Pridebowl
Encyclopedia
Pridebowl is a Swedish
and American
punk rock
band
.
(vocalist and writer from Newport Beach, California
), Henrik Nilsson, Stefan Glendell, Oskar Andersson and Martin Bodin who are all from Varberg
, Sweden. The band took form by the end of September 1994 and within a couple of months their demo
tape, titled Ambitious Ways was completed.
Pridebowl's vocalist Aaron left for home on December 29. Just before Pridebowl split up many record label
s received a copy of the demo tape. Lost & Found Records from Germany
was soon to take interest and promised a seven-inch of the Pridebowl demo and scattered exposure. This never happened though.
Through Satanic Surfers
(who Pridebowl had played with just before Christmas
) a demo found its way to the Bad Taste Records
headquarters where everyone was very impressed with this young quintet. In March Aaron was flown back to Sweden to start rehearsing and later on recording the first Pridebowl EP Long-Distance (btr 4).
and catchy rhythm
s. Pridebowl simply means to roll with your pride, no matter what tries to bring you down. Basically, keep your chin up, the bad never lasts as long as the good and value yourself or no one else will.
A number of compilation album
s, surfing
, and bodyboarding
video
s followed and in January 1996 the band was back in the studio again. This time they recorded at Studio Underground (where Satanic Surfers and No Fun at All
had previously recorded) and the 12 tracks were released as Dripping of the Past late February the same year. This was followed by a CD-single in March and a video of the title track, The Soft Song in May. The video was shot by Apollon Bild & Film who had previously made videos by Millencolin
, Roxette
and E-Type
to name but a few.
In June/July 1996 Pridebowl played nine shows in California with bands like Strung Out
, Good Riddance
, Home Grown
and Falling Sickness
. In September/October they toured Sweden with Adhesive
followed by Europe
in February together with labelmates Intensity and Astream. Before leaving on this tour though they once again went to Västerås
to record their second full length, Where You Put Your Trust, an album that still stands out as one of the best Swedish punk releases ever! The sales of the album quickly exceeded Drippings… and it was also licensed to Shock Records
in Australia
.
tour. It was the third annual Sno Jam tour and Pridebowl played approximately a dozen shows together with Snfu
, Good Riddance, Satanic Surfers & Diesel Boy.
During the remainder of spring, Pridebowl played a few shows in Sweden on their own or supporting bigger bands such as The Misfits for example. Late June, they went out on a one week tour, playing three shows in France
, a skate
festival
in Italy
and a couple of shows in Belgium
. Summer ended with them performing at a festival in Emmaboda
.
Henrik and Stefan quit the band shortly hereafter and Patrik Sundin and Mattias Jagborn took their places. The first recording they did together was in September when six tracks where recorded at the studio in Varberg, Recordia. Three of these tracks ended up the Adhesive split No Better, No Worse released in November 1997 and the other three are available on the final album Yesterday’s End.
In October they went on a full European tour together with Turtlehead and this was immediately followed by a tour of Asia
and Australia in Nov/Dec! The first show was in Hong Kong
and the band went from here up to Beijing
where another couple of shows were played. After touring China
(as the first foreign punk band ever) and basically risking their lives considering the contents of their lyrics, they played four shows in Japan
and then flew over to Australia for the last two weeks on this tour. In Australia they played with Frenzal Rhomb
which is one of the biggest punk bands around attracting up to 5 thousand (people) at their shows.
They returned from Australia at the end of 1997 and when Aaron went to the US for a month in January, the other members more or less decided to put an end to the band. Things had gotten worse and worse between them during the different tours and they all felt (Aaron included) that they couldn't go on anymore. Three final songs were recorded before Aaron went back to the U.S. for good and Yesterday's End (containing mostly unreleased, but also some out of print material) was released late September 1998 and can be seen as the band's farewell album to all their fans.
, Sweden.
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
and American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
punk rock
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
band
Band (music)
In music, a musical ensemble or band is a group of musicians that works together to perform music. The following articles concern types of musical bands:* All-female band* Big band* Boy band* Christian band* Church band* Concert band* Cover band...
.
1994-1995
Pridebowl was created by Aaron GouldingAaron Goulding
Aaron Goulding is an Australian football player who currently plays for Para Hills Knights in the South Australian Premier League.-Club Career:...
(vocalist and writer from Newport Beach, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
), Henrik Nilsson, Stefan Glendell, Oskar Andersson and Martin Bodin who are all from Varberg
Varberg
Varberg is a locality and the seat of Varberg Municipality, Halland County, Sweden with 26,041 inhabitants in 2005.Varberg and all of Halland are well known for their 'typical west coast' sandy beaches. In Varberg the coast changes from wide sandy beaches to rocky terrain that continues north into...
