{"id":12493,"date":"2020-07-03T05:00:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T05:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=12493"},"modified":"2020-07-01T20:07:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T20:07:08","slug":"introducing-van-dammes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=12493","title":{"rendered":"Introducing: Van Dammes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/73190489_1222872277898766_3945720033165967360_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12495 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/73190489_1222872277898766_3945720033165967360_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/73190489_1222872277898766_3945720033165967360_n.jpg 720w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/73190489_1222872277898766_3945720033165967360_n-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a>Van Dammes, the garage punk miracle from Helsinki, just released a new music video for their guaranteed summer hit &#8216;<i>Tax Free World&#8217;<\/i>. The song, blessed with a killer chorus, is from their fourth record &#8216;<i>Risky Business&#8217;<\/i>. They might be a big noise outta Helsinki but they&#8217;re a new one on us here at RPM and they open our new feature &#8216;Introducing&#8217;. We loved the song and they had a video so we thought it deserved an introduction.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F9tTYB5Y53A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>In the video, the band keeps rocking in the (tax) free world when it was still possible. The video features footage filmed in the band&#8217;s\u00a0record label&#8217;s annual summer camp in the Canary Islands.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Also, Van Dammes have ended up as a victim of the coronavirus outbreak and needed to cancel their European tour,\u00a0including a performance at the opening of the\u00a0European football championship in Copenhagen. New dates are fortunately already planned for 2021.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The song and the whole record is released by German Rockstar Records,\u00a0 &#8216;Risky Business&#8217; came out at the beginning of 2019 and features six tracks including the one featured in the video above. According to the band&#8217;s statement, &#8221;<i>Tax-Free World&#8217;<\/i>\u00a0is the best music that the Nordic countries can produce at the moment&#8221;. Who are we to disagree?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The band is a four-piece &#8211; Ilkka Hild\u00e9n (bass guitar), Markus Kujawa (vocals, synth), Jussi Roine (drums), Juho Talja (vocals, guitar) and they play organ fueled snotty garage punk if you&#8217;re a fan of records put out by the likes of No Front Teeth then these might just be for you.\u00a0 Go check em out and tell em RPM sent you.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>You can find them on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/vandammesmusic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Dammes, the garage punk miracle from Helsinki, just released a new music video for their guaranteed summer hit &#8216;Tax Free World&#8217;. The song, blessed with a killer chorus, is from their fourth record &#8216;Risky Business&#8217;. They might be a big noise outta Helsinki but they&#8217;re a new one on us here at RPM and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[5275,5270,5274,5273,5271,5268,5272,5269],"class_list":["post-12493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature","tag-guitar","tag-ilkka-hilden-bass-guitar","tag-juho-talja-vocals","tag-jussi-roine-drums","tag-markus-kujawa-vocals","tag-rockstar-records","tag-synth","tag-van-dammes","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12497,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12493\/revisions\/12497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}