23/12/2007 |
| Thank
you for this lovely year! In 2008 we're looking for some exciting time,
but more about these in the new year. Until then, we'd like to express
our thank in our own way: you can download a 6-track live EP from the
media section for free. It was recorded last
year in Budapest's Kultiplex venue and this September in open air Zöld
Pardon by Zsolt Némedi, thanks. |
| Merry Xmas! And if you happen to be in Budapest we wait for you in Kultiplex to celebrate the new year's coming. |
06/12/2007 |
| Thank
you for the very warm welcoming for all of you who visited our gigs
in Vilnius or Klaipéda. Our album is coming out early next year
and we'll return around the time of the release, so please check back
here for dates! Until then, some memories recorded on photos found here. |
19/11/2007 |
| Finally,
the new material is here.... first single "Introspective"
is out now in the Baltics and Hungary. Due to distribution delays, in
Germany we have no release date yet, but send us a message if you need
a copy and we'll sort out. The CD version contains the radio edit of
"Introspective" and the cover of "Such a shame".
Ffor technical reasons, the download single is pushed back a few weeks,
but it'll be accompanied by an exclusive track, a live version of "I
was the first". The video for the single will be online in a matter
of days. |
The
album, with the same name, follows late January/early February 2008.
But, as kind of thank you for your patience, we will give you some special
Christmas present - for details check back around middle of December. |
08/10/2007
|
We
proudly announce that, after parting ways with Kalinkaland, we signed
an agreement with Lithuania-based M.P.3 agency label. The record will
be distributed in Germany, Hungary and possibly Japan. |
By
joint efforts, M.P.3 and Amber Smith plan to publish an album
intended for the global market next year and arrange more concerts in
the Baltic states. "The principle of our company is to always represent
artistical and professional music, Amber Smith are a case in
point", said the Head of company M.P.3 Vaidas Stackevičius. |
M.P.3
and we met at the festival of the Baltic song that took place in Sweden
this summer. First thoughts as to cooperation evolved on a joint trip
by boat to the Baltic Sea. "Their music had appeal to us, and they
found our style of working also agreeable", explained Vaidas Stackevičius.
"Since the contract of the band with one German company was coming
to the end, they hinted at possible cooperation, and we enthusiastically
supported the idea." |
Music
management company M.P.3 has been operating in this sphere for the sixth
year. In the course of its existence the company sold 100,000 published
albums. |
The
Lithuanian company is to take care of the career of the Hungarian performers,
the cooperation between the parties will involve both the sphere of
publishing and the concert activities. Amber Smith intends
to pay its first visit to Lithuania already this year and give a few
performances. |
Further
info about the new record soon... |
10/09/2007
|
Dear
German fans, we were neglectful updating this site for a while, sorry
- but we were more active in our native country at the summer festivals.
In the meantime we are almost finished with our new album - sounds very
exciting and different from "rePRINT"... hopefully you can
hear some snippets and a single before the end of the year and the album
follows early 2008. Until then if you feel like travelling or live in
the south, check us out in Dresden on the 27th October - we are returning
to the scenes of past glories... more German dates to be expected in
2008!!! |
27/02/2007
|
Hello
all, our schedule changed a bit regarding Germany so we won't have a
tour in the spring - as we concentrate on recording our follow-up to
"reprint", hopefully out late this year. |
But
we're invited to München to a special Hungarian showcase for the 24th
March to Substanz Club, where we'll play with fellow Budapesters Panic
Radio and the Djs of the popular Budapest indie night club, Tesco Disco.
See you there. |
| 08/11/2006 |
We
are back from our short German/French tour. It was great fun, thanks
for everyone who supported us and especially for Basti and everyone
in Witten - it was unbelievable! We already plan to return sometime
around March, but first we have to start to work on new songs. Hopefully
see you soon in even more cities! For some visual memories of the current
tour, click here. |
12/08/2006
Back in the B.R.D. |
Sorry
for letting you wait with a fresh update - but we were busy in our native
land, Hungary, after the release of "rePRINT". So many commitments
that we even had to cancel 2 gigs in May. But due to demand and for
some good radio plays, we get on road again in Germany (and for one
show in France) in October! See the dates in the gigs section. Also
we plan to issue new series of T-shirts, these will be available at
the gigs in October. |
So
see you in the autumn! |
| 26/03/2006
Universal |
This
week "rePRINT" reached the nr1 spot on the official German
college Radio Charts! Yeah! |
New
amber smith T-shirts are arriving, in 2 colours, for men and women.
