Artist description The Flakes-Ultra catchy pop punk from Sweden!

Music Style Pop punk

Musical Influences Descendents, Devo, XTC, Sum 41, The Briefs and more

Similar Artists Descendents, Devo, XTC, The Briefs, The Police, ALL

Artist History - ! - The modern man project started up in 1993 as a three piece company influenced by acts like Elvis Costello, XTC, No Means No, Devo, Descendents and all other great punk rock and new wave bands you can think of. An incredible small label decided that they deserved the right to exist so in 1995 a MCD-"Sliding along that slippery slope" showed its ugly face. Great response followed in the reviews "I've played this about 50 times in three days. Fantastic job./Martin McMartin from Flipside-one of the biggest punk magazines in USA" but it was poorly backed up promotion wise. Dressed up in different suits either totally white with weird glasses or green, blue and red suits and robotic moves they rocked all the places the played in. But many people were confused. What is this? Since then the pupils seems to have become more open minded. What is The Flakes? You know the answer. What ever you think we are we agree. Another slab of modern technology popped out in 1996 "What do you call that noise?" a full length CD that got 4 out of 5 in Sweden's biggest skateboard magazine "Edge". No promotion or ads what so ever. The Flakes got bankrupt and decided to call it a day. Kiss Ass One of Americas most known pop punk acts Descendents heard the bands CD's when they played in The Flakes home town. They liked it so much so when a member from the band asked Bill Stevenson(drummer and famous producer) if he would like to produce The Flakes if they reformed someday he said "No doubt about it!". That kept the spirit alive for at least one of the members that The Flakes will someday reform. Starting a cult for the modern man And then they we're two and then they become three and at last they became four. It all happened in 2001! The line up was complete again. What you hear now is a result of honest work and hard dedication to pick up where The Flakes left off in 1996. Listen, shrink and learn! The Flakes: EA: Lead Vocals, Guitar Henrik: Guitar, Backing Vocals Auwa: Bass Sveden: Drums, Backing Vocals the-flakes.com info@the-flakes.com - ? -

Group Members The Flakes: EA: Lead Vocals, Guitar Henrik: Guitar, Backing Vocals Auwa: Bass Peter: Drums, Backing Vocals

Instruments Drums, Guitars and Bass

Press Reviews From Flipside: What a great discovery! Short, tight songs by this Swedish Trio who appear to have chewed up killer influences like the Descendents, XTC, Devo and spit out a sound all their own. Fuck, hearing stuff like this makes the hours of sitting at this desk through rehash punk and bad art every other all worth it. I've played this about 50 times in three days. Fantastic job! /Martin McMartin

Location Linkoping, Ostergotland - Sweden

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