kobayashi- news:
- [28-04-08] 6 months in advance we already have our
minitour with the Juggling Jugulars nearly completely confirmed.
Crazy little DIY world.... And even more dubious: We already know
where we play in december...
- [18-03-08] We went to the studio for one weekend to
record and mix one song for an Anti-Prison 7" Sampler that
will be released by Stonehenge
Records. We do not know when it will be released, but we will
let you know. And of course we will put the lyrics on this homepage
as soon as I find the time.
- [07-01-08] Here we are again- back from our winter
tour that lead us through 5 countries in 12 days. It was really
nice to meet some old friends and to make new ones. The unexpected
highlight was our spontaneous concert in Dravograd on new year´s
eve: Such great people and such a funny evening- KinoKids rule!
It will be more silent during the upcoming months: One of us
will be away for several months until summer and therefor we won´t
be able to play concerts before end of summer 08.
- [13-10-07] The band Bombenalarm
had a serious car accident in which Stachel (Unsociable-label) and
Sara had been seriously injured. You find some info on this story
in the Trust-Forum.
The Grünenstrasse and we decided to take the money from the
benefit gig we´ll play tomorrow to cover a part of the follow-up-
costs.
- [25-08-07] I´ve had a look at our linklist
and realized some changes.
- [21-08-07] We have had great 4 days in Finland, although
no mooses crossed our way... Thanks a lot to all organizers, Martin
and of course to the awesome Juggling Jugulars!
- [11-08-07] You will now find a translated interview
realized by the german TRUST
fanzine in the archive.
- [25-07-07] We´ve printed new shirts- you can
see and order them here. Beside that there
several samplers about to be released in which we take part and
a finnish fanzine has an interview with us in their current issue.
And of course we are looking forward to meet you on our concerts
in Finland in August!
- [29-04-07] Yippiiieh! Finally: our old webadress kobayashi-disko.org
is working again and since some days the mailadress as well. So
go ahead and get in touch-
we are always happy when getting mails.
Furthermore lots of new concerts are
already planned- three of them in Finland in August. We are looking
forward to it!
- [22-04-07] Seems as if Kobayashi shall not have a
working homepage: Since 3 months (or longer?) the old server is
switched off and due to some morons we could not recover the old
URL (kobayashi-disko.org) until now. That sucks and really makes
us angry but we can´t do nothing about it. The worst about
all this shit is that a lot of people might have written us, but
all the mails sent to our usual address (printed on thousand of
CDs / LPs) also does not work since month. If you want to get in
touch, please write to kobayashi13@gmx.net
- [02-01-07] Our tour with Cólera was really
great: we saw new interesting places, felt very welcome at every
place we have been and have found very good new friends: Cólera
who joined us during all these days. Greetings also to Giuda with
whom we played 4 gigs!
- [28-11-06] Yippieh! Kobayashi got rid of debts. After
years and years we finally don´t owe a cent to anyone anymore.
This has been possible because our Release-Party was really good.
Thanks to Hodz and Largact.ill
for playing, to the Friese
for all the infrastructure and of course to all the friends who
helped us setting up the concert / party or who just showed up.
- [11-11-06] As we promised, now you find new Kobayashi
songs in the download section. And of course
we got the lyrics translated for you as
well.
- [26-10-06] It´s nearly done! Actually it took
us a lot of time and work, but this week the recordings will be
send to the factory. When the LP is ready in November we are gonna
make a party, because that´s really a good reason we think.
Check the concert page for details. After
some difficulties in finding places to play, our december tour with
Cólera (Valencia, ES) is also nearly completely confirmed
now.
- [21-07-06] Before recording a new album we just released
a CD with some chosen old songs- you can get it for 3,50€ (plus
postage) if you contact
us.
- [16-05-06] Our summer- tour in germoney is completely
confirmed. After these 8 days we will directly go to the studio
to record a new LP which will hopefully be released in autumn. We'll
keep you informed.
- [17-04-06] As promised, I´ll try to give you
some kind of short summary of our Israel tour- if you´d like
to know more, get in touch.
