Biography
For Christmas in 2000, the primary engine of I Am Bones, Johannes Gammelby, received a generous box of grandma’s homemade cookies. The content was soon devoured and the box nearly discarded. However, Gammelby realised that there was a certain something about the metallic sound of the box when hitting it with a pen. It sounded like a snaredrum. And stomping the floor would make up for the lack of a bass drum - and thus - a stupid, dilapidated drumkit saw the light of day.
Playing all the instruments himself enabled Gammelby to record rock n’ roll in the comfort of his home, a liberating process of no compromises. The intention was to see how far it is possible to take the 2 1⁄2-minute pop-song when you were raised on high octane, aggressive pop. Like Nirvana, Pavement and Pixies.
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The debut album "Wrong Numbers are Never Busy" released in 2005 went on to receive excellent reviews in the Danish media and the first single reached #3 on the biggest indie chart in Danish national radio. Live, the band recruited Tiger Tunes drummer Mr. Q and now it is a unity of five aggressive young men, eager to prove their worth.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.