FENDER® AND BIGBANG TEAM UP TO OFFER FANS THE CHANCE TO WIN AN AUTOGRAPHED ‘50S ROAD WORN™ TELECASTER® GUITAR VIA ONLINE CONTEST
Norway’s Biggest Band Heads Home For Summer Shows After North American Release of “Edendale’ and U.S. Tour
Fender Musical Instruments Corporation and Norway’s biggest band, Bigbang today announced an online competition to win an autographed Road Worn™ Fender® Telecaster® guitar via the band’s website. Only one entry per person, multiple entries will be deleted and the winner will be selected at random shortly after the contest closes on May 31, 2010. Partnering with Fender® and Bigbang will be the website Ultimate Guitar who will be running the contest from their site as well.
Bigbang and Fender® began working together promoting their latest CD Edendale that was released in the U.S. & Canada in January of 2010 on Oglio Records/Grand Sport. Rolling Stone’s David Fricke called Edendale “modern classic rock”, gave it 3.5 out of 5 stars and traced their musical roots to Big Star, Tom Petty, R.E.M. and The Raconteurs.
“I want to thank the Fender people for making fantastic instruments,” said Øystein Greni of Bigbang. “Road Worn Telecasters have been my favorite for years. I’m glad the Fender people wanted to help us with this giveaway and wanted to hand out a really, really good guitar. I hope whoever wins it will enjoy it and play it a long, long time.”
Bigbang will spend the Summer touring Norway and will return to the U.S. in Fall for another tour of the states before the end of the year. Summer tour dates are as follows:
5/01 @ Hemsedal, NORWAY
5/07 @ Landstreffet 2010, Ålgård, NORWAY
6/24 @ Opera House Rooftop, Oslo, NORWAY
6/25 @ Steinkjerfestivalen, Steinkjer, NORWAY
7/02 @ Skudefestivalen, Skudeneshavn, NORWAY
7/10 @ Kystkulturuka, Furøya, Tvedestrand, NORWAY
7/15 @ Buktafestivalen, Tromsø, NORWAY
7/23 @ Malakoff, Nordfjordeid, NORWAY
7/24 @ Maanefestivalen, Fredrikstad, NORWAY
8/20 @ Kartfestivalen, Gvarv, NORWAY
9/04 @ Verket Festival, Mo i Rana NORWAY
Bigbang have also launched a blog from their site with exclusive video content, contests information and additional information. It can be found at: http://thebigbangweb.com/blog/. A 35mm concert film shot last summer in Norway while on tour is being edited and will be submitted to film festivals internationally in 2011.
ABOUT BIGBANG
Bigbang was formed when Øystein Greni, a young skateboarder on the verge of turning pro, shattered his knee – and thus his chances at making a career on his board. Greni’s father, Thor, was a soul musician in The Undertaker’s Circus, who toured with the New Yardbirds (a.k.a. Led Zeppelin) in the late ’60s. This classic rock foundation was met head-on with the adolescent Greni’s love of punk & alternative rock, forging the band’s distinctive sound.
With several full-length albums released in Europe having sold over 500,000 units, Bigbang performs at up to twenty-five European festivals per year, rocking 20,000 seat capacity venues at a time. Their raucous live show is such a hot ticket that the band’s 2003 double CD release “Radio Radio TV Sleep” is best-selling live album in Norwegian history. In 2006, Bigbang played the main stage at the Roskilde Festival with The Who, The Flaming Lips and The Red Hot Chili Peppers, and in 2007 toured the UK with The Raconteurs. BigBang is: Øystein Greni – vocals, guitar; Olaf Olsen – drums; Nikolai Eilertsen– bass.