Mulletproof

Mulletproof was formed in 2004 in Tapiola musical highschool. The school was full of bands that only played jazz and other stuff with no attitude, so Ilkka, Martin and Antti (and a couple of other guys) started rocking with Mulletproof. However, the other guys soon left the band, giving the three pioneers full musical freedom. Things started rolling pretty well, we rehearsed like hell and improved our skills as a band and Ilkka wrote some great songs. By the time he wasn't singing yet but was a real riff machine nevertheless! In 2005 Mulletproof was put aside for awhile, because Ilkka left to Switzerland to be an exchange student. Antti and Martin didn't see the point in jamming with just two instruments, so they decided to form a new, temporary group and attend a school band course with a heavy band! New members were found quite easily from our school: Salla took over the vocal-section, Kake played the bass, Teo played the guitar, and the best thing: Marko asked us if he could play in our course band! At the time we didn't know anything about his playing skills and were like: "Yeah, sure... And what was your instrument again?" It turned out that Marko handled the keyboards more than well. He also had a great attitude towards rehearsing and learning new stuff: it was common to see him spend a 10-hour day at the rehearsing site with Antti and Martin often accompanying. The new "school band" was named KB4B, which stands for "Kurssibändi 4B" (Course Band 4B). We only played covers but sometimes had a great time together and even a few gigs. When Ilkka returned from Switzerland in 2006, KB4B was finished. The guys were ready to carry on with Mulletproof, but they wanted to add Marko to their lineup, since he was doing a good job. Ilkka had new songs written already when he returned, and they turned out to be even better than the old ones. Now the band needed a bassist, so we asked Eero to join us. We knew that he was a good guy and he could play the bass, since we had seen him performing with another band. Eero filled the spot perfectly and learned all the songs very quickly! We had a whole bunch of songs ready and decided to enter the studio with Marko's brother Aki Rintamäki recording.