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Anouk
Background information
Years active 1997–present
Label(s) EMI
Website Anouk.com
Anouk Stotijn-Teeuwe (born April 8, 1975, in The Hague) is a Dutch singer. She
married Remon Stotijn (aka The Anonymous Mis, frontman of the hip hop/rap band
Postmen) on March 16, 2004 and is the mother of three children; son Benjahmin
Kingsley (b. April 18, 2002), son Elijah Jeramiah (b. December 5, 2003) and daughter
Phoenix Ray (born June 3, 2005).
Contents
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1 Biography
2 Music Awards
3 Discography
o 3.1 Albums
o 3.2 Singles
o 3.3 DVD's
4 External links
[edit] Biography
Anouk got interested in music because her mother was (and is) a blues singer. Anouk
initially sang at weddings and parties with the band Shotgun Wedding, prior to meeting
Barry Hay of the Golden Earring, a friend of her ex-husband Edwin Jansen. Hay believed
Anouk to have talent, and offered to write her some songs, one of which was Mood
Indigo; written in collaboration with George Kooymans (also from the Golden Earring).
After she met Bart van Veen, her co-writer, the pair wrote a few songs. On September 5,
1997, she released her second single, Nobody's Wife, which remained at the top of the
Dutch music charts for a number of weeks. Her debut album, Together Alone also turned
out to be a huge success.
In 1998, Anouk won two awards from Dutch music station TMF (The Music Factory) in
addition to an Edison award. During the summer, she played at various festivals,
including two 'big ones', Pinkpop and Parkpop.
Her second album, Urban Solitude, was released in November 1999, and included the
single R U Kiddin' Me. This song reached the Dutch Top 100.
Shortly afterwards, Anouk went to the United States in order to get a record deal.
Negotiations with her American label (Sony) ended badly, causing her to return to the
Netherlands without a deal. She released a new song, Don't, and began touring the
Netherlands in February 2001.
In March 2001, she released another album, Lost Tracks, which contained acoustic
versions and B-sides from older songs, and various duets with K's Choice singer Sarah
Bettens and The Anonymous Mis. She was awarded the Popprijs award in 2001 and a
Golden Harp in 2003.
In November 2002, the album Graduated Fool was released. This is the heaviest rock
album in Anouk's career so far. In addition there's the Graduated Fool Tour.
Her latest full length release is called Hotel New York (2004) and yielded a total of four
singles: Girl, Lost, Jerusalem and One Word.
Anouk moved to Ohio in December 2005. Before she left, she gave two concerts in
Antwerp, (Belgium) and four concerts at Ahoy' Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
On April 8, her birthday, she performed for the first time in 2006 for a selected public at
the Melkweg, a concert venue in Amsterdam.
On Saturday 20 May, Krezip and Anouk performed at the Heineken Music Hall,
Amsterdam. Although tickets were only available for Start Live members, the hall was
full with Krezip and Anouk fans.
Tuesday 23 May, Anouk's first full show in the Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam, with
support act Fire Fly. Although this show was just 88 minutes, it was a great and powerful
one.
Friday 18 August, it seems this will be Anouk's last show this year. At the Lowlands
festival, the show started with the Sacrifice song, she didn't on festivals. Later that
evening, she did an additional acoustic gig for three songs.
1999
Edison Awards: 2 awards
TMF Awards: 4 awards
2000
TMF Awards:
o Best Single, Best Female
o Best Live Act
o Best Videoclip
Edison Awards:
o Best Female Artist (vote public)
o Best Artist (vote jury)
2001
Edison Awards: Best Single
2002
Noorderslag Popprijs 2001
2003
Golden Harp 2003
Edison Awards: Best Dutch Female
TMF Awards: Best Female
2005
3FM Radio Awards:
o Best Female, Schaal van Rigter (best single "Girl")
o Duiveltje (musicians votes there best collega)
Dutch TMF Awards: Best Female National
Belgium TMF Awards:
o Best Female Artist International
o Best Album International
o Best Video International
MTV Awards: Best Dutch/Belgium Act
Twee medailles (best female and single international "Girl") on Humo's Pop Poll
2005 Belgium
2006
3FM award Best Female
Edison Award: Best Dutch Female (her 6th Edison)
Dutch TMF Awards:
o Best Female National
o Best Rock Act
o Best Video, Postman ft. Anouk "DownHill"
Belgium TMF Awards:
o Best Live Act International
Bonfire is a German heavy metal band which formed originally in Ingolstadt in 1972
under the name Cacumen.
Contents
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1 Biography
2 Band Members
o 2.1 Bonfire
o 2.2 Charade
3 Past Members
4 Discography
o 4.1 Cacumen
o 4.2 Bonfire (1986 - present)
4.2.1 Full albums
4.2.2 Compilations and lives
4.2.3 Singles
o 4.3 Lessmann/Ziller
o 4.4 Charade
5 External links
[edit] Biography
Bonfire has a unique history to them as currently there are two bands whom have held the
name. The original group started out as Cacumen, became Bonfire and currently
performing as Charade. The second group began as Lessmann/Ziller and then purchased
the rights to the Bonfire name, which they have used ever since.
In 1972, in the West German town of Ingolstadt a teenaged guitarist, Hans Ziller, put
together a rock band called Cacumen with his brother Karl, whom also played guitar,
then gathered a bunch of friends to complete the band. The name of the group was from a
school test Hans had taken and it translates from Latin meaning “the top of a mountain”.
For the next six years, the band played at local small venues, but had a fan base in their
hometown. In 1978, the group consisted of Hans and Karl on guitars, Horst Maier on
guitar (in 1983, Horst’s last name would become Maier-Thorn), Hans Hauptmann on bass
and Hans Forstner on drums. When the band was seeking a replacement singer at that
time, Claus Lessmann, a fellow student of Hans', was hired.
Claus previously was in the bands Ginger and Sunset and was known for his harmonic
vocals and he fit in perfectly with Cacumen. With this line-up, the band had a chance to
start branching themselves out to venues outside Ingolstadt. A single record was recorded
called Riding Away, which featured the song Wintertale on the flip side in 1979. The
group used this opportunity to begin touring at clubs, schools and even in parking lots.
The fan base grew and Cacumen was finally signed to an independent label. By then
though, Karl had departed the group. The self titled Cacumen album was released in 1981
and featured a new version of Riding Away.
By some circumstances Cacumen get in contact with Hanns Schmidt-Theissen, who
owned a small music studio. Since money was poor and Hanns a good guy, they recorded
the album Bad Widow at his studio in Rodgau / Germany in 1982. Hanns tried to help
these guys to get a contract, but this wasn't successfull at this time.
The fans of the band were growing, as were performance dates. In 1983, Robert
Prskalowicz replaced Hans Hauptmann on bass and this group became the well-known
Cacumen band, but when they signed with BMG, the group had a total make-over.
Robert and Hans Forstner were no longer with the group as in May of 1985, the band had
Joerg Deisigner, previously from Rascal and Dynasty, to play bass while Dominik
Huelshorst from Darxon became the new drummer. Next, the group updated their image,
donning the standard look of an 80s hard rock group. Finally, the company requested a
name change as they found Cacumen was too hard for the average Joe to pronounce as
well as was not a very marketable name. After a brain storming session in 1986, the new
name selected was Bonfire.
Their world-wide debut album was released that June as Don’t Touch the Light. During
recording of the follow-up album, Dominik was fired in November for not getting along
with the rest of the band and Bonfire released their Gold seller album, Fireworks, as a
quartet, the drums being recorded by Ken Mary from Fifth Angel. Two versions of this
album exist, the world-wide version and the North American version (cover features the
four members as well as the represented 'You Make Me Feel' song from the first album).
