AFTER WINING A COMPETITON BY VIVA tv (the german equivelent of mtv) IN WHICH THEY HAD TO WIN MANY HEATS TO GET TO THE FINAL AND HAVE A SHOT  FOR THE PRISE WHICH WAS A RECORD CONTRACT WHICH THEY SUCCESFULLY SECURED. THE GUANO APES HAVE GONE FROM STRENTH TO STRENTH WITH THERE DEBUT ALBUM "PROUD LIKE A GOD" GOING TO no1 IN MANY EUROPEAN COUNTRIES AND TOURING WITH MANY BIG NAMED BANDS BOTH IN EUROPE AND AMERICA. BANDS LIKE THE BLOOD HOUND GANG, A, CREED JUST TO NAME A FEW. SUMMER OF 2000 SAW THEM RELEASE THERE SECOND ALBUM "DONT GIVE ME NAMES" WICH ONCE AGAIN WENT TO no1 IN MANY EUROPEAN COUNTRIES PROVING THAT THEY WERE NO FLASH IN THE PAN.THEY EVEN PLAYED AT THE MTV MUSIC AWARDS 2000 SHOWING THAT HAVE BEEN NOTICED AND AT THE SAME TIME PICKING UP THE AWARD FOR THE BEST GERMAN BAND. ON EACH OF THERE ALBUMS THEY HAVE SHOWN THAT THEY ARE EQUALLY AT HOME AND HAPPY CRANKING OUT GREAT GUTAR RIFFS AND ROCKING OUT AS WELL AS BEING CALM COOL IN OTHER TRACKS LIKE RAIN AND MARIA OF PROUD LIKE A GOD AND ANN CLAIRE AND LIVING A LIE ON DONT GIVE ME NAMES. THEY ARE EVEN AT HOME COVERING OLERD SONGS AND MAKING THEM ROCK LIKE NEVER BEFORE AS THEY SHOWED WITH THE COVER OF THE ALPHAVALE TRACK "BIG IN JAPAN" WHICH TAKE PRIDE OF PLACE ON DONT GIVE ME NAMES.

THE GUANO APES ARE

SANDRA "VOCALS"

DENNIS "DRUMS"

STEFAN "BASS"

HENNING "GUITAR"
LINK TO THE GUANO APES HOME PAGE
HTTP://WWW.GUANOAPES.COM
CLICK HERE TO SEE SOME PICS I TOOK AT A GUANO APES GIG
@ THE CAT HOUSE GLASGOW 03.05.01