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Rooga

* new CD "leaving the scene" out in april *

About Me

"Funky Nu Rock" is the self definition of their style.
A fancy cocktail of hand-made rockmusic, in-your-face crossover and a pinch of groovy funk vibes gives their music the characteristic spice.
Bands like ROOGA have become kind of rare in Austria's music scene.
No TV-castings, no artificial media hype, just honest love for music makes up the foursome from Vienna.
If you've ever listened to ROOGA you probably know what it's all about: loud,hot,edgy and catchy as hell,candy for your ears.
It all started back in 2006 at a jam session in a basement in Liesing, one of Vienna's districts.
After various band members had come and left the current line-up of ROOGA turned out to be: Klaus on drums, Alex on guitars, bass player Victor and centre of attention: Kati, who, once listened to, won't disappear from your ears and eyes.
No time was wasted in the following months, tunes were written, a demo cd was recorded and lots of gigs were played.
The band even achieved to win the nationwide Local Heroes band competition and rose to be Austria's newcomerband for 2006.
Guest performances at festivals and great gigs like in legendary Chelsea paved their way to success.
In autumn the band went on tour to conquer the rest of the republic of the Alps(e.g.Innsbruck,Graz,Klagenfurt,..)
In early 2007 ROOGA got nominated for this year's Project Pop! sampler and won the International Live Award 2007 as best out of more than 1000 bands from 5 nations.
Plans have already been made for numerous other concerts and on top of that: the first ROOGA full length album is about to be released in autumn/winter this year so stay tuned.
ROOGA at GOTV!!!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/20/2006
Band Website: rooga.at
Band Members:

just click on a picture to open the band member`s myspace account:Kati - vocals

Elmar - guitar

Alex - guitar

Victor - bass

Klaus - drums

Influences: ROOGA performing "New Life" @ Sellaband Event "Vienna Calling" (Replugged Vienna, Feb 8th, 2008)

ROOGA - Winner of INTERNATIONAL LIVE AWARD 2007

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ROOGA on SellaBand
Type of Label: None

My Blog

02/17/08 - live video taken at "Vienna Calling" online

watch the live video from "New Life" taken at Sellaband event "Vienna Calling" (Replugged, Feb 8th 2008)enjoy :) ...
Posted by Rooga on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:08:00 PST

02/13/08 - Vienna Calling live pics online!

watch our new live pics taken at Sellaband event "Vienna Calling" (@ Replugged / Vienna) - thanks to Stephan Binder, Isa and Sarahsome video impressions will follow soon!
Posted by Rooga on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:42:00 PST

ROOGA live im Replugged am 8.Februar!!

Liebe Freunde der Rock-musik! Es ist wieder so weit: Kommenden Freitag gibt es endlich wieder mal Rooga live on stage :-) Diesmal mit neu-arrangierten Songs und nagelneuem 2ten Gitarristen (Elmar!) zu...
Posted by Rooga on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:08:00 PST

12/27/07 - Judenburg pics online

watch the live pics taken at Gewölbekeller Judenburg (Dec 14th)!!see how our new fifth bandmember behaves on stage ;)
Posted by Rooga on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:15:00 PST

12/23/07 - Merry X-Mas and BIG NEWS!!!

Dear people,we wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year!But before we leave for christmas holidays, we have to announce that ROOGA has now a fifth band member!!!A warm welcome to Elmar Franken...
Posted by Rooga on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 08:40:00 PST

12/09/07 - new tour video online!!

watch our tour video taken at Munich and Salzburg (Nov, 16th and 17th 2007) - have fun :) ...
Posted by Rooga on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 06:26:00 PST

07/05/12 - new live pics!!

watch our new live pics taken at Rockhouse Salzburg (by Pete Ionian)
Posted by Rooga on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 06:24:00 PST

07/30/11 - new live video

watch our new live video taken at WUK / Vienna (Nov 15th)!!!have fun :)
Posted by Rooga on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 03:56:00 PST

07/27/10 - Sellaband incentive

till Nov 4th we`ve started the following sellaband incentive:buy 1 part - get a ROOGA mp3-package (4 high quality songs)buy 5 parts - get the mp3-package, a ROOGA sticker + a ROOGA buttonbuy 10 parts ...
Posted by Rooga on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:26:00 PST

07/25/10 - new pics - U4

enjoy our new live pics taken at U4 club in Vienna!have fun :)
Posted by Rooga on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:42:00 PST