MY FIRST BAND IS ABOUT TO SHOW EUROPE SOME 'CORAZON'!
Relationships are tricky.
After a year you usually know how to push each others buttons, after three you've built some trust and after five, you start getting annoyed with all the underwear laying around. Add in 10 more years and you get My First Band, the five piece band from Finland that have been at it since high school.
No, this is not your next Disney-factory boy band and using Paris...
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MY FIRST BAND IS ABOUT TO SHOW EUROPE SOME 'CORAZON'!
Relationships are tricky.
After a year you usually know how to push each others buttons, after three you've built some trust and after five, you start getting annoyed with all the underwear laying around. Add in 10 more years and you get My First Band, the five piece band from Finland that have been at it since high school.
No, this is not your next Disney-factory boy band and using Paris Hilton's BFF (Best Friend For Life) - ideology would be somewhat corny, but if you stick with each others bullsh*t for over 15 years - you know you have something special. And My First Band definitely is.
Singer Antti (art pop fanatic with an old soul), guitarist Mikko (Sons Of Anarchy - looking rock God), drummer Heikki (a world traveller with the taste for 80's melancholic anthems), keyboard player Heikki (synthesisers, sex and more synthesisers) and bassist Juho (male model type with the taste for perfect pop records) don't play it safe. When you know each other in and out - you don't have to. Just take a listen to 'THANK YOU FOR YOUR HEART', a song about black market organ trafficking. With a twist.
My First Band's third album, 'CORAZON' is filled with surprises like that.
And in the last 18 months, My First Band has toured, travelled, watched all seasons of Breaking Bad, toured, got tattooed, toured some more and went through a lot of personal growth.
On the eve of the bands first international album release, it was faith that most of the songs were also written in different places around the world. 'DONT BREAK MY CORAZON' (a phrase guitarist Mikko overheard from a drunken tourist trying to pick up a gorgeous local chica in Argentina) and 'PARACHUTE' (a sight of a skydiver in Tempelhof airport in Berlin that made singer Antti want to write a song about the scariest flight of all - falling into a the arms and trust of your loved one).
Bass player Juho wrote the freedom anthem, 'LET IT GO' on the road after an epic after party that led to him being dragged out of bed into a Sunday morning church mass. The rest of the band is still guessing what the song really refers to - Juho's dream escape of the hangover he had, or his faith in good-old Jesus. Who knows.
What we know is that My First Band is here to stay and these guys are going to stick with each other. And just like with any relationship, you have to invest in it, and that was exactly what My First Band did when they decided to built their own studio, Äänivallila, the inspiration behind Corazon's first track 'WE BUILT A HOUSE'.
"The whole album starts with the words: "We built a house for music we love.." and that is exactly what we did. After our first two albums (You Look So Bored 2009, Mercury & Glitter 2011) 'Corazon' is the first one we all wrote stories, melodies and words for. I guess musically we now have an album that couldn't sound more like US, and this to me is super exciting, says singer Antti.
My First Band lets their stories and songs shape their overall sound. No wonder 'Corazon' goes everywhere from indie rock to EDM and psychedelic pop to indie dance. Making it the perfect mix for this jilted generation.
By now My First Band is ready to take Europe by storm.
The first single off Corazon, 'DON'T BREAK MY CORAZON' will have its worldwide release through Sony Music / EPIC, following a Central European tour supporting Finnish pop-rock phenomenon, Sunrise Avenue.
In the summer of 2014, My First Band will start their first ever European summer festival length.
Singer Antti continues: "The fact that we've stayed so close, always kept together and now finally have the chance to play shows all around Europe - it's more than a dream come true. And what are the odds, that even though we've all worked with different musicians in numerous different projects, these four guys I met in high school are still the best I've ever played with and had most fun with! I can't wait to play for new audiences and who else would I like to share the stage and these new experiences than my best friends, my first band?"
Cause you just never forget your first love, right?
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