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It all started quite typically - some guys from school decided to start a ska-slash-punk-slash-oldschoolhardcore band.They named themselves aBasement and thought for a while it sounds pretty cool because of the word play - they used to play in a basement and abasement was such a fitting name for something/hardcore band.The vocalist decided on going to Germany and was convinced for a while that this is a really great idea.One more vocalist and a couple of shows later, aBasement ended their musical carreer.

And now we present you with the better, older and not a bit wiser ex-aBasement crew - the No Project Band.Consisting of Kalin, Iskren (Bass-a), Mariyan (Merkata), Kiro (Effekta) and Eli, NPB tries to expand the ska scene in Bulgaria and also expand their own musical skills by playing ska/punk and something in between.Currently we are thinking of getting some songs together for a demo, which should be available on our myspace-page and wherever we find a place on the internet (yes,we are all about D.I.Y.).

As for now, we have gathered some lyrical and musical materials that really fit together, we just have to find the time to glue them into good old ska/punk songs.Mostly we sing about political and religious issues Kalin wrote about, some funny songs about girls, and Merkata currently writes about how fun it is to be unemployed.He also writes about the joy of getting/being drunk.Basically, we cover all the Ska-themes a band should sing and play about...

That's it for starters, in a couple of months there should be a demo, definitely some songs on myspace with better quality and hopefully some touring across...well,wherever we're invited to.

So please check us out, write something, drop a note, be our friend...trying not to sound too desperate here.

Yours truly,

The No Project Band


Oh mein Gott!?!?!

Yes, that was german.And it was probably the last german sentence the vocal of the NPB is going to say or write in his life.Oficially as of October 1st, Merkata is in Bulgaria, permanently.He still enjoys drinking almost anything and hasn't left the awkward habit of writing songs at toilets.The band still won't let him play the guitar.Expect more songs about beer and unemployment, some shows (definetely some shows...I mean, when the hell did we actually had a show...what's up with that?).So cheers and greets and expect musical stuff from us...anytime now.


Hellas!?!?!?


Yes - another language, only greek this time.It seems that the members of the NPB just can't stick in the same country for a longer than a casual "radical beer drinking month"-period.Sadly so - our formerly Jesus-lookalike-contest award winner (he cut the hair though, so he's ok now). has went to greece to study...something about marketing, I guess.He should be back in january, before that expect hopefully some new solos from him and pictures of ouzo-drinking(again, performed by him).We should be able to play without our main guitar guy, though as of now we sound a little like a drunk Lionel Richie playing a viola.Tough luck for people awaiting a concert from us (again, what the hell...is it like a non-touring band or something?).But seriously, we're working on some new stuff and we hope to please our audience (shoutouts to those 5-6 fans of ours).Cheers!!!


YEAAAAHHHHH!?!?!

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Yes, that was a sign of joy.Our greek 6-string Zeus has came down from the mountain, returning promptly to his old nest of guitar solos,beer songs,drinking on benches in the center of town...We had a rehearsal with some disturbing results , but it's a good basis to build upon.Or maybe not and this is everything we're capable of.Regardless of the sad fact the latter might be more true, we're going to rehearse some more and provide you with more material soon.More new unreleased songs, so new, even some guys of the band don't know about them, more videos, more pictures.It's going to be an intensive multimedia experience, just like watching Jeff Bridges movies.Enjoy!!


OH HELL YEAAH THEY ARE BACK!!

Totally!After a while of slacking off and cutting low and back and whatever, we are now seriously in the business - new material,new embarassing video clips to be uploaded,new everything!If you haven't red the blog,a lobotomy-like drinking experience has caused me to update this thing with recent stuff and complain about life in general.I had forgotten how much fun this is.Be patient as new videos and songs will be uploaded these days and they are going to be - wait for it - exactly as bad as all the other stuff you've heard from us.I can barely fucking wait.Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!


P.S.And please excuse the blinking ,we're aware it's annoying.


My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 28/02/2007
Band Website: www.beer.com
Band Members:

Merkata - vocals (they wont let me play the guitar)


Kiro Slowerhand - lead guitar (and disturbing def-leppard-alike solos), formerly known as Effekta


Eli - rhythm guitar (yes, we have a girl in the band)


Kalin - bass (he just plays bass, hence the lack of a nickname)


Daisy - drums (his girlfriend calls him Daisy...and now we all do), formerly known as Iskren Bass-a

This bellow is a poll...Note that myspace is paranoid about linking outside the myspace domain, so they pop out a warning when you vote...don't be scared.
OMFG the NPB have a Poll!!? Who gets the beer?!? : What beer?:
: I already drank the beer:
: Beer? Beer?!? Beer!!!!:
: Worst.....poll......ever:
: The Government:

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Influences:
A wide variety of ska bands:

Big D and the Kids Table, Catch 22, Streetlight Manifesto, Less Than Jake, The Scofflaws, The Slackers, The Arrogant Sons of Bitches, Bomb The Music Industry!, Ska-P, Skalariak, Spunge, and it goes on...

And a wide variety of punk bands:

Pennywise, NOFX, Lagwagon, Ignite, Minor Threat, Circle Jerks, Strike Anywhere, Rise Against, Bad Religion, and still goes on...

...though mainly, we are influenced by beer.



Surely enough, let us not forget our countless fans, without whom we wouldn't have been here...

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Sounds Like: Madonna meets Iron Maiden (and they cover The Specials)
Record Label: Who'd ever want to sign us?!?
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

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Posted by on Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:42:00 GMT

New web activity...no new music activity

Well, let's face it - we haven't been doing anything musical lately, so it was time for a little web activity. We have a fan page now on Facebook and some photos will be posted there, also some of the...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:11:00 GMT

Our (nearly lost the count of it) show...yeah

So, we had the pleasure of playing with BGz, a great, great band, afterwards we played with Zavod Lenin, who are equally professional as players and motivating to the audience - many cheers to them al...
Posted by on Mon, 18 May 2009 23:38:00 GMT

Our second (and a half) show, this time really

So, we weren't quite lucky with our second show...in terms that there was no second show. That's why we're really glad to announce the 2.5 show of the NPB! Held at Club Maskata on 08.04.2009 at 23:00...
Posted by on Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:02:00 GMT

This is getting out of hands...a second show??

There was never, never, a year in which the NPB had two shows...actually before this year there wasn't a year present that we've had even one. So now we are breaking all boundaries by having a second ...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:04:00 GMT

Truly incredible,but...OUR FIRST SHOW??

Yes...I am amazed myself, although I'm actually part of this band.Todor of Waste of Time called yesterday night and asked if we want to play with them.Well, we said yes...There is a scheduled show on ...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:01:00 GMT

Seems were (kinda) back...

It was a bit quiet around these days around the NPB.Reasons include arguments with landlords, general laziness, some tests and exams, some damn techno-listening kids downstairs and what not.But we are...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:18:00 GMT

Our two new old members...

Well, there hasn't been much news lately...we are working on some old and new songs (while not drinking or working or doing both at the same time).We hope to have some impressive amount of own and cov...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:16:00 GMT

more new songs and apparently...upcomming shows??

We have been chewing on a couple of songs for some time now, so we decided to move on and currently we are working on a couple of more songs (to form something like a post-demo,I guess).One is about t...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:16:00 GMT

The more disturbing new songs with lesser disturbing quality

We recorded some of the songs in (slightly) better quality in our rehearsing room - nothing fancy, no multi-track 100-hour-editing mega-mastering thing - just the typical stuff we do with appropriate ...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:45:00 GMT