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and it was actually a side project of Prollhead!.
After a lot of touring around Europe they toured together with
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in October 2005 and in Spring 2006. Unlike Beatallica they performed the Beatles songs "as they are", singing the same lyrics and playing cover versions of the originals, just a "little" faster and with a punk feeling.
They were quite successful in Europe, as well as in Japan, where their
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CD "The Punkles 1998-2003" (2003), and the following album, "Pistol" (2004), both entered the Top 50.
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The Punkles were a band performing songs by
The BeatlesThe Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960 who became one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands in the history of popular music...
in
punkPunk 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 the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
style. They formed in 1998 in
HamburgHamburg is the second-largest city in Germany and the sixth-largest city in the European Union...
,
GermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium,...
and it was actually a side project of Prollhead!.
After a lot of touring around Europe they toured together with
BeatallicaBeatallica is a mash-up band that plays music made from combinations of songs of The Beatles and Metallica. A Beatallica song is typically a blend of a Beatles song and a Metallica song with a related title Beatallica is a mash-up band that plays music made from combinations of songs of The Beatles...
in October 2005 and in Spring 2006. Unlike Beatallica they performed the Beatles songs "as they are", singing the same lyrics and playing cover versions of the originals, just a "little" faster and with a punk feeling.
They were quite successful in Europe, as well as in Japan, where their
best ofA greatest hits album is a compilation album of successful, previously released songs by a particular music artist or band...
CD "The Punkles 1998-2003" (2003), and the following album, "Pistol" (2004), both entered the Top 50. Their final album "For Sale!" was released in April 2006. They have not appeared in public since.
Band members
- Joey Lennon - guitar/vocals
- Sid McCartney - bass
- Dee Dee Harrison - lead guitar/vocals (1998-2002)
- Captain 'O Harrison - lead guitar (2002-2004)
- Stiff Harrison - lead guitar (2004)
- Rat Harrison - lead guitar (2004-2006)
- Markey Starkey - drums/vocals
Albums
- The Punkles (1998 - Wolverine Records)
- Punk! (2002 - Bitzcore)
- Beat The Punkles (2002 Bitzcore - reissue of the first album)
- 1998 - 2003 (Imperial/Teichiku Records)
- Pistol (2004 Bitzcore & Imperial/Teichiku Records)
- Punkles For Sale (2006 Punkles Records & Imperial/Teichiku Records)
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