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.