Kollaa Kestää

Punk and New Wave band from Tampere, Finland. Kollaa Kestää was founded by Kai Kivi, Jyrki Siukonen and Juha Helminen in 1977. Mikko Nevalainen joined them after their first single in spring 1978. They released their only album in 1979 and split up in the early 1980s. Wrote catchy punk anthems. Their interest in other sounds eg musique concrète and jazz interested jazz punk pundits like Laura Logic from the UK and Mikko Saarela in Finland to join their ranks.

The classic lineup comprises those four personalities cited above—Kivi, Helminen, Siukonen and Nevalainen—however, sometimes viewed as an avant-garde collective, with fringe members flitting in and out, as well as a new wave pop group, they influenced bands like Liikkuvat Lapset and Sielun Veljet. In this way they constituted the minimalist answer to the epic sounds that their expansive jazzpunk rivals Jari and his own collective/group, Se, were churning out about the same time in 1979 and thereafter.