BIOGRAPHY:

New York legend Johnny Thunders raised the bar for how low you could go to find rock and roll inspiration. His licks sounded caked in dirt and shit, the grimiest, nastiest stuff six strings were capable of mustering. The Norwegian nightmares in Pirate Love know better than most – hell, they named their band after one of the beloved Dolls’ songs. It’s a fitting homage, though, considering Pirate Love’s reputation as untamed 60s throwbacks and some of the wildest Scandinavians this side of Turbonegro. Not a distinction to be taken lightly.

They invented a genre to which they belong (more on that in a bit). But to those of us that don’t speak Norwegian Rock Alien dialect, they’re basically a mind-bending commingling of 60’s garage, rockabilly and psychadelic-flavored awesomeness. Forging their sound since forming in Oslo in 2003, the band waited four years before unveiling their first record, a 7-inch vinyl featuring MTV Europe mainstay “Laughing Gas.” Later that year they’d offer up the manic short-player Death Surf Negro Spirituals, before making their full-length bow in 2008 with a record that fittingly bared the name of the genre they created: Black Vodoun Space Blues.