Has been made a music video for the song 'So Cold' from Detlef Zoo new album 'Skapi'. The video has been shoot in Latvia and it's author is american director Fredy Polania from the company Polanian Pictures.

The video has been made into support of international project. In the project took a apart twenty bands from countries like Germany, Canada, Latvia, Israel, Columbia etc. and the aim of it was to connect talented and up coming musicians to make music videos.

Director F. Polania has been working with many bands and his independent point of view has been successfully displayed into the video 'So Cold'.

An exclusive priority on So Cold broadcasting has MTV Baltic where it will be seen on the 16th of June.

The band "Detlef Zoo" into support of there new album "Skapi" performed on the 23rd of May in the Liverpool's famous club "The Cavern Pub" where one of the most famous bands in the world "The Beatles"began its journey.

Detlef Zoo in Liverpool took a part in the "International Pop Overthrow" festiva and they performed a short while before one of the festival's best bands " the Ace".

More about the festival - internationalpopoverthrow.com
More about the Cavern Club - cavernclub.org

Detlef Zoo album "Skapi" is available now in english version as well with the title "If It Makes Us Happy".Either of them can be downloaded in Mp3 format in portal www.doremi.lv.

With the support of „Amigo”,a prepaid cell phone card, on the 12th of April in Cesis Detlef Zoo will begin their new tour in support of their new album “Skapī”. Throughout the tour Detlef Zoo will perform in eight Latvian cities. The final concert will take place on the 3rd of May in Liepāja at Fontaine Palace and it will be broadcasted live on TV6.

The band will play songs not only from the new album (including well known hits such as So Cold, Skapī, Funny Girl and Love Town which has been recently aired for the first time on Latvian radiostations) but also from the band’s previous effort ‘Tu izliecies par sevi’.

Detlef Zoo tour

12.04. CĒSIS, KLUBS VIDZEMNIEKS NC
18.04. JĒKABPILS, KLUBS KARGO
19.04. CESVAINE, KLUBS GRIFS
23.04. JELGAVA, KLUBS JELGAVAS BALTIE KREKLI
26.04. AIZKRAUKLE, AIZKRAUKLES PAGASTA KULTŪRAS NAMS
30.04. RĪGA, LMA STUDENTU KLUBS
02.05. TALSI, TALSU SPORTA NAMS
03.05. LIEPĀJA, KLUBS FONTAINE PALACE

A special offer for Amigo GPRS users – free concert tickets. You can apply for the tickets at www.amigo.lv

Tickets available at ‘Biļešu serviss’

As mentioned earlier, Detlef Zoo,together with their creative partners ,filmed the video in Manchester.

„Manchester is a city with a special aura and contributions to the history of british music. Countless excelent bands have originated from Manchester - The Smiths, Joy Division, New Order, Happy Mondays, The Stone Roses, Oasis, The Verve, Elbow, Doves etc. These traditions and the overall atmosphere of the town matched with our sense of music and particulary with the song Love Town. That’s why we chose Manchester „- says the band leader Uldis Dirnēns.

The filming of the video took place in the city centre and also in the industrial part of the town and at a popular rehersal place for local bands under the supervision of Sandijs Lūsēns, Juris Pīlēns un Uldis Dirnēns.

It should be added that on the 12th of April in Cesis Detlef Zoo will begin their new tour in support of their new album “Skapī”. Throughout the tour Detlef Zoo will perform in eight Latvian cities. The final concert will take place on the 3rd of May in Liepāja at Fontaine Palace.

The music video can be seen here.

Detlef Zoo, together with their creative companions, have returned from Manchester, where they had been shooting a new video for the song Love Town, taken off their album „Skapī”.

„Manchester is a city with a special aura and it has definately left a mark in the history of British music. Countless popular bands have originated from Manchester - The Smiths, Joy Division, New Order, Happy Mondays, The Stone Roses, Oasis, The Verve, Elbow, Doves etc. These traditions, the city atmosphere and appearance supposedly related to our sense of music and the song Love Town. This is why we made this choice,” – says the leader of Detlef Zoo Uldis Dirnēns.

The shooting under the supervision of Sandija Lūsēna, Juris Pīlēns un Uldis Dirnēns took place not only in the industrial part of Manchester, but also in the city centre and at a rehearsal place where many hometown bands rehearse. Love Town is the band’s next single due to be aired on radio soon simultaneously with the delivery of the video.

