Nick Behr at his second gig with Yellowhouse, Steglitzer Rocktage 24.11.2001

22.10.2000
Yellowhouse CD "What´s Shining Through" release date!
The new Yellowhouse CD "What´s Shining Through" will be released by MMN-Records (MMN 002) November 1st. Preorders can be directed now to: info@yellowhouse.de

06.09.2000
News on the upcoming Yellowhouse CD!
The new Yellowhouse CD will be titled "What´s Shining Through". In addition to this the CD will be a video (the first Yellowhouse video ever) of the title track.
The band did a photosession for the CD-Cover on Saturday 02.09.00, directed by Veronica Martin with Photographer Peter Prätorius.
Hartmut Kreckel: "The Photos are quite obscene I believe - well, at least to a certain degree - but I cleared them with my club of morals in advance..."

Yellowhouse pictured with Veronica Martin..

30.08.2000
The new Yellowhouse Drummer : Florian Dufour-Feronce
The new drummer in Yellowhouse is the 28-year old Florian Dufour-Feronce, who had previously played in *The Out* (1993-97) and *Freebird* (1998-99).
Florian started playing drums at the age of 12 and has a musical family background.

Florian Dufour-Feronce in his *The Out* days.

Toralf Kaiser married!
Toralf Kaiser married his long term girlfriend Kathleen on July 8th this year. While on the honeymoon in the Nile-Delta, he managed to lose the keys to the rehearsal-room of Yellowhouse.

10.08.2000
The new Yellowhouse CD!
The new Yellowhouse CD has not been finished yet, as it has been delayed due to problems getting all the artwork together. Hartmut Kreckel: "All the audio masters are done, and now, we just need to finish the artwork and get the booklets printed. The artwork will be handled by Veronica Martin. A September shipping date should be possible. Hang in there with us - IT WILL BE GOOD!"
The track running order will be the following one:
1. Return To The Sky (Kreckel) (3.32)
2. Evolution (Kreckel) (3.04)
3. Now You´re Gone (Kreckel) (3.28)
4. Another Day (Kaiser / Pukownick) (4.16)
5. Kill Your Dreams (Kaiser / Kreckel) (4.03)
6. Damnation (Kreckel) (3.39)
7. Keep On Going My Way (Kreckel / Oliver) (2.35)
8. Silver Shadow (Kreckel) (2.51)
9. Mrs. Gentle (Kreckel) (4.36)
10. What´s Shining Through (Kreckel / Steinbart) (3.58)
11. Hollywood Cell (Kreckel / Pukownick) (2.51)

Detlev Bruckhoff leaves Yellowhouse.
Drummer Detlev Bruckhoff leaves Yellowhouse. The new drummer will be a announced shortly.

10.06.2000
New Yellowhouse Songs!
Jensen P. und Hartmut Kreckel wrote two new Songs, titled "The Silent Screaming" und "Sacred Feelings". Both songs are in the Yellowhouse-tradition: melodic, straight and positive forward lyrics.

01.05.2000
Yellowhouse are about to finish mastering of the upcoming CD.
Yellowhouse are about to finish mastering of the upcoming CD, it is handled by Sven Joachim @ Soundwerk Orange Studios in Berlin, and the results are said to be very good so far. Eleven songs have been recorded and have been mastered on April 20th & 27th. They will all be on the new Yellowhouse CD, which will a total time of ~ 40min. The final track order and the title of the CD are yet to be announced, but it can be hinted, that the opening track will be "Return To The Sky" and that the last song will be the unplugged "Hollywood Cell". More infos a.s.a.p. ...

