REFUSED Reunion
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REFUSED Reunion
musste ja irgendwann mal kommen:
http://officialrefused.com.preview.binero.se/
We had a band once, in Umeå. We would pile in a van, like every other punkband, and thunder off in pursuit of friends and glory in some basement in front of 20 people, 50 people, in towns 4-5 hours away. Sometimes there would be more than a hundred people and we would later in the week refer to that as a "big show". We were ambitious, but we didn't think of it as a career. We never made any fiscal sense whatsoever during 7 years of touring. Like most punkbands, it never occured to us to even try. We had a scene, we had some politics and we had just a hint of artistic ambition. True to our swedish roots we got very serious very fast. And then suddenly we got good. It's a delicate path to tread for precocious twentysomethings anywhere on the planet, but this particular bunch didn't make it. And that was fine. Most enterprises in life are unrelated to incredibly violent rock music.
It's been a motley 14 years since our band came apart. We've all kept busy in our respective endeavors but we've all remained friends and kept in touch. There have been offers, and lots of jokes about these offers. We've sort of looked down from our high horses and made fun of people who've just wanted to share the psychopathic intensity that we would deliver on a nightly basis in our post-pubescent prime. A reunion has just seemed irrelevant to us. Too much other shit to do.
But then Kristofer got his degree from the Swedish opera academy, Jons medical studies began drawing to a close and Dennis and David started a new hardcore band together. Finally, after a decade and a half hiatus, Kristofer picked up the guitar again. Which made David want to play the drums again. Which in turn led to all four of us suddenly making new music in assorted constellations. As all this was brewing, Coachella got in touch. There were a couple of phone-calls, lots of skepticism, some hesitant enthusiasm before one of us basically said: "– This is ridiculous. There are friends of ours who would murder close relatives just to go see bands there. Let's just do it, one last time." And with that, socialist fag-loving pc scumbags were on the road again.
We never did "The shape of punk to come" justice back when it came out, too tangled up in petty internal bickering to really focus on the job. And suddenly there's this possibility to do it like it was intended. We wanna do it over, do it right. For the people who've kept the music alive through the years, but also for our own sakes.
We feel that you deserve it and we hope the feeling is mutual.
See you in the pit.
//Refused
http://officialrefused.com.preview.binero.se/
We had a band once, in Umeå. We would pile in a van, like every other punkband, and thunder off in pursuit of friends and glory in some basement in front of 20 people, 50 people, in towns 4-5 hours away. Sometimes there would be more than a hundred people and we would later in the week refer to that as a "big show". We were ambitious, but we didn't think of it as a career. We never made any fiscal sense whatsoever during 7 years of touring. Like most punkbands, it never occured to us to even try. We had a scene, we had some politics and we had just a hint of artistic ambition. True to our swedish roots we got very serious very fast. And then suddenly we got good. It's a delicate path to tread for precocious twentysomethings anywhere on the planet, but this particular bunch didn't make it. And that was fine. Most enterprises in life are unrelated to incredibly violent rock music.
It's been a motley 14 years since our band came apart. We've all kept busy in our respective endeavors but we've all remained friends and kept in touch. There have been offers, and lots of jokes about these offers. We've sort of looked down from our high horses and made fun of people who've just wanted to share the psychopathic intensity that we would deliver on a nightly basis in our post-pubescent prime. A reunion has just seemed irrelevant to us. Too much other shit to do.
But then Kristofer got his degree from the Swedish opera academy, Jons medical studies began drawing to a close and Dennis and David started a new hardcore band together. Finally, after a decade and a half hiatus, Kristofer picked up the guitar again. Which made David want to play the drums again. Which in turn led to all four of us suddenly making new music in assorted constellations. As all this was brewing, Coachella got in touch. There were a couple of phone-calls, lots of skepticism, some hesitant enthusiasm before one of us basically said: "– This is ridiculous. There are friends of ours who would murder close relatives just to go see bands there. Let's just do it, one last time." And with that, socialist fag-loving pc scumbags were on the road again.
We never did "The shape of punk to come" justice back when it came out, too tangled up in petty internal bickering to really focus on the job. And suddenly there's this possibility to do it like it was intended. We wanna do it over, do it right. For the people who've kept the music alive through the years, but also for our own sakes.
We feel that you deserve it and we hope the feeling is mutual.
See you in the pit.
//Refused
- reanimapeda
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die haben sich aufgelöst bevor sie richtig gross wurden, das war finanziell gesehn ned sehr gscheit...hat mir eine zeit lang gefallen, obwohl sie meiner meinung nach nie an breach rangekommen sind. new noise kann ich nicht mehr hören. hat der sänger nicht eine reunion immer vehement ausgeschlossen? .....naja, das hat ja zb mike patton auch getan...
at the drive-in auch zurück. ähnlicher fall.
at the drive-in auch zurück. ähnlicher fall.
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wenn sie's bleiben lassen hätten, wär's auch kein schaden gewesen.
New Noise kann man sich als coverversion auf der aktuellen Anthrax anhören.
New Noise kann man sich als coverversion auf der aktuellen Anthrax anhören.
CONSPIRACY - Death/Thrash-Metal
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- reanimapeda
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die auflösung war ja eigentlich konsequent - wenn ich so vehement gegen jegliche form von kommerzialisierung wettere udn alles verteufle was auch nur ansatzweise mit Geld zu tun hat..ja, da kam da damals - ganz offen gesagt - trotz meiner generellen abneigung der band und wofür sie stand schon irgendwie cool rüber. New Noise video lief auf MTV, und als Reaktion darauf hin löst man sich auf - das hat schon was...
mir gehen ja refused prinzipiell "hintenrum" vorbei..aber wre sich halt mit so einem badabumm von pathos verabschiedet, der muss sich eben auch den spott bei reunion gefallen lassen.
und da merk ich, das schöne am internet ist, man findet noch jeden uralten scheiss:
http://www.burningheart.com/refused/refmanifest5.htm
mir gehen ja refused prinzipiell "hintenrum" vorbei..aber wre sich halt mit so einem badabumm von pathos verabschiedet, der muss sich eben auch den spott bei reunion gefallen lassen.
und da merk ich, das schöne am internet ist, man findet noch jeden uralten scheiss:
http://www.burningheart.com/refused/refmanifest5.htm
- reanimapeda
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es liest sich halt heroischer...
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