[niowt]


1992_
- Mojca Krevel and Peter Senk are invited to write the music for a theatre project and decide to continue working together;
- the band is formed.
1993_
- first concert in January;
- first studio recordings. The two songs recorded, PASTICHE and STANDING HERE played on most of Slovenia's radio stations.
1994_
- NIOWT starts to appear in the press. Concerts in Ljubljana.

1995_
- NIOWT plays a number of gigs throughout Slovenia. Slovenia's leading producer Janez Krizaj known especially for his work with Laibach-contacts the band;
- PASTICHE appears on a compilation CD "DESNA SCENA";
- five tracks are recorded with Janez Krizaj and released by Panika Records as a promo-tape.
1996_
- NIOWT plays at Slovenia's most prestigious alternative music festival Novi Rock;
- the band is approached by Peter Penko /Coptic Rain, April Nine/ and the material for the first album, recorded at Penko's studio Raingarden 9, is finished in November.
1997_
- on 15th November Chrom Records from Berlin, Germany, release the first album NIOWT;
- NIOWT are invited to play at the traditional Zillo X-mas festival, playing gigs in Bochum, Stuttgart, Mainz, Potsdam and Chemnitz;
- the opening piece of the album, "City", appears at the Gothic Magazine compilation CD;
- interviews for Zillo, Orkus, Gothic Magazine, Black, Vision.
1998_
- the album appears at the DAC chart and stays there for 5 weeks. Second piece from the album "Horizon" appears at the Music Express magazine compilation CD and tops the club chart of the City Center / Loebau only a week later;
- responses from Italy (an interview for a metal magazine Grindzone), the album is distributed in Austria.
1999_
- the band wins Slovene alternative music award Marsev Gojzar in the categories Best album/ band of the year 1998, Best song of the year 1998 (City);
- recording the second album with a working title Loverboy at Penko's Raingarden 9 studio;
- in June a new bass player Bojan Brajkovic joins the band;
- additional guitar player Jernej Jurc is welcomed in the band in November.
2000_
- completion and finalization of the second album Loverboy;
- playing at Summer festivals e.g. Beachbum - Venice, Nuvolari Libera Tribu - Cuneo, Trnfest
Ljubljana;
- supporting Him at the Hala Tivoli concert hall, Ljubljana;
- starting promotional activities for the second album (TV interviews, lancing of video for the first single Freak).
2001_
- Freak tops Slovene video charts;
- new drummer Luka Salehar joins the band in February;
- Slovene release of the second album Loverboy in May;
- German / European release of Loverboy in June;
- additional keyboard player Luka Jamnik enters Niowt;
- excellent reviews of the new album both home and abroad.
2002_
- new bass player Tibor Mihelic joins the band;
- launching of the second video, shot for the title song Loverboy, extensive media promotion of the video (radio, magazines, TV);
- song Freak chosen for the "Mystic Sounds 11" compilation, published with the March edition of the German Zillo magazine;
- in March Niowt receives the third and forth Marsev Gojzar award for being voted "best group 2001" by the audience and music editorial board of the Mars radio station;
- in April, the band gives a solo performance at the most prestigious Slovene cultural institution Cankarjev dom, accompanying the music with video animations, and receives excellent reviews for it in all the major magazines;
- in May Niowt performs at the biggest European dark music festival Wave Gothic Treffen in Leipzig;
- song Loverboy (Peter Penko's dance remix version) chosen among 250 candidates to appear at the prestigious Venusa XX part II compilation, dedicated to female vocals in electronic music. Compilation is published by the Alfa Matrix label in collaboration with Belgian magazine Side-line;
- launching and promotion of the third video from the Loverboy album, shot for Wish.
2003_
- preparation and recording of material for band's third solo album, cancellation of all live gigs until Autumn 2003 to explore less obvious dimensions of rock music through a number of projects.
- collaboration with acknowledged theatre director Matjaž Pograjc. Niowt prepare about 80 minutes of original music for his performance Play It Again, Caligula. The performance premieres on April 2 at the Slovensko mladinsko gledališče (SMG) theatre.
- at the Second Slovene Festival of Chamber Theatres (Ptuj) Niowt receive the award for best original score and soundtrack for Play It Again, Caligula.
- collaboration with DJ Umek.


 










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