Joakim Thåström

Infobox musical artist
Name = Joakim Thåström


Img_capt = "Solo Vol 1." album cover
Background = solo_singer
Birth_name = Sven Joakim Thåström
Born = Birth date and age|1957|3|20
Origin = flagicon|Sweden Sweden
Instrument = Guitars Vocals Keyboards Programming Samplers
Genre = Punk rock, hard rock, industrial, rock
Occupation = Singer
Years_active = 1977 -
Associated_acts = Ebba Grön Imperiet Peace Love & Pitbulls Sällskapet Eldkvarn Mikael Wiehe Hoola Bandoola Band Fiendens Musik Micke Hagström & Cosmic Cowboys Pink Champagne Zetterberg & Co. Tant Strul Stig Vig & Dom 40 röjarna Per Cussion Lolita Pop Fleshquartett Just D Pugh Rogefeldt Superia Ossler Magnus Carlson Bob Hansson Kajsa Grytt Regina Lund Fleshquarte

Sven "Joakim" Thåström (born on March 20 1957), as an artist known as Thåström, is one of Sweden's best known rock musicians, he is mostly known for the punk rock band Ebba Grön.

Biography

Ebba Grön / Imperiet (1977 to 1989)

Thåström grew up in Högdalen and Rågsved, working class suburbs south of Stockholm, where he during 1977 - 1982 was the lead singer of punk band Ebba Grön. During a break with Ebba Grön (due to that the bassplayer had to serve time in jail which unofficially was the end of Ebba Grön in 1983) he became the leader of "Rymdimperiet" ("The Space Empire"), later renamed Imperiet ("The Empire"), with rock music inspired by the 80s sound. Imperiet also recorded an album with some of their songs translated to English, to try the international market.

olo / Peace Love & Pitbulls (1989 to 1997)

In 1989 Thåström started a solo career as a rock singer-songwriter with progg influences. He began his solo career with the release of two solo albums, the selftitled 'Thåström' in 1989 and then "Xplodera mig 2000" ("Xplode Me 2000") in 1991. The later was extremely computer-based and led to the development of the band Peace Love & Pitbulls.

In 1992, he started the heavy industrial rock band Peace Love & Pitbulls, with lyrics in English. The band existed until 1997 and released three studio albums.

econd Solo Career (1999 to 2005)

The Swedish audience longed for a new rock album so when Thåström in 1999 released the album "Det är ni som e dom konstiga, det är jag som e normal" ("You are the Strange, I am the Normal") it became a very big success. Once again with Swedish lyrics and less computerized music Thåström had gone back to his original rock'n'roll-roots.

In 2002 Thåström released the album "Mannen som blev en gris" ("The Man Who Became a Pig") which was a dark and 'filthy' album with a lot of dusty sounds.

In late 2005 Thåström released the album "Skebokvarnsv. 209". The title refers to Thåström's childhood home address. The album is the most biographical album Thåström has ever released. It contains several songs with extremely personal lyrics and the music is roughly based on acoustic guitars.

ällskapet (2007 to present)

In 2007, Thåström presented a new band called "Sällskapet". The band had been kept a secret since 2003 and was revealed together with their selftitled debut album.

olo Career (2008 to present)

"Sällskapet" is commonly seen upon as a one time thing and in 2008 Thåström announced that he's working on a new solo album and that he is going to share two shows with the Swedish band "Kent", play at the Peace & Love-festival in Borlänge and also play at the Beatday-festival in Copenhagen in the beginning of August.

Bands

*"Ebba Grön" (1977 - 1983)
*"Imperiet" (Rymdimperiet) (1981 - 1988)
*"Peace Love & Pitbulls" (1992 - 1997)
*"Sällskapet" (2007 -)

Discography

Ebba Grön

* We're Only In It For The Drugs (1979)
* Kärlek & Uppror (1981)
* Ebba Grön (1982)

Rymdimperiet

* Alltid Attack (1981)
* Vad Pojkar Vill Ha (1981)
* Felrättsnettheltfelrättsnett (1982)

Imperiet

* Rasera (1983)
* Blå himlen blues (1985)
* 2:a Augusti`85 (1985)
* Synd (1986)
* Imperiet (1988)
* Tiggarens tal (1988)
* Live/Studio (1988)
* Kickar (1990)
* Greatest hits (1995)
* Klassiker (2007)

Peace, Love and Pitbulls

* Peace, Love and Pitbulls (1992)
* Red sonic underwear (1994)
* 3 (1997)
* War in my livingroom 92-97 (2007)

ällskapet

* Sällskapet (2007)

olo work

* Thåström (1989)
* Xplodera mig 2000 (1991)
* Singoalla (1998)
* Det är ni som e dom konstiga det är jag som e normal (1999)
* Mannen som blev en gris (2002)
* På Röda sten (2003)
* Skebokvarnsv. 209 (2005)
* Solo Vol 1 (2006)

=Trivia=
*Thåström lived in Copenhagen and Amsterdam for many years.
*For many years Joakim Thåström was in a relationship with the actress Amanda Ooms. After that he had a relationship with Regina Lund, a Swedish actress and singer, for a while.
*Thåström posed as "Helmut" for the hardcore porn magazine "Teenage Love" in 1978. He said he did it because he needed money to take his girlfriend to London.
*Thåström is a fan of Djurgårdens IF.

=External links=
* [http://www.thastrom.se Offical Website]
* [http://www.thastromackord.tk Chords and tabs to his songs]