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• Attent!on '2, 3, 1!' Ltd. Edit. blue vinyl 7"

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  Attent!on are back with new songs. Throughout all this time, the individual members remained in contact, and met again for the first time in 12 years in the Summer of 2003. The last time all four of them had been in the same room was when they made one of their 4(!) rare Live-appearances.
  Ignoring the fact that Gustav dropped playing drums 8 years ago, after having suffered a stroke, three songs were arranged and rehearsed within just as many days. And recorded and mixed on a 4th day. The only compromise to the old bandslogan: "Just book the studio, something has gotta come of it", was the fact that this time Viggo and Kent had written the music and lyrics in advance.
  The result has just been released on Viking Wreckchords, as a limited edition 7"Inch. Responsable for the frontcover is legendary comic artist Kim Schmidt (www.kim-cartoon.com), we promise his work will stirr a bit of shit in the "hardcore-scene" :-)
  
  Produced by Joszi Sorokowski at White Noise Tonstudio, Hamburg.
  
  Tracklist:
  1) She's Feeling Better Now - 2) 5 Wheel Drive - 3) The War Is Over
  
  Line Up:
  Martin Billert - Bass
  Gustav Kaspereit - Drums
  Viggo Mastad - Guitar, Backing Vocals
  Kent Nielsen - Vocals
  
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  Attent!on melden sich mit neuen Songs zurück. Trotz all der Jahre ist die Verbindung zwischen den einzelnen Mitglieder nie abgebrochen, und so kamen sie jüngst erneut zusammen. Mehr als 10 Jahre waren vergangen seit dem alle 4 auf einen Haufen gewesen waren - auf eins der 4 (!) Konzerte die, die Band je gespielt haben. Der Tatsache trotzend, das Gustav nach schwerer Krankheit vor 8 Jahren das Schlagzeug links liegen ließ, wurde innerhalb von 3 Tage ebenso viele neue Stücke arrangiert und eingeprobt. Und am 4. Tag aufgenommen und abgemischt. Das einzige Zugeständnis am frühere Bandprinzip: "Bucht schon mal das Studio, irgend etwas brauchbares wird dabei schon rauskommen", war das Viggo und Kent Musik und Texte diesmal schon im Vorfeld geschrieben hatte.
  Das Ergebnis ist jetzt auf eine limitierte 7"Inch erscheinen. Verantwortlich für das Frontcover ist kein geringerer als Comiczeichner Kim Schmidt (www.kim-cartoon.com). Wir können jetzt schon sagen der gute Kim hat ganze Arbeit geleistet.
  
  Produziert von Joszi Sorokowski im White Noise Tonstudio, Hamburg.
  
  Tracklist:
  1) She's Feeling Better Now - 2) 5 Wheel Drive - 3) The War Is Over
  
  Line Up:
  Martin Billert - Bass
  Gustav Kaspereit - Drums
  Viggo Mastad - Guitar, Backing Vocals
  Kent Nielsen - Vocals ... more
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• Attent!on 2 x 7" bundle (Greetings From Norway / 2, 3, 1!)

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  A network of friends - The soul of the European Underground Scene shines again!
  
  In order to "explain" Attent!on, one has to dig down a bit deeper into the history of the European Punk- & Hardcore-scene. After the end of the last British Punk wave in the beginning of the 80s, the mainstream music media didn't have any interest in Hardcore. Hardcore initially started as a reaction against the original "Punkbands", who sold out to major record companies. By 1987 it seemed the big labels had succeded in buying up quite a few Hardcorebands. Raw energy and political substance was replaced by a marketable image, which often proved out to be sexist, racist and rightwing.
  