Between the second and third albums, Bonfire went through many changes. Although
Ken made live appearances with the group, a new drummer needed to be hired, which
occurred in November of 1987 when Edgar Patrik from Sinner, Samson and Tyran Pace
joined. In June 1988, during the Fireworks Tour, Horst discovered that the constant pain
he was experiencing in his hands was the development of a crippling disease and he
could no longer play guitar. Taking his spot was Angel Schleifer, formerly of Doc
Savage, Red Alert, Sinner, Mad Max, Pretty Maids and Helter Skelter. The tour went on
and once it was completed, the band settled down to collaborate for a new album. It was
then that Hans had problems with the record company and especially with that band's
management. Against the band's better decisions, he was fired from the group in 1989
and Bonfire carried on as a quartet. It should be noted that Bonfire's first two albums
were the only ones that were released commercially in North America.
Despite the business decision, Claus and Hans maintained a great friendship. When Hans
formed his own group, Claus was asked to write songs as well as perform vocals. Cruel
fate would intervene and the record company wouldn’t allow him to do so, leaving Hans
to find a replacement singer for his new band, EZ Livin'.
The decision to remove Hans from Bonfire was beginning to show on Claus though in
Bonfire. After many attempts to break through in the North American scene and what he
deemed was a failure for the four album, Claus left the band in September of 1992. His
announcement was not a shock to the rest of the band, but it did leave them with the
dilemma of who would take his place. One vocalist that had the group’s attention was
Michael Bormann, whom was singing for Letter X and had his own group on the side
called Jaded Heart, plus he was previously in High Voltage and the J.R. Blackmore
Group. Even though he was willing to sing with Bonfire, he was committed to his two
other projects so the group continued looking. The unsuccessful attempt to find a full-
time vocalist lead to Michael becoming the new frontman of Bonfire in March of 1993.
Although he did leave Letter X, he maintained his band Jaded Heart.
Despite the new singer, Bonfire was in a rut now. Their record company refused to
release any new material that did not have Claus singing and the grunge years in music
had started. The band kind of knew that the end was in site so a live album that featured
concert recordings from the Point Blank Tour was released and had Claus on vocals. The
album Michael had sung on was shelved and Bonfire broke up in June of 1994.
Meanwhile, Claus had reunited with Hans after he left Bonfire and together they became
Lessmann/Ziller in 1992 (Hans broke up EZ Livin' for this project). In 1993 they released
an EP, Glaub Dran, that was all in German. This was followed by a few single releases of
songs that were not on the initial recording. The duo's following was starting to grow
once more and then it hit them, they needed to be Bonfire again. In 1995, they decided to
start legal proceedings to get the rights to the Bonfire name as well as the music from
1986 to 1992. Being successful in that venture, Lessmann/Ziller was renamed to Bonfire
and the second coming began with the reissue to Glaub Dran with other songs in English
in 1996. In 1997 they hired Chris Lausmann on guitar and keyboards, whom played with
Affair and Frontline; Uwe Kohler on bass, formally from Black Tears, Paradise Leaf, Big
Apple, Lipstikk, Blitzkrieg and British Steel; and finally Jurgen Wiehler on drums whom
played with Backdoor Affair, Heaven Sent, Chain Reaction, Loud & Proud, EZ Livin’,
Parish Garden, Wet Paint and 88 Crash.
Also in 1997, Michael and Angel got back together and wanted to release the shelved
Bonfire album they had recorded previously in 1993. Joerg was not interested in being
involved and Edgar had other commitments so the reunion was a duo and due to the legal
decision Michael and Angel decided to call themselves Charade. The shelved album was
then released in 1998 in Japan, becoming a highly sought after CD. The duo continue to
work together.
Since 1996, Bonfire has released at least one album a year and their fan base has grown,
surpassing their 1980s popularity. In 2002, Chris left the group, but that did not stop the
band. In 2004 after successfully gaining the rights to more material, the band released a 5
part CD series called The Early Days. Part 1, 2 and 3 were the reissuing of the Cacumen
albums, part 4 was the EZ Livin' album and part 5 was the Lessmann/Ziller album, every
one of them featuring bonus material.
In 2006, Bonfire celebrates their 20th anniversary and now Chris Limburg from Vice,
Wet Paint and Lustfinger has taken the reigns as the band's co-guitarist.
[edit] Charade
[edit] Discography
[edit] Cacumen
[edit] Singles
1998: Because It's Christmas Time single
2003: Tell Me What U Know single
2004: Schanzerherz single
[edit] Lessmann/Ziller
[edit] Charade
1998: Charade
2004: II
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Tell Me What You Know
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Strike Ten
Give It A Try Lyrics
by Bonfire
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Time is passing by
and I'm feeling so sad
the wounds of love won't heal
CHORUS
Give it a try - for a second time
don't you know I'm missing you
Give it a chance - for a second romance
don't you know I love you
CHORUS
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Bruce Dickinson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Occupation(s) Musician
Before Iron Maiden, he was the singer in a similar band called Samson from 1979 until
he joined Iron Maiden two years later. In Samson and previous bands, he went by the
name of "Bruce Bruce". He made his recording debut with Iron Maiden on their Number
of the Beast album in 1982. During previous years, he was in Styx (1976) (not to be
confused with the American band of the same name), then went on to sing for Speed
(1977 - 1978). When Speed split up, he joined Shots until the summer of 1979.
Dickinson quit Iron Maiden in 1993 in order to pursue his solo career and was replaced
by Blaze Bayley, who had previously been the lead singer of punk-metal band
Wolfsbane. After trying a more hard rock musical style, as opposed to Maiden's metal,
Dickinson rejoined the band in 1999 along with guitarist Adrian Smith. Both are still in
the band to date.
Contents
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1 Biography
o 1.1 Childhood
o 1.2 University
o 1.3 Samson
o 1.4 Iron Maiden
o 1.5 Solo career
o 1.6 Return to Iron Maiden
o 1.7 Recent Life
2 Discography
o 2.1 Speed
o 2.2 Samson
o 2.3 Iron Maiden
o 2.4 Bruce Dickinson
o 2.5 Iron Maiden Videos/DVDs
o 2.6 Bruce Dickinson Videos/DVDs
o 2.7 Misc. Appearances
3 Current members of solo band
4 Former/session members of solo band
5 Trivia
6 Bibliography
7 Audio
8 References
9 External links
[edit] Biography
[edit] Childhood
Dickinson (center) at Oundle, 1974
Paul Bruce Dickinson was born in the small mining town of Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
His mother worked part-time in a shoe shop and his father was a mechanic in the army.
Dickinson's birth hurried the young couple into marriage. Initially, he was brought up by
his grandparents; his grandfather was a coal-face worker at the local colliery and his
grandmother was a housewife.
When Dickinson was about to start school his parents moved from Worksop to Sheffield,
the nearest big city, where more jobs were available [citation needed]. Dickinson's first school
was Manton Primary. Of this period, he recalled "I grew up in an environment where it
struck me that the world was never gonna do me any favours. And I had very few close
friends, because we were always moving. I think that's partly why I grew up feeling like
such an outsider. I didn't have an unhappy childhood, but it was unconventional, to say
the least".
Dickinson's first musical experience was dancing in his grandparents front room to
Chubby Checker's "The Twist". The first record Dickinson recalls owning was The
Beatles single "She Loves You" which he managed to persuade his granddad to buy him.
"I was only four or five but I really loved that scene, The Beatles and Gerry & The
Pacemakers. ... I noticed they had B-sides, and that sometimes I liked them even more
than the A-sides. That was when I first began noticing the difference between 'good'
music and 'bad'." He believes that this marked the beginning of him thinking like a
musician.
