NEWS ARCHIVE -1999

5. Nov.. England. London. We played London before but got sabotaged then by the main bands sound guy. We supported some crappy german band then and they had to pull the plug on us. Today though, we could do our thing. It went great and we went to Stansted and flew home.....YES. Thanks for reading and see you next time..... 

4. Nov. Belgium. This show was sucky. Paolo worked with a bare butt. Cummon, how can Belgium offer anything after Italy? We didn't care...ran the mill and got out......Have a nice life

3. Nov. Got to Belgium and stayed in the city where we had to ply. Went to watch a movie. It was o.k. but I'd rather play everyday. I hate the days off. They are so incredibly boring....

2. Nov. Travel day. Stayed up forever as we drove through the mountains in Switzerland. What a view. Suck it in and go to bed. Unreal for a dane whose country is as flat as Kate Moss' chest.

1. Nov. Treviso. Uh Uh. Monday night and a fucking great show yesterday. I thought it would be shit but it was great. Last show in southern europe and you don't how cool it was until you're in Belgium.

31. Oct. Rimini. This was probably the best show on the tour. 600 people went nuts. Singalongs and fucking crowd backup vox for facelift. Goose bums. KILLER show. Damn. ( Great Food Too.....)

30. Oct. Milan. We thought we had to pull the show. The P.A. was not working, the entire left side was blown out. All our plans this day was canceled because we thought we where pulling it. Couldn't go to A.C.Milans stadium or anything. Fuck. The food wasn't good and we just waited. The deadline for the P.A. was 7 and the promoter wanted the show to start at 6. They fixed it last minute and we played anyway......Very good show, but the sound was crap. Too bad when the people have paid and there is no way we can make it how we like it. The P.A. was just shit.

29. Oct. Biella. ITALY....I've been looking forward to this. We played here before and it was great. Great Expectations and a great last week of the tour. The show was naturally great. Italians like metal and that's what they got.

28. Oct. Day Off. Again we rushed only to sit in a parking lot for a day. Fuck...

27. Oct. Bordeaux: We did this before. The club isn't the greatest in the world, but the crowd is ruling. It can't hold more than 200 people and we had 250 in there. One of the smallest crowds on the tour, but also one of the loudest. Bad: we had to go to McDonalds to take our shits, because none felt to comfortable hitting those holes in the floor the they have in France. I can see the cleanliness goal of this concept, but what if you shit on your pants?? I only had to do this once on this tour and it was when I had the stomach flu and my watery shit sprayed the wall in 1.20 m height and ran unpleasantly towards the little hole. I'm glad I'm not cleaning toilets for a living and especially that gasstation toilet in France I had to soil so badly. 

26th Oct. Irun. Weird show. Just weird. 

25th Oct. Travel Day. We drove for hours and then stopped in the holy city of Salamanca. Bo, Paolo, Mike and I went to the city to wash our stinking sewer outfits and get some food. Then some guy almost ran me over and I broke his wingmirror. When we got back to the bus there was 14 policemen there looking for me. I had to go to the station and pay for the mirror. Other than that, this day was pretty normal.

24th Oct. Lissabon: 12 hours on the road and we were in Portugal. This day was very boring and after waiting forever we played and the show was great.....To bad a guy had to get so hurt from stagediving...I saw him in the air and then his nose was broken.....damn. We all sat on the bus later and Lars Mayland felt that this was a very boring day, seconds after he said that we were in the middle of a flood. The drainage couldn't handle the water and we had to get off the bus in ½meter of sewer water and save our gear from the flood. The bus got water in the lower backlounge and we had enough of Portugal. 

23rd Oct: Madrid: Woke up on the bus, and heard Barney have to answer stupid questions and felt like kicking those punks off the bus. But went inside and took a wet shit. The venue was great and the show later was just great. Viva Espanã.....This is how metal shows should be...........
 

