Ania - ProfilesArchive

About Me

"I don't sleep, so I don't dream, so I don't wake up frightened (...)"
I am a singer/songwriter/deathpunk tourist, music journalist for Polish Metal Hammer and freelance for a few others. Used to have tendency to be unlucky in love, but I have just met the perfect person for me and I am very very happy with him. I have also just started my long-term affair with music again- I am a keyboardist/backing singer in Ben Christo's band (http://www.myspace.com/benchristo)! WE ROCK!!! Also... I love my freedom, my space, and I am very difficult to cage... I'm ambitious and I always work hard to get what I want.- this is my amazing boyfriend that I love very much...
SISTERS IN CRIME!!!
The only artist whose work I really love. Look at http://beksinski.pl to find out more
My musical life: 6 years in batalion d'Amour - one of the best known Polish goth/darkwave bands, I have also my own project - Dance On Glass, UK based, with 1 album released so far. I am still signed to Metal Mind Records so there should be more to follow...
I am currently working on a really amazing project with a really special musician, watch this space!
My discography:
ALBUMS:
BAtalion d'Amour "Promo" BDA 1997
Batalion d'Amour "Labirynt Zdarzen" Morbid Noizz Records, 1998
Batalion d'Amour "Dotyk Iluzji" Metal Mind Records, 1999
Batalion d'Amour "55 Minutes Of Love" Metal Mind Records, 2000
Batalion d'Amour "W Teatrze Snow" Metal Mind Records 2001
Dance On Glass "Daydreaming" Metal Mind Records 2002
COMPILATIONS:
Ania Zachar/Dave Blomberg "Charlotte Sometimes" Tribute To The Cure, Black Flames records, 2000
Dance On Glass "Flying" Castle Party Compilation 2002, Metal Mind Records
Dance On Glass "Dying So Slowly" Castle Party Compilation 2001
Dance On Glass "Flying" Dark Stars, Metal Mind Records, 2004
GIGOGRAPHY: 150 gigs so far!!! (ao. WaveGotik Treffen, Castle Party and other goth Festivals, tours with All About Eve, Closterkeller, New Model Army etc.)
Music Magazines I am working for (and loving it!!!)
Metal Hammer Poland - http://muzyka.onet.pl/metal_hammer.html - from 1999 to date
Teraz Rock - http://www .terazrock.pl - from 2005 to date
ORGAN - http://www.organart.com - from 2005 to date

My Interests

CHRIS!, music, playing keyboards, singing, travelling,,deathpunk tourism, Astra, suicidegirls.com, going to gigs, writing (Metal Hammer, Organ and other music magazines), cinema (especially film noir), literature and poetry, meeting new people, singing, songwriting, recording, languages, psychology...
V-ce President Turbojugend Hotness
First Lady - Turbojugend Polonia,

I'd like to meet:

Turbojugend, people from Scandinavia, The Sisters Of Mercy and Depeche Mode fans. No Bands- (I will find you if I want to) and perverts please.

Music:

goth, punk, industrial, metal, electro, ska - Ben Christo, Depeche Mode, Turbonegro, The Sisters Of Mercy, She wants Revenge (thanks to Christian's profile) Nine Inch Nails, Big Cyc, Fields Of The Nephilim, SCUM, Trivium, Rammstein, Cradle Of Filth, Green Carnation, Hellacopters, 69Eyes, In Flames, Joy Division, Leaves Eyes, Emperor, Mudvayne, Blood Red Throne, Mastodon, Misfits, Motley Crue, Guns'N'Roses, Velvet Revolver, Nile, Theatre Of Tragedy, Liv Kristine, Nasum, New Order, Joy Division, Die Laughing, Katatonia, Behemoth, Vader, The Cure, Siouxsie, To Die For, Tiamat, VNV Nation, The Damned, Buzzcocks, New Model Army, Das Ich, Project Pitchwork, Hatebreed, Anti-Flag, PWEI, Bad Religion, Karo & The Cavemen, Decoded Feedback, Dimmu Borgir, Hives, Randy, Him, Anathema, XMal Deutschland, Mastodon, Type O Negative, Twisted Sisters, Nashville Pussy, Backyard Babies, Pennywise,Queen Adreena, Love Like Blood,Escape With Romeo, Pink Turns Blue, Robochrist, Fading Colours, Clan Of Xymox, Specials, Clash, Madness, Euroboys, The Vikings, Tindersticks, Archive, Porcupine Tree, Anathema, Paradise Lost, Black Uhuru, The Fall, All About Eve, Quit Your Dayjob, Sisterhood, The Mission, Bauhaus, Jeff Buckley, XIII Stoleti, Cranes...
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Movies:

film noir, pretty much everything by Lynch (Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet, Wild At Heart, Twin Peaks, Eraserhead), Dead Man, Natural Born Killers, Dancer in The Dark, Pedro Almondovar (Bad Education), Kieslowski (Red, White, Blue), Man Bites Dog, Goodbye Berlin, Polish 70s-80s cinema (Mis and the others), Polish alternative movies, Brasil, Kurosava, A Clockwork Orange...

Television:

no thanks! Life is too short for TV!

Books:

Dygat, Hlasko, Tolstoy, Gibson, PK Dick, Shakespeare (especially Sonnets), Eliot, Ballard, Plath, J.Conrad, Paolo Coelho, Graham MAsterton. Steven King, Martina Cole, Kessey, Hornby, Parsons, Poswiatowska, Rozewicz, Milosz, Galczynski, Cave, Bryson...

Heroes:

Tomek... (1958-1999) I will never forget you...

My Blog

Night By Night gig dates!

Ben Christo's (The Sisters Of Mercy, ex-AKO) new band - Night By Night - is playing their first mini-tour in Poland!The gig dates are as follows:Poznan: 17.11 "Blue Note"Wroclaw: 18.11. "Od zmierzchu ...
Posted by Ania on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:28:00 PST

new home

I have moved... again! Chris and me got a house together and I have been offline due to broadband problems for some time now. But I'm still alive!!! Please contact me on AOL IM as [email protected], M...
Posted by Ania on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 02:42:00 PST

I'm engaged!

At Leeds festie now, in the press tent so cannot write a long blog, but Chris and me are engaged! I'm so so happy!!!!
Posted by Ania on Sat, 26 Aug 2006 03:08:00 PST

4leaf clovers!

I picked about 20 of them today by the river. Does it mean I will be lucky for the rest of my life or what? Oh, and I found two 5leaf clovers too - is that more luck or just the effect of Chernobyl ;-...
Posted by Ania on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 01:43:00 PST

soooo happpy!

My god, how I miss my baby! I'm in London, work is crap but the rehearsals have been going great. Most horrible thing- I couldn't contact my bf all day today, coz my phone got bloody stolen! Dam...
Posted by Ania on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 06:10:00 PST

my beautiful boyfriend...

it was his birthday today...I am so in love...
Posted by Ania on Sat, 15 Jul 2006 03:42:00 PST

I'm divorced!!!!

I'm single again according to British law!!!!! TIME TO CELEBRATE!!!
Posted by Ania on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:54:00 PST

2 great new bands!

OK... not really that new but new to me! And I love them both - I would recommend you check them out too!First one: She Wants Revenge - one word - AMAZING!Second: Elusive: they sent me a myspace reque...
Posted by Ania on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 07:06:00 PST

men in aprons... yummy!!!

You can cook for me anytime! ;-)
Posted by Ania on Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:40:00 PST

drummers/basists

WE NEED YOU GUYS!!!If you are in London, 20-30 and experienced - please please get in touch!
Posted by Ania on Fri, 30 Jun 2006 04:36:00 PST