Turkish rock and green day

Green Day************************************************** Bullet In A Bible, the sensational live performance from Grammy Award winning Green Day will be released by Reprise Records on November 15th on CD/DVD, UMD for PSP and other digital formats. Directed by Samuel Bayer, director of all the videos off American Idiot, Bullet In A Bible documents the two biggest shows that Green Day has headlined in their career, playing to over 130,000 people at London’s Milton Keynes National Bowl on June 11th and 12th of this year.**************************************************The DVD features over 100 minutes of exclusive performance, rare behind-the-scenes footage, including candid interviews with each band member discussing their career and life on the road, along with footage of fans demonstrating their deep commitment to the band. From start to finish, it documents the band effortlessly taking its music from studio to stadium and their intense love and dedication to performing live. **************************************************Green Day’s multi-platinum American Idiot was released on September 21, 2004 and debuted at Number One on the Billboard Top 200 Chart and Number One in several countries around the world. Weeks later the album returned to the Number One chart position in the US and many of the same countries across the globe. Months after the release of the album, Green Day made radio history by becoming the first rock band to reach ..1 on six radio charts simultaneously with their smash “Boulevard Of Broken Dreams.” Green Day won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Album in February of this year. They swept the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards by winning seven out of the eight awards for which they were nominated, including the most prestigious Video Of The Year. **************************************************Hailed as “one of the best live shows in rock” by Blender Magazine, Green Day has “conquered the world” (Rolling Stone). The band will be touring the United States through the middle of October.**************************************************Du man**************************************************PEOPLE EXPAIN US: Turkey rocks like us! _duman_ Duman is the best rock group in turkey! _tv magazine,nr1_ Duman is nirvana of turkey! _our lovers_ =) WE NEED YOU AND WE LOVE YOU! 3333 THNX FOR EVERYTHNG Mor ve Otesi************************************************** mor ve ötesi was established in January of 1995 by Kerem Kabadayi (drums), Harun Tekin (vocals/guitar), Derin Esmer (vocals/guitar) and Alper Tekin (bass) – four close high school friends – in Istanbul, Turkey. Their first album Sehir was recorded and mixed between August 1995 and January 1996, and was released in June 1996 by Ada Muzik, a record label known for hosting and championing local talent with an edge and originality who would venture into unchartered musical and lyrical territories. Of the album, the first single “Yalniz Sarki“ and its corresponding video garnered some popular interest and the album received critical acclaim. 1997 was an important year for the band. It saw their first show outside their hometown at ODTU (Middle East Technical University) in the capital Ankara – the educational institution typically known as a political hotbed. It was also the year the first line-up change took place with Burak Guven replacing Alper Tekin on bass. In 1998, the band began working on their next album while maintaining a residency at the influential local rock venue Captain Hook. The album Birak Zaman Aksin was recorded by their long-time school mate and sound-engineer Volkan Gurkan. After the process, Derin Esmer left the band and was replaced by Kerem Ozyegen on guitar. The album was released on March 1999, once again, by Ada. In early 2000, mor ve ötesi took part in nationwide anti-nuclear energy campaigns, and supported the cause with various concerts and appearances. In July, the band recorded a song, “Sen Varsin“, to be included on a tribute album for the legendary Turkish protest singer Bulent Ortacgil. They closed the year with their most important performance to date, opening for Placebo on their first appearance in Istanbul on December 9. The third album Gul Kendine, their most proficiently crafted work to date, was once again recorded and produced by Volkan Gurkan, and released in December 2001. The promo tour for the album was also the band’s first proper nationwide tour, and the closing concert in Istanbul drew upwards of 5000 people. Receiving wide critical acclaim, the show was regarded by the media as a “musical treasure” and an “audio-visual extravaganza”. It was clear that the band was now in a new league, in both an artistic and popular sense. In 2003, mor ve ötesi joined in for various anti-Iraq War activities by artists of all kinds, and composed the anthemic “Savasa Hic Gerek Yok“. The song was performed in Ankara on March 1, along with fellow musicians in front of a rabid crowd of 100.000 people. Having played their part in worldwide anti-war efforts, the band was once again in the forefront of the national rock scene. In May of the same year, mor ve ötesi released an EP called Yaz. Its opener, a rock style cover of the popular 1990 classic “Yaz Yaz Yaz“ became the country’s summer anthem. The band followed this single’s success with another nationwide tour which saw some unprecedented attendance numbers. In Autumn, the band started writing their next album while working on the soundtrack for a film called Mustafa Hakkinda Hersey. A song from this soundtrack, ”Bir Derdim Var”, was also to be the third single from the forthcoming album Dunya Yalan Soyluyor, and brought the band the prestigious Altin Portakal (Golden Orange) Award at the acclaimed International Antalya Film Festival for Best Song for a Motion Picture. A new producer, the renowned bass player Tarkan Gozubuyuk, was chosen for the album, and work began in January 2004. Following the most crafty production in the band's history, the album hit the stores on May 1, 2005 and attained incredible early sales figures. Supported by the first single ”Cambaz”, the album took off and got on track to become a two-times gold selling rock album, and the song received huge airplay from both TV and Radio stations. The second single, a cover of the idiosyncratic singer Fikret Kizilok's ”Sevda Cicegi”, further expanded the album’s popularity, and the third single, the aforementioned ”Bir Derdim Var”, was not only arguably the most popular rock song to date in Turkey, but was also championed as Song of the Year by musical authorities and fans alike. The commercial success of the album – which reached 250.000 units in sales – was complemented by a very busy and expansive touring schedule, as well as a fourth video single for ”Ask Icinde”. The band played about 150 shows to date since the release of the album, sharing its songs live with large audiences nationwide, and the experience enabled the band to become a rock-solid live performance act. The band’s last international foray for the year 2005 was a strong performance at Þimdi Stuttgart, an international music festival that took place in Stuttgart, Germany in November. The fifth and final video from Dunya Yalan Soyluyor was made for the closing song “Uyan” and it entered MTV’s World Chart Express at No. 7 and is currently on rotation on the network. The video was re-edited from an animation created by Andrei Khrjanovsky in 1968 which was shelved by Soviet censors when it came out. Currently, the band is in their studio recording their next album, planned for release in mid-2006. They are confirmed for SXSW Music Festival which takes place in March 2006. mor ve ötesi views this renowned festival as a start of a series of concerts abroad to launch their international career.