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Original line-up, as of 1992 (l-r): Mikael Dehn,
Hilmer Hassig, Henrik Hall, Jens Unmack |
Love Shop: formed 1986 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Band members: Jens Unmack (vocals), Hilmer Hassig (guitar, keyboards, 1986-2004), Michael Dehn (vocals, 1986-94), Henrik Hall (harmonica, flute, vocals, 1991-2011), Mikkel Damgård (keyboard, 2011- ). Love Shop is one of the most popular Danish pop / rock bands for more than two decades. The band started as an indie pop pop / rock band as a project evolving around Hassig and Unmack and with Dehn as the strong harmonic vocalist. The center of their music relies on lyrics written by vocalist Jens Unmack and his narrating voice. From the very start, the band's sound was heavily characterised by the dominating crystal-clear guitar-style of Hilmer Hassig. The band was officially disbanded in 2004 when Hassig decided to leave the band, and it wasn't until Unmack and Hall, after several live performances in memory of Hassig, in 2009, finally decided to reform the band as Love Shop, although it was then basically reduced to a duo. The band was back on track, receiving fine reviews again but in 2010, the band had to cancel several concerts due to a weak Henrik Hall who was hospitalized due to cancer, and eventually he died on Jan. 27, 2011. However, Love Shop continued, if not as a solo band with only lasting member, Jens Unmack, then as a collaboration project with producer and keyboardist , Mikkel Damgård, who had been part of the live version of the band for almost a decade, and who had also been used as a studio musician. Both Unmack and Hall had their own distinct solo careers (Hall being more singer / songwriter art rock) when playing in Love Shop, and that may very well be the reason that the project Love Shop lives on. Unmack's own solo albums are all much more singer / songwriter founded, whereas the music with Love Shop are distinctively different with more focus on an indie pop and synthpop sound, which embodies all Love Shop releases.
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