No more No Name

It's sad. After more than 20 years.
We'd like to thank everybody who helped, listened, watched, laughed and had good times with us.
However, life goe's on. Check out on: http://aftertank.blogspot.com
Again thank you all and see you soon ;)
Chris

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

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

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

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

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

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.

http://maps.google.de/maps?q=belvaux+luxembourg&gl=de&hl=de&ei=JigVTIKLLYO9jAeTntDsDw&vps=1&jsv=246b&sll=49.508045,5.928025&sspn=0.019510,0.052366&ie=UTF8&view=map&geocode=FfN28wIdtF1aAA&split=0&iwloc=A&ved=0CBMQpQY&sa=X

See you then.
Chris

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.

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.

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

Tonight @ Spirit of 66

No Name will be present tonight when IQ is "back on the road" at Spirit of 66 in Verviers, Belguim.(Just to avoid any confusion, we will be there to enjoy the gig, not to play...)



We are very happy to see these guys again. So if you do not know what to do, just just join us. (Begin 18.30)
Link for more info: http://www.spiritof66.com/
Have a nice one.
Chris

Concert Confirmed

No Name is performing on the "Rock et" 2009 stage.

Location: Dudelange

Date: 27th June 2009

Further details to be confirmed.

News around 20 Candels

Let me begin with the following date you have to bear in you mind: 16th Apr 2009.

Kuffi will be present at RTL Television's show called "20 vir" (20 to) at 6.40 pm (which explains the name of the show) Don't miss it.

Further Kuffi uploaded a live version of "Mat enger Tréin" taken out of our 20th anniversary concert the 14th March 2009 @ "Op der Schmelz" on http://www.youmake.tv/ (Have a look it´s worth it)

Talking about http://www.youmake.tv/ , I did the same with a video used for the screen show on the 14th. I've chosen "Visions" for the first and some other will surely follow.

Last but not least, some negociations are done around some concerts and I will let you know as soon everything is confirmed.

Stay tuned.

Chris

20 Candles, The Show: Thank You All

Thousand thanks to all of you joining this event and giving us this huge and warm welcome. It was extremely motivating to see all these faces we knew since a long time and the ones, coming to this event out of sheer curiosity.





The show started with a chronological set, reflecting the songs from 1988 until 2008 followed by a set of songs we just love to play. All in all it was a more than 2 hours show and words fail me to express everything we experienced that exceptional day. I have to get together with the lads to discuss what impressions they captured. Yves came along, yestersay, and I had the impression he was still amazed about the event.Enjoying together a glass of good Italian wine, He gave me some really good feedback, he got from several people joining the event. (I heared nothing so far because I slept away nearly the whole Sunday an Monday...), and together we had a look on the, very poor, Video record I made of the gig, and some glint appeared in our eyes.



I will give a more detailed review once I had a chat with everybody, to consider all impressions and experiences of that very special evening.

This Blog will be continued with the same name until end of 2009. (Later I'll see how to rename it and let you know). Further you will have details of upcoming events and other things.

To see some pictures taken on Saturday, please simply click on the below image and enjoy.

Chris :o)

20 Candles: The Show

20 Candles completed

On Sunday, 28th February 2009, some champagne bottles have been opened at Tritone Studios to celebrate the end of a long journey. The mixdown and remastering have been finished. So by now we are quite confident that the disc will be available for the 14th March 2009 at our 20th anniversary concert.

Now our focus applies to this very big event and we had some re-hearsals already last week. Further, this concert needs a lot of engineering, in order to get it a worthy anniversary "party"

I will confirm our supporting act, tomorrow at this place.

Now I want you to put your attention on the following Radio shows where we will be interviewed:

Radio 100,7: Sat. 07-03-09 between 02.30pm and 04.30pm (Freq. 100,7)

RTL: Fri. 13-03-09 between 08.00am and 09.00am (Freq. 88,9)

DNR: Fri. 13-03-09 between 05.00pm and 07.00pm (Freq. 107,7)

Maybe there will be some more to confirm.

Have a nice one.

Chris

Big time at Tritone Studios

The warm welcome at Tritone Studios, Trier (http://www.audio.lu/tritone.php?lang=de&module=aboutus) was just the begin of a good relationship between them and us. On Monday, Alex took the whole day to get things started and after a really long session, Broken Heart was mixed down. Julio and Georges from Tritone were open to meet any exigences from the Band but never without investing their opinion, guidance and experience. After a few hours we made a good team, which I personally found one of the qualities to punctuate. The sound of the songs is full, dynamic and living. I know, some of you might say that this is the main goal of all studio, but beleive me, I had some opposite experience in the past.