  Acceptance on a social or musical level was pretty much nonexistent, you had to create your own space. An increasing amount of people from the Punk and Hardcore scene identified with the "Do It Yourself" school of thought, thus creating their own spaces. The stale music industry didn't have any interest in these new and young bands, who back then, were bursting out of Torino, Nottingham, Amsterdam, Milano, Oslo, Berlin, the Ruhr district in Germany and a hundred other cities. For the first time contacts were made among each other, the lack of suitable live venues saw people travel for hundreds of miles, just to see a couple of bands and meet a few friends. Little by little a network of concertpromoters, bands, fanzines, livevenues and squats developed, where you could create your own cultural life and identity. An exchange between hardcore punks from the most remote areas of Europe took place, at a level which will never be reached by any politician spewing empty phrases and law proposals. The principle of living and working together across borders was already practised and lived out in the Punk- & Hardcore-scene, long before the European Community caught on to the idea. However this happened on the clearly formulated principle of "Cooperation! Not Competition!". To me, this European Cooperation peaked with the band Attent!on, who first began to make themselves noticed 1988. Geographically hard to place, as the members comes from: Germany, Norway, Poland & Denmark. The individual bandmembers are: Viggo (Guitar, backing vocals, ex-Angor Watt, Israelvis) from Norway; Martin Billert (Bass, numerous bands) from Poland; Gustav Kaspereit (Drums, ex-Pissed Boys, ex-Ugly Food) from Germany and Kent Nielsen (Vocals, ex-L.U.L.L., ex-Ugly Food, today One Bar Town/ Viking Wreckchords) from Denmark, now living in Germany. In 1988 Attent!on released the 12"EP 'Hearts Of Stone', receiving rave reviews from all around the world. 1991 the 7"Single 'Greetings From Norway' followed, both on X-Mist Records (Nagold, Germany), each of them a classic in the history of European Hardcore! Now Attent!on are back with new songs. Throughout all this time, the individual members remained in contact, and met again for the first time in 12 years in the Summer of 2003. The result can be heard on the upcoming 7"Inch EP '231'. The idea behind Attent!on, then and now, is musical communication, drawing on both the human and ideological side of things. With their strongly inspiring music and lyrics, the band once again reaches a new level, clearly pushing their musical expression to the limit, lyrically never satisfied by treading the usual topics common in the scene. The band Attent!on provide 4 individuals with the possibility of expressing their ideas, without having to give in to mainstream territory, or the structures of rock business.
  
  I deliberately avoided using any kind of musical labels/genres in this Attent!on bandbio. A brain and a pair of ears is bound to be at hand - decide for yourself. - Helge Schreiber / Plastic Bomb
  
  Line Up
  Gustav Kaspereit - Drums
  Viggo Mastad - Guitar, Backing Vocals
  Kent Nielsen - Vocals
  Martin Billert - Bass
  
  Discography
  1988:
  "Hearts of Stone" 12"EP, X-Mist Records
  
  1991:
  "Greetings from Norway" 7", X-Mist Records
  
  1998:
  "Attention" auf V/A "Network of Friends Vol.2" CD/2LP, Plastic Bomb Records / Ataque Sonoro Records
  
  2005:
  "2, 3, 1!" 3 Track 7"EP, ltd. Edition on coloured vinyl. Viking Wreckchords ... more
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• Attent!on 'Greetings From Norway' 7"

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  "If groove is the almighty thing, and if it wasn't for a wellknow U.K.-band of that same name, Attent!on could change their name to "THE ALMIGHTY" right away! 'Cos these four ugly faces handle "da groove" with a supiriousity and coolness which is hard to label otherwise than fucking brilliant!! Attent!on are dangerous! If you want lust, life, sex & hate, here is where you can order, satisfaction guaranteed!!! The 7" covers two tracks "Last Night", a "pop" song with a classic theme, and "From Brooklyn To Avalon" that brings up the worst in you, leaving the "jaws"-like riffs in your head for days!"
  
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  "Endlich ... endlich eine neue Platte dieser europäischen Klasseband. Wieder einmal haben sich diese 4 Leute aus Germany, Polen, Dänemark und Norwegen zusammen gefunden und hier liegt uns nun ein weiteres Klasseprodukt vor. Ich schätze es gibt kaum eine Band, die es schafft innerhalb einer Woche sich zusammen zu finden und dann auch noch eine 7" als Nebenprodukt abliefern kann. Eine der besten europäischen 7" zur Zeit" Ox 1991 ... more
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