El Dinah

French :



"Cité perdue au fin fond d'un no mans' land, là où peu osent encore s'aventurer, El-Dinah se dresse telle une forteresse imprenable, abrupte et déstructurée.

Selon la légende, qui saurait accéder en son sein trouverait la quiétude éternelle, l'ultime fusion des énergies positives et négatives, douceur et révolte unies sous la même destinée. Frappée des mystérieuses lettres HH en plusieurs de ses points stratégiques, El-Dinah a vu de nombreux généraux s'illustrer au pied de ses murailles démesurées: Shellac, 31 Knots, Engine Down ou encore Yage pour n'en citer que les plus célèbres. El-Dinah, c'est aussi quelques batailles entrées désormais dans l'histoire telles que le Rhâââ Lovely en 2008, la prise de La Zone un soir de novembre 2007 ou encore le terrible Pac-Rock balayé sous les ordres du commandant Esperanto, guerrier sanguinaire façonné en ses entrailles par le sombre Geolijean."



English :

More or less descended from the band Playtoy from Andenne, El Dinah was born in 2005. The trio is Oli (guitar/ vocal), Geoffrey (bass/ piano/ vocal) and Jean (drums/ vocal). They began their experience while studying in Liège. It is there, after a (short) year of composing and training that they first performed in 2006 at the Zone/ “LA Zone” and then at the Carlo Levi, famous places of the rock stage in Liège; soon afterwards, they began to export their music to France or Luxembourg.



Mainly influenced by bands like Quetzal, Engine-down, Sleepytime-trio, Shellac, 31 Knots, Yage, The Mars Volta or The Redneck Manifesto, El Dinah is a well-inspired math-rock/ emocore band which will delight the aficionados of the kind as well as the most reticent ones. Actually they give off so much energy on stage that it is impossible to doubt their true devotion to communicate their stage pleasure.



Not only playing music, the members of El Dinah take also part in the organization of the MJAM festival in Evelette. The MJAM is a three- year- old festival which has already welcomed 65daysofstatics, Mutiny On The Bounty, Sometree or Sweek. Lately entered into the indie collective Honest House, El Dinah has just released their first 6 tracks EP, Esperanto, recorded by Gilou who is, by the way, the drummer of another band of the collective, Volt Voice, but also the the rhythmical devil of Graffen Völder.

discography:

2006 : one song for the SAE mixed by Gil(volt voice drummer) 2007 : two songs for IAD mixed by Amauri (Doktor Caligari). 2008 : First 6 tracks ep "esperanto"2008 : 2 songs recorded by gille cokelmans(graphen volder/voltvoice) for a split cd with our friends of graphen volder and petula clark

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2008 : "Yo" split cd with graphen volder and petula clarck



some of our next shows :::

Past shows :::

21 avr. 2006 @ La zone, Liège with Enregistré par steve albini (fr) , Ojo



07 mai 2006 @ Carlo Lévi, Liège with issue sixteen(can), the sons of saturn(fr), lux lux



12 mai 2006 @ Salle des fêtes d'Andenelle, Andenne with Tang(fr), Jesusproject, Defdump(lux)



30 juin 2006 @ Bear Rock Festival Andenne with Two-Star Hotel, Boogers, Jakob Maersk, Mad Men's Team, Roy & The Devil's Motorcycle, Smash My Radio, Tang, The Elektrocution, The Psyke Project, Ultraphallus.



04 aout 2006 @ New Dance Club, Ethe, with Volt Voice, the negro conspiracy,.



05 aout 2006 @ Café 911 Esh sur alzette (lux) with Volt Voice



09 sept 2006 @ MJAM Fesitval Evelette with Sometree(de), Sweek, Pull my daisy, Coldstorage, Doktorcaligari,.



08 oct. 2006 @Carlo lévi, Liège with Defiance OHIO(us)



04 nov. 2006 @ Braine l'alleud



11 nov. 2006 @ Magasin 4, Bruxelles, the coldstorage, dr caligari, taïfun, Franck Shinobi , pentark,.



09 dec 2006 @ Magasin 4 , Courtcircuité festivcal ::: the coldstorage, dr caligari, taïfun, Franck Shinobi , pentark,.



24 mars 2007, Salle des fêtes andenelle,+ adolina, amber daybreak, popchina, jacob maerks

27 avr. 2007, espace b Paris (Paris, île de France)+ Adolina, Sapritch, Ultra Dolphins, and many more



03 mai 2007, Volt voice support act @ Liège with volt voice



26 mai 2007, maison de la culture namur



01 juil. 2007, "Paris brûle-t-il" @ Péniche Alternat with Adolina, Volt Voice, Sapritch. (Paris, île de France)



03 août 2007, Hangar sclaignaux with pull my daisy, graffen volder, the coldstorage.



07 nov. 2007, la zone, Liège + Mutiny on the bounty and Cinemechanica



17 nov. 2007, magasin 4, Bruxelles



08 déc. 2007, belvédere , Namur, + doktor caligari, elvy, Barbapapa,.



17 févr. 2008, la malterie@Lille(FR) + valina



27 mars 2008, Magasin 4 @ Bruxelles + Le singe blanc + don vito



29 mars 2008, Rhaaa lovely festival @ fernelemont + mutiny on the bount(Lux) + sleeping people(US), and many more



05 avr. 2008, Smile café @ Liège + les heritiers + lost in moscow



11 avr. 2008, Pont-à-celle + amadeus



03 mai 2008, Pac rock @ pont à celle



21 juin. 2008, Fête de la musique @ Vielsalm



26 juin. 2008, InsideOut @ Liège With MiaowMiaow



05 sept. 2008, M’Jam Festival @ Evelette-Ohey with Jonquil, Hitch, Toman, Franck Shinobi, Volt voice, Doktor Caligari, Miow Miaow, Isola,etc.



18 sept. 2008, El bar @ Mouscron w/Rockin’ and Drinkin’ Guys + Graffen Völder .



11 oct. 2008, El Bar @ Mouscron w/Ultraphalus .



17 oct. 2008, YO TOUR @ CARLO LEVI, Liège w/ Graffen Völder & Petula Clarck.



18 oct. 2008, YO TOUR @ Mons w/ Graffen Völder & Petula Clarck.



01 nov. 2008, HONEST ROCK FESTIVAL @ Visé, Liège, - Experience (Fr) + Kate Mosh (D) + DD/MM/YYYY (Can) + Yelho (Fr).



17 avr. 2009, accoustic show @ Maison des musiques ++ All honnest house crew