The story begins back in early `95 when Daniel and Robban started jamming on some of their favourite songs, they needed a bassplayer to back them up and they found Pat. This was the start of the band called Overbloom.They rehearsed like crazy that year and in January `96 they played their first show in Markaryd, together with a bunch of other local bands.
The audience, a couple of  hundred kids, went completely berzerk during their 1/2 hour show, and Daniel, Robban and Pat felt good about their debutshow!
They played some more shows that year, mostly around Kristianstad and Hässleholm, and they wrote songs to be on their first demo,for which they recorded 8 songs in Nov.`96.
"Why Your Opinion"- the first demo was released just before christmas, and the band got a bit disappointed with the sound and production after having listened to it a couple of times.
It was a bit lame, but the music was not that bad, and it contained my own live-favourites
Restless Sadness and Sloppy Girl-bigger things would defenitely come!
The band began to understand how they wanted to sound, and they wrote 5 new songs just after christmas, and went out to play them live.
They did a bunch of shows, among others they supported the hard girlie-punkers
Candysuck at Perrong 23 in Hässleholm in April.
Shortly after they went into the studio and recorded 5 songs for the 2nd. demo.
The new demo got the name "My Disease" and was released just before the `97 Roskilde Festival.
This demo was way better than their first one, songs like Better Mood and My Disease stood out and the whole thing was a lesson in high energy rock with a touch of  Nirvana at times.

 

They played a couple of shows that autumn, but mostly they wrote new songs since they were already bored with the old ones.
By December they had thrown out all of the old songs except Better Mood and they played in Hässleholm and Kristianstad.
The new songs worked well live so in January they recorded their 3rd.demo. 
"Hell Of A Noise" was the name of the demo, and a very fitting name indeed, 8 songs that all sounded new and fresh yet old and dirty like the 60`s/70`s garage punk bands.  Ramones, Iggy & The Stooges, Dead Boys, Motorhead and Kiss were all inspiring to these songs. Instant hits on this tape was Striptease, Ghost Of A Smile and of course the total energy trip of  The Angry Samoans song Gas Chamber which was already a live favourite.
Things were getting better for the band, they got a 8 out of 10 rating in Close-Up by Mikael Sörling, for the demo, and it got played on swedish national radio.
In the summer Pat decided he`d move to the States, and the band were without bassplayer again, Daniel and Robban kept rehearsing and writing new songs.
From a friend they heard that there was a guitarist/bassplayer available in Kristianstad, Ted, so they set up a meeting with him, handed over their demo and said this is what we sound like.
They found out that they had quite similar influences, and after a rehearsal Ted was their new bassplayer.

 

The band got booked to play the Festival Blue in Hässleholm in August and this became Ted`s first show.
On this festival they got to share stage with heroes like Haystack, Spiritual Beggars and Space Age Baby Jane.
They played 2 new songs, and ended the set with Sonic Reducer, if this show had been played late at night it would be killer, but they had to go onstage at 5 pm. and a lot of people hadn`t even had a chance to get their in time.
In October they came in contact with an australian record label, Mondo Bizarro Records, that got really impressed with their music, and wanted to put out a their first vinyl.
They settled for 4 songs to use,3 songs from "Hell Of A Noise" and the Dead Boys-cover Sonic Reducer and got into the studio again to record them with Ted in November.
Around christmas the band decided to change their name, they had been thinking about it for a while and since they were getting the 7" released soon, they wanted to have the new name on the cover.
As Daniel was designing the cover for the forthcoming demo, a handdrawn kinda psycho cowboy standing in fire, he came up with the name The Space Cowboys.
Ted and Robban liked it, so it was settled.
They went into the studio again in February to record the new demo, and it was released in the beginning of March.
This demo simply got called "The Space Cowboys", it has 5 new songs and Sonic Reducer from the "Striptease EP"- session.
The opening song "Devil`s Move" got played on national radio, and the host for the show hyped them bigtime.
Their first 7" single was released in the beginning of  March too, it`s called "Striptease EP", and contains 3 of their best songs and the Dead Boys-cover Sonic Reducer.
That takes us up to where the band is today, check the mainpage for news on what`s going on.

 LINE UP:
Robinson-Robban-drums
Daniel-guitars,vocals
Ted-bass,tambourine,backup vocals