Biography
There's 2 groups called Bars:
1) Introducing… BARS, formed by individuals steeped in hardcore/punk history, the band has offered up an album that is a stripped-down, sonic onslaught. The debut is laden with a pissed-off rock n’ roll swagger that is as pummeling as it is catchy. Regardless of perspective or expectations, Bars make rock n’ roll, and make it explode.
Formed in the summer of 2002 the Boston quintet pooled their influences and channeled them into a raw, focused outlet absent of gimmicks or facades. After a few rehearsals and in between touring schedules (of Give up the Ghost, The Hope Conspiracy and Suicide File), they began writing songs with only one goal in mind; start a band that is truly no frills punk rock. As things started to fall into place, the first handful of ideas quickly grew into 10 songs displaying the influence of such bands as The Dead Boys and Entombed.
After sending demos to Equal Vision Records, the label put BARS in the studio with producer Jim Siegel at the Outpost (Stoughton, MA). The result was Introducing…, an album brimming with razor sharp punk tunes that incorporates the musical influences of The Misfits and Queens Of The Stone Age. Vocally, Bars is about as straightforward as a fist in the face. Drawing comparisons to Tim Singer and Henry Rollins, Kevin Baker directs the sonic assault of Bars like a laser-guided weapon set to the tune of disenchantment, paranoia and defiance.
Starting off the album is “Bright Lights For Demise”, is an instant sing-a-long of pissed off aggression and guitar licks unheard in today’s current rock scene. On “Toecutter”, the listener is taken on a ride of riffs that is both punishing and memorable homage to start-stop riff masters Helmet. “Type Face Love Letter” shows that guitar hooks that were once on mainstream radio are now more than ever sorely missed and that’s the point. To take the past and making it relevant today.
No other band puts the rock n’ roll back in the scene better than the BARS. Introducing… is the revival of 80’s punk and hardcore. Fans will soon be searching out Black Flag and Discharge to see what they were missing and thanking the BARS.
2 ) The history of Bars begins in 1987, although their first record wasn't released until 1989. The band was formed by Montse Llaràs, Jordi Coma, Jordi Garrós, Xavier Tomàs, Toni Moya, Agustí Caixach and Xavier Rubio. The formation has undergone constant changes and only remaining original members are Montse Llaràs, voice and brand image of Bars, and Toni Moya. Montse Llaràs, who was living for some years in Artés, started singing with "Xarxa", a band from Bages with a short but intense life, which in 1982 recorded the album "De tu a tu". She moved to Castellar del Vallès at seventeen years old and formed the band "Crack Blues" with Jordi Garrós and Jordi Coma.
The rest of musicians joined the band and Bars was born, at first making rock and roll covers and that soon opted for its own rhythm and blues and country ballads. Jordi Coma "Feelgood" left the band after two years to form "Mala cara", a band with people from Manresa. But it was in 1999 when Bars saw the biggest turning point in their career with the abandonment of several components including Jordi Garrós, who until then had signed most of the songs. From that moment on, the creative task is divided between the old people and new members, embodying their work in the album "Mentre dormies", which marks the new stage of Bars. Since then they have only published a compilation, but their activity has been maintained through performances in small and medium-sized venues with the best of themselves as always in the live shows.
Bars' discography consists of "Bars" (1989), "Mala idea" (1991), "I'll tell you a thousand times" (1993), "En concert" (1994), "Dolces mentides" (1996), " While you were sleeping" (1999) and the compilation "Quan sens veiem" (2000).
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