Costs 12 euros. |
It
seems that due to Hungarian commitments, the rePRINT tour is postponed
'til autumn. However, occasional shows in München and France will take
place in May. The dates are coming very very soon... |
07/02/2006
Reprint is here! |
After
3 years and several mixes, studios, tours, we proudly present our new
album "Reprint". It's out on the 24th February in Germany, Austria and
Switzerland by Kalinkaland
Records. From this day check out the record stores. It was recorded
in 2004 and 2005 and mixed, post-produced by 'Cocteau Twin' Robin Guthrie
as well as Yonderboi who produced the title song. |
As
for Hungary, we are settling a deal in the following days. |
Promotion
is already started so watch out for interviews and reviews all over
the internet, plus magazines in Germany like Zillo, Orkus and so on
in the spring. The video for "Hello Sun" getting its first broadcast
on Hungarian tv's Kultúrház on the 7th February at 19.15. From mid-February
check out music channels, you might easily bump into the video, directed
by long-term friend and once amber smith drummer Tibor Simon. |
A
tour is under organisation for late spring all over Germany and Austria.
Check back for details every now and then. |
01/01/2006
Ready, steady... |
Thanks
to everyone who turned up at Trafó's indie Xmas. It was brilliant show
for us. |
We
shot our first video "proper" for Hello Sun. You'll find some pictures
onlocation here. |
We
wish you a happy 2006!!! |
12/12/2005
Let me put you in the picture... |
There
are some new promo photos in the picture
section, shot by Tamás Lékó. |
The
new album is almost here, it's only 2 months left... accompanying the
record, we'll probably go on tour in February in Germany, more infos
when it's confirmed. |
If
you spend the first days of 2006 in Budapest, check out Imre's and Bence's
new side-project "Raina" in Trafó on 7th January. It's an instrumental
experimental side-kick in the vein of Mogwai, Explosions in the sky
etc. More infos soon at www.myspace.com/rainaband. |
20/10/2005
Concert - indeed |
A
late "sorry" for everyone who turned up at Trafó and realised we're
not playing - we had to cancel it in the last minute due to Bence's
illness. But he is fine now so the Sopron gig this Friday WILL happen
as well as the re-scheduled Death Disco gig with Alan McGee on the 5th
November in Trafó Bár. |
Yonderboi's
second album, entitled "Splendid Isolation" is out on 24th October,
features the co-written first single "Were you thinking of me?" with
Imre on vocals and Oszkár on bass. Oszkár also plays bass on further
tracks. |
28/09/2005
A lotta news: Exhausted, CD single and more gigs. |
We're
home again, a bit tired, had some trouble (yeah we LOVE the French police!)
but at least tanned and with full of great memories of great gigs. Thanks
for everyone ho came to the shows, helped us, the list is too long to
mention everyone, but thanks to Zsolt to driving us back safely and
Dénes, (bassist of EZ Basic) for his help at the gigs and carrying passed-out
band members. (Check out some pictures here.) |
There's
a new promotional album sampler out now, preceding our new album, coming
out in January. It features 3 album tracks as well as an extra song,
"Pete and Julie". You can't find it in the shops, so, if you work for
a radio, magazine etc please contact either us or our label. |
Supporting
the new release, we play 2 gigs in Hungary, one of them is at Trafó
Bár Tangó, on the 8th October. It's the second event of Alan McGee's
Death Disco, so if you were there at the first time you know it's going
to be huge. Then we play Sopron on the 21st October in Hangár as Heaven
Street Seven's guests. |
06/08/2005
Pécs + Sziget + tour |
Thanks
for the great audience in Pécs at ICWIP. It was definitely one of our
best shows ever. We love Pécs, and possibly will return in the autumn...
pictures of last week's show here. |
If
you visit the annual Sziget Festival, check us out live on the 16th
August, 20h on the Bahia Stage, right after the Hives gig on the Main
Stage. Then in September we grab orselves to a van and go on road to
support the CD-single/album sampler release of a new version Hello Sun.
It comes with 2 other album tracks and a previously unreleased song.
