June 25, 2009 Live in London
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Hey, just a quick note. We are coming back to play in London. This time it’ll be the lovely Bush Hall. We’ll play lots of songs from our debut album as well as lots of new songs.
The opening act will be by our friend, Owen Duff.
The night will be special, as that’ll be the first day you’ll be able to get a lovely comic, a British artist, Howard J Hardiman made to our song Guys That Died.
You can get tickets here.
You will be very welcome.
no comments.May 6, 2009 We are back!
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We are back!
So. We are back. I mean we have not been properly away, but now we are full on. We have concerts and stuff. And we have new songs! Some of them we are already playing live, some of them we are furiously working on.
Altogether we have 6 new songs right now, 2 of which did not fit on the last album but we love them, 4 brand new ones. They apparently have a lot more drama and quiet and loud dancing than our previous album. Hopefully we are soon going to call this an album too.
Until then, please come and see us live and encourage our new songs with your cheering. New songs are as shy on the stage as a new artist can be.
no comments.March 6, 2009 Spring
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Spring is re-birth. How true. Today we had our first featuring stuff with Havasi again after a rest of three months. These are evenings where he has a solo concert and I go and sing a couple of UBT songs as a guest. I really enjoyed it last year, and today, well, I have to say it was fantastic. First we wanted to play our new song called “Devil On Your Shoulder” but chickened out. So we played Two Days, You Are A Lover and Overture. It was a big success, the audience really liked it. We are going to have 5 more evenings like that all over in Hungary.
Re-birth. There have been some changes in our line-up again, which I will soon communicate. It’s sad, but life goes on.
We have also been invited to play a 90 min concert in a radio studio here in Hungary of which the radio will broadcast 60 minutes. We shall happily oblige.
And how are you?
no comments.January 9, 2009 see it’s over
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did it hurt you? we started yesterday’s set with messages. this time it was not only havasi and me, but the full line-up. for the last time. from today peter is no longer with us, as we parted. in peace.
it was a very touching and great performance. the technical background was crap, but it did not matter, we had a good time. played messages, two days & overture on piano, bass and percussion, and you are a lover with piano only. as an encore we played guys that died.
so what next? we have to find a bassist with the speed of light to be able to get on stage in april. this is this week’s project. end of april we are recording a 90 minute long session with the Hungarian Radio, where we’ll not only have our new bassist, but three guests, Bíborka is coming to sing Overture with me, Agnes, who is re-appearing from our history and Tibor Bornai from KFT, with whom I am going to sing a duet. It is going to be great fun. Unfortunately the concert is invite only, but it is going to be broadcast afterwards.
no comments.January 8, 2009 what do you know?
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so folks. this is how we start 2009. Havasi called me the end of last year to tell me that he’s got a surprise for me. He sent a DVD by post, which included a video of us doing “What Do You Know’ at his concert last October. I was not aware of cameras being there, though. And three of them! Ha! Anyway. They edited it nicely, and we decided that we liked it so much we’ll make it public.
The song was written/recorded for Chemically Happy, but left off. We quite like it. Bring on self-pity. YAY.
no comments.December 15, 2008 No longer a trio.
so now you got scared. ha. 
unless you were there at our london concert you are not aware yet, but we now officially have a fourth member, and it is no other than
Andor Gabor on drums and percussion. TARAAAAAA!
You may have heard him playing on our album or our concerts in 2008.
no comments.December 11, 2008 post-london
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so we are back from london.
having flown the same day early morning we were knackered. the plane took off at 6am. we landed before 8 UK time and were met by our lovely lizzi. he took the boys to their hotel and i made my way to kennington, where i usually stay at a wonderful friend’s.
at 5-ish we had the soundcheck and then an interview for musicOMH.com . i started becoming nervous while the second act were playing already. i eventually got to a point before the concert where i nearly threw up, it’s odd though, as i had been surprisingly calm compared to my usual self the whole day.
and then we got on stage. we screwed up right the first song as bad as i don’t think we had ever done before, but from the second song on some magic started. the audience was extremely responsive and it became all self-generating, this inspired us and we played better, which made the audience even more excited. many people important for us came and everybody seemed to have enjoy it.
