Jami Auvinen: guitar/vocals
Lauri Eloranta: lead vocals/guitar
Niko Kangas: sax/keyboards
Kolli Krogerus: drums/vocals
Jani Liuhanen: organ
Olli Noroviita: bass/vocals
THEY’RE A BIG BAND. Not Count Basie big. More like big heart and big ideas.
Big emotion and big gestures. Big-time intensity and, most importantly, a big-ass sound. A big mixture of rock and soul. Big ambition, too. Progression, what with
its tendency to offer no guaranteed returns, is rare in today’s world.
Rarity makes paying witness to an artistic arc spanning several albums during which a band is allowed to grow into its ambitions a real treat.
That’s why the Damn Seagulls, from Helsinki, Finland, make heads turn.
After a mission statement of a first album and a prodigious branching out on their second album, the band has found what is doubtless the first of many treasures
on “Hunting Season”, their third album for Fullsteam Records. The success of the explorations that preceded it, gave the band the confidence to self-produce the album, with the exception of the vocals, which were produced by Miikka Koivisto
of label mates Disco Ensemble.
So where are we now? “Hunting Season” is not a radical departure or an attempt at reinvention. It’s condensed soul. Take the introverted urgency of the Afghan Whigs and combine it with the extroverted bombast of the E Street Band at the height of their powers. Add a touch of storytelling magic á la The Hold Steady.
If a connection can be drawn between the personal and the political, Damn Seagulls has drawn one between the intensely personal and the blindingly epic. Raw emotion, served stadium-size.
It’s a long road to travel and it took what started out as a ska-punk trio over a decade.
A lot has changed in ten years, but the band’s voracious appetite for combining these and other seemingly disparate flavors remains intact, the bedrock on which everything else rests. Comfortably.
You can pack a hell of a lot of hours playing shows and rehearsing into ten years. There’s a loose-limbed grace to the playing on the album that can only come with time.
It’s easy to love a confident band and that’s what Damn Seagulls are. After two successful albums and the third one an obvious step forward, they’re aware of
their upward arc.
They can feel it and you can tell.
ALBUMS:
One Night at Sirdie’s (Fullsteam, 2005)
Soul Politics (Fullsteam, 2007)
Hunting Season (Fullsteam, 2009)
juu ei mitään paskoja fiiliksiä välittyny ja rehtiys on aina jees. oli itseasiassa tarkotus tulla moikkaan jaakko & jayn keikan jälkeen, mutten enää nähny teitä.
Nähtiin joskus taannoin "Something about it"-videon kuvauksissa Tampereella, jollon tein teidän videontekopuuhista jutun Ylen lastenohjelmaan (Galaxi). Nyt näin teidät ekaa kertaa(!) livenä Korjaamolla ja pidin kovasti näkemästäni ja kuulemastani, vaikkakin Laurilla tais olla huono päivä(?). Toivottavast keikan myötä olotila helpotti.
Heippa, piti kertoman että teillä on ihan sairaan hyvä meininki keikoilla. Pariin otteeseen 'vahingossa' tullut katsastettua ja aina on suu hymyssä ja inspiroitunut ja iloinen olo teidän jälkeen. Mieletön läsnäolo ja energia ja homma jotenkin vaan skulaa ihan pirun hyvin. jeejee!
Für das morgige (Mi, 19.8.) Konzert von Fuzz Manta (DK) und MÄRVEL (S) in Bielefeld
gibt es noch genügend Karten zum Preis von 10 Euro an der Abendkasse.
Wer also Lust hat, dabei zu sein, wenn diese beiden phantastischen
Livebands für's TV aufspielen, kann sich auf den Weg zum Kanal 21 in
die Meisenstraße 65 machen. Einlass ist ab 19.30 Uhr. Konzertbeginn von
Fuzz Manta pünktlich um 20 Uhr und Märvel legen gegen 21.15 Uhr los.
Ihan järrrjettömän iso KIITOS hillittömästä keikastanne Ilosaaren kolmosteltassa! Maxïmo Parkin peruuduttua ei ollut hirveitä odotuksia minkään keikan suhteen, mutta te yllätitte kyllä totaalisesti mielettömän energisellä vedollanne, kiitos siitä. Rauhaa ja rokkia, Lokit!
You know I saw your gig on the one Russian TV channel.. It was really nice!!! ;) But I'm so wondering how the hell cuold you play there if the main concept of that channel is to show only Russian music?! :D:D:D
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