Artist description Fast & melodic punkrock

Music Style punkrock

Musical Influences NRA, Ten Foot Pole, No Use For a Name, Green Day, Satanic Surfers, Millencolin, Mxpx, The Ataris, Pennywise, Travolta's,...

Similar Artists Pennywise, Bad Religion, Undeclinable Ambuscade, Strung Out, Satanic Surfers, Farside, ...

Artist History After a long time of thinking how great playing in a band would be, we decided in june 1996 to form a bandourselves. After two months of practising we already had composed twelve songs in real prikkeldroadpunk-style’ : for instance ‘Dedicated to Nijntje’, ‘Straight Catch’, I feel like Chicken tonight’ (Jane’s Dedt. eat yourheart out : we were first :) ) and our cult hit ‘HNZN (Het nummer zonder naam). The first time these songs wereexposed to humanity was in the beginning of september 1996 at Café Bombardon in Meerle. After this quite succesful evening – there were around 200 people watching us – a bunch of gigs followed. An article in ‘De Hoogstraatse Maand’ made Whypoal world-famous in our region, especially because of our name. (A ‘Whypoal’ is in our dialect a pole, which is placed around pastures and is linked with other poles by barbed wire). A lot of gigs – and a lot of better songs – later, we decided ‘round Christmas 1997 to dive into a record studio in order to put some songs on a demo. At Jack’s Place ten songs were recorded and nine of them were put on the demo, titled ‘THE CHIX FILES’. With this demo we got the opportunity to play with bands like Concrete Cell, The Travoltas, Convict, etc… and with the legendary SATANIC SURFERS. (this show was foreseen at Cahier De Brouillon in Hoogstraten, but exactly this show wascancelled by the Satanics because of the illness of their singer, damn !!!). In the meanwhile we also set foot on the territory of the world-wide internet. Oursite « http://come.to/whypoal » has already got a few transformations and is –following our modesty :) - worth while a visit. Exams in june 1998, but also inaugust & september meant a short break for Whypoal. But in october 1998 we were rehearsing again, which resulted in a couple of new songs, who were much more melodic en maturethan before. These songs will probably be put on a splitt-CD with a punkrockband from Lokeren. (foreseen forthe autumn of ’99). Untill that time we will still playing gigs, so if you wanna check us out live … then go for it ! ! !! To be continued …

Group Members Hans Adriaensen - bass |Jan Huybrechts - vocals|Joep Snoeys - guitar |Stijn Boeren - drums

Albums The Chix Files - demo 1997 | Squeals of Indignation - november 1999!!!

Press Reviews Also one of the bands from the Noorderkempen- neighbourhood.It was recorded in their hometown, namely Meerle. It has got to be a good recording studio, because the sound-quality is superb! Thiskind of cathes their live-sound, but according to me (Peet) it'sbetter than live. The singer has a beautiful voice. The music is abit like MINOR THREAT, only much more melodic. No lyrics-sheet(damn!), the lay-out is O.K., certainly for a demo. You can evenchoose your favourite colour : red, blue, yellow, green, purple, ...It's all possible! this demo is - according to us - too expensive(150bef), but apart from that : a good job! (Cosy-zine)

Additional Info Our record "Squeals of Indignation" is still available! Check out our home page (http://www.whypoal.com) for all possible information!

Location Hoogstraten, prov. Antwerpen - Belgium

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