, Sweden. The band took form by the end of September 1994 and within a couple of months their demo
Demo (music)
A demo version or demo of a song is one recorded for reference rather than for release. A demo is a way for a musician to approximate their ideas on tape or disc, and provide an example of those ideas to record labels, producers or other artists...
tape, titled Ambitious Ways was completed.
Pridebowl's vocalist Aaron left for home on December 29. Just before Pridebowl split up many record label
Record label
In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...
s received a copy of the demo tape. Lost & Found Records from Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
was soon to take interest and promised a seven-inch of the Pridebowl demo and scattered exposure. This never happened though.
Through Satanic Surfers
Satanic Surfers
-History:Satanic Surfers were formed in fall 1989 by vocalist Erik and drummer Rodrigo. Soon after Frederick and Magnus joined on guitar and Tomek on bass, but the band did not release their debut, Skate to Hell, until 1993. Skate to Hell was the first release issued by Bad Taste Records...
(who Pridebowl had played with just before Christmas
Christmas
Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...
) a demo found its way to the Bad Taste Records
Bad Taste Records
Bad Taste Records is a record label based in Lund, Sweden.The record label was one of the first labels to establish in the Swedish punk rock and punk/hardcore scene in the early 1990s, together with Burning Heart Records. The name of the label originated from the movie Bad Taste by Peter...
headquarters where everyone was very impressed with this young quintet. In March Aaron was flown back to Sweden to start rehearsing and later on recording the first Pridebowl EP Long-Distance (btr 4).
1995-1996
The sound of Pridebowl can be said to be speedy, melodic punk rock with serious, explosive lyricsLyrics
Lyrics are a set of words that make up a song. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist or lyrist. The meaning of lyrics can either be explicit or implicit. Some lyrics are abstract, almost unintelligible, and, in such cases, their explication emphasizes form, articulation, meter, and symmetry of...
and catchy rhythm
Rhythm
Rhythm may be generally defined as a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions." This general meaning of regular recurrence or pattern in time may be applied to a wide variety of cyclical natural phenomena having a periodicity or...
s. Pridebowl simply means to roll with your pride, no matter what tries to bring you down. Basically, keep your chin up, the bad never lasts as long as the good and value yourself or no one else will.
A number of compilation album
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...
s, surfing
Surfing
Surfing' is a surface water sport in which the surfer rides a surfboard on the crest and face of a wave which is carrying the surfer towards the shore...
, and bodyboarding
Bodyboarding
Bodyboarding is a surface water sport . The average board consists of a small, rectangular piece of hydrodynamic foam, sometimes containing a ridged spine called a 'stringer'...
video
Video
Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.- History :...
s followed and in January 1996 the band was back in the studio again. This time they recorded at Studio Underground (where Satanic Surfers and No Fun at All
No Fun At All
No Fun at All is a Swedish punk rock band. The band formed in the summer of 1991 in Skinnskatteberg. The group initially consisted of Mikael Danielsson , Henrik Sunvisson and Jimmy Olsson...
had previously recorded) and the 12 tracks were released as Dripping of the Past late February the same year. This was followed by a CD-single in March and a video of the title track, The Soft Song in May. The video was shot by Apollon Bild & Film who had previously made videos by Millencolin
Millencolin
Millencolin is a punk rock band that was formed in October 1992 by Nikola Šarčević, Mathias Färm, and Erik Ohlsson in Örebro, Sweden. In early 1993, drummer Fredrik Larzon joined the band...
, Roxette
Roxette
Roxette are a Swedish pop music duo, consisting of Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle . Formed in 1986, the duo became an international act from the late 1980s, when they released their breakthrough album Look Sharp!...
and E-Type
E-type (musician)
Bo Martin Erik Eriksson , better known by his stage name E-Type, is a Swedish Eurodance musician.-Early years:...
to name but a few.
In June/July 1996 Pridebowl played nine shows in California with bands like Strung Out
Strung Out
Strung Out is a Californian punk rock band from Simi Valley, California, formed in 1992. They are known mainly for their musical style, which fuses aspects of punk rock and heavy metal to form their primary sound. They have released seven albums on Fat Wreck Chords and appeared on numerous...
, Good Riddance
Good Riddance
Good Riddance was a punk rock band from Santa Cruz, California. They released seven full-length studio albums on Fat Wreck Chords, and their final album was a live recording of their farewell concert in 2007. Led by vocalist Russ Rankin, the band's longtime lineup included guitarist Luke Pabich,...
, Home Grown
Home Grown
Home Grown was an American rock band formed in 1994 in Orange County, California. They released three full-length albums and several EPs before disbanding in 2005. Their music is often characterized as pop punk, lyrically favoring humor and silly or satirical subjects.-Formation:Home Grown was...
and Falling Sickness
Falling Sickness
Falling Sickness was a Riverside, California based ska punk band, consisting of Fritz Aragon , Zach Howe , Gabe Gil , and Angel . After six years of being an unsigned band and playing mostly local shows, Falling Sickness were signed to Hopeless Records in 1995. Their debut record Right On Time was...
