Love Me Avenue was formed in 2004. The band's name is taken from 'Future Legend', the first song on David Bowie's album 'Diamond Dogs', released in 1974. Love Me Avenue released their first demo, simply entitled 'Love Me Avenue', in the spring of 2004. The demo featured fine tuned vaudeville pop, as well as melodramatic ballads and noisy, psychedelic rock. Love Me Avenue then promoted the demo throughout the spring and summer by doing gigs at various rock clubs in Stockholm. In the autumn of 2004 the band returned to the studio to record their debut single, and just before Christmas 'Show Pony' was released. On the three-track-single high kicking pop and ripe, lush, 'stay-up-late' rock successfully blends with burlesque, cabaret orchestrated music.
In 2005 'Show Pony' was 'This Week's Joker' on the Swedish radio show 'Casino', and Love Me Avenue was 'Demoband Of The Week' on the website digfisongs. Love Me Avenue promoted the single throughout the spring and summer, performing at clubs and outdoor festivals.
In 2006 a period of songwriting and rehearsals culminated in new gigs; this time with several additional musicians from Loveman and The Pace joining the band on stage.
In the spring of 2007 Love Me Avenue built their own rehearsal studio, and began rehearsing with new keyboardist Anna Krantz and Wired For Mono guitarist Arvid Engström.
In December 2007 the members of Love Me Avenue decided to go separate ways and Love Me Avenue officially split up.
"The Stockholm-based quintet Love Me Avenue has taken their name from David Bowie's song "Future Legend", off "Diamond Dogs" and its somewhere there, around 1974, that the band's music has it's epicentre. Influences from all kinds of styles, and epochs, blend, resulting in an exquisite conglomeration, which sounds like all kinds of things, yet at the same time like nothing else.
Imagine the 30s and Berlin, the 60s and Woodstock, the 70s and Soho, the 80s and New York and imagine Växjö and the 21st century. It's, like the band so accurately describes the music themselves, punchy, gaudy pop, lush rock and cabaret inspired music, but it doesn't end there. Love Me Avenue sounds like an iPod stuck on random playing songs by The Doors, Bowie, The Ark, Roxy Music and various vaudeville pop simultaneously and it sounds good! It's a bit overelaborate here and there, and at times it feels as if the band is not entirely sure where they're going with the songs, but they always manage to get back on track again. And if the excellent singer Fredrik Bergström is as charismatic on stage as he is on record Love Me Avenue may be a sensation to experience live. Love Me Avenue is an excellent example of pop music that is both experimental and traditional, pretentious and fun at the same time."
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"A red velvet jacket and sunglasses. Edgy guitars and the legend remains."
Casino, Swedish Radio P4
"Love Me Avenue sounds like the missing link between Sparks, Screamin' Jay Hawkins and Tages."
Ola Salo, The Ark
