Artist description Violent shouting and heart melting three part harmonies, a nitty-gritty rhythm guitar and a twangy barb wire Telecaster lead one, anarchistic Keith Moon style drums and a melodic Höfner bass. The Venue is deeply rooted (in fact almost drowned) in the glorious 6T's Merseybeat pop and rock'n'roll. OK, millions of bands are, but the Venue's got songs as well the sound!

Music Style Modern Merseybeat, 6T's pop'n'roll, Mod

Musical Influences Merseybeat, Kinks, Nuggets, Who, Garage, Grand Old Softies, Hollies, Sonics, Byrds, Beatles, Mod

Similar Artists Who, Beatles, Grand Old Softies, Hollies, Kinks, Byrds, Small Faces

Artist History While living in Paris and Belfast (and having no band), Jonas Thorell started to purify the sixtiesness in his song-writing. On moving back to Stockholm, Sweden, he called up the two friends of his most addicted to early sixties stuff (one of them, just par hazard, happening to be his brother). With Jonas' and Anders' mid brother Fredrik Thorell joining on more vocals and tambourine and old timer jazz drummer Hans Ekman behind the kit, The Venue was complete. They recorded their 8 1/2 track CD "Mmhm!" in three nights and their lives began to change... Yes indeed, things happen fast for these talented boys: They played Holland in October 2001, which lead to a US rep which lead to playing trade show South By South West in Austin, Texas in March 2002. A huge success - Rolling Stone's David Frick danced thru the whole set, and The Venue plans to go back to the US - California this time - in November 2002 or March 2003.

Group Members Charlie Rivel: vocals & guitar, Hans Ekman: drums, Anders Thorell: vocals & guitar, Jonas Thorell: lead vocals & bass, Fredrik Thorell: vocals, maracas, guitar

Instruments Four vocals + the usual drums-guitar-guitar-bass + maracas/tambourine/cowbell

Albums A Deadly Buzz. Mmhm!

Press Reviews "It kind of reminds me of a more mature boy band with better music." - Nedslepian, New York "I really like it. Good vocals, good music. Keep it up!! [...] We need more music like this." - Offbeat, New York (from garageband.com) "Nice energy about your band & lots of fun to watch." - Yvonne Matsell, NXNE, Toronto, Canada "I very much enjoyed your band, definately one of the highlights of the showcases." - Graeme Wall, The British Underground/Arts Council in England "Hörde er i gallerian. Asbra. Vill gärna köpa er skiva. Snygga är ni oxå." - Linnéa "I like it when there is so much energy that things seem about to explode." - Bob Pomeroy, net magazine Ink 19 "Recorded in fuzzy analog, there's enough "yeah, yeah, yeahs" and c'mon c'mons" to rekindle another British Invasion." - Tom Semioli, Amplifier Magazine, May-June ed. 2002 "The Venue is like a puff of breeze that awakens and it shows that life is still beautiful!" - www.abolipop.com "This music is all about fun, and as the only band I've seen so far that's inspired the audience to dance, The Venue obviously has that part down." - www.highbias.com/sxsw/2002.html

Location Stockholm, Stockholms lan - Sweden

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