Founding members Mikke & Jokke grew up in a suburb of Stockholm called Solna and were classmates for 9 years. Around 1984 they started their first band, after several names and drummers they finally called themselves "Marys operation". The name was taken from a song by the obscure British band 23Skidoo. Other members were Torkel Andersson on guitar, Janne Jingbro on bass & Woffle Fleischander on drums. For five years they performed mostly in Stockholm in clubs like Cityhallen, Tre backar & Apromus. In 1988 they played at the 3rd Hultsfredsfestival and the song "catkiller" was released on the Apromus compilation album. One of Marys operations fans was the singer of Alternative tentacles they said "funksmuckrocksmock, not up my street". The band recorded nearly 30 demotracks and got played several times on Swedish Radio P3, performed at Hultsfredsfestivalen in 1992, recorded 2 songs with producer Jacob Hellner and made a playback performance in the Swedish TV-show "Kosmopol". In 1994 Mikke decided to split and short after, drummer Uffe quit to join a heavymetal band.
Mikke tried to bring his musical carreer into another level and was 1 out of the 3 remaining singers in the audition for the musical "Buddy Holly". Jokke got together with Rikke & Mulle Munskum from Vstervik and formed a band called "Feed", released a 5-track CD on German record label Lost & Found called "25downinstreet" and several drummers later (what is wrong with drummers ?) they split in 1996 after a terrible tour to Canary Islands !!?!?
By that time Mikke was singing in several coverbands and writing his own songs. He formed a band called "Moonboot" together with Jesse Bohlenius (another Solna city boy, now singing in Syndromet and Janne Jingbro (former Marys Operation bassplayer). They recorded several demos which got played on Swedish Radio P3 and made a few live performances.
Jokke & Rikke had become really tired of the whole scene and 1996 they started Phrank, an industrial performance group with a drummer, sampler, anglegrinder and metalscrap. They began performing heavily around Stockholm 1997-98 and had a huge crowd of people coming to their liveshows.
Phrank recorded around 20 songs the first year and their demos got played on Swedish Radio P3 several times. In 2001 they signed a record deal with Swedish label GMR and released a 4-track CD-single and a 13 track CD. In 2002 Phrank performed at Hultsfredsfestivalen, Arvikafestivalen & HTMD festivalen and appeared in a Swedish documentary on national TV which was about people who cannot control their anger and likes hitting and destroy things.
During these years Jokke couldnt keep his fingers away from guitars, so when Beaver Farm asked him to join in year 2000, he said yes. Beaver farm released the CD "Swallow" in 2004 with Jokke on guitars.
Finally, in year 2004 Mikke & Jokke decided to make some noise together again and this is what they have done so far.
Feel free to download & listen to the songs, and tell us if its "bra eller anus".
// Sugarlee
Just wanted to let ya know my new band Last Exit will be playing Molly Malone's June 6th at 8:00pm. 575 S. Fairfax Ave. Los Angeles 90036. Cover is $7. We had a great turnout Mother's Day. We've been in the studio writing so the 6th show should be killer!
Wishing you the best,
Me
p.s. You can hear acoustic scratches by clicking Last Exit in my top friends area. See ya there!!!
just wanted to thank you for adding me as your MySpace friend, with the "No Boundaries" music video and project.
Over the past few months, I have met many incredible people, and have gained a number of new and lasting friendships, simply through this project, one person at a time. The results of all of the hard work is now on my MySpace page with two videos for the song "No Boundaries."
The top video was the first cut demo of both the song and video, and the second is the final cut now in the hands of the powers that be at Country Music Television (CMT) in Nashville, Tennessee. "No Boundaries" has been entered into CMT's Music City Madness video contest, and I could sure use your help one last time!
Beginning February 13th, you will be able to log onto: (http://www.cmt.com/interact/music_city_madness/)
and vote for your favorite video, the winner getting a trip to Nashville among other prizes. I would surely appreciate your vote! This would mean a lot to me, and with your help, we could push the "No Boundaries" video to Number ONE!
To all of my new friends and acquaintances, I thank you for your support in the past, and look forward to our friendship in the future!
