User:Xbaleex~enwiki/After Classes

After Classes (A.K.A. AC) is a pop-punk band from Budapest, Hungary, formed in 2000. The band consist of Balázs Sebestény (vocals), Dorottya Kovács (vocals), Gábor Szabados (guitar), Márió Bogdán (guitar), Zoltán Somogyi (bass) and Gábor "Pogi" Nagy (drums).

The newly re-formed band released a 4-track EP in 2010 and is currently writing songs and recording demos for their forthcoming debut album.

= History =

The Gorse (2000-2004)
The band was founded under the name The Gorse in a small town, called Gyula in 2000, when Laci Braun decided to start a band. For his brother's recommendation he asked Tibcsi Kiss, a schoolmate from primary school to join on drums, and Balázs Lapis, a kid from high school to fill in the guitar. In the first term they played classical rock and blues covers, and tried so many guys on the bass. In 2000 Laci and Tibcsi recorded their first demo, '"Absurd World"', including "Livin' for Today" one of the most known and liked songs of the band. Some months later, in 2001 Laci went up to Balázs Sebestény on the school's floor and said: "Don't you wanna play in our band?", and he said "Of course, I do!", so they started to work together. At the same time they parted ways with Lapis, 'cuz of musical differences. They started to write songs beside the good old punk rock covers, and they made some demos, some of them was available for anyone, some not. In the Summer of 2001 they recorded three tracks: "Advice for Life", "I wish" and "Jennifer". The following year they added six more (all the songs on that record was written by Laci) among them the another much liked song, "Smellslikelife", and entitled the album "Stand by the Giant Turtles!", after a Greenpeace action.

After Laci left from high school in 2003 things changed a bit, and they started to play shows outside of their hometown with the hungarian pop-punk veterans, the Falcongate. The differences between Tibcsi and the others 'caused his terminal leave. They started to find a new drummer, and meanwhile Laci's brother Totya helped them out.

After Classes (2004-2006)
In 2004 Balázs also graduated, and left Gyula, so the band started outgrowing the high school band status. This year someone told them, that the name The Gorse is an existing band's name somewhere in Ireland (well, it was a fake, 'cuz it was called The Corrs...), so they figured out a new name. Once the kids were driving home by car, and listened to Blink-182's "Going Away to College", which has a row "She kissed me after class, and she put up with my friends", and after that they called the band After Classes. They uploaded some of their tracks to PureVolume, and sent some links to different sites. Ákos Radócz, who was the owner of the one-time Eightball music portal offered a free webiste, and helped them promoting their music. With his help the band became more and more known in the hungarian scene.

They visited a punk rock show in 2005 to the effect to find a new drummer, and they did. There was a band, called Link-x playin, and their drummer, Gergő Kinka was amazing, so they asked him to join. Soon the band got the chance to play two songs in the semi-finale of the hungarian music chanell's (VIVA) competition (Tehetségvadászat), and after that they played some shows with bands like Falcongate, Reflected, Link-x, Szükségállapot and more.

After one year collaboration Gergő left for his primal band, but 'cuz of the band became a popular part of the scene, they easily found Márk Koller, a fan kid of After Classes, and a very talented drummer. This was the most classical lineup of the band. They sold a lot of stuff, played many shows with Anti Fitness Club, The Grenma and the bands above, and started to record demos for the songs they had written since 2002. For the Autumn, 2006 the friendship broke up, and after Laci's announcement of leaving, they cancelled all forthcoming shows, and published a statement about the break-up.

= Hiatus=

(2006-2008)

After all that the kids played in many formations, Laci ganged up with two DJs (he's no more active), Balázs founded Atagood Place (after the title of an old AC song, "At a Good Place Like This"), Hearsay Evidence (including the latter Anti Fitness Club guitarist', Peti Szabó) and joined the metalcore band, Forsaken Mind. Later on he joined a well-known hungarian Idol (Megasztár) singer, Gabi Tóth's band in 2008. Márk also played in a metalcore band, and after that he filled in the drums in the hungarian electro/indie singer, Zsuzsa Varga's band.

= Re-forming=

(2008-present)

In 2007 Balázs visited a Set Your Goals/No Trigger/To Kill show in Budapest, and discussed with Tomi Árnyék about making a hardcore/pop-punk band. In the Summer that year, Balázs and Dóri Kovács travelled to Siófok, to spend some time and meet Andris Gyimesi (Falcongate). There he listened Dóri singing something in the afternoon, and newfound the opportunity of making music together. Teamed up with Tomi on drums, and Lapis on guitar they started to rehearse. Balázs wrote the songs, and made the vocals with Dóri. Soon they found Márió Bogdán, who filled the guitar, but the band didn't work out. In the Summer 2008 they parted ways with Tomi, and after a while they asked Ábel Schéder,- who commented their MySpace profile - to join, and he did. Zoli Somogyi, who was a one-time AC fan, and a friend of Balázs filled in the bass, and they started to write songs and to make some demos, they plan to release in 2009.

In 2009 the guys split with Lapis, and Zoli's friend Gabi Szabados joined on guitar, but soon after in the early 2010 after some shows with The Grenma and Falcongate Ábel left the band, and moved back to his hometown. A childhood friend of Zoli and Gabi, Gábor "Pogi" Nagy took over the drums, and this is the very current line up too. In Spring 2010 with Matyi Botlik (former drummer of The Grenma) the kids recorded their first demo EP with 4 new songs, and on 13th June on their MySpace blog the guys announced the release dates for each track starting on 15th June with "(I'm Up To) Leave" and "a.i.c.h.y.". On 21st June "Why Are You So Much Like You?" followed the first two and a few days later "I Need You" also arrived.

As a matter of fact the official release date for the later "Entrance, Elevator, Stairs" was declared to 14th June, 2010 on Facebook and Purevolume.

= Members =

Current Members
Balázs Sebestény - lead vocals Dorottya Kovács - lead vocals Balázs Lapis - guitar Márió Bogdán - guitar Zoltán Somogyi - bass Ábel Schéder - drums

Former Members
László Braun - guitar, lead vocals (2000-2006) Tibor Kiss - drums, trumpets (2000-2004) Balázs Lapis - guitar (2000-2001) Dániel Szomor - bass (2000) Máté Gerebenics - bass (2000) Gergő Kinka - drums (2005-2006) Márk Koller - drums (2006) Tamás Árnyék - drums (2008) Ábel Schéder - drums (2009-2010)

Touring Members
Tamás Braun - guitar, drums (2004-2005) Márta Ferenczi - vocals (2004) Anna Ottlakán - vocals (2004) Sonya Korbucz - guitar (2004) Balázs Lapis - guitar, vocals (2006)

= Discography =

Demos
Absurd World (2000) One between two folk-tales (2001) Usurpation of a name (2001)

Live
Live and Shit (2001) First Party People (2001)

EPs
Entrance, Elevator, Stairs (2010)

Full-lenghts
Stand by the Giant turtles! (2002) (2010)