22nd Barcelona. This city is just great. We got up early and went to Nou Camp. Sat there and sucked the vibe. F.C. Barca rules......The show was KILLER. Why can't all shows be like this?
It fucking ruled..........

21st Perpignan. Still sick as a dog. Went to a hotel to get rest. Slept for 14 hours and is feeling a little better......The show was really great. Crowds in France are just better than Germany I guess. 

20th Paris got canceled. Traveled south to do a cover-up show in Perpignan.

19th Colmar. Arrived the night before ??? had 16 hours to get-in. Why the fuck did we have to leave Berlin to sit 16 hours on a fucking parking lot without a toilet???....Great show, the crowd was 1000 times better than any german crowd.....great.

18th Travel day. Caught a serious stomach flu. Can't eat, can't sleep, can't do anything. FUCK.

17th Oct. Berlin: What a day!!! Had a visitor from home and went to a hotel. The rest is private.....( Our room was on 20th floor of the hotel. What a view......) Bo had a fallout with the local crew. He ended up doing some pissing(!!!) and moaning, destroyed a taxi, too.....
  Left at 3:30 for France....

16th Oct. Leipzig: I'm in Madrid writing this right now, and I can't remember anything from Leipzig ?? I'll get back with some if it comes back ??

15th Oct. Stavenhagen: Weird concept: they had a great stage with great p.a. but wanted to use that for the the late night disco....so they had a tent outside ( 5 degrees...are you NUTS???) that we had to play in. Playing metal and freezing your ass off at the same time just doesn't go together. Our backline guru Paolo kept our shit warm with an oversize vacuum cleaner, and the set went o.k. Cold but cool ??? Later the disco started and they had 10 people in there. No serious point in renting that tent, huh, guys ??? Our soundman Bo Lund voiced his opinion by pissing on the floor of the disco......

14th Oct. Bishofwerda. What a fucking rathole outta hell. This place was just a stinking, disgusting, repulsive pile of shit- they served us food that the mice had theirs out of during the night. Couldn't do a serious show because everything was just shit.....let's get the fuck out of here.....

13. Oct. Braunschweig. Another great show, damn.  Great venue and great crowd. Those guys fucking ruled....

12. Oct. Cologne, PrimeClub. Met up with Metal Hammer U.K. and had a chat.....the show was great. People loved it....

11. Oct. Cologne Day off. Parked in the most remote part of town. did laundry and went to the city. Went back and was bored. The guys got piss drunk and went nuts. Could sleep at 8 in the morning...

10. Oct. Leer: Close to Holland, so we went for a late night d*** run. No success but at least we got McDonald. The place was cool and the show was o.k. People live their lives ???

9. Oct. Magdeburg: O.K. Another east german venture. But what a fucking great one. The stage was huge and the venue was great. The food was edible and there was plenty. After hanging out all day we rocked and the crowd was great. This place was just excellent and everything was cool.

8th Oct.: Freiberg. The venue was a forsamlingshus fra helvede. Beton uden ende. P.A. ankom klokken 17.....Lort......lort.......lort........Hvorfor bor folk her ??? Hvorfor flytter de ikke bare væk.........?????? 

7th Oct.: Erfurth. Good old eastern Germany. Drove shitty roads all night and somehow we ended up on a field in the middle of nowhere. We got out, got in and set up......The monitor guy was absolutely not qualified, not remotely qualified...can't speak, can't think and can't ( sure as hell) work the fucking monitor....crap sound resulting.....but o.k. gig.........lets get outta here.

6th Oct.: Day off in Munchen. Gab. Woke up at 4 and went to the city. Found two old Motorhead records and went back to the bus........and went back to sleep.....

5th Oct.: Munchen: This was a very special day. Lars Schmidt got his new custom one of a kind B.C. Rich bass today. I had set it up without him knowing anything and sworked out the deal with Mr. Bernie Rico from B.C. and the bass arrived as a special gift from Lars' girlfriend and it was fucking cool. Damn it's a good-looking bass. He got it at sound check and looked totally confused, he he...he thought it was someone else's bass, and didn't quite get that it was his........
    O.K. show, good crowd. Napalm's set was cut in half by a serious accident, but they finished in cool fashion. Tomorrow is a day off.....in Munchen...