More info later...the shows are in Spain, France and Germany, check
out the dates and we expect you if you live around! |
02/06/2005
New deal |
We
proudly announce a new deal we signed before our Dresden show: we signed
to Weimar label Kalinkaland
Records. The mainly Robin Guthrie-mixed record will be called "Reprint"
and it`s out in October. |
Talking
about Robin Guthrie, he`s coming to our city for a solo show on the
1st July. Support comes from... us! To match the event we plan a special,
one-ff show with live strings etc, so don`t stay at home. |
The
below mentioned "Instant" compilation CD is out now, featuring "Hello
Sun". Check out the shops! |
| 11/05/2005
Hello Sun, yet again |
| Thanks again for everyone who came to the Pesti Est gig last Friday. We`ve no fix date for another Budapest gig yet, but will have two shows at the end of May, in Munster (with our friends` band Dorian, at last!) and Dresden. If you live nearby, come around... |
| Hungarian radio station Radio Cafe releases a compilation CD called "Instant" sometime this month, with "Hello Sun" on it. It features the edited, "7 version of the song. And talking about "Hello sun" there`s a nice photo and small article in this month`s Wan2 magazine about the vinyl. If you live her ein Hungary, check out the next issue (in the shops form 25th May) for a bigger article on amber smith. |
| Review of the Hello SUn single on the re-newed britpoparsenal site |
05/04/2005
It wasn't us |
Hello
all, big thank you to all of you who came to see us last Friday. It
was our best Budapest gig for a long long time, thanks to Neo
for the opportunity. There're some rather cool pics on the koncertkep.hu
site. In the past weeks our guestbook wasn'T available so please
feel free to mail us! |
As
far as near future concerns, we'll play again on 29th April in Pesti
Est Café with Supersonic. We'reinvited to Viva TV's Interaktív, we'll
post you the exact time of the broadcast soon. If you live in Saschen,
we'll visit Dresden again, after more than a year on the 21st May in
Groovestation. Be there! |
26/03/2005
Camembert |
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Concerning
Hungary, watch the state television m2 on Tuesday, 29th March as we'll
perform some songs live and do the small talk. Also that week, Friday
April 1st we'll play in Süss fel nap, as a guest for Neo. If you won't
come you'll regret it. |
01/03/2005
First release |
Thanks
to everyone who came last Tuesday to Trafó Club, it was a great gig,
lots of people! |
We've
got the release date for the first new material in almost two years,
and our very first vinyl record ever. "Hello Sun" is out on 14th March
on Phoebe Music and you can find an exclusive track, "Blue eyes digital"
on the flipside. The "7 will be a limited edition to 1,000 copies, so
from the middle of march grab yourselves to the Phoebe website and order
your copy while stock lasts. The lyrics for both songs can be found
here. |
We
visit our beloved venues across Germany and Besancon, France on the
week of the release, check the gigs section for venues, if you live
nearby (or far away) come and check us out live! See ya at the gigs! |
27/01/2005
Hello vinyl |
Happy
new year to everyone! We took a bit of a break in january but nevertheless,
we have some good news. Our next gig is on 22nd february in Trafó Club,
Budapest. We do a short tour of France / Germany again in mid-March;
exact dates soon in the gigs section. |
We
are happy as the first release from our new record will be a "7 vinyl
single of the song "Hello Sun" on the A side. The release date and further
infos are still to be confirmed by the publisher, our friends in Münster,
Phoebe Music.
The Hungarian radio premiere of the song will be this Saturday (29th
january) on Radio Café. |
| 12/12/2004
Pictures from our latest gig here. |
21/10/2004
Amber Twins |
Hi
everyone, it’s a late apology but finally an official one: we’re sorry
for cancelling the September German dates. I won’t be bullshitting about
tetchnical difficulties: our druver cancelled two days prior the trip,
then the other guy we recruited cancelled it 15 hours prior leaving
Budapest so there was no way to go. |
In
the meantime we still and keep work on our forthcoming record. There’s
no fix date for teh release yet int he forthcoming future. But the material
is in good hands: we are proud to tell you, 4 song’s been mixed by Robin
Guthrie (Cocteau Twins) and they sound fantastic. More post-production
takes place during the winter. |
However,
we have time again to play live, so, in case you’re visiting Budapest
come to Gödör Klub on 6th November or to Süss fel Nap ont he 19th. I’m
sure it’ll be great fun. Also we’re playing in Berlin’s Zosch on 12th
November with local heroes Helter
Skelter as a PoshPop
event. Join us and togeher we’ll rule the galaxy! |
| 02/09/2004
Finally!!! The best shots from our summer mediterranean tour here! |
18/08/2004
New song + Photos |
Hello,
we haven't updated the site for a time, even though there were some
events at amber smith: we finished the mediterranean tour, we felt great,
especially in Spain - where we plan to return for an extended tour later.
Also thanks for everyone who cam to our shows at Szelidi-Tó and at the
annual Sziget festival! It was great! |
In
the meantime we constantly work on our new album, its really exciting
and promising... this is the nr. 1 priority in amber smith camp these
days. |
Until
further news, download two songs from our May
show at Pesti Est Café, 'Iceland' (hungarian version) and a new song
from the forthcoming album, called 'Reprint'. Both were recorded by
Zsolt V. Némedi, thanks for him! Also we have new photos in the pictures
section from the Szelidi-Tó show and new promo shots from Tokyo
and by Juli Szente, plus pictures from the Sziget Festival here.
