The Punkles’ Biography:

The Punkles live at the Cavernclub in Liverpool

Originally intended as kind of joke back in 1997 the Punkles evolved into one of the world's best known Beatles tribute-acts of our times (a least in Europe and Japan). Their selftitled debut from 1998 on Wolverine Records sold much better than expected and the band esthablished itself as a very entertaining live act in Europe with their first tours. Highlight of this early state of their carreer were a couple of shows in Liverpool, the home of The Beatles, where they played two raving shows at the legendary Cavern Club. After a lot more touring around Europe, the band went back to the studio in 2001, recording their second Album Punk! which was released on Bitzcore Records 2002. Completly unexpected this album hit the japanese import charts. The same year their debut album was re-released on Bitzcore entitled Beat The Punkles! featuring bonus tracks and their famous Drive My Car-Video which got massive screenplay on MTV-Japan. Later that year Dee Dee Harrison was replaced by outstanding guitar player Captain O' Harrison. In 2003 The Punkles released a Nippon best-of compilation The Punkles 1998-2003 (also known as The Red Album) on Imperial Records in Japan that went top-30 in the japanese charts. Also in 2003 a third album Pistol was released in Japan and hit the charts too. By the same time another best-of album turned out to be very successful in France. In 2004 Pistol was issued in Europe and the band went on touring (until today The Punkles played about 100 shows in Europe promoting this album!). During the Pistol-tour Captain O' Harrison left the band and Rat Harrison took his place - with him they recorded a fourth album The Punkles For Sale! in summer 2005. This last album was released in spring 2006 and this is the end of the story so far...