Having a Spanish band sing a song in heavily accented English titled Magere Hein (the Dutch name for the Grim Reaper)? Definitely a head-scratcher. But the song is a blast, and that goes for all seven tracks on The Por Ella Runners’ new mini-album, Yeeeeee!
It’s the band’s first release in twelve years. But what’s a dozen trips around the sun when you’ve been making music together since high school in the ’90s? Even better, The Por Ella Runners sound like juvenile delinquents on these surfy, garage-y power pop’n’roll tracks.
Yeeeeee! is available on CD directly through the band.
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Hi Niek and Addtowantlist people, thanks a lot for your kind and encouraging words. And yes it’s true, Magere Hein is a song about all the times I could have died but I was lucky enough not to (otherwise this would be a message from a ghost 😉 , in the song we ask the Grim Reaper just no be in a hurry coming for us :-)(And I look for the name in different languages (we love to sing in Spanish/English/French..) until I found the Dutch one that really liked how it sounded, it was a match) And despite not all the actual members of TPER were at the beginning of the band in the early 90’s (the old ones still come to our concerts for dancing and having a good time) we are all friends and feel so lucky to be able to carry on a band in a small town/city not meant to. This is the kind of stubborn unwavering enthusiasm I think our music exudes. See you and if anybody want to take a look in the lyrics we’ll upload them soon or maybe we could send them via mail, it would be a pleasure. Cheers mate and best regards from the Mediterranean coast. Salut Amigos!