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