Biography
During the five years the band has existed we have managed to be warm-up band for British rock legend Whitesnake in Estonia´s biggest concert hall Saku Suurhall in front of 5000 people, won Estonian MTV Years Best Music Video Award with song "Save us from Religion" and over 100 concerts from bigger cities to smaller villages, basiclly everywhere.
So after few years of giving concerts in Estonia and other Northern countries, Defrage got very bad reputation in Estonia for wrecking hotel rooms wich also spawned a song called "Hotel Breakers". And during the time of 2009 to 2011 we´ve gotten blacklist in about 150 hotels all over Estonia, including Estonian Hotel Community blacklist, so non of our group members can check into any hotels.
And also in band´s home town Pärnu we´re not allowed to visit the restaurants during the day time.
And as the conclusion of all the troubles in our home country, the band founder, song writer and also rhythm guitarist Kari Kärner ended up in an asylum.
So just like that we´ve gotten people´s hatred in Estonia and in the begginning of 2012 Defrage started Jackal World Tour, because living in Estonia and having concerts there would be almost impossible and band decided to be all-time touring, meaning that the band will be where ever there are offers to give some gigs.
Since 20 January 2012 we´re touring around Europe and we´ve given about 60 concerts in Germany, Austria, Poland, Switzerland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Serbia and many more countries. You can find all the upcoming concerts find on our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Defrage/136119069781444?ref=ts&sk=app_123966167614127 . As you can see from there, we are also going to give gigs in the USA. And our managers Alo Puusepp and Arvi Tamm are working hard to get new concerts added to the tour scheduale, also in Australia and Canada.
We also made a short promotion video for the tour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apYnImA3L18 .
Defrage has also gotten a lot of attention from people around Europe for promoting "Jackal" albums in the parking lots and streets in the cities where the band is staying at. Many people are helpful and willing to support our band, but there are also a lot of people who hate this kind of self-promoting and are very repulsive to us. But for our band it s the only way to survive in Europe as an independent band, so we will carry on.
And here are some links for the music videos we have for now:
"Save us from Religion": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RJm-6kBg10
"Hotel Breakers": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WAMOszntUI
"Gehenna": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-L83rlRggQ
"Put Your Money in Your Ass": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_FO0OPgjHg
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