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In
1993, 5 adolescents in the small industrial town of FAGERSTA,
SWEDEN each receive a letter with a time and place. A year later
they, led by the genius of a Mr. RANDY FITZSIMMONS, begin to
appear in various public places in and around Fagersta. The
response is one of confusion, excitement and contempt. In the
year 1995 word had spread throughout the middle part of Sweden.
These kids with strange haircuts play really fast and short sets
that sometimes just fall apart in arguments and sometimes are
pure magic to witness. Record company exec. PETER AHLQVIST hears
of this. He is intrigued but a bit uncertain as he doesn't
really know what to make of them. He decides however that he can
release them on a sidelabel to minimize damage to his own label
BURNING HEART, if these young men would enter the studio on one
of their infamous bad days. The band is out their teens and out
of their minds apparently. The sound that they display is, like
a velvet glove with brass knuckles, both brutal and
sophisticated at the same time. Based on youth, energy, and
taste The Hives are giving you PUNKROCK MUSIC AVEC KABOOM. The
immediate consequence for The Hives is two straight years in
vans and boats and planes touring the old world to tiny bits and
pieces receiving praise on every delivery. 500 shows later The
Hives are still vital and still very fresh and are now
broadening their geographical whereabouts turning their
brilliant heads in all directions. So look out and let the world
know, let your neighbours know and let the autopsy show that
music was never dead! It was just waiting for a fabulous
fivesome of young men dressed in black and white answering to
the letters in question - H, I, V, E and S. Let the tale
continue!
Visit The Hives website at:
www.hivesmusic.com
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