Barra Head is a band of three people from Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

, Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

. Founded in 1992 the band never changed its members. Barra Head belong to the genres indie-rock, punk rock

Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

, post-hardcore

Post-hardcore

Post-hardcore is a genre of music that developed from hardcore punk, itself an offshoot of the broader punk rock movement. Like post-punk, post-hardcore is a term for a broad constellation of groups...

 and Math Rock

Math rock

Math rock is a rhythmically complex guitar-based style of experimental rock that emerged in the 1980s and that was very influenced by progressive rock like King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Henry Cow - and 20th century composers such as Steve Reich and John Cage...

. Their biggest influences are Karate

Karate (band)

Karate was an American band, formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1993 by Geoff Farina, Eamonn Vitt and Gavin McCarthy. In 1995, Jeff Goddard joined the band as bass player, and Vitt moved to second guitar...

, Fugazi and Faraquet

Faraquet

Faraquet is an influential post-hardcore band from Washington D.C. sometimes placed in the math rock genre. They were formed in 1997, and disbanded in 2001. They were on Dischord Records, and were influenced by bands like Fugazi, Jawbox, Nation of Ulysses, as well as King Crimson...

. Very well known in the Danish and German underground scene the band got to play at the Roskilde Festival

Roskilde Festival

Roskilde Festival is a festival held south of Roskilde in Denmark and is one of the six biggest annual music festivals in Europe . It was created in 1971 by two high school students, Mogens Sandfær and Jesper Switzer Møller, and promoter Carl Fischer...

 in Denmark in 2001 and 2006. Furthermore they have received the “Live Act of the Year” Award at the venue Club Vera in Holland two years in a row (2004 and 2005).

Band members

• Mikkel Jes Hansen (Guitar and Vocals)
• Arvid Gregersen (Bass)
• Jakob Hvitnov (Drums)

Discography

• 2001 Songs and Departures (CD, LP; labels: Play/Rec, Scenepolice)
• 2001 Play/Rec #01 (Compilation CD; label: Play/Rec)
• 2001 FFAR Compilation (Compilation CD; label: Zerobros)
• 2004 Arrival (CD/12" EP; labels: Play/Rec, Noisedeluxe, Broken Silence)
• 2004 We are your Numbers (CD, LP; labels: Play/Rec, Sinnbusrecords, Alive, Zabel, Konkurrent)
• 2006 Undermine/Gradiska (7" single; labels: Play/Rec)
• 2006 Play/Rec Five Years (Compilation CD; label: Play/Rec)
• 2008 Go Get Beat Up (CD, LP; label: Play/Rec)

External links

• http://www.playrec.dk/barrahead - website of the label Play/Rec with information about Barra Head
• http://www.myspace.com/barrahead - the official Barra Head page on Mypace