There are two artists by this name
- Mimikry is a Swedish punk band. Two of their members are Hjalmar “Hjalle” Östman and Jonas “Heavy” Stentäpp who became famous in Sweden after an appearance in TV show “På rymmen” (i.e. “On the run”).
“Hjalle” is the singer and guitarist of the band, “Heavy” is the drummer, Mia plays the bass, Åsberg and Apan plays guitar.
2005 the band celebrated it’s 10 years anniversery and released the CD “Uppsamlingsheat”. The CD contained records from the year 1994-2005 that, until then, only had been released on demos etc.
Some people think that Mimikry is one of Swedens greatest punk-bands and their most known track is “En flicka som är stark” (A girl who’s strong).
Mimikry plays at Rock for moc every year.
- Mimikry is also “fictional” band from the 80s Czech socialistic propaganda TV series “Major Zeman”. This band “Mimikry” was shown there as a couple of junkies who then kidnapp airplane to get to the Western Germany. Actually “Mimikry” was there shown as alegory to the band The Plastic People Of The Universe, which was chased by the Secret Police. In the TV series they actually played only one song called “Bič Boží” (= The God’s Whip). Some Czech artists made after Velvet Revolution in 1989 cover versions of this song.
