XXX Atomic Toejam is an Electro Industrial Crossover band from Sweden. Their sound are very agressive,hard and intensive. They started in 90´s...
A side-project of Petter Marklund (Memorandum) and Fredrik Thordendal (Meshuggah), mixing heavy techno beats, samples and thrash metal guitars. Marklund originally released a 7" under the name Sepülchre Inc.,
then took the moniker XXX Atomic Toejam and issued the MCD "A Gathering
Of The Tribes..." on Cold Meat Industry and a track on the "Karmanik
Collection" compilation. A full-length album was long announced, but
never saw the light.
English Dogs are a British hardcore punk
band that began life in the early eighties. Two versions of the band
exist,the Punk/Metal Crossover band featuring original drummer Andrew
'Pinch' Pinching and second era members Graham 'Gizz' Butt and Adie
Bailey and a punk-based one featuring original vocalist Pete 'Wakey'
Wakefield.
History
English Dogs formed in October 1981 in Grantham and produced two demos during 1982 entitled 'Show No Mercy' and 'Free To Kill'. The band toured as support to fellow punk band Charged GBH in Germany during early 1983 and followed this with a British tour supporting Discharge.
In 1983 they signed to Clay Records and released a 6 track EP titled 'Mad Punx And English Dogs' July 1983.
English Dogs' first full-length album, 'Invasion of the Porky Men',
emerged a year later. Personnel changes ensued after the debut album
emerged with vocalist Wakey departing to be replaced by ex-Ultraviolent
singer Ade Bailey. At this juncture the band also decided to augment
their live and recorded sound by adding ex-Destructors guitarist Graham
'Gizz' Butt who added Metal riffing, guitar leads and contributed to the
English Dogs songwriting.
This change saw them leave Clay records to sign with Rot Records and
release the decidedly metal tinged 'To The Ends Of The Earth' EP in
September 1984. The metal leanings increased with Forward into Battle.
English Dogs, culminating with the "Metalmorphosis " 12" and 'Where
Legend Began' album through Under One Flag in 1986. In Spring of that
year the Dogs toured the USA to sold out shows at the LA Olympic
auditorium, Fenders Ballroom, San Diego, San Francisco, Baltimore, New
York, Chicago, in fact all over the East and West coast. Upon their
return to the UK Jon Murray left the band.The group appeared on the
legendary Shades promoted Thrash bill at Camden's Electric Ballroom with
Possessed and Voivod
later in 1986. Pinch also left the band around Winter '86. The band
carried on with Adie, Gizz and Wattie playing with other musicians until
calling it a day in the fall of that year.
In 1993 Pinch and Gizz Butt reformed English Dogs with "Mad Punx"
vocalist Wakey and Future Damned Bassist Stuart West, signed to German
label "Impact records" and released 'Bow To None', Wakey left shortly
after with him being replaced by Stuart 'Stu-Pid' Jones (Also of Police
Bastard, Sensa Yuma and ex Contempt) for the 1995 five track EP "What A
Wonderful Feeling... ...To Be Fucked By Everyone" on Retch Records .
Eventually English Dogs became a 3 piece with the line up of Gizz
Butt - Lead Vocals and guitars, Pinch - Drums and backing vocals and
Shop - Bass guitar and Backing vocals . They released the 16 track
crossover album "All The World's A Rage" also on Impact records and
toured UK, Germany, Austria and Switzerland many times. in 1996 the
English Dogs played their last shows as Pinch, Gizz and Shop were soon
to re-emerge as Janus Stark.
An English Dogs / GBH union resulted in Wakey and Pinch creating The Wernt
with GBH members guitarist Jock Blyth and bassist Ross Lomas for a 1997
album 'Wreckin' Temples'. Gizz Butt replaced Jim Davies of Pitchshifter as the live guitarist for The Prodigy, which in turn revitalized interest in English Dogs and prompted a re-release of Where Legend Began.
Gizz also announced the formation of a new act Janus Stark the same
year recording with (3 Colours Red producer)Terry Thomas acting as
producer. 1999's 'I've Got A Gun' was recorded live in Finland in 1994
when Pid was on vocals . By 2000 Pinch had joined The Damned. Gizz Butt returned in 2002 with The More I See.
In May 2007, English Dogs reformed with the original line-up with the
exception of Pinch, who is drumming for The Damned. He was replaced by
Stuart Meadows, who played for Resistance 77. They mainly play
throughout Europe, but they do not play their crossover material.
English Dogs released an EP called "Tales of the Asylum" in November
2008.