When Dickinson was six he moved in with his parents in Sheffield who had set up a
house and had regular jobs. He found it difficult to adapt himself to the environment. In
his spare time he tried to play an acoustic guitar belonging to his parents, but it blistered
his fingers. When moving to Sheffield, he had to change school. He was sent to Manor
Top, which he disliked. After six months, his parents decided to move him out to a small
private school called Sharrow Vale Junior. His parents earned a living from selling estate.
A lot of Dickinson's childhood was spent living on a building site. His parents had
reached the stage where they were making profit. Dickinson's parents bought a boarding
house where his father sold second-hand cars off a forecourt.
This gave them the opportunity to give Dickinson - then 13 years old - a boarding school
education and they chose Oundle, a public school in Northamptonshire. Dickinson
enjoyed being away from home. "I didn't particularly enjoy being with my parents, so I
saw it as an escape. I think it was because I hadn't built any real attachment to them when
I was very, very young." Dickinson was picked on and routinely bullied by the older boys
of Sidney House, the Oundle boarding house that he belonged to. Dickinson's interests at
Oundle were often military. He co-founded the school wargames society, and he rose to a
position of some power in the Combined Cadet Force. At fifteen he joined the school
amateur dramatics society.
"I was 13 when I first heard Deep Purple's 'In Rock' album, and it just blew me away! I
heard this thing coming out of someone's room one day, and I went in and said 'Whoa!
What's that?' And they just looked at me disdainfully and went 'It's "Child in Time" by
Deep Purple. Don't you know anything?' But I was too amazed to care. The first album I
ever bought was Deep Purple In Rock, all scratched to fuck, but I thought it was great."
Dickinson obtained bongo drums from the music room and practiced. Dickinson
remembers trying to learn "Let It Be". "I started trying to encourage him by singing along
- only I could sing the high notes ... I always sort of knew I could sing ... [someone] in the
school choir ... said; 'You've got a really good voice'."
Dickinson was later expelled from Oundle for urinating in the headmaster's dinner. His
co-urinator was rusticated; that is sent home for the rest of the term rather than being
permanently excluded from the school, on the grounds that the contribution to the
headmaster's beans had been Dickinson's idea. Returning home to Sheffield in 1976 he
was enrolled at a local Catholic comprehensive school. In the summer of 1976, he joined
his first band. He had overheard two other children talking about their band and that they
needed a singer. Dickinson volunteered to do the vocals. They rehearsed in the drummer's
father's garage and the band were impressed by Dickinson's singing. It was at this point
Dickinson decided to buy a microphone. The first gig Dickinson's new band did was at a
venue called "Broad Fall Tavern" in Sheffield. Originally called "Paradox," the band
changed name upon Dickinson's suggestion, to "Styx", unaware of the American act with
the same name. They made local newspaper headlines when a steel worker was awoken
by their performance. Of the incident, it was said: "He bottled the guitarist and chucked
the drums off-stage". Soon after, the band split up.
[edit] University
After leaving school Dickinson didn't really know what he wanted to do. He joined the
Territorial Army for six months, which he did not enjoy. As army life was not what he
wanted to do, he applied for a place at University. He had met the minimum grades for
getting in and read history at Queen Mary College, in London's East End. His parents
wanted him in the army, but he told them that he wanted to get a degree first. "That was
what they wanted to hear so that was my cover story. When I got down there I started
immediately finding and playing in bands."
In college, Dickinson got involved in the Entertainments Committee. "One day you'd be a
roadie for The Jam, the next you'd be putting up the Stonehenge backdrop for Hawkwind
or whatever." In 1977, Dickinson met a guy called Paul "Noddy" White. He was a multi-
instrumentalist and he had a PA and other equipment. Dickinson suggested that they form
a band together. This would eventually evolve into the band "Speed", described by
Dickinson as sounding like a 'crossover between Judas Priest and The Stranglers with a
Hammond organ on top of it.' Dickinson recalled: "It had nothing to do with taking speed,
we were a completely drug-free band, we just used to play everything ridiculously fast.
Like Speed Metal, but ten years too early." Dickinson was the vocalist and occasionally
played guitar. "I got Noddy to give me guitar lessons and I ... started writing stuff straight
away. He showed me three chords and I'd write stuff just from those three chords."
Speed didn't last long, but it encouraged Dickinson to continue to work to be a musician.
Dickinson spotted an ad in Melody Maker with the caption "Singer wanted for recording
project". Since he had never been near a recording studio he replied immediately. He
"wailed, wolfed, hollered and made noises" onto a tape and with it went a note that read;
"By the way, if you think the singing's crap, there's some John Cleese stuff recorded on
the other side you might find amusing." They liked what they heard and Dickinson came
down to the studio. The band was called "Shots" and were formed by two brothers, Phil
and Doug Siviter. They were amazed by Dickinson's vocal abilities and they started
talking about what music they liked. "I started saying Ian Gillan, Ian Anderson, Arthur
Brown, and Doug goes, 'That's it! Fucking Arthur Brown, man! Sometimes your voice is
a dead ringer for Arthur! We've got to form a band.' This guy's got a studio and he wants
to form a band with me! I was like 'Yes'." A song "Dracula" from this session can be
heard as the closing track on The Best of Bruce Dickinson, disc two. According to
Dickinson this song is very first thing he ever recorded at all.
Dickinson played pubs with Shots on a regular basis. One particular night, Dickinson
suddenly stopped in the middle of a song and started interviewing a man in the audience,
making fun of him for not paying enough attention. He got such a good response he
started doing it every night until it became a regular routine. "Suddenly everybody was
paying attention, cause they might be next. The first time I did it, afterwards the landlord
of the pub was like ' Great show, lads, See you next week'. So we started sort of building
this bit into the show. And that was when I first started to get the hang of, just not being a
singer, but being a frontman, too."
The next step in Dickinson's career was taken in a pub called the Prince of Wales in
Gravesend, Kent, where Shots were playing regularly. One night, Barry Graham
("Thunderstick") and Paul Samson paid a visit. The legend says that Thunderstick, who
was there in his every day guise, became the victim of Dickinson's gimmick. "He looked
a bit weird so I did a spiel on it". Obviously impressed with his stage-act, Thunderstick
and Samson talked with Shots after the performance. A couple of weeks later, Samson
called and asked him if he was willing to join their band, Samson. Dickinson was
interested since this meant he could play larger gigs in London. Dickinson wanted to "do
things with a bit of a weird edge to it". By then, Shots had almost become a heavy metal
comedy act; the show had completely taken over the music.
[edit] Samson
Formed by Sidcup-born guitarist Paul Samson in 1977, the band had already been
established with their debut, "Survivors", released on an independent label. The band
toured quite extensively in the UK. Dickinson finished his final exams in the morning
and in the afternoon he went down to Wood Wharf Studios in Greenwich to rehearse with
them.
Since he was not sure of what to expect from a professional rock band, he decided just to
jump in and make the best of it. "In fact, the first rehearsals I went down to with Samson
pretty much set the scene for my entire time in the band. I left my girlfriend who I had
been with for three years at University. I told her I was gonna turn into a complete
arsehole. I thought it was what I was gonna have to do, frankly. Because it was not at all
what I expected. In my naivety I thought people who were in rock 'n' roll bands were
great artists, and it was a huge shock to the system to realise that they weren't, that they
didn't even aspire to be, really. Some of them did, maybe, but some of them, like Samson,
were very frightened of the idea, some of them just wanted to have a good drink, a good
shag and take some drugs, and I found that really, really difficult to relate to. I thought
'I've got to find out if I'm gonna work with these guys and we're gonna make music'. And
as soon as I sort of accepted that, I thought 'Right, I'd better go down and find out what
all this drug-taking and shagging's all about then'."