4th Oct.: Stuttgart: An old stinky bunker, with rat poison everywhere....Stinky, smelly, sucky. Crap food, Lars asked the caterer if the food was maggots: he replied: no no, it's pasta, spaghetti or something. I didn't eat. Let's get the fuck outta here.......Skank ass...

3rd Oct.: Zurich: We crossed the swiss border safely without having to lend some ass to a horny border patrol. Woke up in Zurich and went out to try to find something. Sunday and it seemed like everything was closed. Everything was closed, and we tried to buy coffee at the main station, without luck. The swiss are a secluded people, but Michael from GSA asked the first old lady in sight where the red light district was. Funny sight, because Michael was making himself understandable by body language forming two huge hooters in the air in front of this nice old lady. She was on to it, and we went that way. Nothing there though, only a very expensive McDonalds......
   Show was great...people rocked. The food was good/spicy, and we got through it and cruised for Germany.....

2. Oct.: Lindau. Wake up, after a long sleep.....good enough. Another great venue, cap. 800.....good presale over 500 people. Great show....we kicked ass, and they loved it. Will be in Switzerland tomorrow and that's supposedly good too. Feel's good that metal still rocks. Great food. Deutshland über alles..........

1. Oct.: Krefeld. First show in Germany. Compared to Holland this was heaven. Great venue, great p.a. great monitor, great crowd, lot of 'em crazy fuckers. The venue was a weapons factory under second world war, and they still had some powder left. We dined out a.k.a. buy-outs and Per and I went for chinese. They had all their local dishes Including the all famous Nazi Göring ( Nasi Goreng...) and Per asked if it was legal to sell a dish under that name. The guy said something that i presumed was chinese and that was it. We ate and left. Good food.........early curfew, bus left for Lindau 9 hours away. The video ate the porn video.......FUCK it, let's sleep

30. Sept.: Day Off in Amsterdam. Everybody went bout their business, which in my case was getting my stinky clothes washed and get some decent food. Settled for a double Argentinean steak with nice pepper sauce and the seasons green. Got me a Monte Christo for 22 guilders and felt my soul wake back up. Cool. Bus left at 23:45, we got drunk and went to sleep.
 

29. Sept.: Rotterdam. O.k. time to fucking complain, what a shitty fucking club, shitty fucking audience and no towels. Had to shower with a roll of toilet paper. The food was crap, the place was worse than Ungdomshuset. For a few minutes I thought I was in Hell. Let's get the fuck outta Holland and deal with some other shit.........Let's Røvk

28th Sept.: Nijmegen. Same shit different day. Same food, same backstage, same shit. Shit, it's early to be complaining.....gotta see the positive side, cum on. Hmmmm, well there was a grill down the road with o.k. ribs and a pinball machine. We played well, and taped the show. Damn, we rocked....Lars Mayland's got the fucking licks..........

27th Sept.: Groningen. Sold out, totally weird on a monday. The Napalm is back.....but shitty club, stinky, smelly and with bad P.A. Excellent crowd, with an urge for metal. After having spent the day on the town (!!?) we played our best show yet. Maybe a couple of the guys had fallen in love with the transvestite behind the bar, and had something to prove ?? Left early for Nimegen.

26th Sept.: Tilburg. Very cool club. All new killer gear. Sounded great. We played the Metal Matinee at 17:30. The earliest show yet. But nice food, good crowd and excellent showers. Always a help, when when you're a sad, smelly Lemmy wannabe. Why shower ? You'll be sweaty later anyway...!!? Curfew 21:00, kedelig søndag.....Jean Claude Van Damme er fandme lam. bøh...... Amish People......Allah er stor. Satan være med jer ?

