NORWAY IN ATHENS FEST

Norway In Athens Fest is arranged for the first time in Greece the weekend 20-22 april 2007.

A lot of Norwegian bands are doing well in Greece, selling a lot of music and doing great gigs, so now this festival focusing at Norwegian bands is being arranged. MAIKA will be in Athens with fellow norwegian bands Apoptygma Berzerk and Magenta, as well as the local band Kain.

The festival is arranged by the Greece company MM2 Music Entertainment, and the main venue for the festival is the legendary Fuzz Club (ex Club 22), wich has been one of the most important rock-scenes in Athens for several years with both national and international stars.

We are currently in studio, working with our upcoming album, and see this as a great opportunity to promote the album for the Greece audience.

MAIKA and Apoptygma Berzerk will have their shows at Saturday 21 of April, and Apoptygma Berzerk and Magenta will play at Sunday 22 of April.

WE ARE REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO MEET THE GREECE AUDIENCE.

SEE YOU IN ATHENS!

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MAGENTA ____________________ APOPTYGMA BERZERK

HEADLINING NORWEGIAN INDIE FESTIVAL

MAIKA will be one of the headliners of the new Norwegian Indie Festival.


The festival is arranged by Boheme Entertainment in cooperation with Musiq and Effektor, and will present 12 of the hottest Norwegian Indie-bands.

The Festival is held thursday May 31 to saturday June 02 at Skuret, an intimate venue in the center of Oslo (the capitol of Norway) known for presenting upcoming Norwegian acts and independent artists.

We are proud to participate in presenting this brand new festival for independent artists, and we hope this can be a new "marketplace" for the growing Norwegian indie-scene.

MAIKA AT MUSIKKFEST 2007

MUSIKKFEST 2007 in Oslo, the capitol of Norway, is held saturday at june 2. Hundreds of bands at different scenes at both outdoor and indoor venues all around the city. And it's all for free...

This year MAIKA will play at the outdoor stage of AKKS, RADIO ORAKEL and MISSBEHAVE outside Blitz (independent organized cultural- and political house) in Pilestredet.


From www.musikkfest.no (translated into English):

"25 venues and 12 hours of music in downtown of Oslo. First saturday of June is an important day for everybody with an interest in muic. Every year at this day the downtown of Oslo is transformed when hundreds of musicians are entering the streets, squares and parks to offer a free musicfest.

Musikkfest Oslo has since the start in 1992 grown to be enormous popular among as well the musicians as the citizens of the city. MFO is with no doubt the largest one-day festival, and a kind of National Day for music. In cooperation with a lot of local venues we are organizing stages at 25 different places in the downtown of Oslo. All musicians are playing for free, and all concerts are free of charge for the audience. As a listener you will find something interesting no matter what your musical preferrences are. Rock, pop, blues, folk, jazz, world-music, hip hop, metal, rockabilly, avantgarde, punk, singer-songwriter, electronica, choir-music... all this and even more is represented. The interest for Musikkfest Oslo is huge, and some of the venues and concerts are visited by an audience of several thousands. "


More info regarding Maika's attendance will be published in May when the program of Musikkfest Oslo is ready.

MAIKA IN STUDIO

ONE STEP FURTHER...


From December 04 MAIKA will be in studio recording our upcoming single. As producer we're lucky to have Alex Moklebust, a well known and long time respected producer and musician. He has formerly been the singer in Seigmen and Zeromancer, he has produced several of Seigmen and Zeromancer's albums, as well as the debutalbum (and most of their singles and EP's) of the Norwegian Folk/metal band Gaate, the powerpop-band Delaware and the electro-pop/rock band Don Juan Dracula. Just to mention some...

Further on, the plans are to record a full album in early spring 2007, if our cooperation with Alex Moklebust turns out well. We are all looking forward to finally taking the step from demo-recordings and preproductions to high-quality recording. Our main ambition is of course to make our music available to as many of you people as possible. Because you're worth it ;-)

MAIKA TO THE WORLD FINAL?

MAIKA TO THE NATIONAL FINAL IN 'GLOBAL BATTLE OF BANDS'

The largest pop/rock contest in the world!

MAIKA is participating in the international contest Global Battle of Bands. We played at the local qualifying competition at John Dee, Oslo at 13. October, and made it for the National final wich will take place at John Dee November 05. Winners from the national finals will play at the World Final at Astoria, London, UK, 10-12 December 2006, competing against finalists from 35 countries.

"To avoid giving any local band involved an unfair advantage there will be no audience voting in National Finals or the World Final and the results will be determined entirely by the panel of judges. " (GBOB competition rules)

Venue: John Dee, Hammersborggata 15, OSLO, Norway. See map

Date: November 05. Time: 08:00 PM

Order tickets (NOK 110,-) at Ticketmaster

See competing bands from the Qualifying Competition

See competing bands in the upcoming National Final

COME TO JOHN DEE NOVEMBER 05 AND SUPPORT MAIKA IN THE NATIONAL FINAL!

MAIKA WARMING UP FOR THE SOUNDS

MAIKA proudly announces that we've got the honour to do a warm-up gig for the Swedish band The Sounds at their gig in Oslo, Norway the 31.of August. The gig will be at John Dee (Hammerborgsgt. next to Rockefeller) and starts at 20.00. Tickets can be ordered at http://www.ticketmaster.no/ and the cost is NOK 160,-.

Earlier this year The Sounds played for a fully-crowded John Dee. The 31. of August they are back, as a part of their World Tour, and this time MAIKA will warm up the norwegian crowd.

"We look forward to be at the same venue as this insane live-band" says Aria, vocalist in MAIKA. She beleives that Maika's "whisperhysterical rock" will be a good start at the evening for the The Sounds-fans. The Sounds have just released their new album "Dying To Say This To You". The Sounds' music can be described as synth-pop, and their idols and inspiration are Surferosa. The band, with the Debbie Harry-like vocalist Maja Ivarsson, achieved great success with their last album "Living In America".

For more info about The Sounds, please visit their homepage

GREAT SUCCESS AT AMPLIFIER

MAIKA did an excellent show for about 200 fans at the "unknown Band Festival" (Ukjentfestivalen) at Amplifier in Oslo the 26. of may 2006. Read review of the festival and our concert written for the website musiq.no by Martin Wright here. (written in Norwegian)


MAIKA - Amplifier

MAIKA BACK AT HELLVIKTANGEN

Once again, MAIKA is back at Hellviktangen at Nesodden, where we had our debut-concert back in april 2004. This intimate, cozy and pitouresque place has been arena for several national and international bands and artists, like Jonas Fjeld - Vidar Busk - Vamp - Midnight Choir - Maria Solheim - De Lillos - Unni Wilhelmsen - Johns Quijote - Anne Grete Preus - Mikael Wiehe - Odd Nordstoga - Reidar Larsen and a lot more!







The Norwegian band De Lillos at Hellviktangen

The concert will be at Hellviktangen Kunstcafè at friday september 08 2006.
Buy tickets when you arrive, or order by mail