FRESHLY RIOTS - Hope 1984

Freshly Riots was a Danish punk and post-punk band from Himmerland and formed in Gedsted in October 1981. Their first release is the raw and wild Delightfully Fresh EP which came out in 1983 via Bondeskiver. In late August 1983 Jørn went out and was replaced on guitar by Lars Gosta. Two months later goes Freshly Riots in ARP studio and recorded its first album Hope. Again you have Claus from Johnny and the Cold Demons helps to assist in production. In aninterview in Danish Sam shortly before release, Bo explains that the record title is about though group members are pessimists, they have still some hope left. Hope was released again on Bondeskiver in May 1984. In the period around the publication of Hope Bo moves to Aalborg and goes out of the group, the vowel is then taken over by Mike. In May, sends Bond discs capture plate Complication, here contributes Freshly Riots with the two numbers A Fall and Infantry. After releasing this awesome record the band have change their name to Freshly and Lars goes out of the group what causes the Freshly end of the year gives a concert at the Youth House as a trio without guitar. Freshly are contacted by the English label Rot Records, inviting them to contribute to a compilation tape. That is why the group in January 1985 again in ARP studio and record the two tracks Fry and Born Under Stars to collect. The numbers are however in April also released on a cassette of the Bond discs. Lars is now again become a part of Freshly and in July they played at Roskilde Festival. Winter 1985/1986 used to rehearse new material Freshly in February 1986 recording of the ARP program. Production is carried out in collaboration with Charlie, an engineer assigned to the studio. Group's last album Air (Quoth She) will be published 16th April 1986. The group's last concert were played at the house in Århus at 27. February 1987. Freshly dissolved finally in May 1989 when Mike and Michael moved to Århus. Brilliant Album!!!

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FRESHLY - Air (Quoth She) 1986

Now a re-upp from the unfortunately inactive Phoenix Hairpins blog which was first posted by Curious in 2007 and I want to adopt his words here: "Danish band Freshly originally started as Freshly Riots. As Freshly Riots they released two records. The first is the Delightfully Fresh EP in 1982. Second release is the Hope album released in 1984. This album contains eleven tracks of punk inspired by early Stranglers. For the second album 'Air (Quoth She)', they shortened the name to Freshly and went for a more postpunk sound, with some hints to Killing Joke. All records were released on their own Bondeskiver label. Another release on this label is the 'Complication' comp. slab (maybe soon) with ten punk & new wave bands from Denmark as War Of Destruction, Electric Deads and Sods." Last strong record of this great band whose music evolved from snotty punk to melodic numbers.

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FRESHLY RIOTS - Delightfully Fresh EP 1982

OK, a lot of divshare links are alive and I wanna post asap a few from this folder. The first one is this delicate EP by one on my favourite bands from Denmark. Freshly Riots formed in Gedsted on 1 October 1981. First weeks of the groups life offers several replacements till finally ending with a crew called Jørn Iversen (guitar), Mike Hammer (bass), Christian Pedersen (drums), Michael Andersen on the keyboard and Bo Led Andersen on vocals. Mike and Richard had played together in the group Export and they were inspired by the Clash, Sex Pistols, Stranglers and UK Decay and then they found their sound. After two tapes their first vinyl comes out on Bondeskiver and this brilliant EP offers six classic KBD goodies. In 1984 the full length album 'Hope' (which I have somewhere online) with a more wave oriented sound but great and then they changed their band name into Freshly and released their final album 'Air (Quoth She)' in 1986. The band play at the Huset in Århus their last concert and dissolved finally in May 1989 when Mike and Michael are moving to Århus. Let's now enjoy this little piece of sunshine!

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FRESHLY RIOTS - Perhaps Demo 1982

Yeah Yeah Yeah, this record blows you off your couch and is an absolute must for demo fans, and the Vikings are always welcome in my castle. I'm talking about Freshly Riots, a five piece founded in the brisk 1980 in Gedsted (North Jutland) and Perhaps is their second demo which was originally released on their Bondeskiver Records. The American label Queer Pills thought, it would be good for us to recall these valuable and rough recordings and so this fantastic record was created in an edition of 500 copies, thereof 100 in gray vinyl. A short official description: "Awesome dissonant music with elements of raw chaotic 60s garage psych. Instantly familiar and catchy but also dark and ominous and weirdly chaotic and unnerving." That's exactly right I would say. Their first EP followed in the same year and then their famous Hope album (1984), which had a different, more wavy sound but without losing their Punk roots. By mid-1984 they shortened their name to FRESHLY and a demo with two songs (both on Rot Records' Rot In Hell compilation, coming soon) came then in 1985. A year later their last big experiment Air (Quoth She) followed, on which they appear in a completely different guise and then at some point they broke up to merge into other bands. What remains, one of the best combos from Denmark and always worth a short break.

- Great Thx to Fredrik -

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