He did smoke a bit already and he had even tried dope at college. And in Samson it was
more of a habit. "I discovered quickly that if you were straight you couldn't actually
communicate with anybody. It was impossible. So I just thought I'd have to smoke a
joint, otherwise I wouldn't be able to write anything, and that's pretty much how it went. I
more or less resigned myself to it. I thought it was just part of the price that had to be
paid. To be honest, every single thing I ever did at that time, I believed it was just a step
towards my goal, of just wanting to be a singer in a rock 'n' roll band." Dickinson
nowadays refers to his time in the band as "a blur of chemicals".
During the first rehearsals they wrote songs that would be recorded and released on the
album called 'Head on'. "I had loads of stuff kicking around and they had loads of bits so
we just glued it all together." The songs were slipped into the live set on the coming tour,
which was to promote the "Survivors" album. This was a step forward for Dickinson as
his first real tour was third on the bill with Randy California and his all time hero Ian
Gillan. During his time in Samson, Dickinson was billed as "Bruce Bruce" (derived from
Monty Python's Bruces sketch about the Australian philosophers), a nickname that was
forced upon him by their management. They insisted on making all the cheques out to
"Bruce Bruce" which had the effect that Dickinson had to go through enormous trouble to
cash them in. The management was one of Samson's recurring problems. They booked
the band on rather ill-matched support tours, which saw them playing a venue, only to
return one week later with another act. Eventually this chain of events culminated in high
court leaving the band unable to play gigs and get paid. When the legal side of things
were settled and the band left their management in 1981 they discovered that their record
company was going bankrupt. "We made every mistake in the business" Dickinson
acknowledges.
Frustrated with the fact that the band never seemed to get anywhere, Dickinson contacted
guitarist Stuart Smith with the idea of forming a band. They had a few rehearsals and
wrote some material together but then Samson seemed to get a better deal and the
obvious thing for him to do was to stick with them. During the "Shock Tactics" tour,
Thunderstick left the band and was replaced with Mel Gaynor, a black funk/rock
drummer who was in the band very briefly and later ended up in Simple Minds. "When
you took Thunderstick out of the equation and replaced him with Mel, this phenomenal
drummer, there was no excitement in it there anymore. When he played, he played
everything perfectly. Everything was in time, there was no mistakes, there was no danger
anymore. So I got bored. I had time to think about the shopping list on stage and that's
not good. And I realised that this was what Paul wanted. It enabled him to go into more
ZZ Top, boogie sort of areas."
Dickinson's last gig with the band was at the Reading Festival in 1981, a gig which was
immortalised by the BBC and subsequently released on the album "Live at Reading 81".
"Listening to some of these old tracks they stand up really well" says Dickinson.
"Certainly all the stuff on 'Shock tactics' does. When you hear the Reading Live album
the band was really cooking. And the songs don't sound dated at all." Around that time,
Iron Maiden had began considering change of vocalist due to of increasing problems with
Paul Di'Anno. Steve Harris and manager Rod Smallwood came to Reading to check
Dickinson out for the job. Dickinson was asked to come down to auditions for the band.
After accepting the invitation to audition for Iron Maiden, Dickinson spent a week
rehearsing with the band, and recorded some demos, and was convinced that they were
the band for him. "When I first heard Maiden I got the same buzz of them I did when I
heard Deep Purple In Rock. It was like a steam train coming at you and none of the other
bands did that anymore". Dickinson discovered that the routines in Maiden were very
strict and regimented. Where Samson would just fool around aimlessly, Maiden were
working with a very clear idea of the result. "The intention behind that changed after the
first couple of records for me, because it became obvious that Maiden worked to a time
table. A table that wasn't absolute but it had to be stuck to. 'Now you'll write for six
weeks, now you'll make a record for three months, now you're rehearsing for two weeks,
now you'll tour for eight months'. It was organised like that and that seemed to suit the
style of writing of the band."
After a few gigs to 'break him in', the band started writing new material for their third
album. This was the first time the band had decided to write an entire new album; The
two released previously basically consisted of songs the band had been playing for years,
with a couple of exceptions, on Killers. The album The Number of the Beast, was put
together in five weeks. In the wake of Samson's contractual problems, Dickinson could
not be credited on the songs to which he had contributed. "I think you could say I had a
very big moral contribution to certain songs, like 'Children of the Damned', 'Run to the
Hills' and 'The Prisoner' Those three songs were the songs in which I had the biggest
moral contribution." "Moral contribution" refers to the fact that the contribution that he
had made was equal to those of the other band members.
"Run to the Hills" was a huge hit in the UK peaking at #7 in the UK singles chart and the
album and the following world tour was the band's most successful to date. During the
"Beast" tour, Dickinson had fitted well into the role as the band's frontman, and the next
two albums, Piece of Mind and Powerslave, showed a very tight and creative band. With
Smith and Dickinson contributing with half of the songs on the albums, Harris's
monopoly of the song writing would be pushed aside in favour for the other members'
ideas. "It wasn't always easy, we didn't always agree... In fact we fought like cat and dog
at various stages, but we made great music."
After a six month break, of which Dickinson spent a great deal indulging in his favourite
sport, fencing, Maiden were about to start writing for a new album. "When it came to
writing for a new album, whenever I started to write very 'eavy metal things, I found I
was thinking along these lines, you know, 'I should do one of these, one of those.' So I
ended up writing a lot of different things instead for bagpipes, folk things, stuff like
Jethro Tull. Bang went my royalties." It was during this tour that Dickinson started
writing what would become his first published novel, The Adventures of Lord Iffy
Boatrace. "Plotting it out was the doddle. It came from a series of mad conversations,
actually, that all gestated together along with some Sherlock Holmes, some Biggles and
Penthouse, and out it came." It was released in 1990 and due to the loyalty of Maiden's
fanbase, 40,000 copies were sold, on the strength of which he produced a sequel, titled
The Missionary Position, in 1992.
When the Somewhere in Time tour was finished, Iron Maiden was looking forward to the
next album. This was also unexplored territory for the band as it was a concept album.
Harris had written the song "The Clairvoyant". Dickinson really liked the idea and the
band was quite keen on producing the entire album based around this character with the
gift of clairvoyance. When the recordings were finished in December 1987, Dickinson
moved to Bonn, so that he could be close to the West Germany training centre for
fencing. At the end of the '80s Dickinson was at the peak of his fencing career, eventually
ranked as high as 7th in Great Britain in the men's foil discipline, while his club side, the
Hemel Hempstead Fencing Club, represented Great Britain in the European Cup of 1989.
After the Seventh Son of a Seventh Son tour in 1988, which climaxed when Maiden
headlined the Donington festival in front of 107,000 people, the band decided to take a
year off. Rumours were floating around that the band was splitting up, as various
members were seen pursuing various solo projects. In 1989, Zomba was looking for
someone to do a track to the movie Nightmare on Elm Street Part 5 and Dickinson was
asked to contribute. There was a budget, a studio and a producer, Chris Tsangarides.
Dickinson was delighted to take up this opportunity and immediately phoned up an old
friend of his, Janick Gers. Within three minutes after meeting up they had the track
"Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter" ready for the studio.
With assistance from the same musicians as on the previous single - Andy Carr on bass,
Fabio del Rio on drums and Gers on guitar - Dickinson's intention was to do something
he wouldn't normally do in Maiden and the album was written and recorded in two
weeks. Dickinson regarded this album as a follow up from where he left off with Shock
Tactics in Samson.