English Dogs had another line-up change in 2009, then afterwards a
hiatus . At one point the only original member being bassist Wattie
.After months of leaving, Wakefield reformed the band with him being the
only member to have featured on any official release.
In 2011 three original members of the 1984 Crossover line up
announced they were going to reform to perform the "Forward Into Battle"
and "To The Ends Of The Earth" releases in their entirety . This led to
a sell out tour which received great reviews. After the tour the lads
announced they were to write new material in the vein of the Crossover
material and plan more touring.
The new English Dogs album, entitled The Thing With Two Heads, will
be released on Candlelight records in July 2014. Drummer Pinch says "We
got back together because we felt like we had unfinished business. Tons
of people ended up turning up to the gigs. We started to think maybe we
are worth a fuck after all. We started writing and recording and it
clicked immediately." The Thing With Two Heads, he continues, "is the
missing link between To the Ends Of the Earth and Forward Into Battle.
It’s classic English Dogs punk metal. It doesn’t sound like anyone else,
because it wasn’t inspired by anyone else." The Crossover line up are
now back out on tour with long time friend and associate Spike T Smith
on drums (who played in the Dogs way back in '87 when Pinch had to step
out back then) who stepped into the drummer position in August 2014 as
Pinch was unable to commit time to the Dogs due to his role in The Damned.
Hotrod Frankie is a Swedish psychobilly band. Behind the band are members from Ultima Thule. Hotrod Frankie released his debut album " My Father Was a Madman " in August 2006. The album's texts are all about Frankenstein's monster.
Institute for the criminally insane is a Danish electro dark/Industrial from Copenhagen and that duo started in the beginning 90´s. Members: Bo Heidelberg and Kim G. Hansen.
Nena born Gabriele Susanne Kerner, 24 March 1960) is a German singer-songwriter, actress, and comedian who rose to international fame in 1983 with the New German Wave song "99 Luftballons". In 1984, she re-recorded this song in English as "99 Red Balloons". Nena
was also the name of the band with whom she released the song. The
re-recording of some of her old songs rekindled her career in 2002. In
2007, she co-founded Neue Schule Hamburg.
Biography
Early life
Gabriele Susanne Kerner (Nena) was born on 24 March 1960 in Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany while her family lived in the nearby town of Breckerfeld.
She spent the earliest part of her childhood in Breckerfeld and later
lived in Hagen. She acquired her nickname, based on the Spanish word
"niña", or "little girl", at the age of three, while on a vacation to
Spain with her parents. In 1977 she left high school before graduation,
and in the three following years she was trained as a goldsmith.
Musical beginnings
Nena's musical career began on 2 July 1979 when guitarist Rainer Kitzmann founded The Stripes band and, on the basis of having seen her dancing at a local disco, asked her to audition for the position of the lead singer.The
group, based in Hagen, performed songs with English lyrics and had a
minor hit with the song "Ecstasy", but never achieved mainstream success
and disbanded on 3 March 1982.
However The Stripes's record company, CBS, offered Nena a record deal
if she were to move to Berlin and make music with German lyrics. In May 1982 Nena and her then-boyfriend Rolf Brendel therefore moved to West Berlin, where they met future band members guitarist Carlo Karges, keyboard player Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen, and bass player Jürgen Dehmel. Together, they formed the band Nena.
In June 1982 "Nena" released their first single, "Nur geträumt", which became an instant hit in Germany after the band appeared on the German television show Musikladen on 21 August 1982. The single reportedly sold 40,000 copies the day after the song appeared on the show and reached No.2 in the German charts.
1982–1987: International success and band breakup
In 1983, the band released its first album Nena, which contained the singles "99 Luftballons" and "Leuchtturm".
"99 Luftballons" became a number one hit in West Germany and the
Netherlands in 1983 and went on to major international chart success the
following year, an English version hitting No.1 in the UK and the original German version hitting No.2 in the US, behind Van Halen's "Jump". In 1984, Casey Kasem's radio show American Top 40
introduced a "mixed" version of the song, "splicing" the German and
English versions together. It was also a huge hit in many other
countries, and to this day it is one of the best-known German rock songs
in many parts of the world.
In May 1984 while on a tour in the UK, Nena made the headlines of the British red-top press for having unshaven armpits.
At the time this was not uncommon in continental Europe but was
considered unusual in English-speaking countries to the extent that some
people consider it explains the commercial failure there of the
follow-ups to "99 Luftballons".
Nena, baffled by the attention generated, asked the girlfriend of her
manager to shave her and has remained clean shaven ever since.