. In September/October they toured Sweden with Adhesive
Adhesive (band)
Adhesive was a Swedish punk rock band that was active between 1994-2002. Though Adhesive played the majority of their concerts in the band's native Sweden, they also toured throughout Europe and North America...
followed by Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
in February together with labelmates Intensity and Astream. Before leaving on this tour though they once again went to Västerås
Västerås
Västerås is a city in central Sweden, located on the shore of Lake Mälaren in the province Västmanland, some 100 km west of Stockholm...
to record their second full length, Where You Put Your Trust, an album that still stands out as one of the best Swedish punk releases ever! The sales of the album quickly exceeded Drippings… and it was also licensed to Shock Records
Shock Records
Shock Records is Australia's largest independent record label. It helps distribute records from overseas records labels such as Epitaph Records, and also for small record labels designed specifically for that band such as Cement Records...
in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
.
1997-1998
In the last week of March 1997 the band embarked on the first (and only) CanadianCanada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
tour. It was the third annual Sno Jam tour and Pridebowl played approximately a dozen shows together with Snfu
SNFU
SNFU is a Canadian punk rock band formed in 1981 in Edmonton, Alberta and later relocated to Vancouver, British Columbia. They have released nine full-length albums and are cited as a formative influence on the skate punk sub-genre....
, Good Riddance, Satanic Surfers & Diesel Boy.
During the remainder of spring, Pridebowl played a few shows in Sweden on their own or supporting bigger bands such as The Misfits for example. Late June, they went out on a one week tour, playing three shows in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, a skate
Roller skating
Roller skating is the traveling on smooth surfaces with roller skates. It is a form of recreation as well as a sport, and can also be a form of transportation. Skates generally come in two basic varieties: quad roller skates and inline skates or blades, though some have experimented with a...
festival
Festival
A festival or gala is an event, usually and ordinarily staged by a local community, which centers on and celebrates some unique aspect of that community and the Festival....
in Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
and a couple of shows in Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
. Summer ended with them performing at a festival in Emmaboda
Emmaboda
-Geography:Emmaboda is located in the middle of the Tri-City Region Växjö, Kalmar and Karlskrona. All three places are sixty kilometers from Emmaboda.-Culture:...
.
Henrik and Stefan quit the band shortly hereafter and Patrik Sundin and Mattias Jagborn took their places. The first recording they did together was in September when six tracks where recorded at the studio in Varberg, Recordia. Three of these tracks ended up the Adhesive split No Better, No Worse released in November 1997 and the other three are available on the final album Yesterday’s End.
In October they went on a full European tour together with Turtlehead and this was immediately followed by a tour of Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
and Australia in Nov/Dec! The first show was in Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
and the band went from here up to Beijing
Beijing
Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...
where another couple of shows were played. After touring China
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
(as the first foreign punk band ever) and basically risking their lives considering the contents of their lyrics, they played four shows in Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
and then flew over to Australia for the last two weeks on this tour. In Australia they played with Frenzal Rhomb
Frenzal Rhomb
Frenzal Rhomb are an Australian punk rock band which formed in 1992 with mainstay Jason Whalley on lead vocals and rhythm guitar. In 1996, Lindsay McDougall joined the line-up on lead guitar and backing vocals. Two of the group's albums have peaked into the top 20 on the ARIA Albums Chart, A...
which is one of the biggest punk bands around attracting up to 5 thousand (people) at their shows.
They returned from Australia at the end of 1997 and when Aaron went to the US for a month in January, the other members more or less decided to put an end to the band. Things had gotten worse and worse between them during the different tours and they all felt (Aaron included) that they couldn't go on anymore. Three final songs were recorded before Aaron went back to the U.S. for good and Yesterday's End (containing mostly unreleased, but also some out of print material) was released late September 1998 and can be seen as the band's farewell album to all their fans.
2003-now
Pridebowl reformed in California in 2003 with an all-American line-up, followed by a two-week tour of Eastern Canada. Aaron Goulding on vocals, Cory Waterhouse and Paul Peterson on guitars, Todd Daigle on bass, and Dan Achin playing drums. Later Paul was replaced by Wayne Carter, and Dan was replaced by Matt Reynolds. A six-song EP, titled Tired was recorded in June 2004 and released on Canada's Freedumb Records the following September. In August Pridebowl played at Augustibuller, a two-day punk rock festival in LindesbergLindesberg
Lindesberg is a locality and the seat of Lindesberg Municipality, Örebro County, Sweden with 8,752 inhabitants in 2005.- History :Lindesberg has centuries old history, being the center of an old mining district. The earliest known traces of a town are in the foundations of the 14th century stone...
, Sweden.