On the first of June our new album was released (for the time being only available over our website and over Indietective.de). The cause: unfortunately we had to cancel our contract with the not longer existing label “Pandailectric” by mutual agreement and take things into one’s own hands. We are already scheduling our stage outfit and live set but you just have to wait a little for a gig….the first reviews of our album turned out pretty positive what is really encouraging us to go on! With Namida we found after Steffi's leaving a really good and new voice for our female part together with huge amounts of energy...

2004 was the year of production. The Album “Rebellion der Schachfiguren”, actually announced for release in 2004, will be at least our longest work in progress ever! But not only that, we are expecting to provide a production that will be standing out from the otherwise really standardised Future-Pop-Electro releases but nevertheless it will be contemporary. Anyway we are giving our best! The Zillo Magazine (Issue 6) has published a well-disposed article which you can glean - here (only in german). In 2004 our friend Sara Noxx released her Maxi “Colder & Colder” for which we were allowed to deliver a remix.

In our band there was some fluctuation this year too. Our vocalist Steffi is domiciled in Frankfurt/M in the meantime and no longer an inherent part of our band. How far she will be a part of future productions cannot be told right now.

In the year 2003 unfortunately there were no concerts at all. Ferdinand and Tony got in marriage with there girl-friends (very big sorrow for our groupies;) ).
Really important for us was the closure of a new record contract with the label Pandeilectric. It’s due to the remix of “Die Sonne” which we had offered for download at mp3.de and shortly after a few days it leaded the charts there ( Song of the day, Pop-Charts 1st place). Also the song “Nimm mich” (from 2002) reached top position at the mp3.de-Independent-Charts these days. Of course you will find both songs on the new album again...

In 2002 we can take a review on a gig in Zurich as the support for "Psyche". Some of the songs that will be published on the album “Rebellion der Schachfiguren” in 2004 were written and successfully played in regional clubs in this year 2002. Over our website we publicised the web-single “Nimm mich”.

In 2001 we also gave only one concert in the Abart in Zurich which will be in our minds in a really good way. There we supported the berlin formation "Sara Noxx"

2000 rather was a year of reflection. NovaTekk stopped their activities on the Wave- and Indie-sector thus the label was gone. On the 17th of November 2000 however there was one concert in Nuremberg as the support for VNV-Nation at least. Some visitors should likely remember this concert since Ronan Harris had an injury right before the gig and therefore we had to play longer than we actually wanted to…

In 1999 we gave five concerts after all – in Hanover, Bochum, Schwabach, Weissenfels and at the “PC69” in Bielefeld. All five gigs were well visited and we had a lot of fun presenting our ’99 album their.
adly a long-time member of our band – Klaus Aumayr – left us this year. For example songs like “Pyramids”, “Dreams of drowning” and “Abducted” were penned by him. His quitting was an actual loss – best of luck Klaus!:)

In 1998 the collaboration with Novatekk started and at spring-time we completed our third cd "A light beyond the end"

On the 25th of June we had one of our most successful gigs at the "Hirsch" in Nuremberg. Together with our friends from the project Projekt-A, Nurembergs Synthipop-Formation “Rebirth Definition” (whose band leader can know be heard under www.phraze.de) and a techno respectively a drum’n’base Project called “D-Marquez” we contested a fairly felicitous evening. Click here for a short video – unfortunately the quality is a bit poor at all…

January of this year and the concert at the Kilian in Nuremberg aren’t that positive in our minds at all... At the aforesaid concert we played in a really sleazy basement and the not so humble amount of visitors made sure of an articulately warm clime…. the consequence was that the condensing humidity dripped from the ceiling and the DAT-recorder that we used on the stage gone belly up. Consequently we had to cancel this gig. However we gave a compensation-gig at the K2 on January 31 thereupon. Here you can find an exclusive Live-Audio-Clip from “The Visitor” (Live Remix 1997)..

