Music Style Rock, just Rock

Musical Influences All good music. And some bad as well.

Artist History Minimal Paper Heroes, the Stockholm based trio who´s responsible for such hit songs as Popsong ´94, Dreaming and The Fires outside. Who would have thought they´d last a decade? When they first started out in late 1991 the four boys that entered the rehearsing room in southern Stockholm had no idea what they were doing and what the hell they wanted. The group at that point consisted of: Fabian Wahnquist:Vocals Niklas Sävenby: Guitars and backing vocals Tomas Janson: Guitars Thomas Deurell: Bass guitar. A drum machine completed the rhythm section. Later on he was to be called Seifert. Their musical influences were mainly Gothic such as The Sisters of Mercy, The Mission and The Cure. Despite not being ready for it, they booked a date at Tre Backar and played their first gig February 20, 1992. This line-up lasted for about six months. The following autumn Fabian left the band due to studies. Niklas who had written most of the lyrics anyway, inherited the microphone .It was a logical but quite unnerving step for him. So now MPH worked as a trio and played frequently around Stockholm autumn 92 and through the summer of 93 when a (useless and drunken) quarrel led Deurell to leave the group. What were the two remaining boys to do? Two guitarists and a drum machine. They decided they needed a bass player. Through a friend they heard of an available one and thought they´d try him out. Enter Johan Adelman. There was an instant row between bassist and drummer, so a drummer (human one) was enrolled, but soon left the country - and the band. Johan´s friend and former band mate Magnus Berg was quickly installed in the drum chair. The result was horror! What a clash! Gothic guitars with hard rock bass lines and Heavy metal drums! At the same time Grunge was going on and the band was not uninfluenced by Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr, Afghan Whigs etc. But most of all Neil Young made a big impression on all the members and the sound shifted towards Hard rock and Grunge. This went on for about a year and the sound was getting more and more aggressive when all of a sudden Tomas decided he´d had enough. This wasn´t at all what he wanted to do. He persuaded Niklas that the gothic path was the path to go. MPH was disbanded 13 December 1994. R.I.P. (not quite) Solicium was the new band. Niklas and Tomas (who had switched to bass guitar now) dug out Seifert from the closet and searched for a solo guitar player. They found Tore Höghielm. The sound was once again Gothic. But this is a different story. Meanwhile Johan and Magnus had been playing together in Eric´s Blues Band together with Eric Hanson, a blues guitar prodigy. This also, is a different story. All of the members remained on friendly terms with each other. In the autumn of 1999 there was talk of a reunion. At first it started out as a Festival of remembrance but it soon expanded to a full-blown reunion. They started out in Solicium´s rehearsal room. Niklas, Tomas, Magnus and Johan. Solicium were still active but only Niklas (and Tore) remained. It soon became evident that Tomas, whose other musical project started to take off, had little or no time for MPH and the others were forced to let him go. Painful though it seemed. He is still concidered a member of the band. Today, Minimal Paper Heroes are: Niklas Sävenby: vocals and guitars Johan Adelman: bass guitar Magnus Berg: drums Minimal Paper Heroes celebrate ten years since its birth. On May 15 2002 MPH we played at Obscene (Basement) to celebrate it. We played a little more than an hour and also managed to get Fabian onstage for two songs. We even squeezed a few encores in for fun. These are the songs we played: 1 Remedy lane, 2 Secrets, 3 Going Down, 4 Ride 5 Stale, 6 Cold, 7 Heir, 8 Songs, books & walks 9 Popsong, 10 Fires outside (w Fabian) 11 Jag är en liten pojk (w Fabian) and then the encores: More than this, Bed of broken glass, Turningpoint, Time of the year, Star. We're sorry you were'nt there. Det var alltsammans. Gå hem nu. New songs coming soon. =-)

Group Members Drums: Magnus Berg Bass: Johan Adelman Guitar & Vocals: Niklas Sävenby

Albums Broken glass EP. E-mail us for info.

Location Stockholm, Stockholm - Sweden

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