Signs of life from Gasoline Queen

Gasoline Queen 2010Hi everyone!

It’s been a while since we showed you some signs of life from the Camp of Gasoline Queen. We have spent months in a cave just to be away from the scenes and we have now finally taking our shits together, preparing for the upcoming events this year. There is some new stuff on its way as well as some new haircuts that we hopefully will release and act this year.

Without lifting a finger we already have three gigs booked and the major of them all is Rockweekend 8-9-10 July at Mohed which is a stone’s throw from our home ground Söderhamn. In waiting, we have two gigs previous to Rockweekend and the earliest one is at Maxim in Gävle 13 March along with Electric Boys and the other one is at Crazy Nights Rockfest in Alvik 10 April.

We look forward to this season of mad events and optimistically there will be more frequent updates at this site as well at our Myspace.

Rock & Roll.

Cheers to Pure Mania

We want to draw attention to Mike Spiders guest appearance with the legendary punk-rock band Pure Mania at Rockweekend this year by show you a video clip. He was with them on the song called Warzone, as we also did a cover on 2007 but never got official. Pure Mania has always been a great inspiration to us the whole time we have been a band. Not only because they made first-class songs but also because they were local heroes in Söderhamn.

About Pure Mania:
Pure Mania was formed in Ljusne/Bollnäs, Sweden by guitarist and singer Zpennare and bass player and singer Engan together with Aspen on drums in January -85. After only three weeks Aspenfeldt quitted the band and another guy called “Mange” took his place. Late -86 the drummer StĂĄhl joined in. The band released three singles and three LP..s on their own label PM-records during the late 80..s, then they got signed to Rainbow-music from Solna, Stockholm. Pure Mania released their first single on Rainbow in -90 quickly followed by the CD/LP “Gasoline Queen” -91.Other releases on Rainbow is “Alibaba Baby” CD-93 and “Can’t you see” CD -95 + a Roxette-cover CD..single in -94/95 (Harleys and Indians). They’ve done lots of gigs since the start. Mostly in Sweden but also a bunch in Norway and Denmark too. Pure Mania has played together with bands like “the Nomads”,”U.K Subs” and “Sky High” to mention some of them. 1993 Pure Mania was nominated for the Zeppelin-awards in Stockhom in the cathegory “Best Rock band of the year”. Except for Zpennare who..s been in Mania since the start in -85 some other guitarists also played in the band when they got tired of being a three-piece band. In the early years Johnny Puma played rythm-guitar, Benke Holmberg was in the lineup during the release of Alibaba Baby and he gave the band a really heavy sound.

Visit their MySpace:
http://www.myspace.com/puremaniasweden

Gas for the underclass has finally arrived

Hi all you petrol thirsty ones. We’re regretful that we have been behind with information and updates on the website a few days but better late than never so to speak.

Our EP “Gas for the underclass” has finally arrived and now we will start to spread it as much as we can to record-companies, reviewers, zines etc. We have not yet started to cooperate with the two largest record-sellers in Sweden, Ginza and CDON.COM, but we will let you know when you can buy the EP trough them. To those who want to buy an ex today can do it by visit us at our gigs or if you live nearby Söderhamn visit the educational association BILDA.

We also want to tell you that our tune “Gasoline Queen” is on the Rockweekend’s DVD trailer. It is a live version of the song and was recorded during our performance at the festival 2008 and you can see the trailer at the youtube clip below this text.