25th Sept.: Sneek. Soccer madness !!!? We bought a ball for 25 Gylden. At first it was just sitting on the floor by itself, but it caused serious damage later. First, we set up, then sound checked, ate the first of probably many pasta dinners (sucked...), waited for while, played a good show in front of a sold out "dutch" audience, ( they moved less than yesterday, but still decent.... still decent). got off, sat down, got drunk, and started playing some SOCCER: Per was very adamant about shooting holes in the roof. Lars tried a trick, but fell on his ass, and then i kicked the local support in the stomach. ( W.D.Ball....) Wasn't too successful, it's safe to say that we're more metal than footballers. More on that if we learn howta play. ( we were all SO good when we where kids........) Per closed the session with a full forced flugter that shot the chairs behind the bar into rubbish and turned on the beer tap. The club owner wasn't happy. But we all had a laugh, so that's o.k.
 

24th Sept.: Hengelo, Holland. First date on the tour, with the usual stress getting set. After 12 hours of traveling, we arrived in Hengelo. After a fast sound check and the first of probably many rice dinners, we plugged in and got metal. This was defiantly the most happening gig we ever played in Holland, ever. The crowd was nuts, and we loved it. Crowds in Holland are usually kinda slow, but these fuckers went off. Cool. But all things must come to an end, and so did the first show out of 35 or so. A very good beginning......

Sept. 20th: Konkhra recieves killer reviews for their performance in Vega, opening for Megadeth. Especially from danish national Newspaper Ekstra Bladet, who had their student trainee do a review. Lars Schmidt was compared to Hulk Hogan and Santa Claus in a poor attempt to be funny. It's nationally known though, that this personal vendetta from this excuse for a journalist is due to a very poor intellect and a very severe attack of penis infection. Hey man, why don't you just shut up, and get a life ???
   The fact remains: noone can reject the power of Konkhra live, and if you have the chance, catch them on their tour with Napalm Death. They will kill you.

15th sept: All is ready for the tour. Except a couple of shows in England, which will be announced soon. Anders made some promo shots for B.C.Rich, which will be up on the scandinavian importers website, and in various press this fall. The band plans to report from the tour on this page via e-mail to let everybody know what's cooking. Remember: any questions  for the band will be answered via email: konkhra@konkhra.com

9th Sept.: Dates added to the tour in Italy, France and Belgium. The final dates in England will be ready in a weeks time. 
 

August 16th: Dates added to the tour in Portugal, and t.b.c. in Belgium.
New shows in Germany in Berlin and Stavenbergen. N.D. and
Konkhra have decided to hit Italy as well, dates will follow next week.
Finally a show in London has been confirmed on the 5th of November,- at The Garage.

August 10th: A show in Berlin added to the tour. Also one extra in Stavenhagen.
Expect final word on Portugal, Spain, France and England a.s.a.p.

August 5th: Dates in Spain and France added to the tour list.
Dates in Austria and maybe one more in Switzerland expected soon.

August 4th: Konkhra confirms a "secret" show at the TEX rock club in Copenhagen.
They are launching their record and playing a short set later that evening.
The party is on Saturday, September the 11th.
 

July 29th: Members of Konkhra recieve "Come Down Cold" in it's final pressing from the german manufacturers.The lay-out is looking great. Release in Europe August 30th and September 7th.

July 26th: One of the dates on the European Tour is with Dark Angel !!!
Konkhra and Napalm Death will join Dark Angel for a single show in Holland.

25th July: Konkhra is confirmed as opening act for Megadeth in Copenhagen on Sunday the 19th of September. Megadeth is currently touring with Iron Maiden but has the time for this one-of gig in Denmarks capitol. Great news for danish Konkhra fans, since their first five weeks of touring doesn't include Denmark.

July 21th: Konkhra receives an update on their tour with Napalm Death. Germany dates added on under Tours. They also received an offer to
possibly tour Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, The Philippines and South Africa. This offer is currently being revised by Konkhra and Napalm Death.

