.OLD NEWS
12.09.2007: After finishing the mix and the artwork last week, our new album is on its way to production. Expect it to be available in the first week of september. Gregor at Sounds Of Subterrania is ready for pre-orders.
We are curious if you like the new shirts designed by our buddies Markyuss & Benny. Check these out on tour in september!
robin
22.04.2007: A little Poland tour report.
Yo, what a satisfying trip. I guess we all know exactly why we're doing this shit after a tour like that. Everyday we met so cool people, people who gave us the feeling to be welcome, people who were interested in what we are doing and what we are all about. And not to forget our companions Mönster with whom we shared 4 lovely days in Poland.
We started out in Nünchritz. Once more and it's always nice to meet Rico. We were, as usual, met with a friendly reception, „Schnittchen“ and pancakes. But since it was a wednesday night the „Kombi“ wasn't too crowded. We had some difficulties, because one of our amps didn't work, but after that we had a funny show. I really really like playing the new songs. Some people seemed to have fun too. Manifesto Jukebox played a nice set after us. Since we had no chance to top the last aftershow-party in Nünchritz, we went to bed rather early.
The Gieszerstr. in Leipzig was our next stop and since we had a short drive, we had time to walk around in Leipzig for a while or hang out at the Idiot's place. I think I should spend some days in Leipzig in the near future. It definitely seems to be a nice place to hang out.
After kicking Jens' and Philipp's asses in playing dart we were prepared for the show. Idiot's Rule started and it's only the second time that I saw them. The set suffered from a powerless sound, but I like the new songs and Jens is a damn good front man. Then a punk choir entered the stage and I felt like being in the middle of the eighties. Luckily they just sang one song. Manifesto played second. High quality, but somehow not exactly my cup of tea. But it was cool to share two days with them and of course Franz who was on tour with them.
Yeah, and our show was great again. We had fun and the audience seemed to have fun too. Nice feedbacks afterwards.
Poland was next and I was really looking forward to enter the 17th country with the Now-Denial. Everything went smooth at the border and after a few difficulties with finding the club, we arrived in a cool house-project-thing. Hubert, the organizer of the show, was very friendly and we had great food while waiting for Mönster to show up. We did an interesting interview with Hubert and discussed about patriotism, anti-communism in Poland's punk scene and similar issues for quite a while. But of course he was busy with all the organizing.
Mönster came late and were stressed after spending long hours in an overloaded van. We unloaded and the first band Bonito started. Can't recall too much of them. The crowd was a typical scene crowd. Of course I'm always curious how the differences look like, but there were no real differences. Then we were about to start and had to face the fact, that Rob's guitar didn't work. Quite a good job to break an amp and a guitar within 2 shows. But the sound was still good with all the lended stuff. We played a decent set a bit puzzled by all the flashlights of too many photographers... that seems to be a popular activity on shows in Poland. Even a bit more than in Germany.
Mönster suffered a bit from a bad sound, but I found some new songs interesting for me. And it's always a feast for the eyes to watch slim-Iffi on drums and the tough-guy Matze with his proll-moves.
I went to bed early, but I think Jens, Phil and Matze experienced one or another polish vodkas that night.
The next day we headed further east. Including a trashy meal at a motorway gas station. Well it's a tour, so you need to do it. I already forgot the name of the polish meal Marek and Matze recommended to the cheese eater fraction. For the others fritkis and vegetables. Not even too bad for a gas station.
We passed Krakow aiming at Poland's province. Rzeszow is a small rather industrial town and by first sight more Poland cliche than Wroclav. Grey and big houses, typical functional style of the so called socialism. We made some detours before we found the bar „Absinth“. Very small room in the cellar, but no absinthe. Probably better, cause Chris was pretty drunk just with vodka, talking even harder than usual, telling the guys from Romeo Must Die, that we are pope now. I don't want to imagine him on absinthe.
Mönster started and the room was so crowded. Again the sound was not too helpful to get really into it, but Jobst is a great entertainer and as I said above the new songs are damn good. I'm looking forward to listening to „Control vs. Control“ and „Out of Luck“ over and over again on the upcoming 7“. Romeo Must Die played second and I liked them as much as I'm able to like a band before playing a show myself. You know, too many bees in my ass!
We had a fantastic gig. People going wild and of course we were going wild as well. That was a lot of fun and a sweaty thing as well. Funniest thing about this show was definitely me spitting in the air, but being far from catching the big snot myself. So it landed on the shoulder of this guy. Well, he seemed pretty relaxed about it and I tried to rub the snot down with my shirt. At least we had quite some laughing / smiling faces on our side again. We hung around there for a while singing „Biene Maja“ with Gustav and Nika.
After that we were stuffed in Gustav's small flat. That should have been cozy, but it was pretty drafty. Mönster slept at someone else's flat.
