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The Swedish punk wackos THE HIVES are finally back. They were teasing
a new album, their first in 11 years, for weeks now but no details whatsoever,
so far.
And today arrives the first single, called BOGUS OPERANDI.
They start slowly with some drum wallops and some distorted guitars.
After 45 seconds the wait is over. From there on it’s full steam ahead with
frontman Pele howling as we know for a long time now. A riff-frantic missile.
“I fell in love with the sweet sensation
I gave my heart to a simple chord
I gave my soul to a new religion
Whatever happened to you?
Whatever happened to our rock’n’roll?”
2. ‘Highly Evolved’ by mind-blowing Australian turbo THE VINES
Released: 22 April 2002 From album: Highly Evolved Score: #32 in the UK
“I’m feelin’ happy
So highly evolved
My time’s a riddle that’ll never be solved
Dreamin’ for somethin’
Reachin’ for somethin’
Just waitin’ for the sun to carry me in”
Band: THE HIVES Who: Sweaty Swedish punk rockers led by the awesome Howlin’ Pelle Active: Since 1993 / (only) 5 studio LPs / last year they recorded a heavily
charged live album for Jack White‘s Third Man Records.
Concert: Roma Venue, Antwerp, Belgium – 15 November 2021
My oh my, I’ve seen these Swedish adrenalin-fueled punk clowns several times
but every gig feels like it’s the first one. Their spectacular energy is off the charts,
their whirlwind SHOW is earthshaking and their punch-punk slam dunks are like
exploding Molotov cocktails. Screaming loudmouth and stand-up comedian Howlin’
Pelle still leads the storming troops. He declared himself King Of Belgium for the night.
His first act as our fresh nation-leader was destroying the venue’s policy of decibels restriction, euphorically received by an out-of-their-minds crowd.
Almost 30 years after hitting the wild rock ‘n’ knock scene and setting countless stages around the globe on fire these bad-ass North European motherrockers still bloody know how to unite a beer-throwing and fist-pumping audience in a hysterical moshpit with their red-hot-smoking greatest hits set. And every time Pelle and blitzkrieg guitarist Nicholaus Arson join the frenzied fans the roof goes off the building.
New King of Belgium
To close the amazeballs Tyrannosaurus Hives party Pelle splits (as usual) the crowd
right down the middle creating a path for himself. Once at the back of the hall, he
starts to inflame us all, until he sprints like a madman towards the podium while
the Tic Tic Boom bomb goes off.
Absolutely-fucking-insane! I don’t hate to tell you so that THE HIVES ARE FOREVER!
Ever seen them live? No? Here’s a loud and
clear idea of their roasting live craziness…
Setlist
Come On!
Main Offender
Go Right Ahead
Paint a Picture
Won’t Be Long
Good Samaritan
Walk Idiot Walk
Two-Timing Touch and Broken Bones
My Time Is Coming
See Through Head
Hate to Say I Told You So
Encores:
I’m Alive
Play Video
Try It Again
Play Video
Tick Tick Boom
Band: THE HIVES (Sweden) Album: YOUR NEW FAVOURITE BAND – 3rd LP
Actually a compilation of tracks of their first 2 CD’s
to get them going in the UK and the US
Cover: Spiritual Cramp‘s live version is a bad-ass motherrocker pushed
by that bad-ass Hives bass riff while a bad-ass drum slashes, bad-ass
riot-gun guitars go berserk and bad-ass vocals make me scream…
hell bloody hell yeeeeaaaahhhh!
Walk here…
The original uppercut…
Hello Howlin’ Pelle, see you (once again) next month in Belgium
Band: THE HIVES (Sweden) Active: Since 1993 Album: LIVE AT THIRD MAN RECORDS Info: 30 years after they hit the wild rock ‘n’ knock scene and set countless stages on fire these Swedish adrenalin-fueled punk clowns, fronted by big mouthpiece Howlin’ Pelle, declaring themselves Your New Favourite Band once, finally recorded a live album. It
all happened in Nashville at Jack White‘s venue ‘The Blue Room’. Released: 25 September 2020
Key line: “You do everything you weren’t allowed to do in school. Jumping up and down, screaming, annoying people, and people love you for it.” – Howlin’ Pelle
Keywords: Tick Tick Boom / Walk idiots walk / Main offenders / Blitzkrieg punk-o-rama / Stand up comedian madness / 30 red-hot minutes / Hate To Say I Told You So firework
Swedish garage punk gang THE HIVES unleashed their 2nd album ‘VENI VIDI VICIOUS‘ today 20 years ago, on 10 April 2000. Led by madman PELLE, the hyperkinetic frontman, this clamorous squad makes you go bonkers, 150% rock and roll entertainment is what you get! Adrenalin-fueled jackhammers that drive you insane and make your head spin 360°. And when they hit the stage they crush you with blistering energy as I experienced
a couple of times. The LP sold more than 416,000 copies in America and Europe more
than 250,000 copies.
AllMusic wrote: “Rousing, stompin’ garage rock from these Swedes, with plenty of mod and frantic punk energy to keep you grooving along. “Party Party!” they seem to be saying, and you just want to join. This is definite change-up from the usual hyperspeed pop-ska-punk dross offered on Epitaph. Perhaps this arises from the fact that these guys are only distributed on Epitaph and yet are actually on the Burning Heart imprint. Plenty of fuzzed, struttin’, propulsive guitar work on this disc to assault your ears. Well worth your time to take a spin.” Score: 4.5
