BAND A is a Japanese indie-rock band http://www.myspace.com/bandajp http://www.geocities.jp/bandadasu/top.html Hi there! We a BAND_A band from Minsk. Here is our official web-site – http://www.band-a.com. We’ve played together since 1997, and earlier we were a “Сmokie” band. - During this period we participated within CD-project “More Love” (More Kahannia), “Alternative.by” (Alternatyva.by), “Songs of Freedom 3” (Pesni Svobody 3), “Basoviszcza XVII", “Dozen of hits 12” (Tuzin Hitou 12), “I am free” (Nezalezhny Ya). - In 2000 we recorded a promo-album “Free Entrance”(Uvahod Volny), the songs from which were rotated on FM-stations. - We repeatedly took part in Festivals as “Basoviszcza”, “Rock Kola”, played in Minsk clubs and open airs. We travelled round Belarus a lot (Polatsk, Vitebsk, Harodnia, Gomel, Mahiliou, etc.), and were honored to share stages with such maestros as Крама, Ulis, Новае Неба. - In 2006, along with the changes in our ideas, band and sound, we became BAND_A. In 2007 our song “Revolution” (Revaliucyja) was included into the list of the best Belarusian songs at www.music.fromby.net. - In 2008 we presented Belarus within a great open-air festival “Bazant Pohoda” (www.pohodafestival.sk). - In 2009 we recorded an album “Positives” (Pazytyvy) Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.