Chips Kiesbye Explained

Chips Kiesbye
Birth Name:	Mats Gerhard Kiesbye
Genre:	Garage rock, rock, garage punk, punk rock, garage rock revival, power pop, psychedelic rock, pop, skate punk
Occupation:	Musician, songwriter, record producer, recording engineer
Years Active:	1981–present
Instrument:	Vocals, guitar
Label:	Planet of Noise Records,
Associated Acts:	Sator, The Boys, The Hellacopters, The Nomads, Wilmer X, Thåström
Website:	Sator Website

Chips Kiesbye is the guitarist and vocalist for the Swedish rock band Sator formed in the late 1980s in Borlänge.^[1] Kiesbye is also a successful music producer and has worked with several of Sweden's most successful rock bands and artists such as The Hellacopters, The Nomads, Millencolin, Thåström, Sahara Hotnights, Wilmer X and many others.^[2]

Selected discography

With Sator Codex

• Wanna Start a Fire? (1986)

With Sator

• Slammer! (1988)
• Stock Rocker Nuts! (1990)
• Headquake (1992)
• Barbie-Q-Killers vol. 1 (1994)
• Stereo (1995)
• Musical differences (1998)
• Basement Noise (2006)
• Live at Sticky Fingers 2006 DVD (2007)
• Under the Radar (2011)

Production

• Badmouth – Heavy metal parking lot (2009)
• Badmouth – Blue Ribbon Days EP (2011)
• Badmouth – To Watch the Bridges Burn ”Part three of H.A.T.E" EP (2011)
• Backyard Babies - Sliver & Gold (2019)
• Bazooka! – First floor second skin (1996)
• The Billy Pilgrims – Where's the goddamn revolution (2009)
• The Billy Pilgrims – Stiff white gospel (2014)
• Bo-Dogs - Bad bad dog! (2014)
• Bohemian Lifestyle - Madame Libertanah (2015)
• Bonafide- Something's Dripping (2009)
• Brain Police - Beyond the wasteland (2006)
• Captain Murphy - Captain Murphy (2004)
• Captain Murphy - Human cannonball (2007)
• Captain Black Beard - It's a mouthful (2016)
• Centerfolds - Stuck in the past (2012)
• Crucified Barbara - The midnight chase (2012)
• Crucified Barbara - In the red (2014)
• The Dahlmanns - American Heartbeat (2018)
• Dozer – Call It Conspiracy (2003)
• Feast Of Fools - EP (2016)
• Graveyard - Peace (2018)
• Greybeards - For the wilder minds (2018)
• Hard Luck Street - Darker Days (2020)
• Helikoptern - One more before we go (2018)
• The Hellacopters – High Visibility (2000)
• The Hellacopters – By The Grace of God (2002)
• The Hellacopters – Strike Like Lightning (2004)
• The Hellacopters – Rock & Roll Is Dead (2005)
• The Hellacopters – Head Off (2008)
• The Hellacopters - Numerous singles and compilation tracks
• Nisse Hellberg - Snackbar blues (2006)
• Nisse Hellberg - En tiger i tanken (2007)
• Nisse Hellberg - En modern man (2009)
• Nisse Hellberg - Flod av eld (2011)
• Nisse Hellberg - Vad har han i huvudet (2014)
• Nisse Hellberg - Outgivna Bitar 2000 - 2016 (2017)
• Nisse Hellberg - Numerous singles and compilation tracks
• Jönzzonligan - Rösta På Idioter (2019)
• Kitto – Unlearn Your Generation (2009)
• Kung Social - EP (2003)
• La Secta - It's gonna be a wild weekend (2003)
• La Secta - Several singles
• Mascot Parade - Cause & Effect (2011)
• Michael Monroe - Blackout States (2015)
• Millencolin – Kingwood (2005)
• Millencolin – Several singles
• Mimikry - Alderland (2008)
• Misdemeanor – You're Nothing (And You Know It) (1998)
• Mutts – Mutts (1996)
• Mutts – I Need Needles EP (1996)
• Mutts – I Need You EP (1996)
• Mutts – Southpark Avenue 4 AM Single (1997)
• Naked Presidents - Naked Presidents (2017)
• The Nomads – Sonically Speaking (1991)
• The Nomads – The cold hard facts of life (1996)
• The Nomads – Big Sound 2000 (1999)
• The Nomads – Up-tight (2001)
• The Nomads – Solna (2012)
• The Nomads – Loaded deluxe EP (2013)
• The Nomads – Numerous singles and compilation tracks
• Oak Brigade - Creators of the world (2018)
• Paul Collins Beat - Ribbon of gold (2008)
• Plan Nine - Generation action (2000)
• Psychotic Youth – Some Fun (1989)
• Psychotic Youth – Juice (1993)
• Psychotic Youth – Several singles
• Republikans - Republikans (2015)
• The Ring The River - Alone At The Theatre (2017)
• Sahara Hotnights – Jennie Bomb (2001)
• Sahara Hotnights – Several singles
• Sator - Lots of albums and singles as producer and co-producer
• Skallbank - Grav efter grav EP (2017)
• Small Jackets - Cheap Tequila (2009)
• Sons of Cyrus - Rock & Rollercoaster (2004)
• Sons of Cyrus - Trigger-Happy (2006)
• Spiders - Killer machine (2018)
• Strängen - Rock på svenska (2018)
• Troubled Horse - Revolution On Repeat (2017)
• The Turpentines - By popular demand (1999)
• Turbo - Eu Sou Spartacus (2015)
• Turbo - O Melhor Naufrágio (2017)
• Versus You - Moving on (2014)
• White Flag - Eternally undone (1999)
• White Flag - Extraordinary Renditions (2011)
• White Flag - Various singles and compilations
• Wilmer X – 13 våningar upp (2005)
• Wilmer X – 4X4 EP (2005)
• Zoo Party - Lardass (2018)

Other studio work

• Blue for Two – Songs From A Pale & Bitter Moon (1988)
• Blue for Two – International (1993)
• Blue for Two – Earbound (1994)
• Capricorn - (Fight) Another Day / She Loves The Thunder (2019)
• Cortex - 1987 (2019)
• Destiny - Atomic Winter (1987)
• Robert Johnson and Punchdrunks – Fried on the Altar of Good Taste (2000)
• Southern Voodoo – Devil's Drive (2007)
• Thåström – Xplodera Mig 2000 (1991)
• Union Carbide Productions – Financially Dissatisfied Philosophically Trying (1989)

External links

• Official Sator Website

Notes and References

1. http://www.sator.se/biography/3/ Sator biography
2. http://www.discogs.com/artist/Chips+Kiesbye Chips Kiesbye musical works @ Discogs