Internet Friends has a hit with "Rice Krispies", opening for The Libertines and getting added to national Swedish radio P3 this week!

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  Van Muylem    6 november 2022

'Rice Krispies' has already seen spins on BBC Radio 6 Music, Nels Hylton at BBC Radio 1 on the show 'Future Alternative', Jack Saunders at BBC Radio 1 supported the "cereal based indie banger" on his evening show, TotalRock, RBB Fritz and charting on Amazing Radio. The single even entered the ESNS Emerging European Chart earlier this year.


Scandalous indie rock icons The Libertines have re-emerged and are ending the year with an extensive European tour. Pete DohertyCarl Barât and their bandmates invited the Swedish punk rockers Internet Friends to open for then on the Nordic leg of their tour (Stockholm and Copenhagen), and the success was a fact!

Drummer Jakob Falkendal says: "Our band sprung from the wave of garage rock that the Libertines were a part of, and the Libertines in particular was a huge inspiration to us. Our first songs were strongly reminiscent of the Libertines. We've been trying to land a juicy support show for a long time and the fact that they were interested was almost too good to be true. We were told by the way that the band's bassist John Hassal liked us and had introduced our music to the rest of the band who were also positive. Great fun in every way. We've done a billion gigs and are an extremely good live band, it's really about time we got a chance to show ourselves off in a bigger context."

Last year, Fredrik SoilaJakob Falkendal and Noel Hassling-Offrell as Internet Friends, released the “Nosebleeds” EP - the follow up to their debut EP “Yawn Yawn Yawn”.  Described as "a fusion between alternative indie rock and punk pop", “Nosebleeds” built on the energy established on their pop-leaning debut. Today, they are almost unrecognizable as they give two fingers to those who made them feel unwelcome and de-prioritised in their formative years. The sunny disposition  has been swapped with one of attitude, spit and discontent.  

Feeling exiled by the Swedish music scene, Internet Friends began to play up the idea of professional martyrdom and developed a core audience by  relentless hard work and frequent, balls-to-wall live shows.  “A gig should be 60 minutes without a break, with up-tempo songs and a maximum of one ballad. We want to reach out and have a party, not give people more anxiety.”

Jakob Falkendal explains: “The core of the band is that we really want to make a big impression as a live band, to be the band we ourselves wanted to see. What is missing in Swedish music  today is bands and artists with damn clear intentions. The point of playing is to entertain and offer people a free zone. I think the core is that we are not on stage for our sake, but for the sake of the audience. Because we have to give it to people. The music scene of today is poor in nutrition.”

Sink your teeth into Internet Friends now. You’ll only get hungry later. 

The band's frontman Fred Soila concludes: "I wish the rest of the music industry the best of luck in continuing to ignore us after this."

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