Sadly the pictures fo the summer tour are still to come, but we promise
as soon as we have them we'll post them here... |
Have
a nice summer as long as you can have it... |
| 08/06/2004
Islands, Peninsulas, Lakes etc |
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21/05/2004
Advertisment |
Thanks
for everybody who turned up last Thursday at our show in Pesti Est Café.
We fel really really great and it was one of our longest set (18 songs
or what?!). You can find pictures of the show here. |
We
really loved the reception of the new songs so for the summer we get
back to our dark rooms to mix and mess with the new recordings. Apart
from the forthcoming LP, we plan to record a new EP of 4-5 songs, which
we plan to release some other time and format. |
So
apart from the June Europe tour, we don't really plan to play in Hungary
until the autumn, except 1 or 2 summer festivals. Details of these coming
soon. |
Oh
and a funny addition: the Spanish advertisement company Analgicó picked
our song "Teddybear" to use it in a TV commercial, shown in Portuguese
TV. So if you're hanging around in Portugal in the summer, turn on the
TV you might hear some familiar tunes... |
04/05/2004
Summertime |
The
agenda of our June mediterranean tour is final now, you can check the
dates under the gigs section. We’ll return
to Germany for another tour in September, more about this later . |
The
next Budapest gig is on 20th May, Thursday in Pest Est Café again. Support
comes from the band „Eric van de Poele”, who plays similar genre (indie/guitar)
music. You didn’t really have the chance to hear them so far.
Also, they plan to move to London this summer so it’s a unique opportunity
to hear them live. |
Similarly,
it’s the last amber smith gig with Tomi Faragó as he will re-locate
himself to the UK as his other band, The
Puzzle will move to London later this month. Good luck for them!
Int he future, we carry on as a 3-piece (this is the way we currently
work on our next album anyway), helped out by session players at live
gigs. |
So
be there on the 20th May! |
08/04/2004 |
Amber
smith's Tokyo debut turned to be a fantastic event. The set featured
old & new songs as well as a cover and Imre was helped out by three
fantastic local musicians - thanks to Yuki, Kenmi and Hitoshi for their
efforts! It's impossible to give back the feeling of Tokyo, however,
here are some picures (more to come as
well as a short video of live performance). The band plans to return
in 2005. |
Until
then, we move to studio to start the follow-up to last year's "My little
servant". According to plans, guest musicians and a lot of post-production
will take place, so the final result surely won't be available until
autumn/winter. |
As
far as live performances concerned: we play in Budapest on the 20th
May in Pesti Est Café, and will have a European tour in June (including
Croatia, Italy, Spain, France and Germany). Fix dates and cities to
be announced soon. |
Have
a nice spring and watch out the site for more news! |
| 17/03/2004 |
| Pictures from the german tour here, flyer of the Tokio gig here. |
03/03/2004 |
We
left the west, we travel East |
So
we’re back again from the latest short tour of France / Germany. Thank
you for all who supported / helped us, we felt brilliant. |
Our
next gig in Budapest takes place next Thursday, 11th March in Trafó.
Guestt appearence comes from The
Puzzle. We1ve a new set, a new band (even better, of course). We
go to studio mid-April so it’s our only gig in Hungary for a while,
don’t miss it... |
Some
pictures of the tour soon, until then: a short article from Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung int he articles section. |
| 20/01/2004 |
Due
to technical problems we had to cancel the acoustic gig on Thursday,
22nd January. We'll try to re-schedule the concert after conciliation
with the theatre. |
In
the February issue of Wan2 magazine (available from Monday 26th January)
you can read a small article about amber smith. |
| 07/01/2004 |
Happy
new year… |
Thanks
for everybody who attended any of our two December shows; pictures from
the Pesti Est show here. |
January
22nd Kolibri Pinceszínház (basement theatre) hosts amber smith and Norbi
from Band called Russel for an exclusive acoustic gig of the season.
All who was there last January, knows what to expect. Guests, special
cover versions and the amber smith set includes new and unrecorded songs
only for this evening. Everybody’s welcome. |
02/12/2003 |
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We’d
like to announce two shows for Budapest in December. First of all, we
play in Pesti Est Café on the 12th December, our guest will be the
band called Lada form Frankfurt, Germany. They’re three, sound British
their music/live shows is really good and the singer/frontman Christian
is the reminiscent of Gyuri from Hungarian britpoppers „The Puzzle”.
