Manikins Website: Releases on Cage Match Federation: 'The Brutal Rape Of Kaj Sivervik' Split 7" w/ Local Oafs MP3s: Media: Pressphoto (2004 x 2668 jpeg) Interviews: Bio: It all started back in 2001 when four guys got together on a punkrockshow in Nyköping. It turned out that everyone enjoyed the same kind of music and were in love with trashy garagepunk and band like THE SPACESHITS, THE SAINTS, THE SONICS, TEENGENERATE and MC5. After a couple of weeks the band started to rehearse and they turned out to play a harder and faster kind of punkrock. Pretty soon they entered Omega Studio in Nyköping and recorded a couple of songs that would end up on the split 7" with LOCAL OAFS (another Nyköping act). After a couple of gigs the band almost quit playing for various reasons and all was silent on the MANIKINS front until they decided to start playing the music that once brought them together. THE MANIKINS once again entered the studio to record a eight song demo that they sent out to various labels across the globe. The first one who swallowed the bight was the newly started label P.TRASH in Germany who got release a 7" EP called "Don't Gimme A Choice". After this release it was Italian label ROCKIN BONES who got the opportunity to release the bands first album. As the band went on tour they first recorded 12 new songs for their second album called "Epileptic" who was released on P.TRASH the 17th of June 2004. and this is were THE MANIKINS are today. THE MANIKINS are: Joakim Forsberg: Vocals / Guitar, Tommie Gustafsson: Drums, Kalle Jansson: Guitar / Backing Vocals, Max Thyrén: Bass