Sahara hotnights
So, this is a Sahara Hotnights bio. I should go on forever about the fact they are four goodlooking girls in their early twenties who dress well and play fantastic rockmusic. I should go on and on about how they grew up in a small village in sweden each in their own corner of the same intersection and have been inseperable since they where born. I could also tell you about how they conquered Sweden with their first album and the rest of the world with their second effort. It would be real easy. But let´s take it from the top shall we?
This is the short story of Sahara Hotnights.
A great band and a true case of fact surpassing fiction:The first time the world heard about Sahara Hotnights was in October of 1999. With the release of debut album C´mon let´s pretend the secret was out and the floodgates where open.
An instant smash in their homecountry Sweden, complete with copycat fans, a ton of rave reviews and sales way above the gold mark. It was an album filled to the brim with youthful energy and huge pop hooks the likes of which had not been heard since god knows when.This was a band clearly influenced by 90´s guitarbands and 80´s new wave but with a twist all their own. It was also obvious that this was a young band going places but still not set in it´s form. The record saw the band touring all over Scandinavia playing up to 40 shows a month. The tour also took them on their first trip across europé supporting the Donnas.In 2001 they are ready to return to the studio to make their sophomore effort. It is decided that this is to be a harder record than the first one, concentrating more on the punk and hard rock side that the band felt went missing a bit on the first record. They do just that and in June of that year Jennie Bomb is released all over europé, the title an ode to band big sister Jennie Asplund.In January of 2002 the album is released in the UK and the band follow up by touring with the Cooper temple clause and fellow swedes the Soundtrack of our lives and the Hives.
They also play the main stage at the Reading/Leeds festival.In march the album is released in the USA through New York indie label Jetset Records selling 35.000 copies to this date. So, whats next for our heroines you ask? Well, more touring of course! America, Japan, Australia and then back over Europé again.At home in Sweden the band start planning their next album. and in October of 2003 they go into Studio Gröndahl with producer Pelle Gunnerfeldt (The Hives, Fireside).. After mixing at Chello studios in LA with Rob Schnapf (Foo Fighters, Beck, Elliot Smith, Moby, the Vines etc.) it is done. Let me tell you, this time they have outdone themselves! The resulting record is everything we could have hoped for.Sahara Hotnights take all the great pophooks of the first record and all the rock drive of the second record and come up with a third one that´s all of the above. The sweet bubblegum music perfectly offset by the bitter lyrics about love gone wrong.From the 60´s girlgroup melody and quirky new wave guitars of opener Who do you dance for? To the punk straightforwardness and classic teenpop catchiness of first single Hot night crash. From the disco thump.and bittersweet lyrics of The difference between love and hell to the perfect westcoast harmonies of Empty heart, this is what you wish was on the radio.Kiss and Tell by Sahara Hotnights is released on RCA in the end of June. Watch out!