Referring to the "huge indignation" the issue raised, Nena, in her
memoires published in 2005, wrote, "Can a girl from Hagen, who dreams of
the big wide world and is in love with Mick Jagger, have no idea that girls can't under any circumstances have hair under the arm? Yes she can. I simply had no idea!"
Although "99 Luftballons" was Nena's only hit in the English-speaking
world, the band continued to enjoy success in several European
countries in the following years. Nena's next international single "Just
a Dream" (an English language re-issue of "Nur geträumt") reached No.70
in the UK charts in 1984; it had "Indianer" on the B-side. A dance
version of "Just a Dream" was released in the 1990s to a new audience
and became a club anthem. The band split in 1987, and Nena went solo
thereafter.
1989: Launch of solo career
Nena's first solo album Wunder gescheh'n
was released on 5 November 1989. The title track (German for "Miracles
Happen"), composed by Nena herself, relates to the fact that Nena was at
the time pregnant with twins, but release of the album that appeared
just four days before the fall of the Berlin Wall (on 9 November) and the fact that she performed the song at the end of the Konzert für Berlin
three days later has ever since associated it with that historic event.
It was to prove to be her last major hit of the 20th century as
throughout the 1990s her albums and singles – although often critically
acclaimed – were less commercially successful. In 1993, following the
indifferent performance of her second solo album Bongo Girl,
Sony decided not to renew Nena's recording contract, and the label
which distributed her third, RMG Music Entertainment, disappeared
shortly afterwards.
In 1995 Nena and her growing family moved from Berlin to Hamburg,
borrowing money from a family friend in order to do so since her bank
declined to extend credit.
2002: Return to prominence
Nena in Vienna on 3 May 2008
In 2002, Nena celebrated her 20th anniversary on stage with the album Nena feat. Nena,
a disc consisting of newly arranged recordings of her hits from the
1980s. This album marked a "comeback" for Nena, and spawned a number of
successful chart entries. The remake of "Anyplace, Anywhere, Anytime" as an English-German duet with Kim Wilde was a hit in various European countries, reaching the No.1 spot in the Netherlands and Austria, and No.3 in Germany, in 2003.
Having regalvanised her career by virtue of her 1980s hits, Nena
reestablished herself as a force with entirely new material with the
2005 album Willst du mit mir gehn which quickly achieved platinum status and climbed to No.2 in the German charts. The first single from the album, "Liebe ist", reached No.1 on the German charts in early 2005, and was the theme song for a German telenovela, Verliebt in Berlin.
It reached the top position 22 years after "99 Luftballons", the
longest span between first and last number one in German chart history
(see Liste der Nummer-eins-Hits in Deutschland).
In October 2007, Nena released a new album entitled Cover Me, made up entirely of cover songs. David Bowie, Rolling Stones and Rammstein are three of the bands covered. She also released the single, "Ich kann nix dafür" in April 2007 for the film, Vollidiot, and her cover of "She's a Rainbow"
by the Rolling Stones in the US and the UK. In 2009 she recorded and
released a new version of her hit song "99 Luftballons", which more
closely follows the 1980s original, in contrast to her 2002 version.
This song was first performed in Germany on 6 September 2009. Some parts
of the new version are in French.
Since 2009: Own record label
Since
2009, Nena's releases have been published by her own record label, The
Laugh & Peas Company, which also promotes the work of her daughter's
group (Adameva) and that of one of her protegé's from The Voice of Germany, Sharron Levy.
Nena released a new single on 4 September 2009, called "Wir sind wahr", and a new album on the 23rd: Made in Germany. The autobiographical ballad from the album "In meinem Leben" became her fourteenth Top 10 hit in Germany, taking her to 12th position in the all-time list of top-ten hits in Germany, the third highest placed German act and top German female. She has developed an interest in the teachings of Indian mystic Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh) in recent years, and practises his meditation methods, an impression of which is featured in the "Wir sind wahr" video. She also collaborated with the popular techno-rap artists Die Atzen to produce a new single, "Strobo Pop". In 2011, she contributed vocals to the track "Let Go Tonight" by Kevin Costner and Modern West.
In late 2012 Nena released her 11th solo studio album, Du bist gut, which peaked at No.2
in the German charts, although the tracks released as singles from the
album were not as successful as those from her previous albums since her
2002 "comeback".
Nena's next album, Oldschool, which was produced by the German rapper and hip hop artist Samy Deluxe, was released on 27 February 2015. Distribution rights for the album were agreed with Sony Music, 22 years after the company dropped Nena as a recording artist.
The album maintained Nena's 21st century chart success pattern (Top 5
in Germany, Top 10 in Austria, Top 20 in Switzerland) but the first two
singles released from the album failed to chart.
