Bobby Nieminen: Guitar & Vocals
Henri Suni: Drums
Markus Heiskanen: Bass
Influences
Melrose, The Living End, D:A:D, The Kinks, The Influents, The Network, Green Day, Good Charlotte, Jimmy Eat World, Starky, Robbie Williams, The Beatles, Eddie Cochran, No Doubt, Beach Boys, Stray Cats, The Who, Blondie, Elvis Costello, Foo Fighters, Blink 182, The Clash, Hurriganes, Me First and The Gimme Gimmies, Ramones, Queens Of The Stone Age, Velvet Revolver, Avril Lavigne, The monkees, Afi, Rancid, Nofx, Lily Allen, Katy Perry, Duffy, The Foxboro Hot Tubs, My Chemical Romance, Raphael Saadiq, Snoop Dogg, The Munsons Duo, The Slippers,The Transplants, +44 , Alkaline trio and shit loads of otha'
“A rock’n’roll trio where roots, skateboards and the 21st-century come together.”
- DJ Bunuel
What is King Star?
King Star is a Finnish rock band of three guys in their mid-twenties who have played music together for over ten years. Guitarist-vocalist Bobby Nieminen, drummer Henri Suni and bassist Markus Heiskanen have formed King Star’s line-up since 1998. The band’s music combines old, traditional rockabilly with today’s pop rock melodies.
It might be difficult to name a genre for King Star’s music, but their sound unveils the trio’s own idols: Melrose, The Living End as well as Foo Fighters. However, all three admit Green Day being the biggest innovator for forming the band. Lately the group has also been influenced by the surfing melodies of the best 50’s bands.
The band has an established reputation as a knock-out live trio. And it’s the spirit of the on-stage performances that the group wants to transfer on tape as well. Bobby writes all the songs, but lyrics and arrangement are something the whole band works on.
How would you know of them?
In 2005 King Star made history by being the first demo band ever to make it to Radio YleX’s (over 1 million weekly listeners) radio chart. The song ”Better Daze” hit the 28th place.
2008
In Stockholm, the band gave itself to the hands of the acclaimed Swedish producers Ollie Olson and Henrik Edenhed, who took the job after having been impressed by King Star’s music. As the studio sessions in Sweden were rocked through even better than expected, both the band and their producer duo got convinced the first King Star album would be a unique experience not only in sound but also in terms of attitude.
2010
King Star will release their debut album and start conquering the world!
We are finally ready to start promoting my 'I Surrender' single with my album, 'Ella Trip' coming right after -yey!! What d'ya think to the video teaser?
Official debut album Seconds Away From Salvation is out now and available for worldwide distribution! Hear the explosive opening track Solitary Soul, Everlasting Memorial, and Top 10-singles NOW on The Jade MySpace Official!! To get Seconds Away From Salvation: (Includes Top10 –singles, 14 tracks) just see the blog, myspace or visit the official site: THEJADE.FI or see the links below the photo: Best wishes, Stay cool, stay tuned, xx THE JADE
I'm the girl from Anchor who made an interview with you guys. Thanks for the email you sent last night. I'll send a link to my blog/webb when I've written about you so you can check it out. Regards/Sanna Melin F
hi Peter from timecode here,i would like to personally thank you and the finish people 4 the great suport,and inform you that you now have axes to the album on bandcamp and bengans,you can find the links on the page,you can listen 2 the complet songs on our official myspace, www.myspace.com/timecodealpha and if you add me as a frind there you realy make my day,peace and luv/Peter/TCA
Cheers from São Paulo, Brazil. Just passing by to wish you a great week. Temple of Sin is currently doing pre-production for the second cd which should be recorded later this year and looking for shows in every corner of the world. Remember that you can still download the first cd for free from:
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