Chokebore news
2010/08/08
Studio recordings
Chokebore have recorded and mixed three new songs! The sessions took place at Coxinhell recording studio on the French Riviera, at the beginning of the month of July. Pictures of the recording session have been added to the live photos section!
One festival left
Chokebore's last concert of the summer will take place at the Brussels Summer Festival on August 16.
Posters
The flyers & posters gallery has been updated with posters of the summer festivals.
Additions to the gigography
Setlists of some recent festival performances (Le Rock Dans Tous Ses États, Mix Up, Rockorama, and Mistraal Indie Music Festival), along with past tour dates from 1993 to 1995, were added to the Chokebore gigography, thanks to the contributions of J-P M. and Loïc G.
2010/06/26
Summer is here!
Chokebore's summer tour starts tonight at Le Rock Dans Tous Ses États festival in Évreux (France). Chokebore plays at 7:35 p.m. on stage B. See you there!
Chokebore summer T-shirts
A new T-shirt was designed for the summer tour. Check out the pictures:
Videos from the Paris show
Two live videos from the Paris show at the Maroquinerie are now available in the videos section: Ciao L.A. and Narrow.
2010 press photo
Chokebore's 2010 promo photo was added to the press photos gallery. Download the high-resolution image (2.39 Mb).
Official Facebook page
The official Chokebore Facebook page has been launched. Come on and subscribe to the page to stay updated and meet other fans!
2010/06/13
Live in Berlin 2010 DVD premiere
The DVD of Chokebore's February 2010 concert in Berlin will premiere next Tuesday (June 15) at 11 p.m. at "Ick koof mir Dave Lombardo, wenn ick reich bin" in Berlin (Zionskirchstraße 34, 10119 Berlin - Tel. 0179 7908197).
Another festival confirmed
One more summer festival added to the tour dates: Chokebore will play at the Mistraal Indie Music Festival in Barbentane (France) on July 23!
2010/05/17
One more festival
One more festival added to the tour dates: Chokebore will play at the Brussels Summer Festival on August 16!
Additions to the archive
The setlists of the recent Berlin and Geneva shows, along with several past tour dates from 1995 to 1998, were added to the Chokebore gigography, thanks to the contributions of Ronny H., Vince D. and Eric F., who also sent in a great poster for the October 1995 show at the Kaméléon in Lille (France)!
2010/04/02
A message from the band
Hi everybody,
Thanks so much for coming to see us on our tour, it was really cool seeing you guys, we had a really good time playing together again!
Thanks also for the fantastic support of Julien and all the people at Super!, to Björn and his guys at Underthestars, to all the promoters and the crews at the clubs and to our great sound guy Jean-Louis — and of course thanks to Florent for all his hard work and for keeping people up-to-date with all things Chokebore.
Hope to see you at some of the festivals we will be playing this summer!
Just be prepared to feel the rock.
....Jonathan, Christian, Troy and James
Summer festivals!
Chokebore is coming back to play festivals this summer! A first set of dates has been confirmed, among which Le Rock Dans Tous Ses États in Évreux (France) and the Dour festival in Belgium. See tour dates page for the whole list.
Photos...
The live photos section has just been updated with 4 sets of pictures taken at the February 2010 shows:
- pictures of the Paris show at La Maroquinerie, by Magali Boyer
- pictures of the Geneva show at Usine PTR, by _zand
- pictures of the München show at Kafe Kult, by Carine Chevallier
- pictures of the Chemnitz show at AJZ Talschock, by Dieter Wuschanski
Thanks to the photographers who contributed! If you have some great photos of Chokebore that you'd like to share, please contact the webmaster!
...and flyers too
The flyers & posters gallery has also been updated with some flyers from the February shows. Flyers from Wiesbaden, Luzern and Bruxelles are still missing! If you can help, once again: please contact the webmaster!
Roundup of online coverage
Here are a few interesting articles and reports found online about Chokebore's 2010 tour:
- an excellent video including an interview and 3 songs live in Paris on Mowno (video is in English with French subtitles and transcript)
- an equally good article (in French) on the Paris show on Hartzine, with some great photos by Magali Boyer
- a bilingual Germano-French review of the Paris show on Oliver Peel's blog
- beautiful pictures of the Paris show by Alain G. at Soul Kitchen
- report of the Berlin show (in German) on Intro.de
- a preview of the Berlin show in German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel
- an interview with Chokebore (in English) on German radio on3
- a write-up of the Kafe Kult show (in German) on the "Das Kliniecum" blog
2010/02/05
Here is a preview of the Chokebore rare tracks CD compilation – on sale at the merch table in less than ten days!
Free mp3 download of the first track: I'll Save You (bubble take).
2010/02/01
Chokebore returns to the stage on February the 14th, 2010. That's Valentine's day, and it's less than two weeks away!
The Paris show (February 19th at the Maroquinerie) is sold out, but tickets are still available for the other shows in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and Czech Republic.
Requests
What Chokebore songs would you like to hear at the coming shows? The band is listening, send them a shout on Myspace, Facebook or Twitter.
Merchandising
A CD compilation of rare tracks will be sold at the shows. Here is the tracklisting:
- I'll Save You (bubble take)
- Pop Mod (demo version)
- Ciao L.A. (alternate recording)
- Sections (extended version)
- You Are the Sunshine of My Life (live @ La Cigale)
- Snow (live @ La Cigale)
- I Love the Waiting (alternate recording)
- Be Forceful (Strange Lines version)
- Brittle and Depressing
- Her Majesty (Beatles cover)
- Person You Chose (demo version)
- Pink Deluxe
- Speed of Sound (acoustic version)
- One Easy Pieces (live in Finland)
- 29 Mile Wind
- Throats
That's a bunch of previously unreleased tracks, a few live tracks and lots of hard to find tracks. And there will be some T-shirts too!
French interview
The latest issue of French magazine Noise features an interview with Troy Von Balthazar about Chokebore. Here are scans of the interview (with kind permission of Noise magazine):
2009/12/15
Here is the flyer for Chokebore's February 2010 tour:
The painting used was made by Jonathan Kroll. It is a play on El Greco's Mary Magdalene in Penitence. The "Chokebore" lettering was taken from the cover of the album A Taste for Bitters.
2009/12/07
Here is the last date of the Chokebore 2010 tour: February 26 in Prague (Czech Republic). See tour dates page.
2009/12/03
German dates for Chokebore's February 2010 reunion tour are here! Chemnitz, Wiesbaden, München and Berlin.
2009/12/02
A message from Jonathan:
who: Jonathan Kroll
what: an exhibition of recent paintings
when: December 7th, 8-12 p.m. (NEXT MONDAY)
where: The Forgotten Bar, Boppstraße 5, 10967 BerlinIt would be lovely to see you there!
....JonP.S.: The exhibition will be up for one night only, so don't put it off!
2009/11/23
The first dates of Chokebore's February 2010 reunion tour are here! Geneva, Luzern, Paris and Brussels... More to come soon!
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2009/11/18
A message from the band:
Hello Chokebore fans,
We are happy to announce that Chokebore are getting back together again to play a handful of shows around Europe!
We're gonna rock you like it's 1997!
More news very soon...
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