Around this time, Dickinson appeared in one episode of the TV-series Paradise Club,
playing the part of a rock guitarist wanting to break free from the dictatorship of his
record company. Some tracks were recorded by Dickinson to be used in the episode,
mainly cover tracks, with exception of "Ballad of Mutt" which Dickinson played solo on
an acoustic guitar.
The album, Tattooed Millionaire, was released in May 1990. By this time, Gers had
replaced Adrian Smith in Iron Maiden and the mini world club tour that Maiden
embarked upon during the summer introduced his audience to the new Maiden guitarist.
The same band was used as in the studio except for Fabio del Rio who was replaced by
Dicki Fliszar. With Gers in the league, Maiden was flooded with energy and enthusiasm.
Dickinson says, "There were several ways the band could have gone at that point but as it
turned out, the next one, No Prayer for the Dying, was a huge backward-step, I thought."
When it came to making a new album in 1992, Dickinson felt that Dream Theater's
demos sounded better than No Prayer. He was determined to make sure the over all
sound of the album would be given a good treatment. By now, Harris had set up a studio
of his own and it was a foregone conclusion that the new album, Fear of the Dark, would
be recorded there. "I think it was the first album where we were attempting to recapture
something of the past. In many ways I think that we were looking backwards to other
albums that we've done in the past while other bands are looking forward to something
new."
Dickinson always thought of himself as more than a singer in Iron Maiden. He had been a
top fencer, written two novels, done some acting and was doing an increasing amount of
guest DJ-ing on various radio-stations. His US label, Sony, asked him if he could do
another solo album. Dickinson felt it would offer a welcome "break" for him. The Fear
of the Dark tour was divided into two parts and in the gap between Dickinson entered the
studio to record his second solo album, backed by the band Skin, again with Chris
Tsangarides at the technical helm. Manager Rod Smallwood emphasised that if
Dickinson was to make a solo record, it had better be a good one. This had the effect that
Dickinson went full-stop and canned the whole thing on the merit that it sounded too
much like average metal. "I realised I was just going along with the flow, making my
solo album in the same way we were motoring on with Maiden."
This was when Dickinson first started questioning his ambitions. He wanted to break out
of the routine and do something "really out there." So off he went to America to record
with producer Keith Olsen. "The recording was basically put together electronically,
written on computers and keyboards," Dickinson explains. "I wanted to do something
quite unusual and quite mad." With the feeling of being tossed between two camps,
Dickinson started thinking of leaving the band. "I wore a groove in the kitchen floor for
that one."
His career outside Iron Maiden started with the recording of "Bring Your Daughter to the
Slaughter" which appears on the A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
soundtrack and Disc Two of The Best of Bruce Dickinson album. A different version of
the song was recorded by Iron Maiden for the No Prayer for the Dying album. The
original version got him a studio deal for a full album. Along with friend and soon-to-be
Iron Maiden guitarist Janick Gers, Dickinson wrote the Tattooed Millionaire album
within two weeks. The result was a rather poppy rock album. It was, however, far away
from Iron Maiden's heavy metal sound and fantasy lyricism - the baudy sexual
innuendoes of "Dive, Dive, Dive!" would never find themselves on one of Iron Maiden's
releases. It is possible that some of the songs are leftover ideas from the Somewhere in
Time sessions, in which Dickinson presented more experimental ideas to Steve Harris
who was not convinced, thus leading to a complete absence of Dickinson songwriting
credits on that album.
Before the release of his second effort, Balls to Picasso, Dickinson left Iron Maiden and
went through two different efforts with two sets of different collaborators. The first was
with Myke Gray of the band Skin, and the second with the producer Keith Olsen. Of the
second, a few songs surfaced as B-sides and one, "No Way Out... Continued" appears on
the 2-disc The Best of Bruce Dickinson collection. Dickinson was not happy with the
majority of the material on these efforts. Salvation came at last in the form of Tribe of
Gypsies guitarist Roy Z. He agreed to work with Dickinson to improve the Keith Olsen
album and ended replacing all of it except "Tears of the Dragon". Balls to Picasso was
recorded with the Tribe of Gypsies and was a far more mature record than Tattooed
Millionaire, with some very well-crafted songs, spurred along with the melodic and
shredding leads of Roy Z.
The Tribe departed to tour and record under their own steam, leaving Dickinson to track
down another band. Dickinson's new writing partner was Alex Dickson, and after touring
his current song catalogue (documented on Alive in Studio A) with him and the rest of the
new band, sat down to write Skunkworks. The idea was that the band would be called
that, but the record company insisted Dickinson's name be on the release. Dickinson
likened that to David Bowie attempting to do the same with Tin Machine and how it did
not work for him either.
The Skunkworks entity ceased to be after the touring due to musical differences
(Dickinson wanted the next album to be more metal), and after a period of inactivity
Dickinson once again teamed up with Roy Z to record Accident Of Birth. Adrian Smith
was asked to guest, and played on the whole album and tour. The album marked a return
to heavy metal for Dickinson; in fact the album is much heavier than Iron Maiden, with a
less progessive influence. It was a big success and for the first time, a follow up was
inevitable. The Chemical Wedding, a semi-concept album on alchemy and the writings of
William Blake followed. This record proved to be even more successful, with engaging
lyrics and powerful songs. Scream for Me Brazil was a live album that documented a
show of the Chemical Wedding tour, and featured songs from the last two albums and
two from Balls to Picasso.
The Best of Bruce Dickinson album with two new Roy Z songs and a limited edition disc
of rarities was released in 2001. Dickinson is said to have wanted to record another album
with Roy Z, but he was busy with Judas Priest vocalist, Rob Halford, and the window of
opportunity was missed. Tyranny of Souls was finally released in May 2005. This time
the songwriting was all split between Roy Z and Dickinson, with Roy playing all guitars
and even basses in some songs. Much of the writing was done by Roy sending recordings
of riffs to Dickinson which he wrote lyrics and melodies for while on tour. With the
release of Tyranny of Souls, Dickinson's back catalogue was reissued with a bonus disc of
extra tracks for each album except The Chemical Wedding and the two live albums, the
latter of which were packaged together in a three-disc set.
A three-disc DVD package, named simply Anthology, was released June 2006 and
contains three concerts from his career, promo videos and footage from his Samson days.
Along with Adrian Smith, Dickinson rejoined Iron Maiden in 1999. As a 6-piece (Janick
Gers remained in the band as well) they embarked on a small tour. Afterwards they set
about recording the first Iron Maiden album with Bruce on vocals since 1993, Brave New
World. The Brave New World tour culminated with a perfomance at the huge Rock in
Rio festival, which was captured on DVD.
Dickinson has continued on as a full member of the band, recording the follow up Dance
of Death album, Death on the Road live album and DVD, and most recently their newest
studio album A Matter of Life and Death while also pursuing his solo musical and airline
pilot careers.
He is sometimes called "Conan the Librarian" after a character in the "Weird Al"
Yankovic movie UHF, and has been nicknamed 'The Air Raid Siren'. He is also an
accomplished guitarist and drummer. He studied history at Queen Mary College,
University of London, and was active in student politics as a member of the Conservative
Party; however, he is known to have supported New Labour in recent years, describing
the Conservatives as 'dangerous'. He is not to be confused with the rock producer (in
reality a sound engineer, played by Christopher Walken) for Blue Öyster Cult in the
famous Saturday Night Live More Cowbell skit.
Dickinson currently presents the Saturday evening "rock show" on BBC alternative rock
radio station 6 Music. He has recently taken the helm of BBC Radio 2 Serial 'Masters of
Rock'. He also presented the 5-part historical TV series about aviation; Flying Heavy
Metal was shown on the Discovery Channel in the UK. He was also a guest on a
Discovery Channel show where he shared his enthusiasm for trains. The most recent
television programme he has presented was a show on spontaneous combustion for Sky
One called "Inside Spontaneous Human Combustion with Bruce Dickinson", in which he
investigates the phenomenon of this occurrence by enlisting the help of several experts
and performing various experiments to determine its possible cause.
