Artist description Grand popsongs with a minimalistic touch. Makes you happy like a puppydog!

Music Style Melodydriven pop with rock-attitude

Musical Influences The Ronettes, Steve Westfield, Randy Newman, Velvet Underground

Similar Artists Beat Happening, Velvet Underground, Lullaby for the workingclass

Artist History As it were, we formed out of boredom and necessity sometime in the summer of '98. 50 percent of us being interested in guitarplaying and the other 50 interested in lyrics and performing them. Nothing is true, everything is permitted. Spag Bog has got no philosophy. Spag Bog is not a band with any religous preference. We come from the outskirts of a medium-sized city, Gothenburg, in the south of Sweden. We´re doing music in our sparetime because, frankly, what else is there to do?

Group Members Mattias: Guitars, bass, piano, drums, horns, backing vocals, programming. Andreas: Sings and plays some guitar

Instruments As few as possible, to the maximum effect

Albums 3-song 7" single available to buy on Lady Sniff Records homepage (see links) ...and more to come!

Press Reviews "Folk duo and a few of their friends pour some booze, sit around a recording deck, and sing surprisingly memorable stuff. Raw yet tuneful." WWW.listen.com Band names just don't come any better than Spag Bog -- I'd love to see these Swedes on a bill with Spacehog, Boss Hog and The Bogmen! Drawing on a diverse set of influences -- from Randy Newman to Lou Reed, Phil Spector to Lambchop and Superchunk. -- multi-instrumentalist Mattias Helgesson and singer/guitarist Andreas Eskilsson espouse a "rough is more" philosophy that applies equally to their rootsy music and their raw lyrics (best represented by the refrain to "Cheap Hotel Whore Sex": "Severed head/severed head/I am sorry/severed head"). Compiled from four previous demos -- Operation Slimline, Cling to the bummer, This is Art Brut and Cocky on the Schlitten -- this sampler will surely win Spag Bog many fans on this side of the swamp. www.demouniverse.com "...Bra melodier och coolt slö sång..." Betyg 4 av 5 i GP

Location Kinna, Västergötland - Sweden

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