19.03.2000
Yellowhouse recorded again @ Masterix-Tonstudio.
Yellowhouse recorded again @ Masterix-Tonstudio in Berlin-Marzahn from 13.-17.03.2000. Again, engineered by Reiner Lehmann, Yellowhouse (Mark 4) recorded at the very same place where Yellowhouse (Mark 1) did the recording of "Living In The Light". In total seven songs were laid down: Kill Your Dreams (Kaiser / Kreckel) - Keep On Going My Way (Kreckel / Oliver) - Silver Shadow (Kreckel) - Now You´re Gone (Kreckel) - What´s Shining Through (Kreckel / Steinbart) - Hollywood Cell (Kreckel / Pukownick) - Another Day (Kaiser / Pukownick). Jensen P.: "The recording went great and the rough mix sounds very promising. The songs take on a new dimension in the studio". Hartmut Kreckel: "It was great to be at the studio again, where it all started, therefore it was partly a trip down the memory lane, but I´m not into reliving the past... I learn from the past, I don´t live in the past! I only wish that all these recordings would have happened two years ago and in a way I was frightened at first, that the songs wouldn´t sound fresh anymore, as most of the sources of inspiration to these songs are long gone as far as I am concerned, i.e. by chance I came across some old photos of the inspiration of "Now You´re Gone", and I thought *who is this???*... the same goes for "Silver Shadow". But the songs sound very fresh, much more than expected. We also recorded the unplugged "Hollywood Cell" that we have only done live on a few ocasions so far and a brand new song, that we haven´t performed live so far: "Another Day". This one was written by Toralf and reflects the new spirit of Yellowhouse. It´s a catchy mid-tempo song and Jensen wrote the lyrics to this one... I threw a line in that goes *be good... think it over*, but that source of inspiriation has gone as well in the meantime, ha ha... The whole performance is very tight, which is also down to drummer Detlev Bruckhoff, so it was worth the wait, I should say..."
The final mixing will start on 28.03.2000.

12.03.2000
Gig in Karow 18.03.2000 cancelled!
The Yellowhouse Gig in Karow, Jugenzentrum K14 18.03.2000 (Jensen P.´s birthday) has been cancelled, due to the fact that the recording machine at that venue crapped. The gig, as well as the live recording, will be resceduled soon .

02.03.2000
Yellowhouse finally to record their CD.
YELLOWHOUSE finally started to record their CD. This was done at Soundwerk Orange-van Straden Studios in Berlin (Friedrichshain), while production duties are handled by Andi Stradner. The recording went very well, the drums were recorded on Saturday 26.3.00 from 9 a.m. to 12 a.m. and the bass, as well as some guitar parts, were put down in the afternoon of that day. On Sunday, the guitar parts were completed and all vocals too. Mixing started on the 29th. Four Songs have been recorded: Return To The Sky - Evolution - Damnation & Mrs. Gentle. Toralf Kaiser: "The first results of the rough mixes look very promising, powerful and modern sounding..." Jensen P.: "...it was a fast and easy recording to do, it was great fun and I´m looking forward to the end results". Four years after "Living In The Light" and three line-up changes later it certainly was time for Yellowhouse to start working on a new CD. Hartmut Kreckel: "...certainly it was time to do this... as far as I´m concerned, we could have done this two years ago, but then our former vocalist f***ed it up!!! It´s really frustrating... singers - in their mayority - don´t realize, what they do to a band through their behaviour, and only because of their own greed, selfishness, mental instability and lack of responsability. It´s time to set the record straight here: this all cost Toralf and myself almost two years and I´m really sick and tired of all this and really don´t have a lot of patience to talk about these things, especially when I think about, where we could have been in the meantime, if things would have turned out differently back then: we could have had two CDs out in the meantime... so, to get back to the original point, yes we are somewhat behind our schedule to say at least..."
In addition to this studio recording, there´ll be a live recording on March 18th. So keep your fingers crossed!!!

18.12.1999
Yellowhouse Live @ Radio Broadcast
Berlin Radio SFB 4 Multikulti broadcasted on friday, dec. 10th, in their program "FrühStück" (between 6 and 9 am) a report on the youth club "Die Wille", that included two songs ("Silver Shadow" and "Burn, Learn & Turn") recorded from the performance of Yellowhouse there on Dec. 3rd. And BTW: the band is looking for a copy on tape! Anyone?