However, for the first time in Nena's career, another track from the
album ("Magie"), which was not released as a single, crept into the
lower echelons of the German singles chart solely by virtue of
downloads.Then, in April 2016, fourteen months after Oldschool's
release, the third single from the album, "Genau jetzt", returned Nena
to the German Top 30 singles chart for the first time in six years.
Live performances
Nena on stage in Dortmund in May 2011
Since 1997 (and as of 2016, with dates announced for 2017) Nena has
toured Germany and its neighbouring countries annually, typically
performing between 15 and 50 concerts every year. In 2003, Nena took the stage during the Howard Jones 20th Anniversary concert at the Shepherd's Bush Empire in London to sing "99 Luftballons", with both German and English lyrics. In 2004, Nena went on stage at the Mayday Music Festival, in Dortmund, accompanied by the techno duo Toktok. She sang the song "Bang Bang", and was later joined on stage by DJ Westbam to perform "Oldschool Baby". In March 2015 Nena promoted the release of the Oldschool album with a "club tour" of 16 smaller venues (for 200 to 700 people) including her former primary school. A recording of one of these concerts – at the SO36 club in Berlin on 4 March 2015 – was released as Nena's sixth live album Live at SO36 on 4 March 2016, exactly one year later.
Later in 2015 Nena announced her intention to perform live in the US
for the first time by way of a similar "club tour", which was initially
planned for the spring of 2016 before taking place as a 3-date "mini
tour" in September and October.
Other work
Besides her singing career, she has also acted in the 1983 musical comedy film Gib Gas – Ich will Spaß (released in the US as Hangin' Out) opposite fellow musician Markus Mörl, and voiced the character Saphira for the German dub of the movie Eragon and the role of the Princess for the German version of Arthur and the Invisibles alongside Tokio Hotel's Bill Kaulitz. Kaulitz has also stated on many occasions that Nena is his favourite singer.
Nena was one of the coaches on The Voice of Germany
for 3 seasons before announcing her withdrawal from the show in March
2014. In April and May 2016 she was one of the participants in the third
season of Sing meinen Song, a show in which well-known artists perform each other's songs and judge their favourites. In February 2017 Nena appeared as a juror in the 5th season of The Voice Kids together with her daughter Larissa.
In 2007, jointly with her partner Philipp Palm, Thomas Simmerl, and Silke Steinfadt, she founded the Neue Schule Hamburg, a school following the Sudbury model.
Nena wrote an autobiographical book, Willst du mit mir gehn,
jointly with Claudia Thesenfitz, a journalist. Nena's contributions are
her disparate accounts of various episodes in her life. Most of
Thesenfitz's contributions are excerpts from interviews of many of
Nena's friends, co-workers, and relatives.
Since becoming a mother, Nena has released a number of albums consisting of songs for children. In the 1990s she hosted several TV shows, including Metro and Countdown Grand Prix, the German preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest, in 1998.
Influences and other interests and pursuits
In addition to citing the Ramones, David Bowie and Debbie Harry as early influences, Nena's main artistic source of inspiration and her favourite band is the Rolling Stones. Nena has covered their songs in concert and on her 2007 Cover Me album.
In 1984 Nena said, "If I hadn't started listening to the Rolling Stones
when I was 12 I'd have been a different person, a secretary or
something like that."
Although Nena said she disliked the English version of "99
Luftballons" because it was too "blatant" and that the Nena band was
neither political nor a protest band,
she has occasionally publicly lent her name in support of political
causes. She supports "Ehe für alle" (marriage for everyone) and, as a
mother of five, a campaign against the German government's plans to
scale back the state provision of midwifery services. Nena has been a member of various charity ensembles and supergroups including "Band für Afrika" (Germany's equivalent of Band Aid)
in 1985 and "Marlon und Freunde" in 2006, whose Top 10 hit in Germany
"Lieber Gott" raised funds for flood victims. Nena also supports local
causes and in 2015 ran (in socks) 2.5 kilometres (approximately 1.5
miles) in aid of a Stuttgart children's hospice.
Nena is a vegetarian and won the PETA (Germany) award for "Sexiest Vegetarian of the Year 2010". She believes in Jesus and God and says that thanking him for every new day is the cornerstone of her spirituality.
From time to time suspicions of drug use have surfaced, particularly
in light of Nena's high energy levels on stage. However, in his 2014
biography of the Nena band, Rolf Brendel, its drummer and Nena's
boyfriend at the time said that although other band members experimented
with drugs, Nena never did and frowned upon it. Brendel added, "Nena is naturally stoned, she doesn't need to take drugs."
