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VIAJE A 800
The heavy and stoner sounds do not have secrets for this band from Cadiz, Spain. Viaje a 800 was formed in 1996, at the beginning as a trio to become a quintet afterwards. In 1998 they record their first rough cut entitled “Santa Águeda” and they become a quartet. In 2001 they release in the label Alone Records their first album “Diablo Roto De…”, an album favourably received where they show their style leaving behind influences such as that from Black Sabbath, Kyuss or Pentagram. The mentioned work was reedited last 2007 with several additional songs. The band takes four years of rest and after that period they start to do sporadic concerts. It was not until 2007 when the band edits their second LP oddly entitled “Estampida De Trombones”, an album where songs with different influences such as punk, stoner, psychedelia and hard rock can be heard. myspace
SORKUN
Sorkun is the alter ego of Sorkunde Rubio, ex vocalist of the punk rock band Kashbad. In 2001 the band split up and he started his solo career reflected in his first album “Onna” where he collaborated with musicians such as Sabih Strubell (guitarist in Anari and Dut) or Fernando Sapo, vocalist in Kuraia. The songs´ texts remind the haikus or Japonese traditional poetry. Between 2003 and 2004 he took part in the Fermín Muguruza Kontrabanda and in 2005 he released his second album “Duna”. This is a work where Sorkun changes its music guidelines: the distortional guitars get aside from their music way and the artist from Orereta-Renteria sends new more minimalist paths. Sorkun’s last news is the release of a new album with the band from Vitoria-Gasteiz Vice Presidentes. Recorded in the US this album gathers in its songs the Californian dessert ambient and the stoner-hard rocker dense sound characteristic of the band. www.sorkun.org
ANIMAL ALPHA
Born in Norway in 2002 this band’s music can be catalogued as a mixture of pop, rock, punk and modern metal. They started their discography with a homonym EP that got the gold record in Norway and in 2005 they released their first LP entitled “Pheromones”. These releases allowed the band to tour all around Europe and to participate in music festivals such as the German Am Ring and Rock In Park, the British Download or the Belgium Pukkelpop. In their concerts stood up the particular image of the versatile vocalist of the band Agnete Kjolsrud. This year they have launched their second LP entitled “You Pay for the Whole Seat but You´ll Only Need the Edge”.
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TRULY
In 1989 before the musical explosion that took place in Seattle with the so-called grunge, guitarist and vocalist Robert Roth and drummer Mark Pickerel, one of the founders of Screaming Trees, join together for a new psycodelic rock project called Truly. The chemistry between both of them is excellent and they record in 1990 a four songs EP composed by Robert. In 1991 they invite bassist Hiro Yamamoto (Soundgarden) to join the band and that same year this trio releases their first EP. Four years later, they do the same with the debut LP entitled “Fast Stories From Kid Coma” which gets excellent specialized press reviews. In 1998 they edit a second album “Feeling You Up” and in 2000 a British label, Cargo Records, launches a rarity album entitled “Twilight Courtains”. This year, Robert, Mark and Hiro keep working on new songs with the aim of recording an album.
BLUE CHEER
A noisy psychedelic-blues rock band is born in San Francisco at the end of the 60’s. In 1968 they release their first album entitled “Vincebus Eruptum” where they include their mythic Eddie Cochran’s cover of “Summertime Blues” that they filled up with force and rhythmic strength which would mark their career. The band lead by the vocalist and bassist Dickie Peterson suffers constant changes along the years and after the edition in 1971 of “Oh! Pleasant Hope”, they decide to take a long rest. At the mid 80’s they come back to the scene and in 1989 they release their first live album entitled “Blitzkrieg Over Nuremberg”. In 1990 a new studio album comes out with the name “Highlights & Low Lives”. This a record based in the hard rock-blues and was followed by the heavier “Dining With The Sharks” in 1991. In this century the already classical Dickie Peterson and Paul Whaley continue leading the band that we will be able to see in this new Azkena Rock Festival edition. www.bluecheer.us
HANOI ROCKS
1979 was the starting point of this Finish band formed by Andy McCoy and Nasty Suicide in the guitars, Michael Monroe in the voice and saxophone, Sami Yaffa in the bass and Gyp Casino in the drums, that was soon substituted by Razzle. All of them created a glamorous rock and roll machine that, if it has not got already a massive success, it has been and it is a band that other more successful groups, have recognized as influential. One of the critical moments of the band was, without any doubt, the death in an accident of Razzle. The car was driven by Mötley Crüe´s Vince Neil. After this fatal end, the band split up in 1985. In 2002 McCoy and Monroe take the leading of the group with new components as the ex Electric Boys’ Conny Bloom. “Street Poetry” in 2007 is their last album and the incorporation of a new bassist, Jolle, the main novelty of the band this year. www.hanoirocks.com
THE SONICS
