Tommy Tokyo and Starving for my Gravy. Østfold band enjoying a fair amount of success in Norway just now, with Fredrikstad man Tommy Lorange Ottosen as lead singer, guitarist and song writer. Their album Smear Your Smiles Back On (Warner) came out in 2008, and was voted best Norwegian record of the year by several Norwegian newspapers. “…A terrific album, teeming with imagery, buzzing with criminal intentions, weeping with self-pity and scratching into vinyl one of the prettiest musical tragedies this side of Steve Harley’s ‘Sebastian’…”, according to Crud Magazine.

Their music (with lyrics in English) has been described as rock with elements of folk, country and Americana, although their sound is definitely European… Whatever you want to call it, it’s excellent stuff!

Read more reviews, and see where you can catch them next on www.myspace.com/tommytokyo

Or read an interview with Tommy Lorange Ottosen here www.mic.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2008121114303446480659