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The Wonder Boys

About Me

The Wonder Boys were started by swedish comics artist David Liljemark in 1997/98, with guitar wiz Christian "popundret" Kastén. Later, "Studio Porridge" master Christian Gustavsson joined. Many other fine & lovely people have also served in this eclectic musical quest, on the many releases (c:a 15 by now) - usually one full-length cdr album is released every year, since the start with two well-packed and highly acclaimed cassettes in 1999 and 2000, on TWB's own "I Wanna Die On Stage Records" label. A 7'' EP from 2001 is also something of a collector's item by now. "Let there be feedback when I die" - TWB.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/27/2006
Band Website: http://www.geocities.com/iwannadieonstage
Band Members: David Liljemark (vocals, guitars, sax, percussion etc etc whatever) Christian Kastén (guitars, occasional vocals) Christian Gustavsson (guitars, bass, drum programming, etc etc) + various additional players - see homepage for details about these Wonder Girls & Wonder Boys.
Influences: Kiss, Abba, Kinks, Lou Reed/Velvet Underground/John Cale, Borbetomagus, Sparks, Beach Boys, Foetus, Nick Drake, Venom, Boney M, The Fall, Jonathan Richman, Smog, Yoko Ono, Accept, Beatles, Einstrzende Neubauten, Baccara, Bathory, Pogues, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Stooges, Neu!/La Dsseldorf, Union Carbide Productions, Rolling Stones, PiL, Peter & Caspar Brtzmann, Pixies & Frank Black, Manowar, Suede, Swans, Television, Brainbombs, Slade, early W.A.S.P., Black Sabbath, Army of Lovers, KSMB, Sex Pistols, Motrhead, Elvis Costello, AC/DC, Pink Floyd, Chuck Berry, Shellac, Twisted Sister, Rainbow, Elvis Presley/Scotty Moore (and let's not forget Boots Randolph!), Eva Nordwall, Noice and Ingmar Nordstrms (?). The sax solo in "Rock around the clock", and any kid playing on an out-of-tune flea market piano.
Sounds Like: Depends on what song you hear... It always sounds like The Wonder Boys, though.
Record Label: self-released stuff: I Wanna Die On Stage Records

My Blog

New 7’’!

New release - for details, see The Wonder Boys' website: www.geocities.com/iwannadieonstage
Posted by on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:45:00 GMT

new mp3(s)!

A new track (and one bonus track) are posted for downloading at The Wonder Boys' web page: http://www.geocities.com/iwannadieonstage  Check around if you haven't done it before.
Posted by on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 03:53:00 GMT

Update

That interview in Sonic, mentioned in the previous post, is finally translated - check the TWB web site...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Oct 2006 02:48:00 GMT

"All styles at once"

In Sonic #29, Johan Jacobsson has written a piece about The Wonder Boys. Read this short interview with David here (translation coming up soon)!
Posted by on Thu, 08 Jun 2006 23:24:00 GMT

New album finished!

10 April 2006: The Wonder Boys' new album is here: "Passion & Compassion"!Finally, it's time for the follow-up to "Die Grosse Schlagerparade" that came out in January 2005. This new full-length c...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 10:29:00 GMT