Lublin the next day should be a memorable night. First of all we were not very happy about 6 bands playing on a Sunday evening. Well, 6 bands are always too many, right??? Thankfully Marek arranged that we would play 3rd and 4th.
Most of the evening is just a blur. I recall fantastic food and hell a lot of it. I recall teenagers taking pictures of us before the show. I remember this drunken girl celebrating her 18th birthday with her friends. Also strange metal and skinhead guys in the room behind the stage screaming bullshit all the time. Then the bands started and it's been a while hearing a band doing blink 182 cover-versions and similar things, but taking themselves unbelievably serious. Then the band Crush All Fakes played their final show. Very modern hardcore and the people started dancing around and having fun.
Mönster played third and finally arrived in the tour. The sound was much better and everybody seemed to enjoy their set. Including myself. But I missed Jens singing the Discharge cover.
Shit, I like shows without stage, but it can get dangerous, if the crowd is going wild. And a lot of people went wild. Most of all, of course, Jens, Chris, Phil, Rob and I. it was so much fun. I surfed the crowd and everything. Marek was dancing and sweating and taking care that nobody was falling into the drums. And playing Roots, it was so cool that Patricia, our host for the next day in Warsaw, sung along.
Because of my slightly sore throat I stayed in the concert room, but the others got quite a good feedback at the merchtable and also some vodka for party. Iffi was so badly looking forward to the next day, that it was a bit too much for him. And he had to go with the night bus to Warszawa to pick up Katharina. I guess without the helping hand of Patricia he would have gone up to Danzig!
It took ages until the next band started. Bomb The World from Auschwitz played a decent set of melodic hardcore / punk rock, but way too long. And not only because I was exhausted and wanted to go to our sleeping places. The last band, called Last Believer, was one more proof that hardcore has no boundaries. They were boring like a similar band would be everywhere else. Uninspired hardcore.
At the sleeping place we had to stuff the whole crew in one flat. Quite a challenge, but I think everybody slept pretty well and the breakfast was amazing. We planned to leave rather early to have more time in Warsaw, but as it is always the same, it takes way longer in a big group.
We picked up Michail, the organizer of the show, at court where he had to go, because of a „blasphemic“ poster he did some time ago. Haha. But everything went well besides Mönster having to pay a fee for parking shit.
The drive was relaxed and we kept telling ourselves how cool we are. Yeah!
After unloading the van and the car we headed to the old town, which is worth a visit. It really looks huge, old and fancy. Crazy that it is all rebuilt after total destruction through german air raids. The climax of our walk was Jens picking up a helium balloon and singing the Now-Denial theme song. Have you ever tried helium? It's worth it. We laughed our asses off.
The organizer of the show couldn't come because of a broken foot. What a pity. But thanks to him nonetheless. While hanging out in the back of the room I already started to be sad, that it would be the last night with Mönster. It's been just 4 days, but I really like these strange dudes. It was so relaxed with the whole group including Ajka and Nika. And of course I'm so curious how it would be to play shows in Belarus and Russia.
The first 3 bands were not interesting at all for me. Then we started out and had a good time once more. Also once more I had to say something about moving elbows. Jens was the funny guy this time with his remark that there are people who deserve a broken nose. Well, how right he is. But still I can't relate to this specific dancing fashion in hardcore and I will not get tired to be a living proof that you can make a clown of yourself through dancing in a funnier, safer and healthier way than throwing arms and elbows and kicking and shit like that. Patricia sung along again and I took a ride on the people as well. Damn, I'm 31 now. Why do I restart to enjoy crowd surfing???
Then it was Mönster's turn and they played their best of the 4 shows we shared. And we all had fun with them as well. There are some pretty embarrassing pictures of Phil, Chris and Rob celebrating the one and only Matze. The party reached its climax, when Iffi sung a blues song. He is also a great entertainer and his voice is unbelievable. A great show and it felt good to dance around and mosh and everything.
After long good-byes we went separate ways and wished Mönster all the luck they needed on their way further east. We entered the beautiful flat of Patricia and Gosia and were welcomed with an amazing apple pie. We talked for quite a while and decided to skip our visit of Tesco's to buy all the soy-schnitzel and soy-würstchen stuff in order to have a recovering night. A great breakfast followed and we waved a thankful goodbye to our damn cool hosts. Surprisingly the drive, though it's been 7 hours, wasn't that bad and another surprise, we arrived in a well-warmed Archiv in Potsdam. Great food helped to feel comfortable in a german concert-setting again. We had some troubles to find someone lending Rob a guitar, cause the guy of Gadget plays with almost ropes as strings. Flo Chainbreaker was our savior that night. Thanks!!!