so let’s hope we are soon to be back for more.
no comments.December 2, 2008 back in london
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so we are coming back to london this thursday. with all the promotion and press coverage we’ve had, if the concert was attended by few people only we’d deserve to be featured on failblog.com
however. i believe it’s going to be fantastic. we had a revision rehearsal, which went very well. we also included two songs we have not played yet on concerts, or have, just in another form.
we are going to be four. all drummed up. the maniest we’ve every been. also don’t forget to scream and applaud loud, as there will be press people that need to be im-pressed. hahaha.
see you in the luminaire this thursday evening
no comments.November 22, 2008 Pete Paphides’ visit to Budapest
having the music journalist of the times flying over to your town just for your sake, is … well, both honouring and unnerving. you imagine someone coming over with the look of your most dreaded teacher on his face, asking questions you never know where he intends to go to with, impossible to please with any answers.
and then of course you realise that this is another fucking stereotype. i already started to realise it when pete paphides answered my mail telling him we are going to pick him up at the airport saying “it is very good of us”. humility. i have a thing for people with humility.
i did a bit of googling on him, read a couple of articles he’d written to be prepared. i still cannot cope with the idea of people meeting me to speak about me and me not knowing anything about him. cyprus, UK, chip-shop, time-out, the times.
luckily, it was a wonderful day. one of those beautiful late autumn days. the one budapest looks the best in. so we did a bit of walking on andrassy ut, told him a bit about budapest, and he wondered how i knew so much about town. i thought it was just basic knowledge you learn at school? probably when you live in a smaller european capital, more attention is paid to the history of your town. less easy to just pass by. also, with an audience as pete, it is very easy to speak about what you find interesting, he was intrigued by every single thing i said.
then over the lunch we had the interview. havasi joined us and it was a most pleasant lunch (as well as i had the most gorgeous baked pumpkin with blue-cheese and caramelised nuts!) and then we crossed the chain bridge and the legend begun.
i did something i hadn’t since late childhood…
we sat on the funiculaire (siklo) and went up to the castle. now that gave me shivers. i got nearly more excited than pete was, and i can tell you he was excited quite a bit! moving above the town looking down, why do i never do this?
the castle was quiet and all lit in afternoon wintery sun. why don’t i come here more often? a lot more often? my grandmother used to live here. we came here every second sunday to have lunch. if we were well-behaved, we were taken to ruszwurm for ice-cream.
pete was well-behaved (he called home to account on his well being twice, an exemplary family man, despite claiming to his wife to be in prague once in front of the whole cake-shop, making it up with being most honestly embarrassed for it) so i took him there for cakes. too cold for ice-cream. having cakes we admitted to each other our guilty pleasures of loving euro-disco and showed each other tracks on each other’s ipods. geeky. lovely. we agreed that nina persson was still far too underrated for her lyrical skills.
and then there was a plane to catch. so we rode the bus down back to the pest side, walked around the synagogue, sat in the car.
on our way to the airport i showed him some more songs i believed he should hear, while he was a bit worried (not without a reason, although, i do think, pete, that you worry too much as the road to the airport was closed for a foreign commitee. but the commitee passed us and we were let go. we were there on time. as i promised we would, see?
what could i say to sum it up. if you want to re-discover your own city, go back to the nice bits of your childhood, well… make pete visit you
no comments.November 17, 2008 November
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have you ever heard November by Azure Ray? It’s so beautiful.
This autumn is quite eventful for us. First of all, we had a visit from Pete Paphides from The Times, who made a feature on us which will appear later this month. It was a lovely day, and if you spot it in The Times, come here quickly, because you will see my own impressions on meeting him giving you the other side of the visit.
Then, we are also preparing for our concert in The Luminaire. The setlist will be more or less the same as the one we played in Budapest early October, but some songs will be changed.
And funnily, we started writing new songs, we already have some 6-7 tracks. A new album? Maybe. We’ll see. For now, it is for the sake of creativity only.
And how are you?
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