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Penniless
Penniless grew up in
a small town called Nakkila (some twenty kilometers south of Pori) on
the west coast of Finland. They released three albums as Penniless People
Of Bulgaria, but dropped the people after being fed up with more or less
silly questions and hostile messages. This kind of excile lead to more
boring inquiries, though.
During the years Penniless has been connected to and compared with many
American alternative rock groups, but as one of the leading rock journalists
in Finland, Ilkka Mattila has put it: "their typically Finnish pithy
approach and warped sense of humour make Penniless a unique band"*.
Penniless has developed their style of guitar rock into perfection, so
on the contrary, now would be the time to compare others with Penniless.
Feeder is the Penniless of U.K. just to mention one case. That could do
some justice!
Since 1997 Penniless are signed only to A West Side Fabrication. They
had the first album as simply Penniless out a year later. "Joe"
got splendid critics near and far, and also honoured the band with a dream
come true, a gig at Roskilde Festival in Denmark. This adventure produced
the material for a video, "Beautiful", which was sort of a hit
on MTV Nordic's "Alternative Nation".
In 1999 they followed up their huge European tour of 1996 with two weeks
of gigging in Germany.
Penniless albums has been released in east and west, and their brand new
album "Anola" will surely not be any exception from that rule.
"Anola" was released on the 12th of February this year in Scandinavia.
Germany, Austria, Switzerland will follow later on. "Anola"
is a complete dozen of wonderful pop melodies and solid rock guitars.
This album deserves to be spread in every country with an ear or two for
powerful music. And the other way around too - the world deserves "Anola".
We all need guitars anyway!
*) Finnish Rockumentary 1999
Penniless are:
Lasse Alisaari - drums
Ossi Alisaari - vocals, guitar
Pekka Alisaari - vocals, guitar
Kimmo Kurittu - bass
Mikko Pere - guitar
Catalogue:
Penni-CD1 Cake (CD)
WeCD 082 Mould (CD)
WeCD 113 Motorhead (CDEP)
WeCD 115 Velocity (CD)
WeCD 154 Avalanche (CDS)
WeCD 155 Joe (CD)
WeCD 161 Cyberhand (CDEP)
WeCD 165 Beautiful vs. Cage (CDS)
WeCD 182 Adam's Apple Pie (CDS)
WeCD 183 Anola (CD)
penniless website
- www.penniless.sci.fi
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