Dienstag, 5. Oktober 2010

Kuffi leaves No Name

Bad news for the Band. Last Friday before starting to rehearse, Kuffi brought up that he took the decision to leave No Name.
I am sure you can imagine how we felt and that we tried to bring him round. At the end, we agreed with his arguments, knowing that we will loose a Band member but not a friend.
We now are checking out what we can do best out of this situation and several meetings are already organised.

Still left to say that, however the circumstances are, we will play the gig at 24 hours Handball in Dudelange, Centre Sportif René Hartmann on Saturday, 27th November 2010. It was never Kuffi's intention to cancel this concert and we all are grateful for this.
So, come to see the last concert with Kuffi and say good bye.

Chris

Dienstag, 22. Juni 2010

Thank you!

As promised I have a few new pictures to share with you. More will follow on the No Name home page: www.noname.lu

Regarding the last 3 concerts, No Name has to thank the support from all the people coming to the shows and all the ones around No Name making this possible.
Many special thanks are going to our families which we did not see much the last few days.

For us it was a great experience and the result of this mini tour is that the 3 new songs are now ready for live events and that some people see that we are still existing ;o)
And now, I will take a little break...



We now are going to finish the outstanding songs and will be in the studios in autumn. A new CD will be produced and you will find more infos here and on our home page.

Again thank you all and enjoy the pictures. 
Chris

Montag, 21. Juni 2010

No Name 3 of 3: Rock the balcony

This was, in respect of all the concerts we ever played, one of the most unconventional stages I've ever seen.
A balcony at the back of a pub called "Little Woodstock", transformed into a concert stage. (Notice: Should not really be used for stagediving)


A campfire, cool people having their fun, lots of really good Heavy Bands and than... No Name!


To be honest we were a bit anxious seing the Bands performimg before us, but the we quickly felt the relax  atmosphere as you can see on the below picture of Kuffi, while his best performance that day ;o)


Thanks to all the organisers sound technicians and staff whoe really did a goo job during this event.
We will stay in contact, and might come back with a little surprise ;o)

Tomorrow I will blog a summary with a lot of pics and thoughts over the last week end.
Thank you all for having participated.
Chris

Sonntag, 20. Juni 2010

No Name 2 of 3: 10°C and frozen hands

Cold! It was cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey. 10°C, so that needed a lot of beers to get the warmth back into our bodies, but so far that's not one of the most difficult problems for us I think ;)


However, @ Fête de la Musique we had some really good moments and our concert was just putting the cherry on the cake for us. Lots of people and a good ambience made this event a very special one for us, even if we just had 40 min to perform.

Thank you all, for coming and supporting.

I now have to stop, because I still do have some things for tonights show @ Little Woodstock in Ernzen.

C U there,
Chris

Samstag, 19. Juni 2010

No Name 1of 3: Paradise Bar at a glance

So now, the first Gig has been performed and it left a deeply positive impression.
We couldn't choose a better place to start this "Mini Concert Tour" and I think it will not be the last time playing in Paradiso (ooops sorry Andy) Paradise Bar in Belvaux.

We started the Concert  right after this enormeous thrilling (lol) England vs Algeria World Championship Match and the pub was well crowded. We had a very warm Welcome and felt well from the first second on.
After 1.5 hours both sides where happy enough and we finished this first Gig, which was the longest of the this week-end, taking some beers with the 


Further I'd like send from this place many thanks to Vanessa and Andy, owners of the Paradise Bar. They have been extremely helpfull, nice and straight-forward. After 22 years of concert experience I am able to say that this is not the norm and I am happy to see that some people still have a heart for musicians (Oh God, wasn't this last part a bit too soupy? However, it's the truth)

So, all you Rockers out there! Need a cool location for your next gig? Well that's the place to choose.

http://www.facebook.com/search/?flt=1&q=paradise+bar&o=65&s=40#!/profile.php?id=100000830194958&ref=ts

Tonight, we're performing in Dudelange @ Fête de la Musique (Why Not Stage) and we will be happy to Welcome you at 23:00 CET. Be frequent.

See you then,
Chris

Sonntag, 13. Juni 2010

It's getting closer and closer to the next weekend and a big challange is occuring for No Name.
3 straight concerts. We never had even two straight ones. However, this smells like hilarious fun and long nights! No Name is proven in being a steady Band, but this weekend, we will face the limits. Come hell or high water.

Here the dates:


18th June 2010: Brasserie Paradise, Belvaux (Free entrance / start: 22:30 CET)

19th June 2010: Fête de la Musique, Dudelange (Free entrance / start 23:00 CET)
20th June 2010: Little Woodstock, Ernzen (Free entrance / start 18:00 CET)


The whole Band is looking forward to these events and hopes that you will make it at least to one of the shows.




The biggest set will be performed on the 18th. @ Paradise in Belvaux. We will play for at least 1.5 hours.






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See you then.
Chris

Sonntag, 30. Mai 2010

Ready to go

Hello Everybody,

We finished the last song, of the three "fresh blood" songs, we will perform the 18th, 19th and 20th of June 2010.
Last Friday we had to rehearse without our Bass player, Mulles and what a stroke of good fortune, we finished the whole thing within 2 hours. This does not mean that we are just having creative moments without him, but as he is younger and much more intensive in his art of rehearsing, we just had more time for drinks and I think this makes the difference. ;o)


This is, of course, complete nonsens.
Wednesday we will have a rehearsal with Mulles and I am more than sure that the song can only get better.

Have a nice week.
Chris.



Sonntag, 9. Mai 2010

Yesterday


As promised, I took my cam to yesterday's rehearsal. I was quite confident to get the one or other good picture, but at the end I had nothing at all. What happened? Well, everybody knows how it is when you do something and at a certain stage you notice time has flown away. Especially last night we had a few really creative moments and I thought on everything but taking some pics.

However, after the rehearsal we went to the Pub opposite the rehearsal room and I took a few quick pics there.
But I do have some news as well.
On Tuesday 18th May 2010, Alex, Mulles and me will be at the Pendragon Concert in Verviers (B). More info: http://www.spiritof66.be/



No Name will also meet the Belgish Prog Band Taliesyn in order to get a few Concerts organised for the future. We are looking forward to this meeting and are really curious to see what can be arranged and which ideas will be exhausted.

Freitag, 7. Mai 2010

Hello everybody,

Long time ago since I wrote here last. I have been asked the past few month why I stopped this blog and, to be honest, I do not even know the reason (maybe laziness...).
However, as some of you are interested and I have some things to report, I just start right here.

No Name is again in a creative phase of composing, and I punctuate, complete NEW songs. We have chosen several ways to compose, starting with a complete song construction from Alex up to an absolute improvisation which we are turning into a concret composing.

At the moment we have 3 songs ready and we are proud to anounce them on the next concerts in June. (18th, 19th and 20th) I will provide more details about the concerts soon.

Further I will take some pictures of the lads and post them this week-end.

I hope you maintain visiting and enjoying this site.

See you then,
Chris