss, to name just a few, had touched them. Although lyrics of the songs are more often than not, sad and depressed, you can find humor in them. They`re many times meant to be naive,but at the same time have that Americana-folk, little diner feeling in them. Debut EP "First Degree Desperation" was released by Killer Robot Records on september 2005.
Kiskone, Matti and Tomi joined BSTR for the live gigs. After couple of shows and Your Heart / Stay sessions Tomi was too busy to continue with us. Kalle helped us out by filling the empty slot as our new bass player.
So nowadays "official" line-up is Zach (vocals, guitar), Dawson (guitar), Kiskone (drums), Matti (keyboards) and Kalle (bass).
Your Heart / Stay single was released 7th of september 2006.
6th october we start recording our first album with.So stay tuned all of you cool cats and jazzy hipsters...or maybe I should take my medication!
Shake your bon-bon, there's a new Bon Jouni song called Game Over available for download and streaming!! Enjoy it, love it, hate it, comment it, leave it, but check it out!
Just stopping by to say hello and give you some news. The new album 'Coolgilly and the Freakshow' from Centascope is now available worldwide from CD Baby and directly from the merchandise page of the official website. You can also get the album from Apple iTunes, MSN Music, Rhapsody, Napster, Amazon and many more.
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The new album 'Coolgilly and the Freakshow' from Centascope is now available worldwide from CD Baby and directly from the merchandise page of the official website.