Yellowhouse and the press : Ugly rumours!
Two ugly rumours into one actually: 1) "Berlin Live" (as well as a few other magazines) announced Yellowhouse to perform at Weiße Rose on Dec.19th. Hartmut Kreckel: "...I don´t know, where this rumour comes from, certainly there never was any contract, not even a talk..." The second (and much) uglier rumour was the content of that very article in BM Live, not only that it had a Yellowhouse Mark 3 photo, taken in May near Columbiahalle, to announce a Yellowhouse Mark 4 gig: that article also reported Hartmut Kreckel to have said that Alexa Weber was "the optimal voice in Yellowhouse". Hartmut Kreckel: "Nothing could be further away from the truth than this!!!!! Those who know us, know the score I´m sure. To make it clear: I NEVER told such a lie in my whole life!!! This report seems more a paparazzi act to me than anything else!!! I remember that interview, being done prior to the photosession and I kept it fairly diplomatically, stating that *...we have two new faces in Yellowhouse, from Milwaukee Mr. Mike Koch and from Cologne Alexa Weber...* I never said something like comparing Alexa Weber to Jürgen Weißig or Dominic O. S., because I could not. It´s as simple as that: Alexa Weber was the biggest mistake in Yellowhouse, and it became obvious at the 3rd gig (at Non Tox), she was certainly rather two that one step down from Jürgen Weißig or Dominic O. S.!!! I have to take full responsability for this and as soon as possible I fired her and the drummer, for I could not take their unprofessional attitude any longer. That´s the truth and today I wish that this Mark 3 period would never have happened. Anyone can quote me on that!!! Maybe I should write a song about ugly rumours..."

02.11.1999
Yellowhouse demo!
Yellowhouse recorded a demo of the song "Red Light Diamond" at Berlin´s SAE 8-Track Studios on 01.11.99 18-22h and will record the song "Silver Shadow" at SAE 24-track studios on 20.11.99 16-22h. Yellowhouse have newly designed A2 format concert advertising posters, designed by Toralf Kaiser. Yellowhouse have been rehearsing a lot in the past 8 weeks and it´s getting tighter.

13.09.1999
Yellowhouse Mark 4!
Yellowhouse to rock again: the birth of Yellowhouse (Mark 4) was quite fast, wasn´t it? The new singer is the 31 year old Berlin native Jensen Pukownick, formerly in a band called "Pandora´s Box" and the new drummer the also 31 year old Detlev Bruckhoff from Bochum. Jensen Pukownick: "I didn´t know Yellowhouse at first, so I just went down and checked it out. But when I heared their songs, I instantanealy wanted to join them. I really enjoy doing the old stuff and I feel very comfortable with that. I like the roots and attitude of this band and will take them into the fourth chapter so to speak to move along to bigger things. And the new stuff we started to work on will bring this band to evolve into a more permanent unit. The past is the past and I´m really looking forward to bring this band into the future. It just feels great to be here in the house and as much as I and a lot of people liked their previous singers Dominic O. S. and Jürgen Weißig, I will add my own signature to the old songs and I hope that people will give me the chance to take over and prove myself and take Yellowhouse into the Y2K and will like it as much as they did like the band with Jürgen or Dominic. I know that these are big shoes to fill and I know that I can do it and hope that people will stand behind me as I will not let them down." The band spend the last weeks rehearsing the set and gigs will be announced shortly. Hartmut Kreckel: "...this is what most of you out there were probably waiting for, the Yellowhouse # 4 is that what Yellowhouse # 2 should have become, but didn´t..."

11.08.1999
Yellowhouse "Living In The Light" re-released!
Due to major demand, the bands first studio demo "Living In The Light" has been reissued in a Ltd. Edition of 100 copies. For those of you, who haven´t, this is now your very last chance to secure a copy of that very first studio venture of Yellowhouse (Mark 1) from 4.-8.12.1995.

The legendary "Living In The Light" Demo, that started it all.

23.07.1999
Yellowhouse Interview!
Hartmut Kreckel and Toralf Kaiser did a interview for "Extravagant - das Stadtmagazin für Berlin" (www.extravagant.de) on July 20^{th @} 20p.m. @ Cafe Sundance in Berlin CrossHill36, to be featured in the September issue.

