On August 12 we’re playing at WayOutWest in Gothenburg. It’s one of Sweden’s biggest and best festivals and we’re thrilled to get the opportunity to play there. The venue is Parken, the time is 9-11 pm. We and three other bands will do 15 minute showcase sets. See you there!

First off I want to thank those of you who showed up for the gig. The indoor festival venue was kind of tricky to find, (being, as it was, an outdoor festival) resulting in a frustrated flow of text messages and missed calls on the cell during and after the show. In any case, we had a real blast and felt that we really managed to represent ourselves well on the biggest festival in Sweden.

Besides yours truly, a bunch of other bands played too of course. I had the pleasure of attending some good gigs, especially The Wildhearts and Faith No More. I first saw Faith back in 1998 on their very last tour when they visited the Lollipop Festival in Stockholm. That gig was not very good, the band looking painfully tired of touring, lacking the energy in the performance and output. This time was a lot different. It was one of the best live shows I’ve seen. I was amazed at how good a frontman Mike Patton really is, with his mezmerizing gaze and wild bursts of energy, frantically waving a white cane in the air whilst switching back and forth between opera-like vocals and growling. If you get a chance to see them on their reunion tour, regardless of whether you’ve heard them before or not, take it!

The big disappointment at this festival was, sadly, Chris Cornell. Oh, how far the mighty have fallen… I still don’t get why the f*** he decided to throw his career away and start experimenting with Timbaland. Something is really very wrong. The band backing him isn’t the best either, despite the fact that they’re all skilled musicians. There’s just very little chemistry on stage. The magical moments are sparse, but at least they’re there during “Spoonman” and “Black Hole Sun”, and Chris is definitely lucky he’s got that voice of his, otherwise I’m sure I would have left during the middle part of the show where he only served new crap and some boring Audioslave songs.

Anyhow, all in all this was one of the best festivals I’ve had the pleasure of attending. The last night after the last show most of the bands and artists gathered in the backstage area for a few beers and socializing. So Morty and I didn’t get to bed until about 5.30 in the morning - some nights you just don’t want to end! It was a good thing we had to drive back to Stockholm in the morning, thus preventing me to devour excessive amounts of alcohol and managing to avoid hangover altogether.

So, what’s next? Some well deserved time off, maybe some rehearsing and perhaps I will get into the mood of songwriting again. Now I’m off for an afternoon beer in the sun. Cheerio!

Thursday’s the day when The Genuine Fakes enter the Orion stage at the Peace & Love Festival in Borlänge. 6.30 pm is the time. Check out the calendar for more information.

That’s right folks, The Genuine Fakes will grace the Peace and Love festival in Borlänge, Sweden with a visit on June 25. This means they’ll be joining the fine lineup of greats such as Chris Cornell, Faith No More, Mötley Crüe and Monster Magnet, not to mention Morty Fake’s favorite band - The Wildhearts.

Spegeln, Gävle

The Genuine Fakes [är] fyra mustaschprydda herrar i kortärmade svarta skjortor, byxor i olika färger och matchande randiga slipsar. De spelar indiepop som doftar 90-tal och Weezer. Till och med covern på Beyonces låt ”Irreplaceable” är bra, men de är inte så konstigt för allt Genuine Fakes gör är galet bra.

Arbetarbladet - Gävle

Rookiefestivalen

Are you strong enough to fake it? Det är i alla fall de tre stockholmskillarna i The Genuine Fakes, som gjorde en skön och fartfylld spelning på Seattle på lördagen. Som första band under den andra och avslutande festivaldagen fick de verkligen igång en fest som aldrig kommer vilja ta slut.

Bandet spelar rockig pop som det är riktigt svårt att stå still till. Johan, Mårten och Farsan kör sin grej och vi gillar det - med sina randiga tröjor och härliga mustascher kan man inte annat än charmas av dom. De är riktigt samspelta och med basistens och trummisens backup även på sångsidan känns bandet riktigt stabilt. En glad spelning, tre sköna killar och en publik som tillhandahåller med näsflöjtar kan ju inte vara annat än bra. Jag kommer i alla fall hålla koll på The Genuine Fakes i framtiden.

Rookie.nu

The Genuine Fakes are:

• Joey Fake - lead vocals / guitars
• Morty Fake - bass / backing vocals
• Johnny Fake - drumkit / backing vocals
• Tommy Fake - keyboards / backing vocals

The Genuine Fakes is the new hope of powerpop in Sweden. Their songs are fueled by rock and catchy singalong melodies.

The band was formed in late 2005 in a basement in Södermalm in Stockholm. The guys; that shared a love for melodic pop and moustaches joined up and beautiful music came to be instantaneously. Influences from bands such as 90’s indie legends Popsicle from Sweden, The Posies, The Wildhearts, Fountains of Wayne, Weezer, Jellyfish, Cheap Trick and Pearl Jam, to name a few, were forged in a way that creates a unique sound in this day and age. You’ve got beautiful harmonies on a thick, powerful foundation of distorted guitars, Hammond organ, McCartney-esque bass lines and noisy drums. The instrumentation is raw and the vocals are as slick as The Beatles’ were in their prime. The band delivers three and four part harmonies that you haven’t seen or heard the likeness of live since the last Jellyfish tour in 1993. A concertgoer perhaps described it best: “It’s Popsicle-rock with Beach Boys harmonies!”

The creativity flourished and a whole album’s worth of songs were written over a couple of short months before it was time for the first gig in January of 2006. Since then the band has played most of the Stockholm rock clubs, such as Alcazar, Klubben and Stampen to name a few. The year was topped off with a critically acclaimed performance at the Rookie Festival in Hultsfred, handpicked as one of 30 bands amongst thousands of applicants.

In conjunction with the Rookie Festival the band released its first single, entitled “Star”. It quickly sold out and has been downloaded persistently on MySpace since then. The first full length album is currently in the making, and the band is shopping around for labels to release it at this moment.

The band has also recorded a couple of interesting covers. One is a Posies song called “Somehow Everything” which was released in the US on “Beautiful Escape: The Ultimate Tribute to The Posies” (Burning Sky Records). The other one is an original interpretation of Beyoncé’s smash hit “Irreplaceable”. It has become an instant live favorite, winning over even the most skeptical listener. Thestar.com describes it: “Proud members of the power-pop fraternity populated by Dwight Twilley, Big Star, Teenage Fanclub and the like, this Swedish band convincingly transforms the steely Beyoncé ballad into something that wouldn’t sound out of place on a Fountains of Wayne album.”

As a live act they’re a true force to be reckoned with. There’s a brand new band in town!

If you want to see The Genuine Fakes at the Sweden Rock Festival next year, you can help out by voting for them by clicking on the banner below. You just need a MySpace account and you can vote once a day until January 6th!