[edit] Discography
[edit] Speed
[edit] Samson
Survivors(1979)
Head On (1980)
Shock Tactics (1981)
Live at Reading 1981 (1990)
[edit] Trivia
Rod Smallwood did not originally want Bruce in
Iron Maiden because of a grudge he held against
his former band, Samson. After an audition it was
agreed that Bruce could be in the band if he bought
a leather jacket and started to use his real name
instead of his former stage-name, Bruce Bruce,
which Smallwood thought sounded "daft".
In the Early Days documentary Bruce mentioned
that he and Harris had scuffles when he joined the
band as to where they both would stand during the
show since both wanted to be at centre-stage.
Originally Harris would elbow Bruce out of the
way, Bruce returned the favour by adding an extra-
long stand to his microphone which caused Harris
to trip over it.
Bruce is only about 5'4 [verification needed]
Also in the Early Days documentary he described
an incident where Ozzy Osbourne wanted the two
of them to "Nick a cab and drive it across fields".
Bruce's cousin is singer/guitarist Rob Dickinson, a
solo artist formerly of the band Catherine Wheel.
Dickinson airlifted 200 British citizens who had
fled wartorn Beirut, Lebanon back to the UK on
July 20, 2006. He picked up the evacuees in Cyprus
on a Boeing 757 and flew them back to London's
Gatwick Airport.[1]
Dickinson is able to speak French, and he even
addresses the crowd almost entirely in French
during venues in Quebec City and Montréal,
Canada, and in concerts in France.
[edit] Bibliography
The Adventures of Lord Iffy Boatrace (1990), ISBN
0-283-06043-3
The Missionary Position (1992), ISBN 0-283-
06092-1
Gamba, Marco; Visintini, Nicola (2000). Iron
Maiden Companion (1st ed.). Moving Media &
Arts. ISBN 8860630282).
[edit] Audio
"Run to the Hills" Listen (help·info) – Bruce's
debut Iron Maiden release.
"Brave New World" Listen (help·info) – Bruce's
return to the fold.
[edit] References
1. ^ "Dickinson airlifts Beirut evacuees", Yahoo News UK
& Ireland, July 21, 2006.
Bruce Dickinson
Bruce Dickinson | Roy Z | Adrian Smith | Eddie Cassillas | David Ingraham
Alex Dickson | Janick Gers | Chris Dale | Alessandro Elena | Andy Carr | Fabio Del Rio | Doug
Van Booven
Discography
Studio Albums: Tattooed Millionaire | Balls to Picasso | Skunkworks | Accident of Birth |
The Chemical Wedding | Tyranny of Souls
Live Albums: Alive in Studio A | Scream for Me Brazil
Compilations: The Best of Bruce Dickinson | Anthology (DVD)
Iron Maiden
Bruce Dickinson | Dave Murray | Janick Gers | Adrian Smith | Steve Harris | Nicko
McBrain
List of past and present Iron Maiden members
Discography
Studio albums: Iron Maiden | Killers | The Number of the Beast | Piece of Mind |
Powerslave | Somewhere in Time | Seventh Son of a Seventh Son | No Prayer for the Dying
| Fear of the Dark | The X Factor | Virtual XI | Brave New World | Dance of Death | A
Matter of Life and Death
Live albums: Live After Death | A Real Live One | A Real Dead One | Live at Donington |
A Real Live Dead One | Rock in Rio | The BBC Archives | Beast Over Hammersmith
Death on the Road
Compilations and box-sets: The First Ten Years | Best of the Beast | Ed Hunter | Edward
the Great | Eddie's Archive | Best of the B'Sides | The Essential Iron Maiden
Videos and DVDs: Live at the Rainbow | Video Pieces | Behind the Iron Curtain | Live
After Death | 12 Wasted Years | Maiden England | The First Ten Years: The Videos | From
There to Eternity | Donington Live 1992 | Raising Hell | Classic Albums: The Number of
the Beast | Rock in Rio | Visions of the Beast | The Early Days | Death on the Road
EPs: The Soundhouse Tapes | Live!! +one | Maiden Japan | No More Lies
Singles
"Running Free" | "Sanctuary" | "Women in Uniform" | "Twilight Zone" | "Purgatory" | "Run to
the Hills" | "The Number of the Beast" | "Flight of Icarus" | "The Trooper" | "2 Minutes to
Midnight" | "Aces High" | "Running Free (live)" | "Run to the Hills (live '85)" | "Wasted Years"
| "Stranger in a Strange Land" | "Can I Play with Madness" | "The Evil That Men Do" | "The
Clairvoyant (live)" | "Infinite Dreams" | "Holy Smoke" | "Bring Your Daughter...To the
Slaughter" | "Be Quick or Be Dead" | "From Here to Eternity" | "Wasting Love" | "Fear of the
Dark (live)" | "Hallowed Be Thy Name (live)" | "Man on the Edge" | "Lord of the Flies" |
"Virus" | "The Angel and the Gambler" | "Futureal" | "The Wicker Man" | "Out of the Silent
Planet" | "Run to the Hills (live '01)" | "Wildest Dreams" | "Rainmaker" | "The Number of the
Beast (2005)" | "The Trooper (live)" | "The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg" | "Different
World"
Bruce Dickinson
AKA Paul Bruce Dickinson
Born: 7-Aug-1958
Birthplace: Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Musician
Nationality: England
Executive summary: Frontman of Iron Maiden
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
The Incubus (1981)
Official Website:
http://www.screamforme.com/
Author of books:
The Adventures of Lord Iffy Boatrace (1990, novel)
The Missionary Position (1992, novel)
Son Of A Gun
Tattooed Millionaire
Born In '58
Hell On Wheels
Gypsy Road
Dive! Dive! Dive!
All The Young Dudes
Lickin' The Gun
Zulu Lulu
No Lies
Cyclops
Hell No
Gods Of War
1000 Points Of Light
Laughting In The Hiding Bush
Change Of Heart
Shoot All The Clowns
Fire
Sacred Cowboys
Tears Of The Dragon
Space Race
Back From The Edge
Inertia
Faith
Solar Confinement
Dreamstate
I Will Not Accept The Truth
Inside The Machine
Headswitch
Meltdown
Octavia
Innerspace
Strange Death In Paradise
The Freak
Toltec 7 Arrival
Star Children
Taking The Queen
Darkside Of Aquarius
Road To Hell
Man Of Sorrows
Accident Of Birth
Magician
Welcome To The Pit
The Ghost Of Cain
Omega
Arc Of Space
King In Crimson
Chemical Wedding
The Tower
Killing Floor
Book Of Thel
Gates Of Urizen
Jerusalem
Trumpets Of Jericho
Machine Men
The Alchemist
Return Of The King
Trumpets Of Jericho
King In Crimson
Chemical Wedding
Gates Of Urizen
Killing Floor
Book Of Thel
Tears Of The Dragon
Laughing In The Hiding Bush
Accident Of Birth
The Tower
Dark Side Of Aquarius
The Road To Hell
Broken
Tattooed Millionaire
Laughing In The Hiding Bush (Live)
Tears Of The Dragon
The Tower
Born In '58
Accident Of Birth
Silver Wings
Darkside Of Aquarius
Chemical Wedding
Back From The Edge
Road To Hell
Book Of Thel (Live)
Bring Your Daughter... To The Slaughter
Darkness Be My Friend
Wicker Man
Real World
Acoustic Song
No Way Out... Continued
Midnight Jam
Man Of Sorrows
Ballad Of Mutt
Re-Entry
I'm In A Band With An Italian Drummer
Jerusalem (Live)
Dracula
Where I was
I had wings that couldn't fly
Where I was
I had tears I couldn't cry
My emotions
Frozen in an icy lake
I couldn't feel them
Until the ice began to break
Slowly I awake
Slowly I rise
The walls I built are crumbling
The water is moving
I'm slipping away
Demonoid
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Country Sweden
Years active 2004–present
Demonoid is a Swedish extreme metal band that derives its influences from traditional
death metal and thrash metal.