On March 22. we gave our first gig in a foreign country in Wil/Switzerland..
In 1997 our collaboration with DISCORDIA ended and we alternated to NOVATEKK/ERASER. There we prearranged the third release for 1998. In the same way worth mentioning is that we got to know to one of our most loyal fans – Alless from Roveredo (Italy) in 1997.

The dream of having a record contract was just fulfilled since problems arrived for our label…. Nevertheless the next CD “One of 200.000.000” was produced as agreed upon. Unfortunately it was only barely promoted and so it perished a bit. The reviews however were consistently positive and made us look upon the future favourably as well.

In 96 there was another release specially for a companionship-concert with “Darc Entries” in Esterhofen near Munich. For the visitors it gave one of 50 limited tapes each with 3 songs of both bands on it.

Tracklist Drunkness:
1. "Out" - 2. "Our world lost in space" (Retinax 5 Remix) - 3. "Welcome to Airbase 51" (Dreamland Mix)

The year 1993 offered already 4 concerts: 21.04.1993 - "E-Werk" - Erlangen; 24.04.1993 - "KOMM" 'Festival gegen Gewalt' - Nuremberg; 07.08.1993 - Diskothek "Voice" support of "Der Prager Handgriff" - Schwabach; 09.10.1993 - "KOMM" Endzeit-Festival - Nuremberg
... and, of course, a new tape: "Human Interference"

Tracklist:
A: Violence; I would like to live in paradise; Darkside; Teutonic impact; Child of war
B: Nacht ohne Hoffnung; Interval III; Dying emotions; Fight; Bloody news

There are only very few original examples existing. Here you see the new version, which was newly recorded in 1994 (there are also 50 Pc existing).

The organisator of the “Festival gegen Gewalt” was our second bandleader Alex. Headliner was “…” , a short side project with mainly guitar, from the singer of “Deine Lakaien” – Alexander Veljanov. Beside us there were also: the Gothic-Rock band "Toxic Angels" from Nuremberg, das EBM-Projekt "Severance" from Fuerth and a very new sound performance from “Bad Taste”. See the newspaper report (german only)! After the shows at the “Komm” and “E-Werk” Alex and our guitar man Evil, left the band. The new man at the guitar was found at the end of 1993 with an ad in the newspaper: Tony!

At the beginning of this year our first demo tape „Dust & Atom“ had been released.

Tracklist:
A: Deduction; What is love?; Days of fear; Down; Crash into death
B: Time goes by; She opens her eyes; 1991; Invisible; Invisible (Outro)

From this demo tape are only existing exactly 50 copies, all made bit by bit at home ;)

After Torsten had left the band and the first success took place a small discussion about the band name began but in the end “The Drunkness” had already taken place in our hearts somehow. And so the band name hasn’t changed till this day.

At the “Markgrafensaal”-concert we recorded a special tape, on which you can find some different versions of previously released songs and also some brand new ones:

A: Violence; Crash into death; 1991, Nacht ohne Hoffnung; Interval I; Child of war
B: Interval II; Days of fear; Invisible; What is love? (Short Version); Time goes by; Nameless; What is love? (Live in Krumpa)

In January 1991 the duet "The Drunkness" was formed by Riccardo Stueber and his schoolmate Torsten Michalk. The name was discovered while one of them was browsing thru a german-english dictionary. There has to be admitted that none of the two band members were concerned about how long the bandname would fit the musical genre!

The song repertoire only counted three entries at that time:
"What is love?" (by the way the first ever composed song, written in 1989)
"1991" (developed from thoughts on the first war in the persian gulf)
"Dark Night Bonus" (an instrumental, later called "Deduction")

All these pieces of music were composed on one HOHNER-Keyboard from a local store called "Quelle" and a 2-voice CASIO toy-keyboard!. The first concert took place on the 29th of June 1991 at the "Annaberg-Buchholz Festsaal (Ballroom)". In the same year band-member Ric became acquainted with Udo who was totally involved to his band "The Severance" at that time. Udo then produced the first studio recordings of "1991". Nearly at the end of this year there were 9 songs completed - enough for the first demo tape!