Thee Ultra Bimboos

the history of the band



Thee Ultra Bimboos actually started July 1994 in Helsinki, Finland by Suffeli (vox,g), Salla (bs), Maria (g, vox) and Milla (dr) who share a common interest in the music of the Stooges, the Sonics, the Cramps, CCR, the Rolling Stones and Dead Moon.

The musical background of these four graces is rather classical: piano and violin lessons back when they attended school. But with some help from Jukka Suksi (a.k.a. El Bimbo), guitarist of finnish trashrockers "Isebel's Pain" & "Jack Meatbeat UGS", they soon developed into a competent band. He also produced their first album called We can stop whenever we want (See picture left) that was released in late 1995 on TWANG! Records.

Thee Ultra Bimboos have reached cult status in Finland meanwhile and the readers of the biggest finnish rock magazine "Rumba" selected Thee Ultra Bimboos as one of the best newcomer bands in '95.

The end of '97 brought new fame to the name Thee Ultra Bimboos. They achieved 6th place in the category "best band" in the critics' poll of "Rumba". They attained 12th place in the readers' poll (same category).
The new album - Supermess - reached place 6 in "best album (national)". And finally the four graces won the 3rd place in the category "most sexy human beeing" - a price they seem not to be too happy about though.

However, it seems like 1998 is going to be an even more sucessfull year for the band. They already received a critics price as "greatest expectation '98" at the renowned Tavastia Klub in Helsinki.
They're going to represent Finland at the Ebu-Rock festival in March. The festival will be transmitted thougout Europe. Due to some misleading translation, I recently told you that this was coming up on TV - sorry for that.
The girls are doing some heavy- duty songwriting at the moment. They plan to do a European tour later this year bringing them to Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, Belgium, Holland and perhaps even Spain!
I will try to get you some information about upcoming tour dates and maybe start another page with current tour info and/or updates.

UPDATE:

The Bimboos will play two gigs in Germany in May. The cities will be Bremen and Berlin. They're also going to play at a venue in Stockholm during the opening of an exhibition of works by artist Frank Kozik.


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