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The Modesty

The Modesty

About Me


The Jam, The Who, The Kinks, The Specials, The Clash, The Smiths.
Rough and unpolished. Streets and seasides. Clean living.
THE MODESTY - Swedish powerpop mod combo combines the swinging pop of the 60's with the power of the punk of the 70's and the attitude of them both. Stylish but rough. Intensivity first - debut album "Heads in our hands" was recorded live in the bands own studio and mixed/mastered by vintage expert and musician Christoffer Lundquist. Album photography artwork by Paris-based artist Per Hüttner, musicvideo recorded with the Lambretta Club in Hong Kong.
Album is now released, we'll continuosly post new stores here.
Sweden is first to go; Vaxkupan (Norrköping), Pet Sounds (Stockholm), Skivbörsen (Västerås), Burmans (Umeå), Skivhörnan (Östersund). More to come soon.
The album is currently listed on several mp3-shops in Scandinavia, for complete list click here. Direct links to the MTV-shops: Sweden , Norway , Finland , Denmark .
Album soon to be released on iTunes and eMusic as well.
Contact The Modesty / Gramtone Records at [email protected]
"Ambassador" - Big up to Lambretta Club HK!
"Angel" and "The Song" live from Norrköping, Sweden.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/4/2006
Band Website: themodesty.net
Band Members: Thomas Johansson
(bass/back vocals)

Tomas Nordmark
(vocals/guitars)

Erik Wennerholm
(drums)
Influences: Italian scooters and italian families. Kinks and Smiths. Soccer and parklife. Espresso and pizza. Norrköping and Stockholm. You and me.
Record Label: Gramtone
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Album and mp3’s!

We've said this for a long time now, but now it's really for sure - the album is on it's way! In about a month it's out there ready for you to buy, and we'll post info about where to buy it as soon as...
Posted by The Modesty on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 01:18:00 PST

10.000 plays, two new songs, photo's and more!

We celebrate 10.000 plays at MySpace by putting up two more songs from our forthcoming album! We've also put up a great amount of new photos and we even tried to make a new layout. Cheers,The Modesty ...
Posted by The Modesty on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 05:42:00 PST

Gig added

We've taken it quite easy with gigs when finishing our album and booking the forthcoming tour but now we've been offered a date, to open before the lovely The Plan. Looking forward for it!
Posted by The Modesty on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 05:24:00 PST

New song added!

We've just added a little teaser from our forthcoming album, the tune Park of Calm, a song dedicated to the soccer arena in our hometown! Spread the word!
Posted by The Modesty on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:34:00 PST

Musicvideo shoot in Hong Kong!

Tomas just got home from a super cool musicvideo shoot in Hong Kong with the super friendly Lambretta Club Hong Kong! The video will feature "Ambassador" and hopefully it will be released here in the ...
Posted by The Modesty on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:51:00 PST

A very special gift to The Modesty

Today a very special and very nice woman gave The Modesty a gift we never will forget. The woman, who used to be a mod back in the sixties, gave us her old parka-jacket from her early days as a mod. A...
Posted by The Modesty on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 02:03:00 PST

Some news from The Modesty

We've decided to re-name us to The Modesty, hope everyone is OK with that! We've just finished three songs as you can see in our player, and more will be added as soon as we got them mixed. We hopeful...
Posted by The Modesty on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:48:00 PST

Three new songs added for free download!

Three new songs, Ambassador, City Talk and Great Wall of China. They were mixed by Christoffer Lundquist at Aerosol Grey Machine (which includes clients such as Ed Harcourt, The Magic Numbers, The Car...
Posted by The Modesty on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 02:33:00 PST