The Faintest Ideas started out as Javelins in
Gothenburg, Sweden in 2003 as an excuse to use some
free studio time that the members previous bands never
used, so Martin, Christoffer and Daniel wrote a couple
of songs, rehearsed them a few times and in true punk
manners went to the studio two weeks after their first
rehearsal and recorded an ep. And since they had a
record, they decided to start a label, and they called
it Yellow Mica Recordings after a line in the first
song they wrote. The ep led to a gig at the legendary
swedish festival “Mitt nästa liv”, and since they were
one member short they borrowed a drummer from the mod
band The New Recruits that both Martin and Christoffer
played in at that time. After the gig Joel, a club
organizer, label owner and solo artist under the name
Milkman, came up and introduced himself to the band
and said that he was the forth member they were
looking for, and in that moment the band was
completed.
As a full band they wasted no time, but recorded some
compilation tracks and 4 more ep´s that got great
reviews in indie zines and blogs all over the world,
played a handful of gigs in Sweden with bands as
Boyracer, Dear Nora, Hormones In Abundance, The Young
Untold, Love Is All and Saturday Looks Good To Me and
gained a reptuation as the punky, noisy and chaotic
band on the swedish indie scene, which led to the
interest from the new swedish label Melodrama who
re-released the first 4 sold out ep´s and some bonus
tracks as an album titled “Terrific times and
unrehearsed crimes” in Januari 2006.
By now the band got offers from all their favourite
labels to release records, and like true gentlemen
they said yes to all the offers they got, and recorded
a batch of songs to be released as an album on Magic
Marker and Club Pop. They named the album “What goes
up must calm down” and at the same time they came up
with a new moniker, The Faintest Ideas, to avoid being
mixed up with all the other bands named Javelins.
And so, here they are; The Faintest Ideas.
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