Then 4 days later, on 16th December we perform on the A38 ship as a
guest for Galapagos. There’ll be new songs at both sows; we demo-ed
two of them (Hello sun+Lindsay’s song) recently. More 2004 shows in
the gigs section (Germany + France
+ Japan!!!). |
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Next
Tuesday, 9th December you can see us (along with Puzzle
and Supersonic)
on Viva TV brainstorming about the current state of britpop in Hungary. |
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A
new media link in the main menu where you can
download some of our songs and really soon our very first video for
the song „I was the first”. Check it out!!! |
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| 29/10/2003 |
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New
pictures here! |
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| 27/10/2003 |
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Let's
make it fuckin' sleazy! |
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A
huge thanks goes out to all who came to our show last Thursday - the
response was obviously positive and we think it was a great show, too.
Also thank to Gergő of annabarbi for featuring in "Where those days
are gone for you" |
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It
turned the day before the gig Pete'sleaving in the middle of November
so it was his last show with amber smith. he returns to USA and won't
be back before June 2004. We wish all the best for him and wait for
him to be back! |
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Our
next gig takes place on 12th December in Pesti Est Café, with our very
special guest Lada from Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It still needs to
be confirmed but we'll let you know all the details in time. |
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Pictures
from the Slovenian/Croatian tour in the pictures section really soon
and you can download "Rusty Willoughby" from here,
live in Rijeka on 17th October in .avi format. |
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We're
featured on another compilation; this time "Teddybear" made it onto
the Bremen DJ team, High Fidelity's (www.hifi-club.com)
latest release called "Verliebt in London". Thanks for them and you
can find all the infos about the record here. |
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| 13/10/2003 |
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Next
song |
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Hello,
we're back from Germany again - it was fun and pleasure (special thanks
to Zsolt for the brilliant van!), check out the pictures here.
The next tour (including France and maybe Switzerland, too) is under
negotiations, Starsbourg and Munich is fixed, but we'll announce the
full list when all the gigs are confirmed. |
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We're
off to Slovenia and Croatia for some shows, but in the meantime, don't
forget: our first show in Budapest in 4 months takes place in Rocktogon
on 23rd October. Support comes form our old friend Norbi and his band:
band called russel. Be there! |
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Here
is a new article. |
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| 16/09/2003 |
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We
are proud to announce our first autumn Budapest show. It takes place
in Rocktogon on the 23rd October. Support comes from the once amber
smith - member Norbi with his new band called "Band Called Russel".
No confusion, right? They're young and bright, unlike us, but we've
some new songs to test before we go to studio in the winter to record
them. Gig start at 20.30 exactly, we look forward to your company. |
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If
you want to check out our webmater's abilities, visit his site here. |
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| 21/08/2003 |
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2.2 |
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Hi,
please welcome Tomi Farago (The
Puzzle) again, who, after returning from the UK, plays guitar. Also,
we waved goodbye to Simca and nicked Nate Johnson (Stig
Roar Husby) for the drums. By the way, million thanks to our leaving
drummer; it was a pleasure (not just) for us, and the best luck in the
animation business! Let us witness him becoming the new Gabor Csupo! |
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The
rehearsals have begun with the new line-up, but as both guys already
played in the band previously, we’re progressing damn well. We’ve some
new songs in the basket, too (titles inculde „Arithmetics” and „The
Social Worker”), but it’s unlikely to record any new material before
the winter. And, as we already mentioned before, we’re touring Germany
from September, then Slovenia in mid-October with Stig
Roar Husby, so the next Hungarian gig won’t happen before the end
of October or early November. |
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News
from our record label: the international record store chain, Tower Records
legally forced FST to leave „Tower” out of their name, so from 16th
August the label’s called Firestation Records. Thankfully, nothing else
has changed. |
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Othwerwise
we announce, we all love Amber
Smith and she is not a porn star, but a fashion model. And bugger,
she’s Hungarian descendant indeed! |
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| 02/07/2003 |
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Summer |
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We're
gladly announce the full schedule for our autumn German tour: |
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For
more details, support bands and other infos, check out our label's
and the Britpop
Arsenal website. As far as Hungary concerts: apart form the festival
schedules (Efott + Sziget) you can't expect us before October / November.
