User talk:Kotsoskotsas

Biography
The band was formed in Spring 1997 and was the realisasion of an idea of George Symeonides band's lead vocalist. Himself along with Alexandros Dimarelis(drums) and Stelios Gioumerkas(bass guitar) costituted the initial group, which after certain experimentations was completed with the addition of the guitarist Lakis Ragazas.

They soon begun their performances in clubs in the city of Thessaloniki. The elements that caracterise their perfomances are energy and passion, that in combination with accurate and solid way they play their music, Long Live managed to winan audience who constantly supports their efforts.

Long Live is a band that works and functions through it's concerts in numerous concerts in Hellas. Moreover, it is worth mentioning their continuous participation in a number in summer festivals that attract big audiences. All these factsprove their intense "Live performing" identity, which is that particular element that underlines the character of a Rock band.

Through Long Live concerts, an atmosphere of fun and joy emerges, and take the audience back to those times when music was the primary source of that emotions, something that one can experience it they attend a performance in Club "Cafe Americain" one of the biggest stages in Thessaloniki, which happens to be the band's regular basis for the past three years.

The release of their first CD in an EP form is an independant production and costituites their first attempt to record and promote their own work.

The band's goal is that a larger audience would listen to, and know of their individual sound, which is accompanied by lyrics in the English language. The sound and nature of their compositions are simply and "clever", while they make sure they avoid pointless and vain complications that would rather function as praise to their own musical skills, instead of adding something in the art of music.

The forms they create upon are classic, and these forms permit them to experiment and produce nowdays, an era which is to such extend caracterised by the mutation of sound and style. Long Live continues their concerts all over Hellas.

In the middle of 2003 Alex leaves the band and George Motesnitsas takes place behind the drums

Official site
Long Live