Music Style Folk Rock

Musical Influences Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, David Bowie, Lou Reed, Nick Cave, Clash, Love, Neil Young, Rolling Stones, Beatles

Similar Artists Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, David Bowie, Lou Reed, Nick Cave, Clash, Love, Neil Young, Rolling Stones, Beatles

Artist History Dress Rehearsal Rags is band based in the city of Gothenburg, that first began playing in december 2000. The band formed around a couple of songs that Kristian had written some time before. The music was originally meant to be performed in a singer/songwriter way, but soon Kristian discovered that a band would make it more fun and add som extra impeuts. The aim of the band is basically to write good songs and then perform them in a simple but characteristic way. The band have recorded one demo-cd, containing six songs that were recorded on a four-track analog portastudio in our rehearsal- and livingrooms. Thereafter the songs were coloured through a distortionpedal and mastered on a homecomputer. In May 2001 the demo was released. It immediately got lots of positive feedback, mainly thanks to the good songwriting and the absorbing and unconventional sound. Up until today´s date Dress Rehearsal Rags have appeared live at numeral occassions. Our live performances have been both anticipated and acclaimed. The venues we have played are: Restaurant Minus in Gothenburg April 2001, The Artschool of Valand in Gothenburg May 2001, The Offtherecordstore in Gotenburg 5 Oktober 2001, Restaurant Jord in Gotenburg 10 oktober 2001 and Club Patricia in Stockholm 14 November 2001. Upcoming dates are at Rio-Rio Club Wave in Gotenburg 21 November 2001 and at the Pustervikstheatre 28 December 2001. Moreover, the band had an interview and two songs played in the program P3-demo at Sveriges Radio P3 (the national radio in Sweden) 13 oktober and a video for ”Successful Shoes” played in the Swedish Television on 19 september. This is merely the beginning…

Group Members Kristian - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar & Harmonica +++ Rim - Piano & Vocals +++ Susanne - Flute +++ Peter - Electric Bass +++ David - Drums

Instruments Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Bass, Piano, Flute, Drums, Tambourine, Harmonica

Albums Demos: Dress Rehearsal Rags (2001) & Dress Rehearsal Rags II (2002)

Location Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland - Sweden

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