Therion guitarist Kristian Niemann previously had the desire to produce more brutal
music and had made earlier attempts with his brother Johan Niemann, although none of
this earlier work had appeared on any records. Fellow Therion member Christofer
Johnsson had later joined the project along with Rickard Evensand who was working
with Therion as a drummer at that time.
So far they have released only one album, Riders of the Apocalypse, in 2004. The album
is about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
As of March 25, 2006, it was announced that Christofer Johnsson had withdrawn from
Demonoid and that a replacement vocalist had been found.
Contents
[hide]
1 Band members
2 Discography
3 External links
o 3.1 Official websites
[edit] Discography
Riders of the Apocalypse (2004)
Demonoid at MusicBrainz
Demonoid at Last.fm
Demonoid at Encyclopaedia Metallum
Wargods
Firestorms
Witchburners
14th Century Plague
Hunger My Consort
The Evocation
Arrival Of The Horsemen
End Of Our Times
Death
DEMONOID LYRICS
Riders Of The Apocalypse (2004)
1. Wargods
2. Firestorms
3. Witchburners
4. 14th Century Plague
5. Hunger My Consort
6. The Evocation
7. Arrival Of The Horsemen
8. End Of Our Times
9. Death
1. Wargods
Wargods!
We practice what you preach!
Wargods!
Waaar!
Wargods!
We practice what you preach!
Wargods!
Waaar!
2. Firestorms
Detonations around us
We all prepare to die
Die!
3. Witchburners
WITCH!
Tortured to confess
WITCH!
In flames you were burnt
WITCH!
Your innocent blood
WITCH!
By christians was spilled
WITCH!
Tortured to confess
WITCH!
In flames you were burnt
WITCH!
Your innocent blood
WITCH!
By christians was spilled
5. Hunger My Consort
Starvation!!!
Hunger my consort!
Starvation!!!
Starvation!!!
Hunger my consort!
6. The Evocation
[Goddess of Fate:]
"So you've chosen and so it may be
It finally comes to an end
Man has chosen his own destiny
In death you will now lay to rest"
Cancer humanity
Necrofertility
(The) gods sent the plague as a cure
Bloodsoaked infinity
Greed ruled endlessly
Welcome, the end of our times!
The 69 Eyes
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Members Jyrki 69
Timo-Timo
Bazie
Jussi 69
Archzie
The 69 Eyes are a Finnish horror rock band, formed in Helsinki during the early 1990s.
The line-up consists of Jyrki 69 on vocals, Timo-Timo on rhythm guitar, Bazie on lead
guitar, Jussi 69 on drums and Archzie on bass.
Originally the band played garage rock inspired music and were self-described as "garage
glam", and by the music press as "Helsinki sleaze". By the latter part of the 1990s, the
band began to take more influence from gothic rock, horror punk, and gothic metal.
Along with their change in musical direction, the band became more popular in the wider
world. One of the first things that you would notice about the bands music, is the strong
influence of Elvis on the lead singers (Jyrki 69) singing technique. This has given them a
unique style, as the this has rarely been done and done well.
Contents
[hide]
1 Band history
2 Trivia
3 Discography
4 See also
5 Links
In 1999, Wasting the Dawn was released internationally on Roadrunner Records. The
album's hit single, Wasting the Dawn paid tribute to the Doors' Jim Morrison. The video
featured HIM member Ville Valo posing at a snowy cemetery as the ghost of Jim
Morrison.
Spring of 2000 brought the single Gothic Girl which spent months on the Singles Top 10
and on Finnish nation radio playlists. It brought the band their first gold record. After
recording their third major album, Blessed Be, the band did their first short tour for
Wasting the Dawn in Germany which included a show at the Mera Luna Gothic festival.
Support for the tour was Norwegian electro-Goth band Zeromancer.
Released in September 2000, Blessed Be rose straight to number 4 on the Finnish Album
Charts and stayed in the top 10 for over a month. The second single was Brandon Lee,
the third was The Chair and Stolen Season was the fourth.
In 2002 the band released Paris Kills, which would be known as their definitive album. It
stayed for weeks as number 1 in Finland and went gold in a month, June 2002. In
Germany it rose to number 35 in the first week. After touring Europe and Finland for
months, a sold-out show at Helsinki's famous Tavastia was filmed and documented in
November for use in the "Helsinki Vampires" DVD.
2004 saw the release of Devils, their 7th album, to which they toured the UK in support
of Wednesday 13. Once again the album was number one in their native Finland and
reached gold in a month. It was their first release on a big major label Virgin/EMI.
Released in their native Finland in October 2004 later on in Europe through Virgin/EMI
and in October 2005 in USA through 456 Entertainment it is also their 4th album to reach
gold status and again another number one position on the Finnish TOP 40 album charts.
In 2005 The 69 Eyes played near one hundred shows around the world in 15 countries,
from Mexico to Japan. Devils was also released in the USA through 456 Entertainment
and the band filmed their video for their biggest ever hit single Lost Boys in Hollywood
and the Philadelphia area, directed by the band's friend and MTV superstar Bam Margera.
In 2006 The 69 Eyes toured for the first time in the USA in March. Their new album
Angels, the sequel to their 2004 album Devils, is due out on March 5, 2007. The new
single off of the album, "Perfect Skin", came out January 2006.
The 69 Eyes are currently touring the U.S. in support of Cradle of Filth along with 3
Inches Of Blood.
[edit] Trivia
Vocalist Jyrki is an international goodwill ambassador for UNICEF, the children's
rights charity. He is currently helping to campaign against child trafficking and
sexual exploitation in parts of West Africa.
[edit] Discography
Main article: The 69 Eyes discography
Hanoi Rocks
The Sisters of Mercy
Lords of the New Church
Danzig
Circus Of Power
The Doors
Iggy Pop
Elvis
The Ramones
Type O Negative
Similar bands:
Hanoi Rocks
HIM
The Cult
The Sisters of Mercy
Danzig
Type O Negative
Early 1990's Helsinki, Finland. Five guys in Ramones-like black biker leather jackets have
started a band called THE 69 EYES. Horror flavored Glam rock. They are VERY loud: Iggy
& The Stooges, Dead Boys, Motörhead etc. Signed to the indie label Gaga Goodies.
Records, tours; also in Sweden, U.K. and Italy; lots of chaos, broken hearts and distortion.
Reputation goes before the band. Fan club in Japan. Dark industrial rock version of
Blondie's "Call Me". More tours. More chaos. No mercy.
"WASTING THE DAWN" was The 69 Eyes's first international release on ROADRUNNER
RECORDS. In 1999 with its unique concept of Gothic melancholy mixed with hi-energy
rock'n'roll roots of the band, the album not only brought some long-waited fresh blood
into the Gothic scene but also launched a new term to the media: GOTH'N'ROLL. The
album's epic melanGothic TOP 10 hit single "WASTING THE DAWN" paid a tribute to The
DOORS' Jim Morrison and even had HIM's Ville Valo posing at a snowy cemetery as Mr.
Mojo Risin' on its video. The band is said to be the missing link between The Cult and Type
O Negative.
