We had a great gig at Slottstallarna in Växjö with great support from our fans and friends.
We played the original set for 40+ minutes including the Beyoncé cover Irreplaceable - the crowd demanded an encore and we were pleased to oblige with a heavy performance of the soon to be smash-hit Mindset
Växjö, thank you so much for a great experience!
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After a quiet fall The Genuine Fakes are performing @ Alcazar in Stockholm on Friday 23/10. Great news for all of you powerpoppers!
For further details, check out the calendar or visit our Facebook page.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...We are pleased to announce that Stockholm based Sara Rumar will open for The Genuine Fakes at The Southside Cavern gig on March 31.
Sara has released two albums; Stupid like me in 2006 and Why? Because. When? Now in 2007. In addition to that she recently released the single Stick To Diamonds that you can listen to on her MySpace-page or on Spotify.
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spent the weekend with a dear friend listening to some old vinyls and drinking “Eau De Vie” (I’d call it swedish blue collar brandy).
we enjoyed the re-discovery of all sorts of music ranging from Leonard Cohen to David Johansen. even got a bit of Roxette and Billy Idol in there… on Saturday we also managed to pay a visit to the fabulous Monk’s Café for a bit of kriek, ale and stout. Thanx for visiting, Hank!
also, reading the most recent post from Tommy Fake, I recognized the old Spinal Tap trio from yet another great mockumentary,
A Mighty Wind from 2003.
finally, here’s “Cypress Hill Lyric of the week”:
(WHEN THE SHIT GOES DOWN)
shit, I still stand tall
with tha hill clan, ya’ll
better stand back - niggaz ’bout ta fall
I’m comin’ out blastin’ like Yosemite Sam
get tha cheese n’ tha bread for tha ham…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...It was goooood! It is so nice to play a few songs and notice that we have actually never been better… We started rehearsing a new song - If You Then I - that we have never performed live and hopefully you will hear it soon at a venue near you or possibly on the upcoming album!
Johnny Fake was brilliant as usual and I think that if you watch our next few gigs you will notice quite a difference in his way to batter the drums - he’s doing something really cool now…
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The Genuine Fakes are:
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!
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...It was nice to see some old faces and some new ones at the Jack Rocks finals yesterday. We had a blast and did a very short, intense and energetic set before we sat down in the green room and sipped on our beers and chatted with fellow musicians and new fans. These cruises are a very, very strange phenomenon - it’s not like playing at just any other club, ’cause most of the people there are absolutely and completely hammered. For any non-Swedish people that are interested in anthropological studies - take a ferry cruise!
Anyhow, the event was really great and it was a good start to the new year as well as a little warm-up show for tomorrow’s big event up in Umeå. See you there!
// Joey
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...We just got word that we’re going to play the Amplified festival in Umeå on Friday. This is our first show that far north in Sweden and we’re very psyched about getting to go there! We’ll be joining up with Johnossi, La Puma, I Are Droid and many other great bands. See you there!
// Joey
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Next week The Genuine Fakes are doing a few gigs in Uppsala and Gothenburg. A couple more are soon to be confirmed.
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