This alternative rock bank has been around since 1993!
\nMany albums, tours and festivals have made The Donots an integral part of the rock scene. In 2012 their ninth album \u201cWake the dogs\u201d was released. It was even more successful than all the others and beyond further festivals they were on great tour. In 2015 The Donots presented their new album “Karacho” which conquered the charts. So the band produced also an English version called “Carajo”. In summer The Donots rocked the festival stages and the band was the opening act of the 30th “Rock am Ring” festival.<\/p>\n
The band was on “Karacho” tour at the beginning of 2016. In March The Donots were the first German band playing on the Salty Dog Cruise.
\nAfter a great festival summer The Donots presented 10 concerts themed ” I\u00b4ve already seen The Donots live on stage – and the guys haven\u00b4t played 1.000 concerts yet.” After this kind of preparation the thousandth concert “Grand M\u00fcnster Slam” followed at the end of the year.<\/p>\n
The album “Lauter als Bomben” was released in early 2018. The latest song “Willkommen Zuhaus” was released as a charity vinyl single for the benefit of “Jamel rockt den F\u00f6rster” and made it to #1 in the official German Single Trend Charts.
\nIn December 2020 the (first) live album “Birthday Slams Live” was released with a selection of songs which were played “Birthday Slams” and at the “Grand Summer Slam”. The new record reached #6 in the album charts, making it the fifth consecutive Top 10 placement in the album charts.<\/p>\n
27 years, 11 albums, over 1200 concerts in 21 countries – these are the impressive facts from the Donots’ career so far. The band looks back on this time in detail in their biography “Heute Pl\u00e4ne, morgen Konfetti”. The book for their 27th band anniversary was published in April 2021.
\nIn 2023, the Donots released their 12th studio album. \u201cHeut ist ein guter Tag\u201d is the first album in the band’s history to reach number 1 in Germany.
\nA perfect reason to celebrate, as the band is also celebrating its 30th anniversary. In November 2023, they went on a small anniversary tour. Of course, the Donots can also go big – and so in the summer of the following year there was an open air in M\u00fcnster with around 12,000 fans.
\nThe acoustic tour \u201cSchwert aus Holz\u201d in May 2025 was completely sold out and the acoustic album of the same name was announced for September of that year.<\/p>\n
Since October 2009, we have been lucky enough to count this successful band, which has been around for many years, among our endorsers. On request, the contact was established via Itchy Poopzkid, a band that has also been supported by us for a long time. The two bands played together at the “Taubertal-Rocknacht” (in W\u00fcrzburg) in October 2009 and so we arranged a meeting after the concert. Here we got into conversation with the band and quickly agreed on a partnership. In 2010 the Donots came to our booth at the Musikmesse Frankfurt for an autograph session and an interview.<\/p>\n
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INGO (Vocals)
\nGUIDO (Guitar)
\nALEX (Guitar)
\nJ.D. (Bass)
\nEIKE (Drums)<\/p>\n
What the name of the band means? According to Donot\u00b4s statement it stands for the band\u00b4s philosophy to \u201cdo nothing\u201d \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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