Dead Pollys (SE)
Dead Pollys of today consists of members from Sighstens Grannar, Mansic, Sir Reg and Pasted, Simon and the Problemchild and Klägg, among others. They play some kind of rock with a clear wink at vintage punkrock. Dead Pollys has been on tour with legends like Down By Law, The Vibrators and 999.
Nizze Nilsson started the band in 2011. The first EP “Waiting For Tomorrow”, with Ola Höök on drums, was more folk and rock than punk, but Nizze soon slipped back into the noisy punkrock tunes. Juba Nurmenniemi and Miche Lee Sundvall joined and in 2015 they released the album “Bullet For The Wicked”. That year, the band toured the United States with DOWN BY LAW. In 2019 the album “Strummerland” was released with Mats Nyström on guitar and Martin Brandhorst on drums, and the same year they invited THE VIBRATORS (UK) to a tour in Sweden.
In 2022 Martin Hällgren took over on drums and Dead Pollys went to Camden, London to open for the legends in 999 at Dublin Castle. At the end of the year, a new album began to emerge that was released in June 2023, recorded with and by Martin Hällgren, mixed and mastered by Riccardo Daga at Titans Lab Recording Studio and released by Too Loud Recdords. In the midst of all this, Clabbe Fredriksson replaced Mats on guitar and in April 2023 they went on a Swedish tour with 999.
Today, one of the original Pollyboys, Miche, is back on drums. In September 2023 Clabbe passed away of a heart attack and in November Lelle took his play and played his first gig on a tour with 999 in U.K in December 2023.
Big City Germs (CA)
Big City Germs exploded onto the Canadian indie music scene in 2022 after fostering a significant online following during the darkest days of the pandemic by releasing multiple singles and bizarre music videos. Their fierce and eclectic style of gonzo punk is a multi-genre cavalcade of catchy hooks and face-melting drops; at once inscrutable yet curiously inviting.
After a series of sweaty, sold-out shows and backyard mosh pits in their native Vancouver, they were quickly picked up for a 10-city national run of shows, infamously dubbed the “See You In The Pit Tour”. The rest is history.