AC/DC, Ash, Bad Brains, Syd Barrett, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Big Star, Blondie, David Bowie, Bubblegum, Buzzcocks, The Byrds, The Cars, Johnny Cash, Cheap Trick, Kevin Coyne, Dead Kennedys, Del Shannon, The Dictators, Dinosaur Jr., Electric Light Orchestra, Roky Erickson, Ben Folds, Foo Fighters, Kim Fowley, Freeman, Serge Gainsbourg, Marvin Gaye, Giant Sand, The Gun Club, Merle Haggard, Emmylou Harris, The Jam, Elton John, Daniel Johnston, Joy Division, Karkkiautomaatti, Rodd Keith, The Kinks, Kris Kristofferson, Lemonheads, Liekki, Love, Curtis Mayfield, The Monkees, Nada Surf, Nirvana, Orange Juice, Gram Parsons, Pixies, The Police, The Posies, Prince, Ramones, Redd Kross, Lou Reed, R.E.M., The Replacements, Jonathan Richman, The Runaways, Smashing Pumpkins, Smokey Robinson, Todd Rundgren, Phil Seymour, Elliott Smith, Song Poems, Sonic Youth, Talking Heads, The Teardrop Explodes, Television, The Temptations, Throwing Muses, Dwight Twilley, The Velvet Underground, Wilco, Wipers, X, XTC, Yacht Rock!
“Not everybody liked rock and roll music when it first started out, even among young people, but the people who really liked it decided they liked it so much that they would try to play it, and that was taking a big step. Everybody can sit around snapping their fingers, but who actually cares enough to try to do it? And then, who actually cares enough to try to make a record himself?”
-Sterling Morrison
Garage Flower came to be in 2000 in Nokia, Finland, but became in fact active in the fall of that year in Helsinki. The band settled on its current line-up (GF mk IV!) when young gentleman called Vilho Micklin took over on the drums.
Garage Flower's songs are written by Antti and Kimmo. Both are hopeless pop-culture addicts and their influences are wide-ranging. The music is a combination of trash-culture aesthetics: one hit wonders, new wave singles and other weird 80s stuff, punk, power-pop, 70s hard rock and 60s harmony pop as well as more arty genres such as post-punk, all kinds of indie and some alternative country. However, we try to go beyond our influences and cook up a strange little mess all of our own.
Talking about honesty and authenticity concerning pop-music is problematic, because it will be associated with conservative, credible down-to-earth sort of stuff So what the hell! Flock of Seagulls and The Cars rock and The Beach Boys rule: Mike Love not War! In the end its only rock n roll: Melodies, middle eights and minor 7ths - distortion and desperation.
Dont worry if this might sound confusing. Luckily Garage Flower has the experience needed to create something resembling originality out of this god-awful mess. This can be verified by people who have witnessed the band live (mostly around Helsinki, Finland.) There also exists various recordings spreading the message: four official demos/EPs: Raw Flower (2002), Sensing a Touch of Love (2004), The Green Light (2005) and Compass Rose (2006) and five weird and wonderful Christmas singles! The first one was unnamed (2002), the second was called Garage Flower Loves You for Christmas (2003), the third More Christmas Hits (2004), the fourth Christmas Party! (2005) and the fifth The Worst Present (2006).
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.
Ever wondered what to do in the event of a nuclear threat?
A while ago I found stuff that inspired me to make this film:
Living Under the Shadow of the Nuclear Umbrella
Both artistic (ensure you get the background music!) and educational, it primarily comprises official British government civil defence advice.
Though source materials are quite aged, much remains relevant today.
I encourage all to visit the YouTube page to learn more (Show support! Rate! Comment!) and responsibly circulate as widely as possible, here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaIim3Rj7L4
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