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Garage Flower

Pop Art Rock!

About Me

“Not everybody liked rock and roll music when it first started out, even among young people, but the people who really liked it decided they liked it so much that they would try to play it, and that was taking a big step. Everybody can sit around snapping their fingers, but who actually cares enough to try to do it? And then, who actually cares enough to try to make a record himself?”-Sterling MorrisonGarage Flower came to be in 2000 in Nokia, Finland, but became in fact active in the fall of that year in Helsinki. The band settled on its current line-up (GF mk IV!) when young gentleman called Vilho Micklin took over on the drums.Garage Flower's songs are written by Antti and Kimmo. Both are hopeless pop-culture addicts and their influences are wide-ranging. The music is a combination of trash-culture aesthetics: one hit wonders, new wave singles and other weird 80s stuff, punk, power-pop, 70s hard rock and 60s harmony pop as well as more arty genres such as post-punk, all kinds of indie and some alternative country. However, we try to go beyond our influences and cook up a strange little mess all of our own.Talking about honesty and authenticity concerning pop-music is problematic, because it will be associated with conservative, credible down-to-earth sort of stuff So what the hell! Flock of Seagulls and The Cars rock and The Beach Boys rule: Mike Love not War! In the end its only rock n roll: Melodies, middle eights and minor 7ths - distortion and desperation.Dont worry if this might sound confusing. Luckily Garage Flower has the experience needed to create something resembling originality out of this god-awful mess. This can be verified by people who have witnessed the band live (mostly around Helsinki, Finland.) There also exists various recordings spreading the message: four official demos/EPs: Raw Flower (2002), Sensing a Touch of Love (2004), The Green Light (2005) and Compass Rose (2006) and five weird and wonderful Christmas singles! The first one was unnamed (2002), the second was called Garage Flower Loves You for Christmas (2003), the third More Christmas Hits (2004), the fourth Christmas Party! (2005) and the fifth The Worst Present (2006). You can now buy our latest ep Compass Rose at: LevyvirastoOnly 5 euros for a cd or 3 euros for mp3s!Download our third EP The Green Light from 2005 in its entirety HERE . MyGen Profile GeneratorThe Long Walk live @ Club LibertéRead The Enemy's Memoirs live @ Club Liberté

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Member Since: 4/22/2006
Band Website: garageflower.net
Band Members: Antti Vanhatalo (vocals, guitar)Kimmo Vanhatalo (vocals, bass)Jukka Nissinen (guitar)Sampo Savolainen (keyboards)Vilho Micklin (drums)Past members:Mimmi Pearlman (drums) 2004-2007Eero Kesälä (drums) 2000-2001
Influences: AC/DC, Ash, Bad Brains, Syd Barrett, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Big Star, Blondie, David Bowie, Bubblegum, Buzzcocks, The Byrds, The Cars, Johnny Cash, Cheap Trick, Kevin Coyne, Dead Kennedys, Del Shannon, The Dictators, Dinosaur Jr., Electric Light Orchestra, Roky Erickson, Ben Folds, Foo Fighters, Kim Fowley, Freeman, Serge Gainsbourg, Marvin Gaye, Giant Sand, The Gun Club, Merle Haggard, Emmylou Harris, The Jam, Elton John, Daniel Johnston, Joy Division, Karkkiautomaatti, Rodd Keith, The Kinks, Kris Kristofferson, Lemonheads, Liekki, Love, Curtis Mayfield, The Monkees, Nada Surf, Nirvana, Orange Juice, Gram Parsons, Pixies, The Police, The Posies, Prince, Ramones, Redd Kross, Lou Reed, R.E.M., The Replacements, Jonathan Richman, The Runaways, Smashing Pumpkins, Smokey Robinson, Todd Rundgren, Phil Seymour, Elliott Smith, Song Poems, Sonic Youth, Talking Heads, The Teardrop Explodes, Television, The Temptations, Throwing Muses, Dwight Twilley, The Velvet Underground, Wilco, Wipers, X, XTC, Yacht Rock!
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My Blog

What?! New songs?

Hello! You've may have noticed couple of of new songs on our profile. These are just some demos that we recorded last month. The sound quality isn't anything special and there's some mistakes - like s...
Posted by Garage Flower on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:12:00 PST

Garage Flower on Facebook

Garage Flower now have their own group on Facebook: Check it out here. If you have a Facebook profile you know what to do: join our group! It's fun & easy!...
Posted by Garage Flower on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 04:12:00 PST

Viiden tähden musiikkia! / Five star record!

Kitaristimme Jukan "sen toisen bändin" vai (onko se sitten ensimmäisen?) Jumalan Ruoskan hiljattain ilmestynyt debyytti-pitkäsoitto Flamenco Days kerää huippuarvioita. Kehuja tulee kuola valuen sekä T...
Posted by Garage Flower on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 03:23:00 PST

Thanks to our fans!

Thank you to everyone who's come to see us on our gigs at Mendocino and Tivoli! It was a blast and our audience was great as usual. As most of who were there at Tivoli said it was the best gig we've e...
Posted by Garage Flower on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:09:00 PST

New videos + some deejaying

Check out two new videos from our gig at Club Liberté on 12nd of September. The songs are a completely new piece called The Long Walk and the old favorite Read the Enemy's Memoirs. Thanks to everyone ...
Posted by Garage Flower on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 02:45:00 PST

Player working again!

As some of you might have already noticed our music player is working again! Hurrah! Thanks to good people at MySpace for fixing it.
Posted by Garage Flower on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 01:44:00 PST

Our player isn’t working!

Since yesterday, 30th of August, our MySpace player hasn't been working. It only says "Loading Error" when trying to listen to our songs. We've notified MySpace Help of this, so only thing to do ...
Posted by Garage Flower on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:10:00 PST

Thousand friends!

Oh yeah! We now have reached thousand MySpace friends! This may, of course, not be much for those who have several thousand or over ten thousand MySpace friends but it's still a big milestone for us. ...
Posted by Garage Flower on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 06:31:00 PST

We have a drummer!

After couple of months of searching high and low for a new drummer, we've finally found our guy. He's called Vilho Micklin and he... uh.. plays the drums! You'll be hearing him hit those suckers as so...
Posted by Garage Flower on Fri, 25 May 2007 02:34:00 PST

A review and interview with Sampo.

Check out this blog by a person called Dirtypoodle! Her blog has a nice review of our gig at BIT'07 battle of bands (well, actually of the whole show, which we didn't win if you haven't figured it ou...
Posted by Garage Flower on Thu, 17 May 2007 04:06:00 PST