At the beginning of the 60’s in Tacoma (Washington), Parypa brothers Andy (bassist) and Lary (guitarist), fans of bands such as The Wailers, The Roamers, Chuck Berry or James Brown, form the band called The Sonics. In 1963 the band is consolidated with the singer Gerry Rolie, the drummer Bob Bennet and the saxophonist Rob Lind and the history of the garage and punk’ s godparents starts. The Wailers’ bassist selects them for his label Etiquette Records and they record their first singles “The Witch” and “Psycho”, getting an incredible success with dirty and saturated guitars. The first LP “Here Are The Sonic” arrives in 1965 and the same year they record “Merry Christmas”. In 1966 they release “Sonics Boom” and a bit after they work for Jerden Records and record “Introducing The Sonics” (1966), an album that did not convince the band for its too clean sound. Little by little the members of the band started to leave the group until the band’s split up. More than forty years after, The Sonics, the creators of a sound style, they come back to the stages with three of their original members, Gerry Loslie, Larry Parypa and Rob Lind. Last year, it was reedited the live album “Busy Body!!! Live In Tacoma 1964”. myspace.com
DANKO JONES
This adrenalitic and sexual rock and roll Canadian band was born in 1996. After the 7inches “Sugar Chocolate” and the EP “Danko Jones”, both in 1998, the following year “My Love Is Bold” came out. After the success of this album in their country, in 2001 the label Bad Taste edits a compilation of their first recordings, B sides and demos entitled “I´m Alive On Fire”, after which it came out the first band’s LP “Born A Lion” (2002) that toured around Europe and Canada. The year after they release “We Sweat Blood”; this gives them the nominations to best rock and best video for the Juno awards and the Canadian Grammies. It takes them three years to release their next album “Sleep Is The Enemy”. This record includes the strong single “Baby Hates Me” and allows them to play in all the most important European Festivals such as the Rock Am Ring or the Wacken Open Air, the biggest heavy metal event of the summer. The latest of the Canadian band is the release of their last work which name tells everything: “Never Too Loud”. www.dankojones.com
RAY DAVIES
The name of Ray Davies will always be associated to his old band The Kinks, something that usually happens with immortal hymns like “You Really Got Me” or “Lola”. His incorporation to the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame and to the UK Music Hall Of Fame back up the trajectory of this legend. Although we cannot forget neither that this veteran British musician has an interesting solo career that started in 1985 with the release of “Return To Waterloo”. But it was not until 1998, when The Kinks stopped touring, when Davies started to perform from time to time on his own. During this time he records the album “The Storyteller” (1998). During the last years and already in his 60’s, the English artist has recorded two albums, “Other People Lives” (2006) and “Working Man’s Café” (2007). It will be delicious to see this great alive rock n roll history performing great hits of his entire career in the Azkena stage.
SEX PISTOLS
The name of Ray Davies will always be associated to his old band The Kinks, something that usually happens with immortal hymns like “You Really Got Me” or “Lola”. His incorporation to the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame and to the UK Music Hall Of Fame back up the trajectory of this legend. Although we cannot forget neither that this veteran British musician has an interesting solo career that started in 1985 with the release of “Return To Waterloo”. But it was not until 1998, when The Kinks stopped touring, when Davies started to perform from time to time on his own. During this time he records the album “The Storyteller” (1998). During the last years and already in his 60’s, the English artist has recorded two albums, “Other People Lives” (2006) and “Working Man’s Café” (2007). It will be delicious to see this great alive rock n roll history performing great hits of his entire career in the Azkena stage.
BLIND MELON
This band was born in 1989 with Shannon Hoon as the leader and icon of the group. His appearance in Guns N Roses “Don´t Cry” video clip encouraged him to edit their first homonym album which gathered a great success thanks to the support of the single and video clip of “No Rain”. Does anyone not remember the shocking image of the bee-girl? Three years later, the band releases their second album “Soup” an album with certain inclination for and pop sound. Unfortunately, in 1995 Hoon appears death in the tour’s bus as his constant problems with drugs put end to his life. His colleagues edit “Nico” a posthumous album of rarities, inedit songs and version named as Hoon’s daughter. The band splits up in 1996 after a short try together. In 2006 the reunion of the band was announced with Travis Warren as the new singer. Some new songs and live performances have been the aperitif until the release of the album “For My Friends” last April 22nd. www.blindmelon.com
THE QUIREBOYS
Joined together in 1984, it was not until 1990 and after several changes in the band when they release one of the most polemical albums at the beginning of the 90’s, the genial “A Bit Of What You Fancy”. This very classical rock and roll album was influenced by bands such as Humble Pie, the Stones and The Faces, and from great musicians such as David Coverdale from Whitesnake, Aerosmith or the Stones said great things about this work. The album allowed them to play in the famous Monsters Of Rock Festival de Donington and as the support of the band lead by Jagger and Richards. In 1993 they release their second album “Bitter Sweet & Twisted”, a launch that soon disappeared when the grunge burst into the scene. In 2002 a new formation always lead by Spike released their third album “This Is Rock N Roll”, with allowed them to gather again all their fans and get the critic’s applause. The same line was followed by the next “Well Oiled” in 2004 and with their recent “Homewreckers & Heartbreakers” they have demonstrated once more that the purest rock and roll does not have any secret for them. www.quireboys.com
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