Events >> Tour Diary

This was my first solo electronica Gig. I stood alone on stage with my guitar and loops. The setlist was "New Years Eve", "Leave the Cold Outside" "Eyewentout", "Botiz going 2" and "Minya", all in new versions of course, and a new piece called "Feet on Fire". The audience liked the show and I liked the idea to perform alone, once.

Once again in Unplugged we shared a one hour show with the audience. Laszlo tried out his new equipment for the visuals (and introduced Globetrotter; "Today is the first time I´m on a Stage..."). We did 12 Tracks and a Jam-Session. Congratulations to the soundengineer! The sound was great! Barbara Fischl took the photos (she also did for the "no space for words" Cover).

The second time we went on stage without Laszlo. (Like in Carina, Lászlo wasn´t aviable because of huge stress in school). 11 Songs were played and this time we didn´t play "no regrets".

The first show 2004. The audience liked it, we didn´t. But that´s the way it is. The visuals were complitely cancelled this time, because of Laszlo´s big stress in school;-) We played 13 tracks, including a huge Jam Session after No regrets. We had some problems with the sound, but it wasn´t the first time. It ain´t easy to mix the organic instruments with the electronic loops.

So far so good! The last show for 2003 took place in Unplugged. Once more Pleorama became our support act. The first trick was, that I played a solo on their last Song. A quarter hour later we went on stage to perform "Avant Garden" and 14 other Tracks, including the new "Leave the cold outside". Afterwards we did two christmas specials; "Silent Night" and "Little Drummer Boy´s little Drumsolo". It was cool to play "Globetrotter" again. I forgot to introduce Artur, who replaced Lászlo with the Visuals . So here it is; great Job, Zero One!. On the visuals; the incredeble and notorious Artur Tewfik aka.Zero One!"

That gig was fun. We included the new song "Good To Be Alive" in the set, this time. Unfortunately we were not allowed to play an encore, because the promoter's scheme had to be pursued, so it was the first time that we didn't play "Globetrotter". Our crew consisted of Artur T., in charge of the camera work for Laszlos visuals, and Severin Wurnig, who took a lot of photos. The two support acts, Mord and Pleorama, did a great job as well. Besides, Pleorama turned out to be nice and interesting people, with whom we will keep in touch for sure.

After the break it was great to play live again. Everything went off without a hitch. We played the whole set of 12 songs. In addition we payed homage to Cream, doing the intro of "sunshine of your love" that passed into a - long hoped for - drum solo by our iron man Robert, which understandably was one of the evening's highlights. Another homage was "ring of fire" (sung by Alex!) by Johnny Cash, who unfortunately kicked the bucket recently.

Soopa Guru and Masta Mynd Lászlo once again applied a couple of new visuals. Because of the problems we had with our loop CD last time, we used a minidisc. Since it worked much better, we are going to stick to this technology in the future. The Unplugged crew was friendly and helpful as always. I am going to upload some photos as soon as possible.

Yeah! This live session in some restaurant in Romania was totally unexpected, spontaneous and cool. Well, actually this doesn't really fit in here but I played there, had fun, so what the f*#k! My fellow musician, Pál Zakariás (keyboardist, pianist & prestigious musician in Romania), whom i got to know a quarter of an hour before, invited me to this session.

We jammed various standard tunes such as Cream's "sunshine of your love" and Pink Floyds "the wall" for about an hour. The attendant people seemed to like it although our performance was definitively too rock- and avant-garde-like for such a local. Above all I met a lot of interesting musicians and even producers, who I will keep in touch with. We might be given the opportunity to play a series of festival gigs in Hungary and Romania throughout June/July and/or August 2004, however. Obviously it was a good idea to take my guitar with me.

This gig was the bad ass of a bad asses ass!! Because it was a contest with 8 bands performing on that night, we only had 25 minutes. First of all 10 minutes elapsed due to a technical mishap. Our CD player (used for playback loops) gave out during "avantgarden". Solving the problem took so long that we had to miss out 2 songs.

Finally the sound engineer repositioned the CD player out of Robert's reach, so that he could no longer control it, which was forcing us to play the set without any breaks between the songs. Lászlo could not be present at all, as he was shooting new visuals in Italy (We believe he was just on holiday...). At least the other bands and our most loyal companions would slightly upvalue this evening.

Most of the people that are usually coming to our gigs obviously were on holiday. The "family" was present all the same and, considering the circumstances, we did a decent job. Bass-player Alex set up the audio engineering appliances, whereas our darling Artur Tewfik operated the audio and light mixer while we were playing. Lászlo used the opportunity to try out new visuals.

I did a new solo (after "Sumsmoove Trip") that I probably won't do again in this form;-). For the rest, a highlight (rather downlight) was an electrical power outage we managed to cause during the soundcheck!!! I don't know if any photos were shot, but I will try to exhibit every picture I can get hold of. I would like to thank all those, who turned up despite the tropical heat and hope to see you again next time.

Playing at such a huge event inherently is someting special. Consequently we were pretty flustered, but gave an acceptable performance in spite of technical complications. Altogether we played 9 songs. Our slightly drunk hardcore fan, who, among other things, wanted to pass us a bottle of red wine during the show and continuously screamed "power music!" will be remembered, anyway:-).

In case you could not come to the show or merely want to take a look at a few highlights, you can find a good deal of pictures in the photos section. Special thanks go to Artur Tewfik, who not only operated the camera, but also stuck up for us before, during and after the gig. Two clips (also including scenes from D-I-F), created by Lászlo, can soon be downloaded.

A truely felicitous gig with a lot of improvisation, both musical and organisational. We played 11 songs, including "no regrets" and "I went out" (which have not been played live before). The Unplugged crew was perfectly friendly an professional, especially the audio engineer, who provided us with great monitor and PA mixes. Photos will follow...

We shared the stage with two other acts, namely "Cloud Tissa feat. Dee and L.C." and "Izggublien Slucai". The gig was organized by Interface (see links section). It was our first gig with our drummer Robert. The setlist consisted of "avant garden", "botiz going to", "sumsmoove trip", "new years eve", "back to canada" and "globetrotter". Thanks go to the audio engineer for helping me reproduce the faulty loops of "New Years Eve"