kobayashi- news:
- [02-07-10] The first "official" concerts
with the new bandmembers are confirmed. See you in Cologne in August!
- [07-05-10] Maik left the band. It was a hard, but
probably inevitable decision for him. He is living in Cologne now
and it is simply not possible to come up to Bremen constantly for
rehearsals and concerts without facing absolute burn-out in the
end. Nevertheless it is a pity for all of us. At least, Kobayashi
keeps on - now that Jana and Roberta joined us. We are looking forward
to upcoming concerts in Summer!
- [14-03-10] Good news: For the first time, new people
are joining the band: Roberta and Jana, two very good friends of
us, decided to support us. This means, that Kobayashi will usually
have 3 guitars from now on and it means that we will not have to
cancel concerts in case that one of us does not have time.
- [23-12-09] Mumia Abu-Jamal is imprisoned in death
row since more than 27 years now. The only reason why he should
be killed by the state is his activism as a political journalist.
We were happy to contribute a song to a recently published solidarity
compilation which is meanzt to raise money for his support and
for the fight against death penalty and prisons in general.
- [02-11-09] As we did in the past 2 years, we will
play in Dusseldorf on X-mas, once again with
the Kaput Krauts.
Within the next days weeks, we will also put an interview
with a DIY activist from Singapur on this page.
- [14-08-09] Our complete last LP from 2006 can now
be downloaded
as a .zip file, including the booklet and two previously unreleased
recordings (a "new" version of the old song "Nicht
lustig" and the song "Neuanstrich").
- [20-07-09] The mini-tour in Spain was awesome, a really
intense week thanks to the help of a lot of people. As mentioned
before, it might have been the last tour for a while, but we definitely
want to repeat that one day.
- [30-05-09] This is not the best year for us... we
need to cancel our tour plans for France completely. One of us will
move to Hamburg Cologne in August and will have even less
time than at the moment. We are really sorry for the people who
were about to prepare shows for us or who were hoping to see us
in October.
Anyway: We'll keep on with Kobayashi, although it's going to be
on an even lower flame than it already was.
- [19-04-09] We decided to cancel our plan to do a tour
in France this summer: Many places shut down and a lot of people
have better things to do than organizing punk shows (Enjoying the
summer at the beach for example:). But we still stick to the plan
in general. Now we want to come in October. Please let
us know if you can help us setting up shows.
- [16-12-08] We finally decided not to wait any longer
for the compilation for which we recorded the song "Christian,
Knut,...". Instead, you can now download
this unreleased song. As mentioned before, the lyrics can be found
here.
- [09-12-08] As we already mentioned here, we went to
the studio 9 months ago to record only one song. It was written
for an anti-prison benefit compilation and spoke about the debates
in Germany about the release of the former RAF activist Christian
Klar. By that time, the german president denied to release Christian.
We are happy to tell you hat he will now be free at the beginning
of next year, after 26 years in prison- for jurisdical reasons of
course, not as a consequence of any political decision. What we
don´t know is when that sampler will be released. For the
moment we decided to put the lyrics on this
website at least. Depending on how things develop, it might be that
you will also find the song here pretty soon.
- [10-10-08] As promised, you will find the interview
with the DIY punk activist from St. Petersburg in our archive
now.
- [04-10-08] The summer is over and we are looking forward
to the upcoming concerts. If everything goes
as we hope, you will also find an interview in the archive soon:
One of us spend his holidays in Russia and spoke to a DIY / Anarcho-Punk
activist about the situation in St. Petersburg.
- [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 autumn 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!
you find all
the old news (1999- 2006) here
history:
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 were trying to push things forward without
him. in march 2010, Jana and roberta joined us and play guitars
since then. maik moved away shortly after and also left the band.
we're somewhere in between punk and hardcore, most of the time kind
of melodic.
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.
COOPERATE ROCK STILL SUCKS.
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