HATE GALLERY: 'The Idiots' Video Available
November 13, 2008"The Idiots", the new video from the Finnish/British/Swedish rock band HATE GALLERY, featuring Janne Jarvis and Rille Lundell from WARRIOR SOUL, can be viewed below.
"The Idiots" is the first single off HATE GALLERY's debut album, "Compassion Fatigue", which was released on Monday, November 3 through the Unit music label, distributed by Cargo and Sony/BMG.
Jarvis commented: "'The Idiots' is just a general reaction to reality TV, the cult of celebrity and more seriously the everday surveillance of the citizen by our governments. The cameras are everywhere. What? Me paranoid? Fuck off."
HATE GALLERY will hold a release party for "Compassion Fatigue" in Stockholm, Sweden tonight (Thursday, November 13) at Pub Anchor and will play a short set. A U.K and German tour begins on November 17 in London at the Islington Carling Academy 3.
Upcoming HATE GALLERY shows:
Nov. 13 - Pub Anchor, Stockholm, Sweden
Nov. 17 - Islington Carling Academy 3, London, UK
Nov. 18 - Cathouse, Glasgow, UK
Nov. 19 - Carling Academy, Birmingham, UK
Nov. 25 - Knaak Klub, Berlin, Germany
Nov. 26 - Werkstatt, Cologne, Germany
Nov. 27 - Molotov, Hamburg, Germany
HATE GALLERY was formed by principal songwriter and driving force Janne Jarvis, who states that "I want this band to be the kind of group that stands out from the crowd. I don't want us to be associated with any kind of scene, with any other band that happens to be either Swedish or English. I don't want us to be associated with any one place. I don't want us to be thought of in terms of either fashion or trends."
Vocalist/bassist Janne first tasted rock 'n' roll success in great British rock band RADIATOR, which created a huge rock industry buzz when it emerged in the late Nineties. The group signed to EMI Records, which released the RADIATOR debut album to great reviews. The band was then fortunate enough to tour with the likes of QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, MOTÖRHEAD, BACKYARD BABIES, PITCHSHIFTER and countless others.
Within a month of the birth of HATE GALLERY, Rille and Janne had recruited crazed Finnish guitarist Petja Lepola (a virtuoso automaton, affectionately known as "The Hat") and sticksman Freddie Cocker, former drummer in Swedish pop-rockers THE CALLAHAN. A month later the band had signed to the Unit music label and went into the studio to record "Compassion Fatigue".
Janne states that "this the beginning of a reaction to all the thing we despise. Surveillance, the Orwellian nightmare, corporate decimation of freedom. Not freedom in a patriotic way, just OUR freedom. We are not political and we don't care THAT much; we're a rock 'n' roll band after all. We also have a second record written and we intend to release three records within a year. We want to be prolific like our heroes. Bands used to put out a record a year and we are going to do just that. We also have a steadfast belief that we piss on most of the competition..."
For more information, visit www.myspace.com/hategallery.
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