Until then, enjoy the summer, don't spend too much time inside the flat. |
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| 18/06/2003 |
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And
you can listen to the acoustic version of Iceland here,
played live on 28th March in erfurt's Radio Frei. |
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| 17/06/2003 |
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We've
done it...the first French trip was rather cool, both the Munich and
Paris show were great. You can check some new pictures from the tour
in the photos section. |
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We'd
love to return in the autumn, maybe for a 3-4 city short tour in France
(the autumn German tour set-up is nearly 100%, you can check all the
dates soon). Anyway, thank you for David, Anita, Simon, Andi and Gulschan
for all the help. |
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Talking
about the present: we're playing this Wednesday, 18th June at Orczy
Kert. We play new songs and we'll have some suprise guests, too...support
comes from upcoming britpoppers The Puzzle, the band about to release
their first major LP in August. The concerts start at 8.30 pm, be sharp,
curfew at 11 pm! |
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| 03/06/2003 |
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dB
exposure |
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Pete
Pawinski finally set up a webpage
containing his best live shots on hungarian underground bands including
Stig Roar Husby, The Puzzle, and many more. Totally woth checking out!
ernő |
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| 30/05/2003 |
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Juli
Szente joined us last Saturday to Ziar nad Hronom and shot some rather
nice pictures, you can check them here.
We planned to check out the local Tesco but as we were late we didn't
so we missed some explosion in the supermarket. |
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We
can't wait our first ever Paris show (flyer).
We're leaving next Saturday, we'll stop in Munich for a gig and then
heading to France. |
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We
said we won't play in Hungary until our Sziget festival slot -
well, we changed our minds and we'll thorw an indie mini-festival in
the Orczy kert on 18th June with The Puzzle. The gig is starting at
20h and ends by 23h, so make sure you'll arrive in time! Entrance is
free, if the weather agrees it'll be a great party. Salut. |
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| 30/04/2003 |
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45
minutes, Bayer, etc. |
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Million
thanks to everybody who visited the 4x45 festival and to annabarbi
& Stig
Roar Husby for the invitation. I think it was a brilliant turn-out
and we might continue on the Sziget festival this year. (Click here
for photos!) |
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We're
about to finish the negotiations with Paris label Musicast about distribution
in France, which means album promotion and maybe some more gigs in france
later this year. |
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Regarding
France...on our way to Paris, we'll play Munich on the 7th June as a
kind of addition to the German promo-tour in April (thanks to Anita
for the help!) |
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| 11/04/2003 |
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4x45perc
Indiepop Vikend Info here! |
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| Le concert |
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So,
we got home from Germany this Monday. In a brief: it was bloody amazing,
we had so much fun and i think/hope the audience had much fun, too.
The gigs were more or less successful in the different cities, but i
think it's a good sign that we're invited to go back. Which means, another
tour in the autumn is expected. Thanks to all the people who helped
us along the tour, Mario, Daniel Torsten, Wolfgang, Eike, Marco, Uwe
and all at FST... sorry if i forgot about someone. |
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We
shot millions of pictures, you can find the best of them in the pictures
section, and we get our act together, we'll write some tour diary, too. |
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We
brought great news from Berlin. In the first two week, we sold a few
hunderd copies of 'My little servant' in Japan through a distributor. |
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Thanks
to the Prague gig, we're invited to play at the Garden of eden festival
in Slovakia on 24th May. And, on the 10th June amber smith makes its
Paris debut when we play in La Scéne with great French indie bands Exsonvaldes
and Kimlico. |
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During
the tour we gave two interviews, one to Radio Frei in Erfurt (where
we played an acoustic version of 'Iceland', too) and Radio X in Frankfurt
am Main. We try to get these recordings and post it somehow on the site.
There's also an interview on the Britpop
Arsenal site, along with a review of the album, and one on the Japanese
site www.apple-crumble.com.
It's a bit too late, but you can read a recommendation in Czech at www.freemusic.cz/clanek.php?id=1986. |
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Thanks
to the so many invitations abroad, it seems amber smith's activity in
Hungary will decrease a bit, so if you live in Budapest, come and check
us out with Stig Roar Husby on 25th April at Pesti Est Café!!! |
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| 25/03/2003 Finally, the new album "My little servant" is out now on Firestation Tower Records. We'll kick off the tour this Friday, 27th March. For the detailed tour schedule, check the gigs section. |
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If
you live in the Frankfurt area, tune in to Radio X at FM 101.4, because
some time after the Frankfurt gig, Imre from amber smith will talk about
the new amber smith LP and about the songs / music changed his world. |
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Also,
keep watch Britpop
Arsenal site, there'll be also an interview with the amber smith
singer about the Berlin concert and other things. |
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| 21/02/2003 You can catch amber smith on MTV1 (the Hungarian state TV) next Thursday, 27th february at around 11 pm. We'll perform two songs (live) and we'll tell you some clever things. Juli Szente, the non-official photographer of the Budapest indie scene turned up at the shooting, so you can expect some photos of us messing around in the rehearsal room, soon. |
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We
added some more dates, you can find them under the gigs
section. We'll plan more gigs in Western Europe, and we'd love to present
some cool French/German bands here, more details to be announced. |
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Finally,
the release date for "My little
servant" is 10th March, so (if the post service agrees) it'll be
available at the next show in Süss fel nap. |
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| 6/02/2003 We'll play a few venues in the country side in the near future, details under the gigs section... there's a concert in the pipleine in Szeged at the beginning of March, we'll confirm the exact date early next week. |
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Finally,
we can reveal the full schedule of our spring German tour. The dates
are: |
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28th
march - Erfurt, Studentenzentrum Engelsburg (www.uni-erfurt.de/engelsburg) |
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29th
march - Drezda, Madness (www.madness-dresden.de) |
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31th
march - Hamburg, Revolver, w/ Marfa (www.revolver-club.de) |
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3rd
april - Frankfurt, Clubkeller (www.clubkeller.com /
www.popscene-frankfurt.de) |
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2nd
april - Babenhausen, BDP Café (www.bdp.org/bdp-cafe) |
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4th
april - Berlin, Zosch (www.zosch.com) |
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6th
april - Prága, Guru, w/ Fish!
