Lieblingsplatte Festival: Donots "Pocketrock"

Favorite record festival: important pop albums live at zakk!
At the beginning of the nineties, international guitar rock exploded.
A new generation of punk bands celebrates its breakthrough with bands like NOFX, Offspring and Green Day. In addition, Nirvana, Mudhoney and Pearl Jam invent a dirty guitar sound called grunge.
In the Westphalian province, five school friends are inspired by all this and form a band. Thirty years ago, the musicians got together and in the spring of 1994, they gave their first concert as the Donots in a youth center in Ibbenbüren. Two years later, they released their DIY debut album, and eleven more longplayers have been released to date. They quickly built up a reputation as a rousing live band and played joint concerts with Blink182, Propagandhi, Lagwagon and Samiam as well as an appearance at the Bizarre Festival in Cologne. This was followed by a switch to a major label, Gun Records, on which "Pocketrock" was released in 2001. The album is a breakthrough, enters the charts and generates several singles. The big hit on "Pocketrock", however, is the song "Whatever Happened To The 80s" - still an integral part of the band's live set today. Videos are made for the songs "Superhero", "Today" and "Room With A View" from the album, which are also considered classics in the Donots repertoire. Tours throughout Europe, Japan and the USA follow. The Donots soon became independent of major record companies and founded their own label, Solitary Man Records. The band continued to develop after "Pocketrock" and reinvented their sound several times. The song "Stop The Clocks" from 2008 is certainly an important milestone in the band's history. In 2015, they finally switched to German song lyrics with their album "Karacho" - and the audience not only remained loyal to the Donots, it even grew over the years.

At the beginning of 2023, the album "Heut ist ein guter Tag", the third German-language DONOTS longplayer, is released - and it catapults the Donots to number 1 in the German album charts for the first time. Since then, the band has played the biggest tour concerts and the biggest festival slots of their almost 30-year career.

That's why the joy couldn't be greater that the Donots are returning to the honorable zakk for the "Lieblingsplatte". After all, they have already been our guests repeatedly on the tours surrounding "Pocketrock", and we were thus able to be a part of the story of their breakthrough.