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Mensen
12+ albums
punk rockAllGarage Rockpunkloud
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One day in 1995 three girls and a boy got tired of being bored and doing nothing, so they decided to start a band. No one knew how to play, at least not the instruments they wanted to play, and neither did they have any instruments. But this didn’t seem important at the time. They rented a rehearsal space at Blitz, a squat in central Oslo, and borrowed guitars from people they knew who played in a band, or had given up playing in a band. Simple as that, a band was born and they called it Mensen. The Band-members and their musical background: Power Plingis: The strongest of them all and the one with the smallest ego, so naturally she was placed behind the drum kit. Her musical background was attending every punk rock concert in Oslo from the age of sixteen. Lars Fromage: The tallest one, and the only one with an instrument, a bass guitar. So he became the bass player. Musical background: played organ in a Mummies cover band. Christine Sixteen: She wouldn’t sing and she had as big an ego as Mary Currie, so of course she had to be the lead guitar player. And she had been playing classical guitar as a child. She could play the theme from “The Deer-hunter” and that totally impressed the rest of the band! Mary Currie: Big ego - no patience to practice, so she became the singer and rhythm guitar player. She played drums in a band for a year, but was too dominant and got fired. Mensen’s first 7” came out on Bang! Records, a Spanish label in ’97. Their second 7” was released on
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