Biography

Teresa Banks is a Finnish / Spanish / Italian skatepunk band from Helsinki that started in December 2016 after a Millencolin concert in Tavastia, Helsinki. Mixing fast skatepunk drum beats and guitars with hardcore vocals and sing-a-long choruses, the influences of the bands sound can be found in 1990s skatepunk and early 2000s melodic hardcore bands which all of the member grew up listening. Teresa Banks has been actively playing all around Finland and abroad since their formation few years ago. The band has played with such notable punk rock bands as Darko, Adhesive, One Hidden Frame, Drunktank and opening for Cigar at London's New Cross Inn. Teresa Banks played also at the Introduction Stage of Rebellion Festival in 2019 and the monthly Punks Undead -club in Copenhagen. The band has gotten airplay in several podcasts and the national radio of Finland. They've also done charity work with their music, being in aid of ia. Doctors Without Borders, Animal Rights with profits from concerts and benefit compilations. Teresa Banks has released 2 EPs, a split recording with Kuritus, couple singles and is currently set to release a full length album in the end of 2020 as 12" vinyl, CD and as Cassette with the help of several punk record labels, including Fast Decade Records (Finland), Punk & Disorderly Records (Canada), Tent City Records (USA), Horn & Hoof Records (United Kingdom), Intersphere Records (Germany), Lonesome Surfer Records (Poland) and Milestone Sounds (Japan).