Printed version is on the waaaayyy!!!!

The latest news is that I started working seriously on the printed version (issue 3), which should see the daylight by Killed by Brno in December... along with a compilation cassette...

Brno-city scene news

As Mad Pigs has already sung about it, it is Brno not L.A., still there are constantly many things happening here and around in the underground HC/Punk scene. From time to time I plan to summarize Brno activities because you might just miss some great shows or some new demos/ recordings because of the lack (or overflow) of information.

Bands:
ALIUSTERA:
In July they recorded an excellent demo in Prostejov, here you can hear the complete result:
http://aliusterra.bandcamp.com/
Highly recommended if you are keen on some Anarcho-punk, sometimes melodious, sometimes experimental.

Brünner Todesmarsch:
Their first recording is out on CD-R format simply called 'Demo I' containing 5 songs + a Tampere SS cover, altogether in 7 minutes. some more info is on their brandnew website as well, I think: http://www.brunner-todesmarsch.cz
They recorded some more songs, which will come out soon on a split 7"EP with.... (details later!!!:)

Gigs:
There will be quite many shows again in the end of summer, hopefully some of you will find time and money to visit these smaller club-concerts beside the bigger summer fests:)

20.08. Vegalite:
Alert (Israel) + Brünner Todesmarsch + Alkalmatlankodik

20.09. Vegalite:
Hanoi (Hun), New Dead Project (Hun), Finis Afemie, Stridor
http://bandzone.cz/akce/317497

09.26. ??? (venue is not settled yet)
VILE INTENT (powerviolence from Canada!!) http://vileintent.likeweeds.org

09.15. Boro club
Bloody Phoenix

Bombatölcsér on bandcamp!!!

As I noticed that at some websites it is already downloadable, I decided to share the whole Bombatölcsér demo/ 7"EP for the online listeners. Now you can get it in a better quality and at least the song-order is correct (and it does not include our songs from the Brno compilation:). So here it is, just enjoy:

http://bombatolcser.bandcamp.com/

Report on the non-traditional concert in Brno

I had been thinking of asking someone else to write this gig-report (from the audience, naturally), but I finally thouhgt it was just such a non-traditional event that it was worth to see it also from our point of view, how we bands, organizers experienced this 'historical' happening. Not ironically I say 'historical', because I think nothing like this has happened before in Brno scene and, encouraged the overall success of  this show, there will be continuation for sure...:)

OK, so let's see how everything happened on that grey, gloomy weekday..:) Actually not even us, the bands did know where the exact place of the show would be... And the flyers stated a tramstop as meeting point two stops away from the actual "venue" where the show had taken place... So with the thrill of absolute expectation of anything unexpected (whether people will come to see this event at all, whether we can play our show and will not be interrupted by the police or people living nearby) we chose the place for the "stage" (just backwards the pretty close tram line), and started setting up the drumset and the PA system. all of us were amazed by the place and ven by the acoustic conditions - it was sure at the very moment we tried the drums that the sound will be loud enough to fill in the open space under the highway brigdes with the echoes coming back from the blockhouses... Just see some pictures below to get the atmosphere:)

Everything was setup fast (electricity by a generator of course, working perfectly), sandwiches by Food Not Bombs were ready, beer was served for the band, but the audience hasn't arrived yet and it was about half an hour passed already by the agreed meeting time... Whether noone will come? Are they afraid of the shitty weather (even if rain would not disturb this event as the flyer said) or the reaction of the police or the people living around? Fortunately fans seemed to be enthusiastic as well: out of the blue they came, in a healthy crowd, both well-known and unknown people and we could see happiness in their eyes as they immediately got to like the place just like us.

With good atmosphere started the gig, with people around chatting, drinking, having snacks and enjoying themselves on a public place with no prohibition or advanced, official permission to gather - this was most important in this evening, the concerts might come as secondary thing to it.

Dekasta, Morsa, Stridor - that was the order of the bands with minimum of time wasted between the sets for preparation and sound check, so that the whole wthing ended before 9pm. Allegedly only two policmen came close to check what was happening there (I did not see it as we were "on stage" at that time) but they might have found everything all right to leave the place fast and without words. some homeless people popped up as well (food and drinks were for them too, if not mainly were for them, as they are in need) and of course some curious people living (some pretending just to walk the dog:). Not even a beercap was left at the place as garbage, which might be trivial thing, but it proved, as this whole event, that punk is not about the destruction and disorder - it is possible to organize something cultural for a crowd of people with no official measures or restrictions, which does not necessarily lead to chaos.

Morsa new recording!

Just a short note: this weekend Morsa recorded 3 new songs, which will probably be out as a split 7"EP with another band (neither the band, nor the labels are confimed yet). Thanks a lot for Hellsound Honza for his great work, friendly attitude and endless patience:)
One song can be listened at:

bandzone.cz/morsa

Non-traditional concert in Brno

The next news/ invitation will be in Czech - just to sum up briefly, it is about a non-traditional (we can say illegal) open-air concert in Brno where three bands are going to make some noise on some square in the town :)
You can find more information at:
http://bandzone.cz/akce/311922
Who is interested in seeing this unique show, must be at stop Geislerova on 29.5. at 18:00... then the people will be directed to the exact place of the concert...
See more info in Czech on the bandzone page.

The following bands will (hopefully) play:

Dekasta
hardcore-punkUherské Hradiště

Morsa
hardcore-crustBrno

Stridor
Brno

Gigs, gigs, gigs...

I am sorry to have lost for some weeks. I wanted to keep things more updated as

there are constant happenings around... so that's why maybe I had no time and energy

for this left...:) But now I shortly summarize some past shows experiences...

A.R.S.E.L (Swe) + Suicide Bombers (Swe) + Hibakusha + Bombatölcsér in Boro, Brno -

26.04.2013

Not too many people on this show, though the atmosphere was really great... Thanks

mostly to the Swedish guys, who enjoyed the bands and of course themselves, too:)

Maybe sometimes they danced a bit wild (unusual here), but they were kind and nice

even to talk to and make friends with:) Also thanks to Kubik, the organizer, for the

great hospitality with tasty and far enough both warm and cold food and drinks.
One of the Swedish bands started (Suicide Bombers), which is not the Rock'n Roll

type of band that you can come across mostly if you just put this name into a

youtube search. In reality they are much rawer, dirtier and more crusty.... But on the other hand, it could be seen and heard that they have been together just for a few

months... The relatively bad sound did not even help the audience put this band to

the right place... For me they reminded me of some 80's fast punkband from East

Europe:) Next one Hibakusha got on the stage (originally it was Bombatölcsér to play

the second, but Hibakusha needed to leave earlier) and their set was all right with

a better sound, which still did not reach the highly enjoyable level, so more beers

were consumed at the bar by the audience after and during their show. Still I think

the guys from the second Swedish band A.R.S.E.L. were the "highest" in mood, also  by the

time their own show started, so they provided an incredibly crazy performance led by

their vocalist. Apart from his looking rather brutal with a muscular body and bold

head, he constantly roamed around in the crowd, pushing them aside, sometimes

collapsing down onto the ground or pouring cold water on his head while producing

some inhumanly screeching voices out of himself. I am sure not many people knew this band before

and I personally did not catch their music when I gave it a listen about two days before the show, but
this night for me they were more than convincing. Their demo CDR which we traded at this ocassion also got a warm welcome at home and enjoyed it very much afterwards (later a review on it might be come here:).
Lastly, we played with Bombatölcsér, quite cool show with probably not a good sound, still people, especially the Swedish guys enjoyed much, which was good to see and experience, as for they we were probably never heard before:)