Biography
Roy and the Fishermen, founded in Vasa, Finland in 2009 over a cup of coffee. Trough some really serious sessions of boardgaming, cooking, drinking (mostly beer and wine) and trying out various instruments they had settled for a direction... which still might be a bit unclear, but very original and interesting, stretching from traditional irish-folkmusic and various country/pop/folk/metal covers to their own creative folk-pop compositions about animals, facial hair, making love etc. At first the band included Mathias Timmerbacka, Roy C S Franskas and Andrei Palomäki but it didn't take long before RATF acquired a violinist, Axel Nordman. Today with out the force of it's co-founder Roy, RATF is still going strong, once again as a trio.
Roy and the Fishermen:
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Mk.III
Andrei ”Ankka” Palomäki: vocals, bass, guitar, piano(panda), kazoo…
Mathias ”Matti” Timmerbacka: vocals, mandolin, guitar, bass, banjo, irish whistle…
Axel ”The Fiddleman” Nordman: vocals, fiddle, guitar, bass, synthesizer, drums (real but also the stylophone thing)...
Former members (from Mk.I and Mk.II)
Roy S. C. Franskas (Recently changed from Roy A. Franskas): harmonica, guitar, bass and also on a very rear occasion he played the banjo for the Hahni audience…
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