Millencolin Biography

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The Millencolin Story :

Millencolin is a skate-punk-ska band from Sweden, more exactly from a city called Orebro. At first there were only three members: Nikola Sarcevic -bass and vocals / Erik Olsson, Guitar & Mathias Farm, Drums. But after a while Mathias got tired of bashing the drums and instead they got a drummer named Fredrik Larson from a band kalled "Kung Pung". The band got this setting sometime in october 1992 and got signed to Burning Heart Records about a year after their formin'. The bands leadguitarrist, Erik Olsson, had been playing in another Swedish band named Charles Harfager for a while but decided to join Millencolin. The basist and vocalist, Nikola "Kola" Sarcevic and the guitarist Mathias "Form" had left the group Seigmen to join.
Millencolin recorded some demos and ended up with the demo Melack. That demo became the basis of the coming 6-track single "Use your nose". The single was released in september 1993. The band started to play gigs and when the time got close to sometime in may 1994 Millencolin released their second 6-track single, "Skauch". The record had only two songs made by Millencolin and the rest was covers from bands like Operation Ivy and Descendents.

Already the same year Millencolin released "Tiny Tunes", more exactly in september. The song "Da strike" went up to number nine on the Swedish charts and the album was a success. The video to the song also started to appear on several Swedish tv-channels. The record sold over 20.000 copies the first months, and that's very good for an underground-band like this. Millencolin was forced to change the name of the album after being sued by Warner Brothers for stealing the name" Tiny Tunes ". So they just decided to call it " Same Old Tunes " ( same old tunes as tiny tunes ) and that was that. In february the 4-track single "Da strike" was released.The summer of -95 became a very hectic summer for Millencolin. They practicaly played on every single festival there was to play that summer, and that was a lot. They also went on tour with the Swedish punk-band, No Fun At All, to Japan and made a lot of gigs in Germany.

After the hectic summer, the band went into the studio to record another album. They ended up with a 3-track single, named "The story of my life", which was released in september 1995. The album was released on the 9th of October and was very welcomed by the fans. The album name was "Life on a plate" and is probably one of the best albums made in the world of all times. The album went straight up on 4th place on the Swedish charts and the band had a giant release-party home in Orebro. The video to "The story of my life" was released and got played everywhere. The American independent-label, Epitaph, got intrested of Millencolin. And decided to release "Life on a plate" on their label. And that...ladies and gentlemen.. proves that the records holds a quite high standard. Millencolin went out on tour again and went to America for a small tour. Sometime in May ( I think ), Millencolin released another single, the 3-track single "Move your car". The single contained the song "Move your car", from the album, and two new recordings of two songs from the Melack-demo.

The summer of -96 was also a quite big summer for Millencolin with loads of gigs, mostly in Germany and America though. Sometime in the beginning of 1997, Millencolin went into Unisound (their studio) to record their third album "For Monkeys". In March a single was released and it got to be called "Lozin' must". The album was released on the 21th of April in Sweden and it revealed a new and more mature side of Millencolin. The album is about half of an hour...less ska and not so many fast ones...more poppy, pushy songs...probably those that they do best now. The album is one of their best albums released so far according to me. If you haven't got it yet...go and get it...it's defenately worth the money. Millencolin then released Pennybridge Pionneers as their next album. Many of Millencolins fans(including myself)fell that this album doesnt really sound like the Millencolin we all know and love. It is ALOT more slower and has songs about mnroe serious topics i guess. it lacks that Millencolin sound that they had on their last 3 albums. I still think thier first album (Same Old Tunes) is thier best one yet. Well thats it.