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).
THANX FOR BEING A FRIEND! I WISH YOU A FABULOUS, DARK AND TWISTED HOLIDAY SEASON!!! I DO HOPE THAT SANTA LEAVES OUT THE COAL THIS YEAR AND 2010 GREETS YOU WELL!
* If you get the chance, stop by and solve my riddle in the upcoming story of 'OUIJA', in the NEW Twisted Tales 'R' book coming soon(in my blog section). If it's not 'Sue', then who is it?? HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010! -Criss Karver (Author of THE LUNACY MACHINE)
Tulimme välittämään tiedon, että !Rock night with a Blast! kajahtaa Tampereella 16.12. Turussa 17.12. ja Helsingissä 19.12. Mukana Tampereella Disease of the Nation, Backstabbing Bastard, Living Attic ja Hangman. Turussa Ghoul Patrol, Unsphered, Sortokausi ja Living Attic. Helsingissä Living Attic ja EZ Aquarii.
JOKAINEN LIPUNOSTANUT TUKEE NUORTA MUSIIKKI- JA TAPAHTUMATOIMINTAA.
!Rock night with a Blast! V 16.12.09 Tampere YO-Talo 5€ ennakkoon Tiketistä / 8€ ovelta Disease of the Nation, Backstabbing Bastard, Hangman & Living Attic
Dear Friend, finally it is out! The LONG expected release of our EP "Interrupted (Triptych I)" !!!
"you wonder why get interrupted / was life too fast / the nights too long / you give a fuck / get interrupted / you want no break / keep speeding on..."
Watch the music video, created by the young & wild Japanese video artist Yukihiro Taguchi. Be Surprised! You will also find some wicked REMIXES on Youtube and iTunes ;-)
Learn more about our current project "Triptych I-III" on our MySpace site...
hey i have a record out called i hid because i was ashamed. it's about sad stuff and i hope you like it because i really do. if you find any time to listen to it, please let me know what you think. thank you from michael
Saturday, 24.10. Tavastia Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6 Helsinki, Finland Showtime 21:30 Special guest Arttu Tolonen! Tickets: Tiketti 23:30 Tavastia’s new hip & cool Saturday Disco!
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