pintandwefall
are a hyperactive young girl band from Finland and maybe the picture says it all. They've been going a couple of years and according to their story it was a bit of an accident to start with; but the gimmick of the masks has stuck, and the Spice Girls-style comedy names. And they've got a much better idea of what to do with their instruments these days. They've already managed to play outside Finland (in St. Petersburg), and I also see they've played with Boomhauer - ah, now that would have been a lot of fun I think! I'm sure there's a bit more calculation to their career than the way they tell it, but the rough edges to their play, especially in some of the very early clips you might find on YouTube, are very convincing. Their lyrics are in English, kind of - but I suspect that even in Finnish they'd sound a bit mad. The sound of pintandwefall is young, refreshing, funny, deranged, and falling over itself to be heard. It is, in fact, though the word doesn't appear anywhere, authentically punk.
Album
wow! what was that, baby?
This 2007 'debut' album has appeared amazingly fast. And they're certainly not short of material. But it's not their first appearance on disk: 2006's Milkbar, baby? had several of the same songs. There's a lot of variety in this collection of twelve songs; though the feel is mostly uptempo and the tone amusingly daft. It's full of life and attitudes and sex and sea creatures. Very good value and an essential purchase for a taste of yet another something different on the Finnish music scene.
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Live Show
Alppipuisto, Helsinki, Finland
Link
I like this site, with its almost childish cartoony design. It works well, once you realise that there are some quite small links only obvious when you pass the mouse over them. Its casual style gives it a lot of character, eg. the shorthand used in the navigation - 'Hear Us, See Us,... Diary Us, Love Us...' Anything else? Yes - just go and look at the picture with the milk. Brilliant! :)