Band

Punkrock

The Flare-Up!

2001

Sweden

Stockholm

Manne Svensson

Pontus Fryk

Carl Wikman

Niklas Hagen

Mikael Nadell

myspace.com/theflareup

mannesvensson@gmail.com

+46737834522

The Flare-Up! is back with an anticipated sequel to the 2002 debut album Saints in Sinner City. The band members have since spread across the globe to engage in other music projects (ranging from Soffy O and Last Days of April to the The Stray Parade and The Assassi­nations). ­However, in the summer of 2007 the band joined forces again for the recording of a new album. The result, Whip ‘em Hard, Whip ‘em Good, was released on the Scandinavian market in March 2009. Conceptually, The Flare-Up! here travel further down their established path—urban, dirty and decadent rock ­music fuelled by morbid stories and ill-hidden self-loathing. Their music is both mean and unforgiving, melodic and catchy. Cock rock for the dance floor, if you will. The Stockholm-based band have eavesdropped on the soulful garage of the 60s and taken the glam out of the glitter from the 70s. With their upright, violent app­roach and muses as diverse as Steely Dan and Richard Hell, the resulting output is classic rock that stands the test of time. The Flare-Up! sum up their favourite moments in rock history and fuse them together into a unique and modern praise to rock clichés and urban story-telling.