HonZa The Pimp was influencing Rauma underground scene 2001-2003.

Phoebe Evol and Mia Mongrel met in Vanhan Rauman Baarikaappi 1999 and decided to start a band. After a couple of weeks Phoebe bought a bass and they started practising. At first rehearsals were held home and in a basement at Rauhankatu.
At the time the band`s name was still Flapper. Mia and Phoebe were into tampone throwing L7 and asskicking Girlschool.
Also known as Kate Bush of Rauma (she was singing early Kate bush 24/7) Katie Wanton joined the band when they were still practising in Rauhankatu basement.
Katie was pregnant and usually damn angry, but she could sing.
The basement they were trying to rock out was beside a boiler room. Apart from this fact the place was not warm but filled with black dust.
Because no one really knew how to use Mia`s Fostex 4-track recorder and they hadn´t yet learned songwriting the girls were drinking and debating more than playing their instruments.
Under the influence of confusing relationships and unstable mental health situations trio found itself playing Misfits, Shonen Knife and Garbage covers at Vanha Vesilaitos. It was year 2001. They found their friend in ugly trousers on the topmost floor and asked him to join the band. He was baptized Moore Grazier.
At the very beginning they realised they were the hottest and coolest band in the universe. The first song they gave birth was Heart-Core Chew.

It was Phoebe who invented the name. Honza The Pimp was a character in some Czech movie she had seen. Honza the homosexual pimp. It looked good on the paper.

Because of the band`s short history they didn`t have time to make many gigs or records. HonZa The Pimp played live four times and made only one studio recording, Rock Needs Clit 2003. Also the band`s first gig at TVO, Turku was recorded with one microphone. The E.P. was made in a hurry for a music video to be shot in Yölaboratorio -happening in Rauma. The studio sessions lasted only one day and afterwards no one of the band were happy with the result. The video for the track Stoner directed by Pete Veijalainen (the director of Rakastaa/Ei Rakasta by Kotiteollisuus) was never finished.

The band broke apart in the summer of 2003 as the rhythmsection moved to Tampere and the singer wanted to "turn her back to musical self-expression". Mia Mongrel was left alone crying. She started a solo project called Dead Girl in the same year.

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