THE UNIT

Back in Copenhagen

2007-04-27T09:51:00.000+02:00

We're back home in Copenhagen after a great tour. Some of the best shows we've ever played has been these past few weeks.

We didn't get a new Camera, so once again if you have any pictures of us please mail them to theunit(at)theunit(dot)dk or send us a link.

There's a lot of people that we need to thank... So thank you very much Rattenloch crew, The Separates, Schokoladen, Matt, Robin, the Krakow guys, Aurora, Synthtic Underground Trio, Krys and his family, Pod Muzami, the crazy kids in Kalisz, Rauscher, Mobilat Club, Sergei, Ex-Haus, Die Pricess Die, Fatzo, Dominik, Felix, Ultrafair, Station 77, The Cargo guys, the Winston Kingdom girls + Greg, Udo, Ingo, Bartek and Nagel. This tour wouldn't have been the same without you. And of course all the nice people who came to the shows. Hope to see you all again soon.Well, it's back to the rehearsal room for us now. Don't quite know what our next move will be, but we'll keep you posted.

BREAKs off and new pictures

2007-04-16T09:41:00.000+02:00

Venue: BREAK

After a week off it's now time to get back out and ROCK. We are taking the train to Hamburg where we parked the van and then it's off to Trier to support DIE PRINCESS DIE. We have never seen them live before, but they sound like a great live band - so that's gonna be a lot of fun.

There are also a few new pictures from Poland:
- Barteks pictures from Krakow here.
- Arek Drygas pictures from Krotoszyn here.
- Kaliszfornias pictures from Kalisz here.
- We added a few "after the show pictures" to Tomek's folder here.

Thanks so much for letting us use the pictures.

NEXT VENUE: EX-HAUS
Street: Zurmaiener Str. 114
City: Trier
Country: Germany

Pictures from Poland

2007-04-11T01:19:00.000+02:00

The first pictures have just arrived. Tomek Szpruta from the great band "Synthetic Underground Trio" who we played Kalisz and Krotoszyn with has send me some fantastic live pictures that he took of us.

Here are the pictures from Krotoszyn

Here are the pictures from Kalisz.

Thanks Tomek for the pictures. If anybody else have pictures from our concert please write us at theunit(at)theunit.dk

Pictures by Nagel

2007-04-08T13:21:00.000+02:00

Here are some pictures taken by our good friend Nagel who were with us on most of the German shows. Liveclip will be added later.

Day 6: Krotoszyn(Pl)

2007-04-04T09:15:00.000+02:00

Venue: KOK ROZCHULANTYNA

The polish roads have killed the servo in the van. So parking and city driving has turned in to a real exercise where you need to use all your strength. The roads were not any better today and a drive that was supposed to take us 3 hours turned out as a 6 hours drive. We are pretty fucking tired of sitting in that car by now. Arriving in Krotoszyn the venue “Art club Krotoszyn” turned out to be a great small place. We played a great show and people liked it. But we got our camera stolen so that is the end of this picture blog. Until we get a new camera.

If you have any pictures taken of us please send us some links – we know there were ten photographers in Krotoszyn alone...

NEXT VENUE: POD MUZAMI
Street: Al. Wolności 27
City: Kalisz
Country: Poland

Day 5: Warsaw(Pl)

2007-04-03T09:07:00.000+02:00

Venue: AURORA

We had a great trip from Krakow to Warsaw. We made a few detours. First we visited some old beautiful town called Sandomir after that we were invited to Barteks grandparents place for a dinner. We were a bit late for Warsaw and had to eat all the great food in 20 minutes. His grandparents we really nice people and we had a great time there. We arrived in Warsaw just for the sounds-check so had to put up the gear fast. We played with two local bands Farel Gott and The Black Tapes they were both great – especially The Black Tapes, who had a great energy and some good songs. We played a rather good show as well. There weren’t many people, but the venue we nice and the people who were there liked our music. There was some pretty crazy dancing going on in front of the stage. After the show we went to Barteks place to sleep and drink all night. Next morning his girlfriend prepared some fantastic breakfast.

check more pictures here.

NEXT VENUE: KOK ROZCHULANTYNA
Street: ul. 56 Pułku Piechoty Wlkp. 18
City: Krotoszyn
Country: Poland

Day 4: Krakow(Pl)

2007-04-02T09:04:00.000+02:00

Venue: ZASCIANEK

We had a really long drive. Left Berlin at 10 in the morning and arrived in Krakow at 6 in the evening. That was a bit to much. But we manged to get in gear for the concert. We had said goodbye to Nagel in Berlin - he changed horses and went on with Greg MacPherson for the rest of his tour. In Krakow we meet up with Bartek who is going to be with us for all the shows in Poland. He had brought some of his Friends and a nice dog. We all love dogs so that was a very amusing break playing with it. The venue was in a campus area and since it was Sunday and the first day of the year in Krakow with sunny weather... everybody were drinking and having a barbecue outside. Nobody seemed to have any intention of going inside for some Rock. So we played a rather empty concert hall. After some drinking with the promoters, Bartek and more we went to our Hotel. It was a really nice one, and we have slept like babies. See you in Warsaw.

