Sugarplum Fairy

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Sugarplum Fairy
Sugarplum Fairy 2007.jpg
General information
Genre (s) Alternative , indie , garage rock , pop-punk
founding 1998
Website www.sugarplumfairy.nu
Founding members
Victor Norén
Carl Norén
David Hebert
Kristian Gidlund †
Jonas Karlsson

Sugarplum Fairy is a Swedish garage rock band from Borlänge .

The band sees itself as being heavily influenced by classic rock bands like The Beatles , The Rolling Stones , The Clash and Oasis . The band name comes from the story The Nutcracker , which is especially famous as ballet , but was chosen by the band as a homage to their idols - the Beatles - because John Lennon with the words "sugarplum fairy, sugarplum fairy" the version heard on the anthology from A Day in the Life .

Band history

The members had been playing together for six years when it finally came to the first release in April 2004, the Stay Young EP . Sugarplum Fairy had their first hit in Sweden a little later with the single Sweet Jackie (September 2004). In the same month the debut album Young & Armed followed (released in Europe and Japan in February 2005) and in early 2005 Far Away From Man was released as a single.

On April 1, 2006, they presented songs from their second album for the first time at the Musikmesse in Frankfurt am Main. It was released on August 18 and is entitled First Round, First Minute (an allusion to Muhammad Ali ). The first single had already been released on August 4th, a double A-side with the songs She and Last Chance .

In autumn 2006 they toured Germany, Austria and Switzerland and were supported by Nice Boy Music.

Victor Norén played a supporting role in the film Das wilde Leben , which came to German cinemas on February 1, 2007, in which he played Mick Jagger.

Further tours through Germany followed in 2007, where they played at numerous festivals (including Rock am Ring , Rock im Park , Bochum Total , Southside , Hurricane Festival , Frequency Festival and Das Fest ).

In the summer of 2008 they already presented the first songs from the new album at several festivals. a. at the Abifestival in Lingen. In autumn 2008 the band finally released their third album, The Wild One, recorded in Málaga , Spain, and Hamburg . The first single for Germany was the Sugarplum Fairy-untypical song "Never Thought I'd Say That It's Alright", followed by the cover Bus Stop (originally by the Hollies ). The video clip for the former was shot in Berlin on the Wannsee , the Bus Stop clip in Addis Ababa . For Sweden, the first single was the album opener "The Escapologist", for which there is also a video clip. At the end of March 2009, the third single for Germany, including a self-produced video that was shot with a hand-held camera, was released, “You Can't Kill Rock'n'Roll”. The material for the video comes for the most part from the album recording time, in which they had already published individual studio video blogs on myspace and youtube while the recordings were being made.

A week before the album was released, the band began their big tour, which took them from Sweden via Germany to Austria and Switzerland. She was accompanied by the opening act Sahara Hotnights .

In September 2013, the drummer Kristian Gidlund died of complications from stomach cancer .

Band members

  • Viktor Norén (born September 19, 1985)
  • Carl Norén (born October 5, 1983)
  • David Hebert (born March 30, 1986)
  • Kristian Gidlund (born September 21, 1983 - † September 17, 2013)
  • Jonas Karlsson (born April 20, 1985)

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Young & Armed
  DE 49 05/23/2005 (2 weeks)
  SE 25th 10/08/2004 (4 weeks)
First round, first minute
  DE 40 09/01/2006 (2 weeks)
  AT 50 09/01/2006 (2 weeks)
  SE 20th 09/07/2006 (2 weeks)
The Wild One
  DE 92 10/10/2008 (1 week)
  AT 66 10/10/2008 (1 week)
  SE 22nd 09/25/2008 (1 week)
Singles
Stay Young
  SE 16 04/23/2004 (4 weeks)
Sweet Jackie
  DE 72 05/09/2005 (3 weeks)
  SE 30th 09/24/2004 (7 weeks)
She / last chance
  SE 60 08/17/2006 (1 week)

Albums

  • 2004 - Young & Armed
  • 2006 - First Round First Minute
  • 2008 - The Wild One

Singles and EPs

  • 2004 - Stay Young (EP)
  • 2004 - Sweet Jackie
  • 2005 - Far Away From Man
  • 2005 - Sweet Jackie
  • 2005 - Sail Beyond Doubt
  • 2006 - She
  • 2006 - She / Last Chance
  • 2006 - Marigold
  • 2007 - Let Me Try
  • 2008 - Never Thought I'd Say That It's Alright
  • 2008 - The Escapologist
  • 2008 - bus stop
  • 2009 - You Can't Kill Rock'n'Roll

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sugerplum Fairy drummer Kristian Gidlund is dead. In: Online edition of the Musikexpress from September 19, 2013 (accessed on September 19, 2013).
  2. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT SE