In the spring 2000 the band released a single "GOTHIC GIRL" which changed everything.
Months on the Singles TOP 10 and on the Finnish national radio's playlists "GOTHIC
GIRL" brought the first gold record to the band. Like this gold-gone taster single the highly
anticipated new album "BLESSED BE" was produced by JOHNNY LEE MICHAELS who
as "the sixth member" of the band did all the arrangements and handles all keyboards and
programming on the album as well. As Johnny Lee Michaels has also been known as a film
music composer, the present BLESSED soundscape of The 69 Eyes is somewhere between
epic and melanGothic yet with vibes of movies "Sleepy Hollow"-meets-"Matrix" - without
forgetting the shadows of "The Crow"...
Right after the BLESSED BE sessions in August 2000 The 69 Eyes did their first short
WASTING THE DAWN-based German tour which also included a show at the huge Mera
Luna Gothic festival. As the support band on this tour was Norwegian electro-Goth band
Zeromancer. The tour closed the first chapter and opened the new one...
"BLESSED BE" was released on the same date in September 2000 as The 69 Eyes got their
gold records from the first single of it. The album rose straight to number 4 in the Finnish
Album Charts and stayed over month in TOP 10 (3 months in TOP 40). The second single
from the album was "BRANDON LEE" which also became a huge power-play radio hit and
the single stayed 14 weeks in TOP 20. In the "GOTHIC GIRL" video the Crow-meets-
Matrix like vision featured black Goth-hop dancers in the rubber nun dresses but
"BRANDON LEE" with a mid-nightly dark teenage Romeo and Juliet dream was the video
which became one the most requested videos for months in the music channel German
VIVA2.
The band spent the rest of year touring almost three months in Finland playing sold-out
shows everywhere. Still surprised the band was voted in the biggest Finnish music
magazine Soundi for NUMBER 1 in the Best Finnish Band, Album and Song categories -
actually "Brandon Lee" was number one and "Gothic Girl" number two! Also the biggest
German Gothic magazine Orkus, on the cover of which Jyrki was in October issue, voted
the Eyes on the tops of the year 2000.
The third BLESSED single and video release was dark and moody "THE CHAIR" which
raised straight number 2 on the Finnish Single Charts in February 2001 and continued The
69 Eyes' "hit list" on the airwaves.
The fourth BLESSED single "STOLEN SEASON" was released in May 2001 as the band
successfully toured in Germany with Paradise Lost and continued touring through the
European summer festival season. The final "Blessed Be" show for was played for mere 15
000 Goths at Germany 's M'era Luna festival in September 2001.
In October the band went back to studio with Johnny Lee Michaels to record their follow-
up to the gold gone (in Finland ) "Blessed Be". The first teaser single and video from it,
"DANCE D'AMOUR" came out in December 2001 and has been number one in both the
national radio and singles charts in Finland in January and February 2002 and it went
gold again.
PARIS KILLS itself is a majestic masterpiece from the masterminds of the band and
producer Lee Michaels. The band's guitar sound mixed with 80's keyboard sound and
classic matured sense of melancholic melodies reaches its peak on the album which is
according to the singer Jyrki "made to dance yourself to sleep just before the dawn". "It
was perfect to start recording this album right after playing the final show of the tour in
the front of 20 000 Goths and have that "gothic for masses" vibe still going on as we
worked for the songs," he adds. Like Depeche Mode's "Violator" PARIS KILLS is THE
album for the band. Dark and stylish, some could even call Gothic-AOR, Johnny Lee
Michaels' soundscapes and Jyrki's Cash-Orbison-Morrison disciplined vocals with catchy
and yet beautiful songs make the midnight be true blue and bright. It's time to dance into
the serious moonlight...
...And they danced! "Paris Kills" stayed weeks number one in Finland after its release and
went gold in a month (June 2002), going close to platinum these days. In Germany the
album rose straight to number 35 on its first week. The band toured European rock
festivals all the summer 2002, returned for a headliner tour in Germany , Austria ,
Switzerland and Italy in October 2002 and finished their most successful year by touring
once again in Finland till Christmas. The second single from the album was already a
Finnish radio power-play hit "BETTY BLUE", which flirted the images of the French same
titled classic dark 80's movie. Also an "icy" video was made. A sold-out show at Helsinki 's
famous Tavastia was filmed and documented in November for the DVD use - due through
Gaga Goodies/Poko Rekords/EMI in September 2003 entitled as "HELSINKI
VAMPIRES".
The first half of the year 2003 the band spend mainly writing already new material for the
next album but played their first ever show in Moscow , Russia in March. The third single
release from "Paris Kills" was a show opener "CRASHING HIGH" and featured also three
new remixes of "Stigmata" by French indu-wizard Kris Kylven, whose past includes bands
like Killing Joke etc.
Summer 2003 brought The Eyes back to the festival stages starting from Germany 's Wave
Gotik Treffen. After the biggest festivals in Finland, again Sziget Festival in Hungary and
Highfield in Germany , the summer season was completed at Terremoto Festival in
Germany.
In the end of the year The 69 Eyes got signed to EMI Finland – another new chapter
begins…
The first half of 2004 has been spent in the studio pre-producing, arranging and finally
recording their new album "DEVILS", due to come in October (25th in Finland, later
elsewhere) through VIRGIN/EMI. The album is produced by Hiili Hiilesmaa (HIM,
Sentenced, Moonspell etc.) and Johnny Lee Michaels. The first single from it "LOST
BOYS" came out in Finland in the beginning of June, raised to number 1 on the singles
charts on its second week and became the biggest radio hit The Eyes ever had in Finland.
Not bad for a song about a 17-year old vampire movie! The band played also at some
festivals during the summer around Europe and mainly in Finland getting finally ready to
release their "comeback album" DEVILS. "Recently as I've been asked my 3 favourite
albums I've been answering Elvis' "'68 Comeback Special", Danzig's "II: Lucifuge" and The
Doors' I - DEVILS is all that what these albums grew me into." explains Jyrki.
The second single from DEVILS is the title track "Devils" and the band will also film a
video of it with the famous Swedish Baranga Brothers - expect an X-Rated version to come
out as well. The 69 Eyes are DEVILS!
Discipline
Deuce
Mrs. Sleazy
Hot Butterfly
Sugarman
Stop Bitching!
Barbarella
Gimme Some Skin
Juicy Lucy
The Hills Have Eyes
Too Itching For Action
No Hesitation
Alive!
Gimme Some Head
1-800-Sleazorama
Tang
Smashed'n'Trashed
Velvet Touch
Mr. Pain
Lady Luck
Motor City Resurrection
Ghettoway Car
Wild Talk
Get It Off
Always
Demolition Derby
Savage Garden
1-800-Sleazorama (Reprise)
Call Me
D.I.D.
Broken Man
Get Around
Too Much To Loose
Sore Loser
Skanky Man
Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
Hellcity 1999
Turbobitch
L8R S8N
Truck On
Lay Down Your Arms, Girl
Wasting The Dawn
You Ain't The Reason
Lazarus Heart
Who's Gonna Pay The Bail?
All-American Dream
Be My Speed
Hand Of God
Next Stop Paradise
Starshine
Framed In Blood
Gothic Girl
The Chair
Brandon Lee
Velvet Touch
Sleeping With Lions
Angel On My Shoulder
Stolen Season
Wages Of Sin
Graveland
30
Heaven / Hell
Crashing High
Dance D'Amour
Betty Blue
Grey
Radical
Don't Turn Your Back On Fear
Stigmata
Forever More
Still Waters Run Deep
Dawn's Highway
Devils
From Dusk Till Dawn
2. Gothic Girl