Record was produced by Kassu Halonen who had mostly worked with pop bands. It didn't take long for Briard to release Finland's first ever punk single: I Really Hate You / I Want You Back. After the gig a representative of Finndisc Records came to see Briard and offered them a record deal. A crowd of thousand youths saw this concert. It was the last day before the park was closed for the winter season. In the autumn of 1977 Pete Malmi had organised a concert for Briard at Linnanmäki Amusement Park. Finally Andy asked Makke to join Briard but this never happened because of Räkä-Malmi's hair-cut clause (Makke had too long hair to suit a punk band). Andy therefore gave Madness proper soundchecks. They became friends soon after this and Makke started to play bass and saxophone with Briard in their gigs. Madness' tall and slim singer-guitarist was Makke Fagerholm. In 1977 into the training flat at the cellar of Church of Töölö moved a band called Madness to share it with Briard. Like everybody had noticed by now, names Suicide and Monroe were still later used. He invented the name that is today known all over the world.” (Soundi, 10/1996). Pete Malmi invented this Andy McCoy name. It confuses the fans if you change it later, so be it. That was fine by me, so why change it anymore.

When I came back, in the back cover read Andy McCoy. It was something like Dela von Affenbach. I had some name I used but I can't remember it. Pete Malmi (who was by then using the name Räkä-Malmi, Snot-Malmi in English, invented by Andy) gave him his final name: Andy McCoy.Īndy: ”I was at Stockholm and the first Briard album was released then. For example, he could introduce himself as Antti Hulkko or Andy Hulkko or Andy von Hulkko or Andy Suicide or Andy Monroe inside one week. They at least visited the school when they were perfoming in school jubilees.Īndy Hulkko / Andy von Hulkko / Andy Suicide / Andy Monroe / Andy McCoyĪndy started to play games with different kind of artistic names. Soon after this the boys spent their time playing guitars at Andy's home instead of going to school. During this same autumn Andy met in his school (Botby Högstadieskola) another gifted guitarist – Jan Stenfors. First gigs were held at Herttoniemi Youth Club. After Malmi heard Andy's guitar playing he accepted Andy to his band Philadelphia Motherfuckers which was later changed to name Briard that came from his pet dog. When they realised that they needed a guitarist too, Ilkka told Malmi that Andy played guitar like Jimi Hendrix himself. Soon after this Malmi asked Ilkka to join his newly formed punk band. The first real band was formed later but they did only few gigs in a local Youth Club.Īndy's family moved back to Finland in 1976 and it was then when he and his brother Ilkka met Pete Malmi who was walking his dog (the breed was by the way Briard). His first experimental band was with his Jamaican friend Roy. To his Swedish friends his name was too complicated to pronounce so they started to call him Andy. There this small Finnish boy was known as Antti Hulkko. This fact reveals that rumours of his first language being Swedish are rubbish.Īndy's very colourful story began from Stockholm. Antti was in the middle of the 3rd grade when the Hulkko family moved to Stockholm, Sweden. Common legend tells that Antti spent his early childhood in Sweden but the truth is that he went to Finnish school in Oulu, Finland. The baby was babtised as Antti and he lived his first two years in Kemijärvi. Cherry street em.Baby boy Hulkko was born in a small village called Pelkosenniemi located in Northern Finland in the year 1962.

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