God Given Ass

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**UPDATE JULY 3RD 2012** New 7″ single "I’m Better Than You" out in early july. 500 copies on black wax, co-released by Hurdie Gurdie Heebie Geebie Greenie Meenie Man Records and Rock ‘n’ Roll Bullshit Recorsd.

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God Given Ass are a five-piece punk rock band from Kallio, Helsinki, Finland.

Most of the band members have a history involving other acts: Otto (vocs) fronted the rock band Tehosekoitin (1991-2004) and it's English language incarnation The Screamin' Stukas (2000-2004). Marika (gtr) and Reeta (bass) formerly performed with pin-up horror rockers The Patsy Walkers (2003-2008; in 2010 the "Patsies" were active again for some gigs in Finland & the Benelux. Their future plans are however left open for the time being). Niila (drs) previously banged the skins for hardcoremongers Lighthouse Project since they started in 2004 until he left the band in 2007. (Niila also had a brief stint with the great but unfortunately short-lived Frontside Führer - he´s not left idle though, still thrashing his kit with Pää Kii, Braineaters and the like aside of GGA; check them out)! Pyry is the only one with no previous band history, if one is not to mention his early career in Fist Fukk, a band that never actually quite made it to the rehearsal place.

GGA started as a brainchild of Marika and Reeta, and the rest of the line-up - sans a committed drummer - formed out quite effortlessly as we already were drinking buddies at our "local", Kallion Seurahuone. We started rehearsing and writing songs in the summer of 2008, and after trying five different drummers found just the right guy for the job; Niila joined in in October, only a week before the first gig at Vastavirta-klubi in Tampere - and two weeks before the recording of our first demo, which eventually became our four track debut 7" EP "Was I Really There?" (released through Monsp Records in February 2009). Since the EP is nowadays sold out, all the songs can be heard on this site.

Our tastes and influences in music are wide and varied, but the main focus of GGA is on fast, fun and furious punk rock, with an occasional cast at murkier, darker corners of the pond... You´re welcome to witness this on gigs, of which we have now played some five dozen & are actively looking for more! Contact God Given Ass: ggaband@gmail.com

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Marika-Guitar

Pyry-Guitar

Reeta-Bass

Niila-Drums

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Punk/Rock'n'roll

...and if one is to take seriously the opinions of drunken Kallio punks - one always shouldn't - our friends have described us variously as sounding like "a hyperactive Ramones", Dead Boys, Misfits, "early Hellacopters", Danzig, Samhain, The OverAttacks, Dicks, Fuzztones, Faith No More, Turbonegro, Stereo Junks, 77-punk, Motörhead, Lords of the New Church, Joy Division, hardrock, pop, power ballads, The Saints, The Damned, Stiv Bators, New York Dolls, Generation X, Fear, "something else", Dead Kennedys, Gogol Bordello, Anti-Flag, Sator, The Cramps, The Who, Iggy Pop, Snuff, Doors, Union Carbide Productions, Pink Floyd, Cheap Trick, The Barefoot Brothers, California punk, Electric Blue Peggy Sue and the Revolutionions from Mars, The Undertones, Radio Birdman, Reatards, Roky Erickson, Spacemen3, The Heartburns, Buzzcocks, Smack, Nick Cave, Tehosekoitin, The Yum Yums, Black Flag, Youth Brigade, 60's garage rock, power pop, Per Gessle, Millencolin, The Vicious, The Boomtown Rats, M.O.T.O., Sham 69, Supergrass, Twisted Sister, Pixies, Neil Young, Nazi Death Camp, Hanoi Rocks, Johnny Thunders, old British hardcore, Oi!, "frightening", "goofy", gothic, Alice Cooper, Murder City Devils, The Marked Men, Suede, Rancid, Fugazi, Hybrid Children, The Clash, Velvet Underground, Nick Lowe, Dead Moon, Sonic Youth, Hurriganes, The Beatles and, last but not least, Johnny Cash... Take your pick!

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