July 20th: Per starts the recording of the new Artillery album in Star-Struck studio as a studio musician. About time those guys got back. Expect a punishing album...!!!

July 10th: The band will use the entire week filming the first promotional video for "Come Down Cold". The track is "Godgiven",- the first track on the new album. This will be the most costly venture the band has done for a video, and include aerial shots involving a 300 foot crane!!! + tons of pyrotechnics. All hell is breaking loose.

July 8th: The band receives Dave McKean's graphic layouts for the new record. Watch the front page for world premiere of the new art ( will be up soon...).

July 7th: Konkhra recruits Lars Mayland ( Known from the latest Daemon release...) as a 100% full-time member of the band. They close a chapter in the bands history by this choice. Both Konkhra and James Murphy agrees that this is for the better and part ways in best vibes. James is very committed to Testament's world tour for their latest release " The Gathering", and Konkhra felt like having a full-time member on lead guitar. Reports from the rehearsal whisper that this is without a doubt the strongest line-up Konkhra has ever had. Lars is the type of guy who'll hang naked from the ceiling and still blow minds on lead guitar.

July 6th: Anders receives news on the B.C.Rich endorsement he was offered in May. B.C.Rich commence building a custom V with a finish that is making guitar history. First ever Arck Top V from B.C.Rich !!

July 5th: The first dates with Napalm Death are confirmed, check under Tours for more info. Metal Hammer Germany asks to host the tour, and several other media representatives show major interest. Rock Hard will host Konkhra competitions, and prices will include special merchandise offers.

July 4th: Per accepts Swedish The Haunted's invitation to play as a stand-in on the bands tour of North America with Testament. This will happen from August 5th and three weeks forward. Anders and Lars will travel to most European capitols doing press for "Come Down Cold" in the same period. Contact Diehard for bookings.

July 3rd: Release dates for "Come Down Cold" are rock solid. Denmark on Monday the 30th of August. Germany on the 27th of August. Rest of Europe incl. Sweden and England first week of September. Release date in the states is expected soon. Japan likewise.

July 1st. Anders Lundemark will attend this years Roskilde Festival, and make a few interviews.

June 28th: Konkhra members, Per and Anders spent half the day working
on the set of the popular danish soap series " Taxa", where they where hired
as extra's to support Peter Belli ( famous Danish folksinger/actor..) in a pretty violent scene.
The show will air on national TV in November.

June 25th. The band is currently reviewing the cover artwork for
"Come Down Cold", which this time is done by w.w. renowned artist
Dave Mckean. Watch the frontpage for world wide premiere of the new artwork

June 18th. Konkhra have confirmed plans to play the Copenhagen Rock Club TEX,
as a special treat on the same date where TEX is hosting
Konkhra's release party for "Come Down Cold".

June 17th. The band have CANCELED their otherwise confirmed
appearance at " Pepsi Ørestadsfestivalen", due to contractual problems.
The festival and Konkhra could not come to terms with the financial side,
and this led to Konkhra's cancellation.

June 15th. Negotiations with english Napalm Death's manager have a positive outcome,
Napalm and Konkhra will tour together for 5 weeks in Europe. 6 shows in Benelux.
12 shows in G/A/S. + much more.
They also aim for Japan and Australia.

June 7th: Konkhra releases The Freakshow EP.

June 1st: Konkhra opens their official website

May: Anders has his 10 year anniversary in the band.

April 15th to May 7th. Konkhra mixes their new album at The Plant, Sausalito, CA.

March 15 to April 15th. The band records basic tracks for upcoming album at
Puk and Star-Struck studios Denmark.

February 13th. Lars Schmidt re-joins the band. Back after a 2½ year vacation.

February 12th. Thomas " Gnist" leaves the band to pursue a "civil" career.

January : The band headline a tour of Europe for the second time in 6 months.