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The Plastic Pals: Olov Öqvist: drums
Bengt Alm: bass/backup vocals
Håkan Soold: guitar/vocals
Anders Sahlin: guitar/backup vocals
Influences
Marianne Pettersson-Soold, Hatte Stiwenius, Chris Cacavas, Television, The Only Ones, Peter Lorimer, Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Tom Verlaine, Slas, Bob Kulick, Steve Wynn, John Steinbeck, Townes van Zandt, Blaze Foley, Sture Dahlström, Sigge Pettersson, Barbro Hörberg, Caryl Phillips, Marc Bolan, Aldo Morot, Micke Wallqvist, Melanie, The Long Ryders, Jason Victor, Jobriath, Vickys-Affe, Mike Bloomfield, Dan Jones & The Squids, Jimmy Rip, Satelliten Zigge, Jim Dickson, Angelo Badalamenti, Green Pajamas, Dahlila Costa, Blomsterunge, Schabrak, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Flying Burrito Brothers, Ray Davies, Billie Holiday, Serge Gainsbourg, Edith Piaf, Lou Reed, Vladimir Vysotskij, The Monochrome Set, Wayne Kramer, Bruno K Öijer, Rob Younger, The Plimsouls, The Runaways, Matte Werner, Kajsa Grytt, The Birthday Party, Simon Soold, Bröderna Christer och Tommy Abrahamsson, Charlie Christian, Hunter S Thompson, Suzi Quattro, Bryan Ferry, Peter Puders, TT Reuter, Sylvain Sylvain & The Teardrops, Charles Aznavour, Nicke Wöhrman, Luis Bunuel, Putte Wickman, Andre Breton, Eeels, Orange Juice, Besökarna, Patti Smith, John Cale, Charlie George, The Sweet, Lars Cleveman, Martin Rössel, Lee Perry, Mungo Jerry, MC5, Juliette Binoche, William Burroughs, PJ Harvey, Blue Öyster Cult, Big Star, Lee Hazelwood, The Kinks, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Jan Johansson, John Kennedy Toole, Ian Dury & The Blockheads, Slas, The Lovin' Spoonful, Nick Cave, Olle Adolphsson, Linda Pitmon, Sage Francis, Richard Lloyd, XTC, Suicide, Arthur Rimbaud, bob hund, Georges Brassens, The Velvet Underground, Green on red, Adam and the Ants (first singles and album - before all that indian crap), Pulp, Lasse Lönndahl, Salvador Dali, Pere Ubu, James Chance and The Contortions, John Holm, Paul Verlaine, Crazy Horse, Mick Ronson, Flamin Groovies, Beppe Wolgers, Federico Garcia Lorca, Emmylou Harris, Blue Öyster Cult, Jacques Brel, Paul Weller, The Ronettes, Scott Walker, Olle Adolphsson, Moe Tucker, Tomas Transtömer, 13th Floor Elevators, Ronnie Spector, The Shirellas, Georges Brassens, The Stranglers, Jeff Beck, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, F Scott Fitzgerald, Jim Carroll Band, Van Morrison, Mud, Dead Boys, Lloyd Cole, Johnny Thunders, Syd Barret..s Pink Floyd, Jaques Brel, Charles Aznavour, Buddy Holly, Edith Piaf, The Yardbirds, Chet Baker, Ryan Adams, The Stoogees, David Byrne, The Pop Group, Kitchen and the Plastic Spoons, Andy Warhol, Plast, The Doors, Nico, Steve Earle, Kate Bush, The Modern Lovers, Fred Åkerström, Steve Earle, John Holm, Jane Birkin, Lucinda Williams, The Pretty Things, Sterling Morrison, Hoagy Carmichael, Psychedelic Furs, Roxy Music, The Modern Lovers, Sam Shepherd, David Bowie, Beatles, Iggy Pop, Link Wray, Roy Orbison, Beatrice Dalle, Ola Magnell, Mott the Hoople, Wilko Johnson, Magazine, The Jam, New York Dolls, The Sweet, The Cramps, T Rex, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Evert Sandin, Atmosphere, Wire, Lydia Lunch, Nannie Porres, Tom Waits, Garbochock, TT Reuter, Raketerna, Ebba Grön, Grisen Skriker, Chris Cacavas, Bryan Ferry, Leonard Cohen, Chopin, Richard Bertilsson, Mink Deville, Howlin Wolf, Wire, Dr John, John Hiatt, Thelonius Monk, Lucinda Williams, Scotty Moore, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Bloc Party, Cornelis Vreesvijk, Kniskarl, Etta James, Magnus Uggla, Flying Burrito Brothers, Sterling Morrison, Sone Banger, John Lee Hooker, Willie Dixon, Emmylou Harris, Kiss, Dolly Parton, Ramones, Booker T & The MGs, Jan Allan, The Jam, Promoe, Aerosmith, The Waterboys, Eddie Cochran, Pugh Rogefeldt, Them, The Saints, John Bonham, Commando, Birthday Party, John McGeoch, Flo&Eddie, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Päkkos Gustav, Jimmy Page, The Cure, Gene Vincent, Little Richard, Elvis Presley, Radiohead, The Who, Willie Nelson, Steve Cropper, The Damned, Pere Ubu, Blondie, Joe Jackson, The Adverts, Kiss, Richard Hell&The Voidoids, Public Enemy, Fred Åkerström, The Coral, Siouxie and the Banshees, The Kinks, Gun Club, Charlie Parker, The Stranglers, Johnny Cash, The Clash, Curtis Mayfield, Igor Stravinskij, Funkadelic, Satellite dogs, Chris Isaak, 999, Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, Cowboy Junkies, The Only Ones, Sly Stone, Radiohead, Joy Division, Rolling Stones, Tim Hardin, Detroit Cobras, Hank Williams, Ludwig van Beethoven, The Dream Syndicate, Elvis Costello, Jeff Beck, David Allan Coe, Gram Parsons, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Jan Johansson, Wilco, The Yardbirds...