More pictures here.

NEXT VENUE: AURORA
Street: Dobra 33/35
City: Warsaw
Country: Poland

Day 3: Berlin(D)

2007-04-01T09:00:00.000+02:00

Venue: SCHOKOLADEN

Had a great time in Berlin. Came to the city 2 hours early, so we had some time to walk around and enjoy the first sunny day of the year. So we had Currywurst and icecream and relaxed. The room and the people at the schokoladen are great. We were rather tired but as more and more of our friends showed up we forgot our intention of going to bed early and had a party instead.

More pictures here.

NEXT VENUE: ZASCIANEK
Street: ul. Rostafińskiego 4
City: Krakow
Country: Poland

Day 2: Schwerte(D)

2007-03-31T08:57:00.000+02:00

Venue: RATTENLOCH

Had a great drive to Schwerte with pit-stop at Burger King. Rattenloch was in the basement of a school and the stage was in the old Swimming pool. Pretty crazy stuff - but cool. Played with The Separates who we played Potsdam with last year - They are great and great fun hanging out with. Once again there weren't that many people at the show but they seemed to like it a lot more than the audience in Hamburg. We were called back on stage 3 times.

Check out the pictures here.

NEXT VENUE: SCHOKOLADEN
Street: Ackerstrasse 169
City: Berlin
Country: Germany

Day 1: Hamburg(D)

2007-03-30T08:51:00.000+02:00

Venue: HAFENKLANG

It's on - We have played the first gig and it was ok. Not many people and not much money - but we had a great time with Nagel and the Mob guys. They played a great show and the audience seemed to be more into their kind of music...

Check out some picture here.

NEXT VENUE:RATTENLOCH
Street: Eintrachtstraße 10
City: Schwerte
Country: Germany

Departure

2007-03-29T08:41:00.000+02:00

We have packed everything. Kissed our girlfriends, dogs and babies goodbye. So for the next period it's a rather different life than what we experience every day. It's driving, waiting, smoking, waiting, smoking, drinking, playing, smoking, drinking, sleeping, being grumpy, Coffee and all over again. And we are looking forward to every bid of it. Hope to see you at one of the shows...

We've put up some of the posters at the picture gallery. Check 'em out here.

Tour picture diary

2007-03-22T23:22:00.000+01:00

We are heading south in a weeks time. Our good friend Nagel will come and pick us up on Thursday and drive us to his lovely hometown Hamburg. After that we are zig-zag’ing our way through Germany, Poland and Holland. Here is the full schedule:

29/03 2007: Hamburg (D) - Hafenklang Exil
30/03 2007: Schwerte (D) - Rattenloch
31/03 2007: Berlin (D) - Schokoladen
01/04 2007: Krakow (PL) - Zascianek
02/04 2007: Warsaw (PL) - Aurora
03/04 2007: KOK Krotoszyn (PL) - Rozchulantyna
04/04 2007: Kalisz (PL) - Pod Muzami
05/04 2007: Lohr (D) - Foolhouse
07/04 2007: Heilbronn (D) - Mobilat Club
17/04 2007: Trier (D) - Ex-Haus
18/04 2007: Köln (D) - Wundertüte
19/04 2007: Bonn (D) - Bla
20/04 2007: Wuppertal (D) - Station 77
21/04 2007: Amsterdam (NL) - Winston Kingdom

For those of you who can not show up at any of these shows we are doing a picture blog to make you realize all the fun you missed. So please check back when the tour starts and we will make sure not to waste your time. Thanks a lot to Mikkel and Nagel of Play/Rec for setting it up and to Bartek for doing the shows in Poland.

Popkomm in Berlin

2006-10-24T23:34:00.000+02:00

Popkomm was great. Here are some pictures from our tour to Berlin. We played a club called "Bastard" alongside other Play/Rec and PonyRec artists.

The labels had rented the venue for two days and we were playing on the second night. So the first night was one big Party and second day was filled with some sightseeing, recovering, playing a great show and then having a party again.

More pictures here.

Roskilde Festival

2006-07-26T00:24:00.000+02:00

We have been going to Roskilde Festival for more than 10 years. It's Denmarks biggest and best festival.

The day that we were told that we were going to play the festival still stand out as something really special.

We played a great show and have to thank the fantastic audience and those who helped us (Jakob "Snake" Nielsen: Sound, Thomas Burø: Stage Hand, Ricco: Video and Philip: Photo).

More pictures here.