Pain Of Mind started that night. We played second and shit, what can I say, but telling that it was again a shitload of fun to play. People seemed to enjoy the show as well. Even some friends from Berlin came along. We sold a lot of stuff. Who would have expected that on a grindcore-show in Potsdam?
After Gadget played a noisy show, we packed our stuff to drove to Münster through the night. Thanks to Loffi for this cool final show of our small tour.
We had a relaxed overnight drive with everybody still thrilled and kicked by this fantastic tour. I can't wait to finish the other new songs and play them live. And of course getting the recordings done to present them recorded as well. I really really like them.
søren
22.04.2007: Whoohoo, the first update since last year's may! i finally managed to at least update the shows section. more will follow.
robin
24.05.2006: as you see, i started to put the new multi-paged web-design online. surprise; it almost looks the same. check our new SHOWS page, including every single NOW-DENIAL show ever played! in detail! still, a lot fine-tuning needs to be done.
robin
12.04.2006: yeeha. Finally playing live again. And I absolutely know what I missed the past months.
It was so damn cool to hang around with the other guys. On Friday we played the topf und söhne squat in erfurt. It was their 5th anniversary and there were quite some people, the food was fantastic and it is so nice to see familiar, friendly faces here and there, almost wherever we play. At least in germany. Thanks to steppl and the other people who helped. Our show was decent, though we hadn´t rehearsed our set for months and some people were really into it. We got a lot of nice feedback and also new friends. Especially this rock´n´roll guy, who told me afterwards, that he wasn´t sure what to think of us, when this metrosexual (damn I always thought that metrosexuality was just made up by glossy women-magazines to describe the style of david beckham) and androgynous (fuck, I´m this hairy guy with sideburns never shaved too well) guy, me, entered the stage. But he liked us nevertheless. He kept handshaking and telling us how cool the whole band rocked out the whole night. And it was a long one. The cock tailbar played its role and the night got this fatal touch. Right on. Next to the building we slept at, there was a tekkno-party that lasted until we left the next day. Well, in the morning the dj was all by himself most of the time.
We decided to visit the concentration camp in buchenwald, which is a bit complicated when you are more in a party mood. And I was already so damn tired having slept way too little the last two nights. But it was a good decision. It was once again very impressive. I didn´t have the concentration for taking in the whole exhibition, but all the remaining or built up buildings were challenging enough for that day. I can only recommend everyone to go and visit these historical sites of remembering, because it makes the unbelievable cynicism, the brutality and the thought-out-ness much more tangible than any book or movie.
We had a relaxed drive to göttingen, which is always worth a journey. It is so packed with nostalgia. I´ve been to the juzi for the first time in 94 and countless times afterwards. Though most of my close friends who lived in göttingen have moved on by now, it is still a weird intimate feeling coming back. Especially that night, because some of the old homies were there. Hanging around dead tired was a bit exhausting, but I got more and more in the right mood. Burned out started the evening and it was the second time I´ve seen them after their reunion. In Bremen it was way better. That night they suffered a bit from a bad sound and it seemed like only a few people remembered them. In fact the audience was quite young…
Then hevn from Norway played and I really enjoyed their show. Very up to date, though with a good felling for nostalgic moments. Okay, to be honest, the speeches between the songs were a bit too old-school for my taste. But I still dig bands at least saying something. then it was our turn and I really liked playing. The sound on stage was very good and powerful, so I got really into it. But I was also responsible for the low of the evening, when I tried to be funny and say something about burned outs slogan “hardcore heisst wieder kämpfen” (hardcore means fighting again), that was plastered on stickers all over Germanys hardcore/ punk venues 10 years ago. You can still find this sticker here and there. Shit, but I totally missed the right tone and it turned out to be a very arrogant and pissy statement about burned out. That absolutely was not my intention. It´s not the first time that something like that happens. It is not so easy to say precisely what you intentionally wanted to say. And I tend to be arrogant and pissy on stage anyway, which I think is okay, but well there are situations, where one or two thoughts before just rambling on and on would be helpful. I tried to straighten that out with the singer after the show, but he wasn´t too interested in talking to me, which I can understand.
All in all it was a fantastic weekend, though I was so unbelievably exhausted and I´m still a bit damaged. How do the others do it with getting drunk and stoned on top of the lack of sleep??? I do feel so hangovery without drinking.