Sounds Like
"Anyone who could imagine Chris Spedding fronting Television would understand." (Patrik Forshage, Nöjesguiden)
"These guys rock, in the vanguard of what seems to be a paisley Viking invasion, still wielding axes but these days they are plugged in and making glorious noises"
Rob Ellen, The Medicine Show: www.themedicineshow.eu
The Plastic Pals from Stockholm, Sweden released their debut album GOOD KARMA CAFÉ in 2008. An americana-tinged affair, while still true to the twin guitar-paisley-garage-powerpop-New York rock-ideals as presented on the EP THE BAND THATS FUN TO BE WITH (2006). A collection of magic melodies with a dark edge.
The sound of The Plastic Pals continues to attract an increasing number of fans worldwide. A rootsy classic guitar-laden rock sound that takes you on a time capsule from the 50s to the present. The band has been compared to bands and artists like Echo&The Bunnymen, Television, The Dream Syndicate, The Velvet Underground, Green on Red, The Godfathers, Blue Oyster Cult, Green on Red, Bruce Springsteen and Elvis Costello. We are out on a mission from God to spread the gospel about the wonderful music that we feel is almost threatened with extinction these days: jangly guitar pop that is too rootsy to be called garage, too poppish be called rootsy, too garage rocking to be called americana or alt-country. The list goes on...
The album GOOD KARMA CAFÉ – with guest appearances by the legendary Green on Reds keyboard maestro Chris Cacavas – has received really good reviews, in Sweden as well as in the UK, The Netherlands, Belgium and Italy. Tunes from the album have received airplay and/or is receiving airplay in the USA (WFMU and WFNX), the UK (BBC6 and the House of Mercy show at Total Radio), Greece, Spain, Sweden, Germany, Holland, Belgium and France – with A-rotaion for months on a radio station in Lyon.
In November 2008 The Plastic Pals were invited to London by Gurbir “Another Cowboy” Dhillon (who released albums with The Dream Syndicate and Band of Outsiders in the 1980:s) and Nick West, editor of magazine/fanzine Bucketfull of Brains for a celebration of The Paisley Underground at the Windmill, Brixton. Besides playing a regular Plastic Pals-set the band backed ex-Long Ryder Sid Griffin on a set of tunes by The Long Ryders, and finished off the night with a set of songs by The Only Ones, The Dream Syndicate, Green on Red, The Velvet Undergound and Danny&Dusty. The same weekend The Plastic Pals played two more London dates at The Hope & Anchor and 12 Bar Club.
In June 2009 they were support band for The New Christs at the Feelgood club in Halden, Norway.
The Plastic Pals are soon to be featured on a compilation of songs by The Only Ones with a version of No peace for the wicked. Currently The Plastic Pals are working on new material for a second album and are on the lookout for more exciting gigs.
THE PLASTIC PALS
GOOD KARMA CAFÉ (2008)
POLYTHENE 003 / POLYTHENE RECORDS
PRESS QUOTES:
"/.../If you heard one of these cuts on the radio then whichever one it was, you’d want to know who it was. Those guitars are utterly infectious as they jangle and pummel, sometimes simultaneously. If what goes around does indeed come around then their music will take them far /.../"
- Lindsay Hutton, The Next Big Thing (UK)
Grade 9/10
“/.../bursting with vitality and crunching Mod-pop energy without feeling the need to wear a Target T-shirt /.../ a fine, wholly consistent two guitars, bass and drums record which is cut from durable rock'n'roll cloth without ever sounding horribly derivative.”
- Tim Peacock, Whisperin & Hollerin (UK)
Grade 8/10
“Opener Here Comes the Sun is a perfect example of their ability to produce vibrant and visceral songs which tap straight into rock's collective unconscious.”
- Kai Roberts, Americana UK (UK)
Grade 8/10
“/.../ down to earth 60:s pop and light psychedelia with fine melodies and great guitar figures and good vocals which expresses the lyrics clearly. This Stockholm band would appeal to those who like Lloyd Cole, Television, The Doors, Dream Syndicate and even Robyn Hitchcock.”
- Robert Ryttman, Zero Music Magazine (Sweden)
Grade 3,5/5
“Had Håkan Soold been an Englishman or an American he would have belonged to a select group of internationally acclaimed but modestly selling cult heroes. With his highly qualitative and lightly psychedelic rock, his neat guitar lines almost on par with Tom Verlaine and his competent voice which is close to Ian McNabb (see that as a recommendation), he ought to be counted in among such artists, together with Richard Lloyd, Chris Spedding and Matthew Sweet.”
BACK CATALOGUE
THE PLASTIC PALS
THE BAND THAT..S FUN TO BE WITH (2006)
POLYTHENE 002 / POLYTHENE RECORDS
So happy for you all, but hmmmmmm c'mon do you really want me to beg you to play in my city??? Ok ok ok I will : Pleazzzzzzzzzzzzeeee do it before I'm done! (pd. you can not see me now, but I can tell ya...... I'm on my knees!!!
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