(www.guruclub.wz.cz) |
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we
can't wait...we're organising another Leipzig-Berlin trip for the end
of May, but it's pretty uncertain at the moment. |
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| 27/01/2003 For several reasons The Puzzle, our guest for the 5th February Süss Fel Nap show cancelled their slot. Instead of them, Shape will support us. |
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A
Yugoslavian compilation CD, entitled "A view of our dreams" is out now,
featuring the 2000 track "Above the clouds" by amber smith. |
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Following
the 5th February gig, we proudly present the Vienna-based band The O5
on the 12th March in Süss fel nap, again. They're our labelmates (Firestation
just released their german debut "Pretty nonsense" and they toured the
UK with modfather Paul Weller. Wow! After the show the Gumipop Djs (Dj
Vibrator, Hysterika and Magnes) will provide the party feeling. |
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A
short, but pretty old article
on alter.hu here and some new promo shots
by Juli Szente in the photos section. |
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| 09/01/2003 Hope everyone had relaxed time during the holidays. January is ususally quiet, nothing really happens, no concerts so we thought it's time for a quiet acoustic gig. Thus, an unusual amber smith gig takes place next Saturday, 18th January from 20.30 until 23.00 at the Kolibri Pinceszínház (Budapest, VI. Andrássy út 77). Never played amber smith songs, some suprise-covers in the set, and some even more... Guest/support: Russel. |
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I
received a mail from FST, our German label saying we're featured on
a Yugoslavian (!) compilation CD with the 2000 track "above the clouds".
I don't know the title yet, but as soon as I receive the CD,I'll let
you know... |
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During
Christmas we finished all the post-production for our first German LP
called "My little servant", and one of the new songs, 'I was the first'
became one of our all-time favourite amber smith songs, so we thought
, if anyone interested, it's
here for download before the album comes out. |
| 18/12/2002 The new songs are recorded, the mixing and the master are still to come. The songs will be featured on our first Firestation Tower Records album, due out early next year. The next gig will be in Süss fel nap on the 5th February with The Puzzle. Until then: loads of new pictures, lyrics for the new songs (I was the first / Birthday girl / The sea). Thanks for everybody for this year's support and help and see you in January. Happy holidays! |
| 10/12/2002 Program-change! The amber smith interview + live performance on Fix.TV, originally scheduled for a Wednesday broadcast will be broadcasted on this Friday, 13th december between 19 and 21 pm. |
| 21/11/2002 On 11th December, amber smith returns to Fix.TV! It's a new programme called Fix.Music and it's hosted by our friend and fan, Karel. It's worth to watch, apart from the interview and live performances there'll be some quiz where you canwin exclusive amber smith goodies. |
| 15/11/2002 The second and the last amber smith gig in Budapest this year takes place at Pesti Est Café on 5th December. Support comes from Vadeper. After the gigs there'll be some party, details soon... everybody's invited, a splendid time is guaraneed for all, new line-up, new songs, etc. |
The
previous night , 4th December we'll play Pécs at IH with Stig Roar Husby.