On the 6th of December Mic Rec PM and Mic Rec presented Detlef Zoo new album "Skapī". It was recorded in 2006./07 in London under the supervision of British producer and musician Andy Gill (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Gang of Four, Futureheads etc.). The album also contains a bonus track – the well know hit " So cold" , produced by George Shilling. The album contains a total of 13 songs in English and Latvian.

The band's previous album "Tu izliecies par sevi", released in 2004, gained both critical and public acclaim. Due to the changes in the lineup and Andy Gill's busy schedule with his band Gang of Four and his involvement in other projects ( the debut album by The Young Knives, which was produced by Andy Gill, was nominated for this year's prestige Mercury award) there was a considerable time of silence for the band. The sound of the new album is more matured, professional, but still contains the characteristics of modern guitar rock with influences ranging from the Beatles to Radiohead. The band admits that working with Andy Gill was an experience that cannot be replaced. It is worth noting that during the recording sessions there was such a strong creative bond between the producer and the band that Andy Gill became co-author of the lyrics and music.

At some point every moment of silence is broken! After a long brake Detlef Zoo is planning to perform in Latvia, the comeback will take place on the first day of the new school year at Don’t tell mama! festival. This is going to be the band’s first concert of the year 2007 in Latvia and the only one before the release of their brand new album, which is due to be released at the end of September. The new songs will be performed in Latvia for the first time, up to now they have been performed only at B – scene festival in Switzerland.

Festival Don’t tell mama! will take place at Arena Riga on the 3rd of September and apart from Detlef Zoo Tokio Hotel, Tanel Padar and the S.U.N., Mofo, Tumsa, h2o and DJ Toms Grēviņš will all perform at the festival.

We are back in London again and we have one bad and one good thing to tell you. The bad one – it is now clear that the release of the new album is put off till next spring. The good one – finally we have seriously taken up the work in the studio, which is the reason why we won’t be seen in Latvia so often.

The release of the album was delayed because for the whole summer we have been looking for a professional producer. It was important to find someone with whom we could have mutual understanding and musical harmony, and we are convinced that Andy Gill is the right person. His experience gained when playing in the band Gang of Four and producing Red Hot Chili Peppers, Futureheads, The Stranglers and others is extremely useful to us.

At present we have finished the recording of two songs – Part of Endless Story and Close Your Eyes – the first one sounds more rock and the other one is more lyrical. Until the beginning of winter we have intended to record six more tracks and the rest of the album will be finished until spring. The things haven’t been going quickly but they are exciting enough. We like it though! Probably the new songs will be slightly different than expected, but the things that do not change, cease to be…

It was not easy to put up with the thought that we have to postpone the release of the album till next year but we have to take into account that Andy is completely tied up with other projects. But we are sure that the result will be worth it and we hope that you will be patient enough! However, we will come to Latvia at the end of the year and definitely will play some concerts. For now – the best wishes to you and we will hear from us when we have a spare moment. Cheers!

Uldis, Martins, Marks & Kaspars

We are in England couple of days already, workig in a record studio with our new producer Andy Gill. We ourselves have a feeling that things have taken the right course, and this feeling is great. In other words, we have started to work seriously on our new CD. We spent quite a long time looking for the right producer, and now we think that we have found him. Andy is really experienced, he still plays in the legendary band Gang of Four; he has also worked with such prominent musicians as Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Killing Joke, Michael Hutchins, Futureheads and others.

He has produced the new album of a quite recent band The Young Knives. English critics praise the album, and many call it the best debut of the year. Andy likes our songs, we are in good relationships, understand each other well, and the result most probably will be striking.

We have never worked in a studio as seriously as now. We plan to finish two songs this week: You Are So Young and Close Your Eyes. We are planning to return home for a while and most probably to show our new songs to public. It will not take long. Success to everybody!

Your Detlef Zoo

Detlef’s Zoo song ‘So Cold’ will be heard in American director Freddie Polania’s horror movie “Cabras”, which will premiere in 2007.

“Cabras” is based on a real story of the adventures of young people in a small village in South America. The film is currently in production. In the film 20 groups will participate with their songs from the USA and other countries.

It is intended that Freddie Polania and his company Polania Pictures will also make a video clip for ‘So Cold’.

More information about the groups involved in this project can be found at: www.cabrassoundtrack.com