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So who are Ashbury Heights you ask? We're just two people who feel that synth pop got treated unfairly at the beginning of the 90's and seek to answer the question: "How would the genre have evolved if it had stayed consistently popular through the 90's and up 'til today?"
We're not an 80's nostalgia group, sure we love those old chestnuts as much as anybody else. But that isn't our purpose. We are about the further development of that unique sound. Linking the past with the now, trying to transport that music through time into our present in a guise that is both faithful to the original ideals and pushing the envelopes of pop music.
Impossible say you? Only time will tell. Time has made the 80's immortal but at the same time conserved it like canned corn. The flavour has remained the same through the decades. What was initially a movement that aspired to push music into the future has become a campy shot of nostalgia for the party generation.
Our intent is to continue where the 80's left off, to develop our sound with the same love of experimentation and futurism that fuelled bands like Kraftwerk, New Order and Depeche Mode and just like them we wont look back but ever forward. Thus our music is intended to share the spirit of synth pop music, but we will never aspire to replicate what has since long come to pass.
We will take said party generation into brave new worlds and let loose the dogs of dance. We will rock in ways no one has rocked before. And we do this because the unknown will always be infinitely more exciting than the past and we live to explore that unknown with the same love of electronics that inspired musicians to expand the horizons of pop decades ago.
So join the party! Everyone's bound for the future anyway and we might as well enjoy the ride!

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Member Since: 8/27/2006
Band Members: Anders H - Lead Vocals, Programming, Synthesizers.
Kari Berg - Lead Vocals
Johan Andersson - Live keyboards
Influences: Depeche Mode, DAF, Nitzer Ebb, Covenant, VNV Nation, Happy Mondays, Berlin, John Foxx, Ultravox, Björk, Fischerspooner, Tiga, Daft punk, New Order, The Prodigy, Kate Bush, Chemical Brothers, The Cure, Ladytron, Marilyn Manson, Goldfrapp, Primal Scream, Tears For Fears, Sisters of Mercy, David Bowie, Soft Cell, Marc Almond, The Human League, Nine Inch Nails, The Presets, Gary Numan, Alan Wilder, Peter Gabriel, T.Raumschmiere
Sounds Like: Unique sounding, the best aspects of many bygone genre-greats but definitely with a sound all of their own.
Record Label: Out of Line Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Better late than never

After the gig in Poland I went home to visit my family. I had planned on writing a blog about the experience, but I couldn't get the words out. Then after a week I felt that it had been a little t...
Posted by on Sat, 16 May 2009 05:54:00 GMT

Late nights, bassdrums & toothpaste

Another track finished just a moment ago, counting that one I've only four tracks left before the album is done.It's almost impossible to sleep, I just keep on going, song after song. It used to be li...
Posted by on Fri, 15 May 2009 17:25:00 GMT

Ten down, six to go!

Since Out of Line were darling enough to buy me a new studio things have been moving fast indeed over here.After five months of fruitless producer-tryouts and endless delays I can finally say that thi...
Posted by on Wed, 13 May 2009 17:05:00 GMT

Sonic infants

While I was writing my personal blog today I came upon a thought.I was making an analogy between parenthood and making records and it made me think about the state of our world today. From the album's...
Posted by on Wed, 06 May 2009 12:11:00 GMT

Unbearable beauty

Have you ever looked upon a person and found them painfully beautiful? I met a girl i Gothenburg while I was studying in 2007 and the more we hung out, the more unbearable it became for me to look at ...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:44:00 GMT

Playing through a wall of noise

If any of you who read this ever been musicians I'm sure the following scenario will seem painfully familiar:You come down backstage after a gig and everyone in the band goes "Oh my god, I couldn't he...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:32:00 GMT

The dawn of a new campaign

And so the time has finally come to take the new Ashbury Heights to the stage. This saturday we'll play a 40 minute gig in Warszawa, Poland. This is actually the third time we're attempting a gig in P...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:31:00 GMT

Death of an Easter Bunny

We don't have the easter bunny in Sweden, most people are aware of him but he hasn't been capitalized upon to market easter as something fun. Easter is a solemn religious holiday here and since about ...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:07:00 GMT

Two kinds of Crescendo

I really haven't got much of a message today, but I still feel like writing something new in the blog. I try to keep it up to date but some dates I'm not really on the up and up, if you catch the vern...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:02:00 GMT

Another year comes tumbling

I started out early with my musical career, when I finished high schoolI'd already written and recorded more than a hundred songs. I used tobe very hopeful back then, and probably a little bit arrogan...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:24:00 GMT