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Taggy Tones was formed in 1989 in Denmark. Jess was working in a record shop, when he met Rene who had come to buy some drums and they decided to make a band. The drumming position wasn't really working out for Rene, so he decided to play upright bass instead. They got Laurent on leadguitar after seeing an advertisement in a newspaper, he was looking for a rock'n'roll band to join. Jess called Jakob and when he joined the band on drums, Taggy Tones was a reality. Jess took guitar and became frontman of the band. Rene and Laurent were also singing some songs.
The first gig was in January 1990 for the Elvis Presley Fan Club in Copenhagen. They weren't very experienced yet, but had to play two songs live on national Danish radio, who was broadcasting the event! Tagyy Tones performed Blue Suede Shoes and Baby Let's Play House.
Laurent is originally from Paris, France, and when he suddenly wanted to move back to Paris, the band got a female guitarist called Margrethe Bjørklund. (Magrethe came from a countryband called Darlens) for a while. When she quit, Laurent went back to Copenhagen and were back in the band.
When the first album Viking Attack came out, Taggy Tones got a lot of airplay on it, and were in a lot of TV shows. The album got some very good reviews in the Danish press. The material differs a bit from recording to live performance. The audience in Denmark are very mixed, so the band had to play quite a lot of covers. Some Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Elvis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Burnette are always there to keep everyone happy. About two thirds of a set was always covers. On the recordings though the material is more or less all original. All the members of the band are have been composing the songs and are very communal in this as with the arranging. Taggy Tones bases their sound around the big modern sound of bands like Stray Cats rather than what they refer to as the thin British Rockabilly sound. Today it's more thier own recordings than the covers that are played live. The band has been appearing on a lot of compilations, such as Rumble Party, some tribute cd's and a many others.
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