Be there, if you can! |
| 05/11/2002 I think we made it! The comeback/re-start gig was succesful, massive thanks for everyone who helped, turned up, bought CDs, etc. A very, very big thank you goes to Nate Johnson who helped us so far with the recording and the gigs. Kiss Attila (formerly of Kispál és a Borz, recently PG Csoport) follows him on drums, he'll debut on the Pécs show on 4th December. There's a December show in Budapest in the pipeline, but nothing's sure yet. We have a new guitarist too, Norbi, who replaces Tomi (he moved to the UK last Saturday for a year. Thank you for helping us and good luck). So it's November, time for some rest, rehearsals, writing new songs, etc... |
German
tour pictures here! |
| 22/10/2002 We got back from Germany safe & sound. The gigs were great, especially the Berlin one, a lot of people, success, the audience was cool, even when we fucked up Suzanne. And it's always pleasure to see some friendly faces... soon we'll be back in the studio to record some new songs - they must be delivered to Firestation Tower Records, the album comes out when there's 10 or 11 new song...and then we'll tour again in Germany. |
But
until then: everybody's welcome in Budapest, at Marco Polo Club on Saturday,
26th October. Don't be late since Stig Roar Husby starts around 20.15
and amber smith at 21.00. |
By
the way, there's an awful lot of photos of the journey, check out the
photos section soon. Maybe you can spot yourself.. |
| 11/10/2002 So, after more than a year here's the new amber smith mini-album called "Olcsó" (Cheap). It is available for anyone from 14th October, please send the orders to: ambersmith@nme.com. |
The
CD comes in a special format, a unique package which contains very little
information, for the credits click here. |
| 25/09/2002 Finally, we can reveal the October live dates in Germany Unfortunately, Stig Roar Husby can't join us, so my heart's bleeding but maybe next time... The Hamburg club cancelled the gig on the 20th so we didn't have time to book another date, so the gigs are: |
18th
October - Leipzig, Ilses Erika (www.ilseserika.de) |
19th
October - Berlin, Privatclub (info: www.berlin030.de) |
It
seems Firestation Tower Records is willing to release an amber smith
album sometimes in the winter... YEAH! I can't tell any details, but
as soon as I can, it'll be updated here, too. |
However,
I can reveal the date of the first, Budapest "comeback" gig: 26th October,
Budapest, Marco Polo Club. With very special guest: Stig
Roar Husby. Be there. |
| 03/07/2002 Few months ago the HMV-Shops in Japan asked our German label, Firestation to do a compilation CD for them exclusive. Label is Quince Records Japan. Great news that amber smith appears on the CD, too, with "There is no way". The compilation is a split CD with another german indiepoplabel called Apricot Records. Each label appears with ten tracks on the compilation. The compilation will only be available at the HMV-Shops in whole of Japan. Apart from that the cd will be available via both labelwebsides and some german mailorders. |
Now
it seems pretty sure that amber smith enters the studio at the end of
July to record some new songs. We've done the first rehearsal last Friday
(28/06) with Nate Johnson (Fabulon) on drums and OC (Idorablok) on bass/vocals.
I just can't say enough times how I appreciate their support and help
for starting amber smith again. Hopefully Peter Pawinsky will join next
time on keyboards. I'm excited, watch out for more soon. The songs likely
to be recorded: |
belfast
/ teddymacko / and that was all / egri jános / izland (új verzio) /
wake up |
| 23/07/2001 In the august issue of the monthly music magazine „Wanted” (25th July is the official publishing date) you can read a profile article about the band. |
The
4-track single „There is no way” is finally manufactured and hopefully
will be available on the Sziget. The record comes out on Firestation
Tower Records, Berlin in August. |
You
can hear amber smith as a guest on Civil Radio on 26th June, Thursday
between 1 and 2 pm. Talk, music, etc. |
| 12/07 2001 It seems the editors of FixTv really luv amber smith…it’s just a few days since they’ve been to the programme, but here’s another date on the TV channel: 25th June, the programm’s called „Szabi szörp”, and features amber smith for 2 hours (from10 pm until midnight) |
| 22/05/2001 Everyone who can tune in to FixTv, watch the TV – on 9th June amber smith is on NetBurger again, playing two songs + some interview. Tomorrow (23rd May) the members of amber smith, Fish! And Fabulon UK will talk about this Friday’s gig. |
New
series of amber smith T-shirt are planned, so you can start to save
up for it! |
| 12/05/2001 Listen next week’s Neonparade on Pararadio (15th May)! You can hear tarcks from the forthcoming „Postive” EP, before is release! |
| 03/05/2001 Finally...the band has finished the “Positive” EP. The master is still to come, but you can buy it at the concerts in May (I’ve already heard it, it’s cool). |
The
Firestation
Tower Records compilation “I tried a thousand times, a thousand
times to change your mind” is now available! Amber smith is featured
on the album with the song “In the park”. More info on the compilation
here. |
| 27/03/2001 The band finally finishes the recordings of “Positive” EP on 14th and 15th April. The record will be released at sometime the end of May – as well as the German EP “There is no way”, which have been re-mastered at Borsay Studio. |
New
album reviews have been published in this month’s issue of Wanted and
Rockinform music magazines, and rather surprisingly, in this month’s...Flaszter
magazine (homeless weekly paper)! |