(Georges (left) and Julio (right) in "action")

However, today will be the final mixdown. Alex had, I guess, a quite fullfilling week and he is surely happy that this load has been taken off him. Again I just want to thank him for all the work he has done the last few month. If everithing works fine today, tomorrow will see the remastering.

I'll keep you posted
Have a nice week-end

Chris ;o)

Recordings finalised

Yes, as promised, it's done. Finally we finished the recordings.

It was around 16.00 CET that we all met to take a look at the things we left out at the begin of the recording sessions. "Left out? How this?" some of you might ask. Well this is quickly explained: When recording sessions are in the beginning phase, everybody tries to start with the, let's say, more complex parts. And at the end of the recording period you have always something to play that you thought finished. However, now we are sure that our Album "20 Candles" will be available latest on 14th March 2009.

Kuffi opened the door to our rehearsal room this afternoon with the words: "Hi, the chants are taped" I can imagine that this took a load from him (and as well from Alex).

So, we went again to take some Band pics, followed by a last action from Yves. Mulles finished a "dum dum dum dum" (So did I too) and I was finishing a few more percussive things.
Now we are ready to rumble. The mixing phase is now upcoming. News will follow.
Have a nice week.
Chris

Today: Get things finished.

After a real exciting week, met the guys quite a few times, we now reached the last recording day. As promised Kuffi got all the songs done, since a while the guitars are on tape and about drums'n bass nobody is talking since a little eternity. Really?... well Alex discovered a blanc at the begin of Battlefield. This means that Mulles and I will have to do some quick takes this afternoon. Anyway, we will meet to take another few Band pictures by daylight.

So, tonight I will update the blog a last time from a recording point of view. Next week, we're in Trier at Tritone Studios to process the final mixdown.

Enjoy your Sunday.

Chris

No Name: A hard working Band

Yesterday, late evening, Kuffi, Mulles and I met together with Alex and Yves who have worked on the last outstanding takes. We arranged, as you can see, to take high professional band pictures.

Why to pay a photographer if you get the same result with a simple timer which is included in every digital cam? (These times are over for us by now.)

After the session we followed Yves, bringing in his solo part on First Night, reflecting a "Suitesch Portugues do Guitariniu bebida demais cerveja Sagres". (?)

We were really happy that this was more or less done by not mor than a half an hour and went to the Portuguese "Pub" next door to discuss about the really important things for our 20th anniversary concert: Catering and comfort!

No, seriousely now. We have still quite a few things to arrange and organise and the tasks have been allocated and need to be accomplished.

Monday the 23rd will be the first day in recording Studio for mixdown. I think I will get some more stuff to write down from there.

Enjoy Music,

Chris

http://www.youmake.tv/

http://www.noname.lu/

A fantastic evening

Oh yes, it was. Yesterday I enjoyed being a member of No Name, but first of all let me apoligise for breaking the promise I gave in my previous statement. I really tried to write this down, but didn't find the right words yesterday at all. (Maybe one beer too much...)

As you can see on the few pictures it was the time for us all to rectify, add and change some sequences.

Mulles did some real good work in adapting his bass in some parts of Orient Express. (Sorry, did I forget to tell you that this song will be part of the next CD? My Goodness, shame on me. So now you know.)


For me it was a great pleasure to come along with my acoustic snare (and some beers) to add some kind of rolls and stuff on Orient Express as well. Maybe the neighbors did not feel the same but I think we got it recorded before they thought about calling the cops.

After this we had a quite serious break with all kind of logistic and organizational discussions of our Concert the 14th March 2009 at "Op der Schmelz" (Routing will follow)

Than Kuffi came along, saying he wanted to finish sone songs and check the sounds out of an old thing called SPD11. (Whatever!)

So Mulles and I just modestly disappeared, not to say we ran away (Little joke). To be honest we only left because these recording microphones are quite sensible on any kind of noise they do not have to record.

Kuffi did some really long and hard sessions the last days together with Alex and I really like to thank them for this.

Now for the nex steps: Tomorrow, we will ALL meet to take some Band pics, an I will provide you, hopefully with some further news.



Until than, enjoy your time,

Chris

http://www.youmake.tv/

http://www.noname.lu/