Personal life
Nena and the band's drummer Rolf Brendel split up in 1987, Nena's feelings movingly described in the song "Jetzt bist du weg" ("Now You Are Gone") from the band's final album, Eisbrecher.
Nena then started dating Swiss actor Benedict Freitag shortly after the
band separated in 1987. Benedict is the son of the German actress Maria Becker and Austrian-Swiss actor Robert Freitag.
The couple had three children together, the first being Christopher
Daniel, who was born disabled allegedly due to medical mistakes made
during the birth that caused Nena to go into cardiac arrest.
He died at the age of 11 months. In 1990 they had twins, Larissa Marie
and Sakias Manuel. After splitting with Freitag, Nena started a
relationship with drummer and music producer Philipp Palm from Stuttgart,
with whom she had two children, Samuel Vincent (1995), and Simeon Joel
(1997). The couple and the four children currently live in Hamburg. On Christmas Day 2009, Nena became a grandmother when Larissa gave birth to a girl, Carla Maria. Only two days later, Nena's son Sakias became a father to a boy named Noah. A third grandchild (Victor, son of Larissa) was born in September 2013.
Since 2010, her twins Sakias and Larissa have appeared as backing
singers on stage and on her albums, and her youngest son Simeon joined
her on stage playing keyboards during her first concerts in 2015.
The Insult that made a Man out of Mac was formed in 1991 by. Lloyd ( Programming and computerized visuals ), Morgan Spoils ( Performance,videoprojections and occasional guitar ) and T. Malinger ( Voice and videoprojections ) in the beginning bands music could be categorized as industrial Punk, gigs were performed with preprogrammed digital audio tape,heavily distorted voice and visuals synced to the music.
The band put out a soundtrack for Konrad Orbiter ( LIKE 1993 ) , a graphic novel by Tommi Hanninen, and a bit later their first CD Mutante Puzzle ( Spinefarm 1994 ). During the recording of the CD, live instruments started to creep into the bands music,first in the form of sample guitars specially performed for songs like Righteous and Put On The Gagbit. After the release of Mutant Puzzle , live instruments became part of the live show as well as The Insult recruited two live guitarists from Rock group Sunday Prize, who also were sampled on the CD . Bass was played by Tony Ikonen, who became a permanent member of the band, also composing and programming music.
Around this time Morgan Spoils left the band pursue his other artistics interests. Two permanents guitars were added, Tommi from outrageous garagerock band Sweetheart and GTR,who still today performs and composes with The Insult. After a year and a half and a couple of gigs later the band got inte passive phase , around the autunm of 1997.
In november 2002,the band reagrouped as trio: Voice, GTR and a drum machine with occasional guest musicians,at the Varasto 72 where the band had rehearsed during most of the existence and started playing some old and, after while, some new song gradually leaving the old dat tapesin their drawers. In april 2003 came drums and during the next month also bass and the metal percurssion set-sewere. More new music was written ,and at november 6th 2003 took place the comeback gig of THE INSULT THAT MADE A MAN OUT OF MAC at semifinal, Helsinki.
The Mahones are a Canadian Irish-punk band, formed in 1990 by Dublin-born Finny McConnell, as a one-off band for a St. Patrick's Day party. Encouraged by a positive reception, McConnell decided to pursue the band full-time. The Mahones have released twelve albums to date with their most recent, The Hunger and The Fight (part two), being released in 2015.
In 2014, The Mahones were nominated Best Punk Band at the Sirius XM Indie Awards. In 2012, The Mahones' album The Black Irish won the Independent Music Award for Best Punk Album, and Angels & Devils won Paddy Rock Radio's album of the year, as well as Vandala Concepts' album of the year
In 2016, Scruffy Wallace joined the band as their new bagpipe player. Wallace quit the Dropkick Murphys after 12 years with the band.
Name
The Mahones cite The Pogues
as a main influence. That band were originally called Pogue Mahone (an
anglicisation of an Irish phrase meaning "kiss my arse"), but later
shortened it to The Pogues. "The Mahones" is seen as similarly derived
from Pogue Mahone, as a tribute to The Pogues.
1. Queen and Tequila2. Drunken Lazy Bastard3. Paint the Town Red4. Whiskey Devil5. A Drunken Night in Dublin6. Streets of New York7. Across the U.S.A.8. Shake Hands with the devil9. The Amsterdam Song10. Celtic Pride11. The Irish Rover12. Going Back to Dublin13. Down the Boozer14. London15. Whiskey in the Jar16. Is This Bar Open Til' Tomorrow17. Drunken Lazy Bastard (Live Version)