And the rehearsal on Tuesday was also cool, because we finished the three new songs “the coffin is open”, “posicore a.k.a. life is a picnic part one)” and “glittering lights/ mallratstraps”.
søren
28.02.2006: chris started with a petite myspace-site today. check out this one! myspace.com/thenowdenial
16.01.2006: mühlheim can you hear me? surprises, so many surprises on a cold friday-night. rob, herr solke, herder, michel and me arrived at 8:45. everything looked chilled outside, no punk in sight, but shortly after we entered the gates of az mühlhell, i was stoked. jenseits der donnerkuppel and back, and the place was packed (notice: it was way earlier than 23:00!!!). the big hall was the punkrock supermarket with a climate-atmosphere you could easily grow tomatoes in, yeah you heard right. i never thought about bringin' my bade-pants to mühlheim, but this time it would've been a clever move (notice: it was the frost-punk-picnic at the az!!!).
we saw the last few chords of the first band zerstört and chatted with all our lovely friends, hung around stachels self-made-cocktails and waited for stagetime. i guess it was 23:00 when we started and after a fukked up start, the set got very energetic! some kids even brought their parents and the whole family gave us a very good time, with singalongs, and hip-hop bouncing (notice: yeah we're talking about a show in mühlheim!!!!). søritch-zerstøritch took a bath in the audience, and jens nearly smashed his guitar showing the freshest rock-moves, very impressing, white russian does a old man good. afterall a very² good evening, and the best az show we ever played. thanx to all people who like going nuts, who were involved and specially to christoph for having us this evening. me like being surprised.
cheers chris
18.12.2005: Hello again, ich sag einfach hello again. Quite some time has passed since the last time we wrote some shit for this site. A lot happened. The tour with doomtown has been a cool adventure and it is unbelievable that we added country number 14, 15 and 16 to the history of this band. Shit, it already seems so far away. All the absinthe and the grass. The strange satellite town weil am rhein, that made the oppa to a popper. and the free clothes of the swiss squats. The beautiful countrysides whether it were the seas in switzerland, the snow-topped mountains in switzerland and austria or the wolf and bear-eyed woods in the slovakian and check republic. The food-contest at vegetasia in vienna. The delicious kraut-soup made by klaus' mother. The brutal collision of past and present in terezin/ theresienstadt and the ugly sides of humanity/ capitalism near the german/czech border. And of course the hardcore/punk c apital nuenchritz, which was destination for quite some travellers that night. Thanks to claude and tom for travelling with us, helping us and cheering us up once in a while. Also a big thank you to all the people who helped us organizing this tour. Hey, we made a plus of exactly 50 cent (yo!). Also the second “deutschland in decline”-weekend lies behind us, which was a great experience again.
Especially because of the unbelievably huge crowd in berlin and the tons of friends showing up. Thanks a fucking lot to the turn it down crew for working so hard. Still it couldn't beat the first weekend since it was just one day for us (no, we don't mention any resasons for that) and the lacking dance-party. We also played at the fanziner-meeting in oberhausen, which was one of the stranger shows, because of the challenging mixture of bands (that is not necessarily a bad thing) and the calm and sober winter-mood of the now-denial. Then we behaved like these arrogant assholes and left, although there were still 3 bands
to go, but well, maybe it´s just okay, I couldn´t care less and hanging out in mülheim afterwards with some homies and friends has to be valued way higher than watching this or the other band anywhere. There aren´t any other news at this point. We will see, what next year will do for the now-denial. Be warned, be prepared. We will cut you into little pieces… Hey, and watch out, the doomtown lp is finally out now. Forever fucked!
søren
14.11.2005: hey boys & girls, we had a great show in berlin last friday. thanks to all the guys at the KÖPI, not only for the delicious dinner! some short lines concerning the whole tour will follow.
robin
11.10.2005: allright!
the first "deutschland in decline"-weekend was a blast. how cool can life be? the compilation 7" turned out to be very chic and musically very listenable. but, of course, that can't cope with sharing 3 days on the road with DOOMTOWN, BURIAL, SOLID DECLINE and the almighty FLO. thanks so much, suckers! special thanks go out to the störte-crew in hamburg, who were, once again, unbelievably kind and caring hosts. well, they are old, they know how to treat us fuckers right.
and the people at the ajz bielefeld, who, for whatever reasons, set up a three-day-fest, that we were a part of one day. i don't want to try to imagine how much time and work they put into it.
not to forget the G16-guys in leipzig. after cancelling our last show there very short-term because of philipps broken nose, we finally made it to this
huge squat. cool shit. especially the aftershow-party in bielefeld will stick
in my memory, not only because of the tasteful choices of dj flowerchild. but dancing around with jens, christian, franz and some homies from bremen to cheesy
80ies music was fantastic.
we added a show on the "tag der deutschen
(schw-)einheit" in rob's and chris' hometown münster wich also turned out to be a better hometown-gig, though we had to rush through 9 songs in estimated 15
minutes, because of all the bands being late. at least it prevented THE SPECTACLE and REQIUEM from spreading more love and revolution than an old, miserable and
politically down to earth guy like me could bear.
before our tour with DOOMTOWN starts, i hope we can finish at least our new song "the coffin is open", so
the live-set will be an interesting mixture again, also for us.
cheers søren