Of course one week was far too short: We neither had the time nor
the money to see all the things there are to be visited. The fact
that the country and the "scene" is relatively small was
somehow nice for us, because lots of people were constantly around
us which made it possible not to talk only about superficialities
but to get to know each other to a certain degree. In spite of difficult
circumstances, they did a lot for us, so that we could see a lot
and that every concert was some kind of special. We can´t
remember having played concerts in such a short time at so different
places: In the park deck of an old abandoned soda factory, a non
profit theatre project with frightening professionel equipment,
a club with a doorman and a school cafeteria. However: Although
this tour made our mountain of debt a little higher, we are really
glad to have done it and would like to repeat it one day.
Thanx to all the people for their great hospitality and their helpfullness.
You know who you are...
By the way- If the woman who took the photos in Kyriat Onu and Tel
Aviv will read this: You told us that you would like to send us
the pictures. It would be really great if you could do so or contact
us via e-mail. Unfortunately the photos we took did not really got
nice.
Our summer tour in germany is already nearly
completely confirmed.
- [09-11-05] We translated a text which explains the
reason why Riot Rex made the non- profit Compilation in which we
take part. You find it in the archive.
- [17-09-05] Earlier than we thought our december- concerts
in Spain are already confirmed. Further a new benefit- compilation
in which Kobayashi takes part has been releases by RiotRex.
And then there are several new concerts planned
for December , January (+ Aggra
Makabra) and February (+ Koyaanisqatsi).
- [17-03-05] Last Thursday Martin told us that he decided
to leave Kobayashi. We don´t know how to explain the reasons
to people outside the band, so we will not even try to do so. He
got some kind of tired, that´s about it. However, it was hard
for him to take that decision and it is hard for us to deal with
it. During nearly 8 years the band was only possible for us in this
compound and played an important role in the lifes of each one of
us. Nevertheless we decided that the four of us want to keep on
making music together, although it will definitely will not be the
same band for us.
It will figure out if someday a fifth person will join us again.
If not, we will keep on with 4.
Anyway, we are gonna play 2 last concerts
in the well known constellation and it would be nice to see you
there!
- [03-03-05] Our friend Mitch is no longer alive. Some
of you might have known him, he played the drums with Koyaanisqatsi.
We have been to many places with him and it hurts to know that this
will no longer be possible. It´s hard to find the right words
in the way a good friend did on Mitchs funeral. But at least we
want to send geetings to all those who knew him.
A lot of people will miss him.
- [31-12-04] We are glad to tell you that the "turn
it down"- compilation against right- wing (music-) subculture
has been released as well- you´ll find the details right here.
- [27-08-04] Our homepage has got a new adress: Great
that you found it! It became necessary because we had no access
to the old webpage which had the consequence that we were not able
to update the site since more than two years- until we decided to
use other webspace: this one.
Nevertheless we have not been completely inactive within these years,
but I prefer not to tell you all the details.
We did 3 little tours in the past: Netherlands with Koyaanisqatsi,
Germoney/ Czechia/ Poland with Disface and Germoney/ France/ Switzerland
with Too Rude To Be Cute- thanx to everybody involved and above
all to these 3 bands: it was big fun!
Further we have been in the studio again. The recordings had been
released on two split- singles: One is shared with Disface from
Barcelona and the other one with Koyaanisqatsi.
You can download two of these songs on the disco page. Then we also
took part in two non-profit compilations: One for indymedia and
the other one for Radio
Bronka from Barcelona- you find the details in the Disco-
section.
Well- as we wrote some new songs as well, there are new lyrics
online.
As you see: Kobayashi keeps on- although there were times when it
seemed as if we would have to give it up. But now all of us are
living in the same city again and that makes everything a lot easier.
Of course we do have plans for the future as well, but I prefer
not to promise too much- we´ll keep you informed..
you can look at all the old news (1999- 2002) here
history:
all right, kobayashi exists since the end of 1997 and until may
2005 we were 5: daniel [bass], rodrigo [drums], maik [guitar and
voice], peter [voice] and martin [guitar and voice]. unfortunately
martin left the band and since then we are trying to push things
forward without him. we're somewhere in between punk and hardcore,
most of the time a bit melodic, but forget this melody- core- thing
right now!
subversion and counterculture are important values for us-
including the whole 'diy' thing: we don't need no gods, no state
and certainly no masters. that's why we believe in running our things
on our own.

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