Reckless Love edit
Reckless Love is a Finnish glam metal band, formed in 2001, from Kuopio. Band's debut album Reckless Love(album) was published on February 24th 2010.
History edit
The band started its career in the spring of 2001 as a cover band under the name "Reckless Life ", which is also known as a song from Guns N' Roses. Playing cover songs was not what the band wanted to do so they started making their own songs.
Three Reckless Love -members are having a classical music background; the vocalist Olli, guitarist Pepe and the bassist Jalle Verne, who played in the Haapaniemi youth brass band in Kuopio.
In 2005 Kuopio was chosen to be the Popcity of the year in Finland and Reckless Love got to be a part of the Popcity -project. The project was planned to help local bands in their careers and to get international exposure. There were three more bands in the project; Rainbowcrash, Svat and Sideshow Zombies. Reckless Love made a mini tour called "Scandinavian Tour" with Steel Frank (also from Kuopio) in the end of the July 2005. The tour took the band to Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
After active touring for couple of years all around Finland Reckless Love's vocalist Olli Herman (as know as H. Olliver Twisted) joined in Swedish sleaze rock band Crashdïet to take the place of the late Crashdïet vocalist Dave Lepard who sadly ended up in suicide in year 2006. Crashdïet released an album "The Unattractive Revolution" and made an European tour. About one and a half years later, on 13th of July 2008, the band told on their website that Olli Herman has left the band, because he can not fully work in two bands.
In January 2009 Reckless Love told on their website that their drummer Mike Harley has left the band. In less than a week they had new drummer Hessu Maxx. The band underwent the change as a significant step in their musical development.
Reckless Love made a record contract with Universal Music on 23rd of April 2009. They published their first official single, "One More Time", in 8th June 2009. YleX radio station played the single in their Rytmibarometri section on 9th of July 2009. "One More Time" got in the YleX Himotuimmat list in week 25 by reaching the second place in the list on 15th of August.
The second single is "Beautiful Bomb" and it was published on 15th of October 2009. The music video was filmed on October 3rd. It was published on 4th of November 2009 by being the first official music video for Reckless Love. "Beautiful Bomb" single reached the 4th place of YleX Himotuimmat list in 28 November 2009.
Reckless Love performed in Finnish television channel MTV3's program Ne Salmiset in the 12th December 2009. In the program, that was pictured on December 10th, the band played their then latest single "Beautiful Bomb".
The third single "Romance" was published on 20 February 2010. Three days later Reckless Love performed in the Latvian Music Awards in Riga. In addition, the band made promotion for the local press, radio and TV.
The debut album "Reckless Love" was published on February 24th 2010. The album reached the 13th place in Finland's Top50 list a week after the publishing. Album is published also in England, Belgia, Germany, Sweden and Baltic countries. In Japan "Reckless Love" came out on July 2009.
Reckless Love made a showcase consert in Barfly, London, on May 24th 2010. The concert was sold out in advance.
The second official Reckless Love music video "Romance" was shooted on 31st of May 2010 in Pasila, Helsinki. Satu Tuomisto, Miss Finland 2008, is seen on the video. There are also some Reckless Love fans acting a glam gang on the video.
On the 12th of June 2010, Reckless love played two conserts (normal + acoustic) in legendary Download Festival in Donington Park, GB. In the summer 2010 the band was touring the biggest summer festivals in Finland. Later, in the fall 2010, Reckless Love is heading to Great Britain (UK and Ireland) where they are going to play a tour which includes 16 gigs.
Members edit
- Olli Herman (H. Olliver Twisted) - Vocals
- Pepe - Guitar, lead vocals
- Jalle Verne - Bass, lead vocals
- Hessu Maxx - Drums
Former members edit
- Zam Ryder - Drums
- Mike Harley - Drums
Discography edit
Albums edit
Singles/EP's edit
- Speed Princess (2006)
- Speed Princess
- Easy Absolution
- Goodnight
- TKO (2005)
- TKO
- Smile For A Little While
- We Want You
- So Yeah!! (2004)
- So Yeah!!
- Pop My Eyes Out
- Don't You Know
Music videos edit
- Romance (2010)
- Badass (2010)
- Beautiful Bomb (2009)
- One More Time (2009)