Warm Guns

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Warm Guns

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Warm Guns in 1980. From left: Jacob Perbøll, Jens G. Nielsen, Lars Hybel, Lars Muhl.
Background information
Origin Aarhus, Denmark
Genres Rock, New Wave, Power Pop
Years active 1978–1984
Labels Vertigo
Smash
Past members Lars Muhl
Lars Hybel
Jens G. Nielsen
Jacob Perbøll
Per Møller
Frank Lorentzen
Kaj Weber
Troels Møller
Lars Kiehn

Warm Guns were a Danish band formed in Aarhus in 1978 by Lars Muhl. Influenced by punk and new wave in the late seventies, the band was often compared to artists like Elvis Costello. [1] Among the band's more well-known songs were "The Young Go First" and "Wonderkids".

Denmark constitutional monarchy in Europe

Denmark, officially the Kingdom of Denmark, is a Nordic country and the southernmost of the Scandinavian nations. Denmark lies southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and is bordered to the south by Germany. The Kingdom of Denmark also comprises two autonomous constituent countries in the North Atlantic Ocean: the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Denmark proper consists of a peninsula, Jutland, and an archipelago of 443 named islands, with the largest being Zealand, Funen and the North Jutlandic Island. The islands are characterised by flat, arable land and sandy coasts, low elevation and a temperate climate. Denmark has a total area of 42,924 km2 (16,573 sq mi), land area of 42,394 km2 (16,368 sq mi), and the total area including Greenland and the Faroe Islands is 2,210,579 km2 (853,509 sq mi), and a population of 5.8 million.

Aarhus City in Central Denmark Region, Denmark

Aarhus is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus municipality. It is located on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula, in the geographical centre of Denmark, 187 kilometres (116 mi) northwest of Copenhagen and 289 kilometres (180 mi) north of Hamburg, Germany. The inner urban area contains 273,077 inhabitants and the municipal population is 340,421. Aarhus is the central city in Business Region Aarhus and in the East Jutland metropolitan area, which had a total population of 1.378 million in 2016.

Lars Muhl

Lars Muhl is a Danish writer, mystic and musician, born in Aarhus, Denmark in 1950.

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History

Lars Muhl (vocals and keyboards) formed Warm Guns with Lars Hybel (guitar), Per Møller (guitar), Jacob Perbøll (bass) and Jens G. Nielsen (drums). The band played their first gig on 26 December 1978 at Århus Musikteater with the Danish punk band Lost Kids, among others. The concert was recorded and released in 1979 as the minialbum First Shot Live . Møller left Warm Guns the same year to play with Anne Linnet Band, after which the band continued as a four-piece. [2]

<i>First Shot Live</i> 1979 live album / Mini-album by Warm Guns

First Shot Live is a 1979 live mini-album by Danish rock band Warm Guns. It was the band's first release, recorded at their first-ever live performance.

Anne Linnet Danish musician

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1980 saw the release of their first studio album, Instant Schlager , released on PolyGram's Vertigo label. Songs like "The Young Go First" - an Australian Top 20 single [3] and a small national radio hit - generated some interest in the band, but failed to make a greater impact. [4]

<i>Instant Schlager</i> 1980 studio album by Warm Guns

Instant Schlager is the first studio album by the Danish rock band Warm Guns, released in 1980 on Vertigo.

PolyGram, founded in 1962, acquired by Universal Music Group in 1998 and merged into that group in 1999, was a Dutch entertainment company, which started as a major record label founded by Dutch Philips and German Siemens as a holding company for their music interests in 1972. The name was chosen to reflect the Siemens interest Polydor Records and the Philips interest Phonogram Records. The company traced its origins through Deutsche Grammophon back to the inventor of the flat disk gramophone, Emil Berliner.

Vertigo Records British record label

Vertigo Records is a record company, which originated in the United Kingdom. It was a subsidiary of the Philips/Phonogram record label, launched in 1969 to specialise in progressive rock and other non-mainstream musical styles. Today it is operated by Universal Music UK.

Perbøll left the band around the turn of the year, while Frank Lorentzen (guitar and keyboards) became a new member. He contributed to the next studio album Italiano Moderno (1981) on which Georg Olesen (TV-2) helped out on bass. The album was recorded in Copenhagen and London with producers Nils Henriksen and Rod Huison. In 1981-82 Lorentzen left Warm Guns to join Bamses Venner, followed by Nielsen who left to focus on his regular band, Gnags.

<i>Italiano Moderno</i> 1981 studio album by Warm Guns

Italiano Moderno is the second studio album by Danish rock band Warm Guns, released in 1981. It was re-released in 1982 with a new track list, replacing four album tracks with the EP 4 Heartbreakers Only.

TV-2 (band) band

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Bamses Venner band

Bamses Venner was a Danish musical group that performed together from 1973 to 2011.

With newcomers Kaj Weber (bass) and Troels Møller (drums) Warm Guns recorded the EP 4 Heartbreakers Only (1982) and third album Follow Your Heart Or Fall (1983). The album was recorded at Sweet Silence Studios in Copenhagen with Nils Henriksen producing. On the following tour an expanded lineup with Lars Kiehn (keyboards) and Jacob Perbøll (guitar) played the Roskilde Festival, where the live album Hey-Hey-Hey Live Roskilde Festival 83 (1983) was recorded.

<i>4 Heartbreakers Only</i> 1982 EP by Warm Guns

4 Heartbreakers Only is an EP by Danish rock band Warm Guns, released in 1982.

<i>Follow Your Heart Or Fall</i> 1983 studio album by Warm Guns

Follow Your Heart Or Fall is the third and last studio album by the Danish rock band Warm Guns, released in 1983.

Sweet Silence Studios was a recording studio originally built by Danish engineers Freddy Hansson, Stig Kreutzfeldt, and Flemming Rasmussen in February 1976. A variety of artists have recorded there, including Cat Stevens, Gasolin, Ole Prehm, Metallica, C.V. Jørgensen and Kliché. The studios closed in 2009, being demolished to make way for an apartment complex and a car park. Rasmussen then moved to Winding Road Studios in Copenhagen.

After a 1984 tour, which included the band opening the Roskilde Festival, Warm Guns broke up at the end of the year. Lars Muhl in 1989: "The concert at Roskilde in '83 was our best so far and we got so many offers afterwards that we ended up out on the road again. That concert was supposed to be our farewell concert. "We couldn't sell records because we were an underground pop band, the kind of band you can't label. Before the '84 tour we had been struggling for a number of years without really achieving mainstream success. So things started to sour between us and we broke up after the tour." [5]

After Warm Guns disbanded, Lars Muhl went on to a solo career, Lars Hybel played with The Intellectuals [6] and C.V. Jørgensen, [7] and Jacob Perbøll later joined Big Fat Snake.

Discography

Albums

Live Albums

Compilations

EPs

Singles

Notes

  1. ↑ Holleufer (2010)
  2. ↑ Bille (1997): p. 309
  3. ↑ Muhl (1993): p. 148
  4. ↑ Bille (1997): p. 309
  5. ↑ Tulinius & Kier (1989): p. 10
  6. ↑ Holleufer (2010)
  7. ↑ Bille (1997): p. 237

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