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Harrys Gym

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General Info

  • Genre: Lyrical / Pop / Rock

    Location Please select your region, No

    Profile Views: 292412

    Last Login: 8/19/2011

    Member Since 3/1/2006

    Website harrys-gym.com

    Record Label Hype City / Universal / Splendour

    Type of Label Major

  • Bio

    Critically acclaimed Norwegian four-piece Harrys Gym release their second album What Was Ours Can’t Be Yours in the UK and mainland Europe this February on new Oslo based label Splendour (started by the management company representing Lindstr�m, Jaga Jazzist, Serena Maneesh and others). Blending beguiling pop with ethereal sounds, Harry’s Gym create epic, glacial and distinctly Nordic soundscapes guided by vocalist/songwriter Anne Lise Fr�kedal’s hauntingly beautiful vocals. On the back of their self-titled debut album (which was released in May 2010 on Norwegian label Hype City) the band earned a “New Band Of The Day” feature in Guardian and heaped praise from the likes of Drowned in Sound, Uncut and Music Week amongst others. It also saw Harrys Gym subsequently sign to major label Universal in Norway for their follow up – quite an achievement for a “difficult” pop band. Harrys Gym toured the album in the UK, including a performance at the tastemaker festival Standon Calling, where Clash wrote this review: "Harrys Gym… possess an elegance that betrays their… name and conjures the kind of hypnotic, billowing, electro-rock, it seems only Scandinavians can". In addition Harrys Gym managed to captivate audiences at festivals such as �ya, Roskilde, Eurosonic, Great Escape, Iceland Airwaves and Culture Collide in Los Angeles. For their follow-up, they chose to work with up-and-coming British producer James Rutledge. Rutledge and Anne Lise Fr�kedal bonded at once over the phone from Oslo to London, where they discussed Vashti Bunyan, folk music and the crossover between programming and running naked in the forest. Not to mention a shared fondness for salty licorice. Rutledge sent a Spotify playlist to the band to give an idea of where he thought the music was heading. This included names such as Brian Eno, Atlas Sound and MGMT, which was enough to convince Fr�kedal and the other members that they definitely should book him a ticket to snowy Oslo to begin recording. Together they spent hours sending ideas back and forth from Oslo to London. Then James headed over to Harrys Gym�s own studio where they laid down the majority of the tracks before going to London to mix the material in the psychedelic atmosphere of Strongroom Studios, where the mixes were put down by Jimmy Robertson (Big Pink, Florence & The Machine, Klaxons). Fr�kedal said this about the recording process: “It was nice and refreshing to have so many ideas in the room all of the time and to have James somewhat become a fifth member of the band”. ..........BUY THE HARRY GYM ALBUM HERE!!...... HARRYS GYM @ SLOTTSFJELL FESTIVAL 2009:.. Soundcheck & after the show:.... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ...... Harrys Gym Live at Store Studio.. .. .. .. .. .. .. ...... Music Video ..Old Man.. by Vibeke Heide.. <[[[iframe]]] src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/14713947" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0">......Harrys Gym - Old Man.. from ..heide.. on ..Vimeo..... .... Music Video ..Top of the Hill.. by Vibeke Heide.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... ..

  • Members

    Al, Leo, Bjarne, Erlend .... ..Management.... Up Front Artists.. mark @ ufa.no.... ..Live Booking EU/UK.... louise@CodaAgency.com.... ..UK On-Line Press.... debbie@createspark.co.uk.... ..UK Print & Radio.... lucy@butilikeyou.co.uk.. ....Press - Germany/Austria/Switz.... sven@beatsinternational.com.... ..Radio - Germany/Austria/Switz.... birgit@beatsinternational.com.... .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ....

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Contact

Band
Anne Lise
Bjarne
Erlend
Ole

Management/Live Booking Norway
Mark Vaughan
+47 9365 2781
mark@ufa.no

Live Booking UK/Europe:
Louise Steele
louise@codaagency.com

UK On-Line Press debbie@createspark.co.uk

UK Print & Radio lucy@butilikeyou.co.uk

Press - Germany/Austria/Switz sven@beatsinternational.com

Radio - Germany/Austria/Switz birgit@beatsinternational.com

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