ELECTRIC BOYS Frontman CONNY BLOOM Releases “Tanken É Fri” Video

Electric Boys frontman Conny Bloom recently checked in with the following update:

“A solo album in Swedish? Hell yeah! Been on my mind for long and I’m happy Fullt Upp is finally being done. Straight from the horse’s mouth, from me to you. No big record label involved, just 100% artistic freedom with lotsa cool stuff to order. Check out the video for an album taster & hear me explain a bit more. I’m sure the music will work even for you non-Swedes as well!”

Bloom has released the first single from the album with a video for “Tanken É Fri”. The road movie was recorded during the European Electric Boys tour 2015.Conny Bloom is originally known as the frontman/guitarist for Electric Boys. Many also know him for playing guitar with the legendary Hanoi Rocks, as well as with Ginger Wildheart in SilverGinger5 and Ginger And The Sonic Circus.

Conny’s Electric Boys was around late 80’s beginning early 90’s, and was played heavily on MTV as their single ”All Lips ’N’ Hips” hit the Billboard Charts in America. He joined Hanoi Rocks 2004 and stayed in the band until 2009 (the band recorded Street Poetry in 2007) when the band split up and Conny decided to reform his original band again.

“Tanken É Fri” video:

His new album Fullt Upp is his first solo record since Been There, Down What? in 2003 and the first one in his native tongue, Swedish.

”I felt that singing in Swedish would be a new adventure for me”, says Conny, born 1964 in Stockholm. He’s the fifth generation of Stockholmers in his family and his streetwise tongue-in-cheek lyrics tells the tales of his working-class background.

”It’s different from English in that there’s less words to choose from. Having said that, it’s pretty easy for me to tell a story in Swedish cuz it’s my main language.”

The sound and the production on his solo stuff is organic, and not so much the big ”wall of sound” that is usually associated with hard rock: ”I like the 70s dynamic sound, where you can hear each instrument individually”, Conny says. ”My guitar alone, on stage, was once measured 130db in the middle of the stage. I’m quite happy turning it down a bit nowadays. 110db is enough.”

Conny’s solo album, Fullt Upp, will be released via Pledge Music on February 15th. More details and above mentioned video here.

(Photo: Johan Bergmark)