Monday, December 20, 2010

Attention Arniegeddon

Just wanted to share this:



Our second show was fun, especially because we could play with our friends Burning Love (again) and Planks. Thanks to the people at Juz Mannheim who let us play as a third band on a tuesday night. We're looking for shows early next year, so if you want set something up, contact us via comment. There's some rought rehearsal recordings at our myspace, if you want to take a listen. A decent recording is also something we're trying to do in the next weeks.

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Next show: Mannheim on Dec 14th with Burning Love and Planks



After having enjoyed our first show so much we were eager to find at least one more possibilty to play live this year. As Burning Love are playing in Mannheim with Planks we asked if we can join in. Luckily the guys from Mannheim will let us play.
By the way: Planks have a brand new full length out on Per Koro records and they are super nice guys.

For directions and other information: www.juz-mannheim.de

T-Shirt!

Hey, we've got one T-Shirt Design avalaible in sizes S, M and L. Printed in black on olive Fruit of the Loom Valueweight shirts. If you want one, leave a comment, write an e-mail at attentionarmageddon[at]gmail[dot]com or through our contact form. It looks like this:

First show, KTS Freiburg, Nov 20th 2010

With Sebi and Dan both shift working and Sebi living about 100km from the rest of us, things went on a bit slower than we would have wished. But nevertheless we planned for a first show in the fall of 2010. When our friends of Footloose booked a show of Burning Love's current european tour we asked to fill in as their support. So it was quite an exciting night for us: not only the first show as a band but also with a band fronted by Chris Colohan whose former bands as Left For Dead, The Swarm and Cursed were quite an influence on us. Of course we asked ourselved what kind of guy Chris would be. Would he be the ever grumpy, totally pissed of, angry as hell guy? Would he, being straight edge, hate us wasted beer drinkers? Chris, as well as his bandmates, turned out to be totally nice guy who enjoys taking pictures of his own excrement and of harmless signs wishing people a pleasant drive ("Gute Fahrt" - and no, it's nothing smelly).


Our gig went pretty well. We were really satisfied and people actually asked for an encore. Too bad we hadn't one. Maybe that's why only two of our brand new shirts were sold? But perhaps we should have told we had some. After having it made to our set so well we enjoyed Burning Love's and Oiro's shows. Before making in to bed we received a call by our friend Tomi who thought he had lost his camera. Dave went looking for it for half an our but didn't find anything, because Tomi hadn't lost the camera as we learned the next day. By the way: poor David was the only one who couldn't enjoy himself totally as he got ill with a nasty cold on the day's morning. Luckily a somewhat scary combination of meds (and gin tonic) given to him by band nurse Dan brought him through the night.

Band History

In January 2007 David, Alex and some friends did a Citizens Arrest-set for a cover festival in Mannheim. When Rainer, a friend of ours, married in that year's summer, the same guys added a second guitarist to establish a cover band  for his stag party. That band (called Rainer Threat) did a bunch of Rainer's and their own favorite songs. During rehearsing they planned to continue as a full band afterwards. But after having written a couple of songs the band disbanded when the singer moved to Cologne. However, David and Alex decided they wanted to be in a band together and started looking for potential band members. Half a year later Dan moved to Baden Baden and started looking for band mates in the Karlsruhe area. After having made contact on a message board a first rehearsal took place and all three got along well. Some other rehearsals led to our first songs so it was time to look for somebody singing. This task turned out harder than expected. After some months Christioph joined us for some promising rehearsals only to tell us he was going to study in France. So the ever-bothering search for a singer started all over again. Caro, who had been the singer for two of Alex' older bands, joined and we were able to do two shows in the summer of 2009 as Hanover Fiste. Shortly after Caro decided the band wasn't really her thing so we were back to a no-vocals trio. We renamed the band Attention Armageddon and started to look for a singer again.
In early 2010 Sebi joined us on vocals and second guitar. After things started to work out with that line-up and everybody felt like being a band acutally we played our first show with Burning Love and Oiro at the KTS in Freiburg on November 20th 2010. Plans for the near future include recording something and playing live as much as possible. You can listen to some rehearsal recording at our myspace.
Besides drumming in Attention Armageddon David drums for Constant Nothing and Feed Them They Have Teeth. He's also the singer for Ghost Of Wem. Befor that he was in When The Kitchen Radio Says Kill.
Dan was the guitarist for Quattro Stagioni and Danse Macabre. He also did bass and some vocals in Suicide Handbook.  Sebi is the guitarist for The 244GL and in thousand projects past and present. Alex played bass in Moleskine and Jacqueline Hyde.

Oct 2012: In early 2011 Sebi moved back to Leipzig and the remaining three members decided to continue as a three piece with Dan and Alex sharing vocal duty. We've since played a couple of shows, recorded a demo, got drunk, played some more shows, build a new rehearsal space and wrecked each others' nerves. Right now we're recording ten songs that might be released in one way or another.