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The Analogs is a Polish street punk band. They originally come from Szczecin, and are quite successful on the local and international punk rock scene.

They are widely regarded as the ones to begin street punk and Oi! music in Poland, despite the fact that many bands before them played this kind of music. The Analogs were the first ones to use skinhead symbolics and references in their songs.

Band history

The beginnings

In the early 1995 three members of a Polish ska band, Dr. Cycos, came into a rehearsal hall situated in Bronx pub, Szczecin to work on several songs, supposed to be traditionally punk rock. Those people were Marek Adamowicz (guitarist), Ziemowit Pawluk (drummer) and Paweł Czekała (bassist). The band did not have any name yet.

After preparing melody lines for first few songs, band started looking for a vocalist. The first candidate was Tomasz Iwanow, band members' old friend. Iwan was however unsuccessful as a vocalist. Another candidate for this position was Dominik Pyrzyna, an orthodox punk those days, who perfectly fit the vocalist role for the band.

The first album

The time had come to record the debut album, entitled Oi! Młodzież. While recording it (in "Kakadu" studio, Szczecin), the band simultaneously led talks with Rock'n'roller productions, and actually with its boss Zdzisław Jodko. Being one of Czekała's long time friends, Jodko willingly agreed to release the album under Rock'n'roller label. Meanwhile, the band had just been able to give itself a name: The Analogs.

The album was recorded simultaneously with an album of Dr. Cycos. On the first day both bands recorded music, and the second day was dedicated to vocals and mixing.

Just after the recording session and the concert of both groups, Czekała's troubles with justice started. In spring 1996 album had finally been released, yet it made a kind of success. During Czekała's absence, bassist position was held by Szymon Gebel, and then by Artur Szmit.

Concert with D.O.A. and anti-Analogs independent press releases

The band started giving concerts soon, of which the most famous and controverial was a gig played together with a Canadian punk rock band DOA. It took place in Poznań and is mostly remembered for fighting between The Analogs fans and the rest of the audience.

None of its participants remembers the real reason for the outbreak of fight, but the whole situation resulted in several releases in independent press accusing The Analogs of either promoting violence and culture of hate, or secretly smuggling fascist, sexist and anti-feminist ideas in their songs.

In the beginnings of band's activity, The Analogs were standing in strong opposition to anarchist punks and feminists. Connecting this attitude with the event on DOA concert caused many Polish underground media to start an onslaught on the band, but with poor effect.

On the other side, a group had received a significant part of support from Garaż (Polish for garage) magazine.

Beginning of international career

In 1997 three songs by The Analogs (mistakenly described as Analogics on the cover) appeared at Oi! it's a world invasion compilation released by Bronco Bullfrog Records and Step-1. On December 7th, 2003 The Analogs were invited to play at Punk & Disorderly festival in Germany. It is worth mention, that the band was the only one from Poland to play at this festival. They returned to play in Germany at the same festival one year after, and are preparing to appear in 2006

Analogs songs appeared on following international compilations:

 

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