STEVE ‘N’ SEAGULLS

Pukki: Double bass, vocals | Hiltunen: Accordion, Mandolin, Casio | Herman: Banjo, Guitar, vocals | Remmel: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, mandolin | Puikkonen: Drums, percussions, vocals

Question: What’s 40 feet long and has only 14 teeth?

Answer: The front row at a Garth Brooks Concert.

Thank God, Garth Brooks no longer ain’t the only artist to listen to if you live in a trailer.

Very probably the only band on the planet to feature a ride-on lawnmower in their promo photo, Finland’s YouTube sensation STEVE ‘N’ SEAGULLS is here to put the hick in hickory!

Originally just a bunch of local yokels from moderately successful bands, this merry mess of country cousins one day decided, just for laughs, to hillbillify (yes, “hillbillify” is henceforth officially a word) and shoot on video the AC/DC staple “Thunderstruck”. Little did they know that the home-brewed video of the song would propel the provincial posse into cyberspace stardom virtually overnight. Attention from media both domestic and foreign ensued, resulting to a slew of performances ranging from festival appearances to being the house band in the christening of your grandma’s cat.

Cue a few months, a couple of more videos and several newspaper clippings, and Steve ‘n’ Seagulls had become a buzzword known to most in their native Finland. Even record labels – notorious for their oblivion of anything worth noting – had the wool pulled from their eyes. All of a sudden Steve ‘n’ Seagulls found themselves with a recording contract. With the metal label Spinefarm, of all places.

After releasing their debut album FARM MACHINE in May 2015 the band have been touring relentlessly from potato fields to the Pacific coast across Europe and the States. 2016 is going to be a hectic year for the boys, involving even more touring and of course the second full-length album release. “The answer to all domestic problems? More travelling!” as they so elegantly put it.

Comprising of bumpkin beats, clodhopper chords, rural riffs and villager vocals, FARM MACHINE is the first ever Spinefarm release to feature barnyard boogie and lummox lullabies on the same album. Now, with its successor on the way, Steve ‘n’ Seagulls will serve some previously unreleased arrangements straight from the bucket on their shows this year.

However cosmopolitan, there will never be enough of New York in you to save you from this.