21.07.1999
Yellowhouse Mark 3 finished!
The end of a chapter: Alexa Weber and Mike Koch leave Yellowhouse!
So that´s the way how Yellowhouse (Mark 3) end? Unfortunately yes! Mainly due to private engagements Mike Koch will be going back to Milwaukee, where he is originally from and Alexa Weber will be going back to Cologne. The band had already started to look for replacements since July and it can be expected to come to a conclusion soon, hopefully .

09.06.1999
Yellowhouse: Mark 1 reunion? No!
Hartmut Kreckel had a meeting with original Yellowhouse vocalist Jürgen Weißig (apparently they really talk to each other again)! Obviously they were talking business, but it´s known that Jürgen Weißig has been doing a studio project with a guitarrist and that he did not perform live since he left Yellowhouse back in 1996. Asked for a message to Yellowhouse fans Jürgen said: "Thanks for remembering me and I wish you all the best..."

27.05.1999
Yellowhouse demo.
Yellowhouse have started recording demos of two songs on 8 track : The new song "Babylon", composed by Hartmut Kreckel and Toralf Kaiser with Lyrics from Mike Koch and "Keep On Going My Way", composed by Hartmut Kreckel and Dominic O. S., in the plugged (Yellowhouse Mark 3) version. On behalf of the band: thanks to Kelb from Milwaukee for taking good care of the pre-production duties.

09.02.1999
Yellowhouse bootlegged again...
This time a video bootleg was being made by a member of the audience of the Yellowhouse performance at Emergenza. It was filmed with a digital Sony and is quite good. The kind bootlegger offered the band to make a copy, which he delivered within two days. "The white within the black..."

06.02.1999
Sensational! YELLOWHOUSE RETURNS to live activity. See gig review page...
Emergenza Band Contest: Yellowhouse played at the international Emergenza Festival at the renowned Berlin club "Knaack" to 320 people. The audience reception was great and your favorite band qualified for the next round to be held at Arena Glashaus in May.
Yellowhouse bootleg!!!
A bootleg of Yellowhouse, named "Down The Road", obviously recorded at the band´s gig in Berlin at Flöz 26 Jan 99 has been detected.

23.12.1998
And now... Yellowhouse Mark 3!
 It has finally been revealed: Yellowhouse rocks again... The line-up of Yellowhouse (Mark 3) is getting ready: the new singer´s name is 24 year old Alexa Weber from Cologne and the new drummer is Mike Koch from Milwaukee, formerly in Milwaukee based band "Your Indentured Servants". And of course the band is completed by Toralf Kaiser (bass) and Hartmut Kreckel (guitars). Look out for pictures of the new line-up of Yellowhouse in the history section of this site. The band has started rehearsals in late November and will start playing some warm-ups in January 1999. In addition to that, the band will go in to the studio to record the song "Return to the Sky".
Hartmut Kreckel recently commented: "It will sound a little different with a lady singing... we had to shift most of the songs 2 or 3 halftone steps upwards to fit into the range of Alexa´s vocal... it will surprise some of our fans, but after a while I´m sure they will get into it... it´s like any sort of metamorphosis: we´ve been through it and now it´s our audience´s turn to follow... but don´t panic: we are still Yellowhouse of course and no one will be asking for our former members, who were in the previous incarnations of Yellowhouse (Mark 1 and Mark 2). Oh, and by the way, the new drummer will sign autographs and the singer won´t leave the stage between the songs to have a p***..."

09.07.1998
Shock to all Yellowhouse fans: Dominic O. S. fired!
The story finally leaked out: "Fabulous Lead Vocals Dominic O. S." was asked to leave the yellow building! The Band finally commented on the situation. Toralf Kaiser: "... he was into doing his own things and no one really  tried to prevent him from doing so... we got rid of him, the tension was just unbearable..." Hartmut Kreckel: "Dominic certainly had tremendous ego-problems and I really felt very uncomfortable standing next to him on any stage. The situation was so bloody tense, for we knew that he was doing some things behind our backs..." The band had been spending their time since the last gig in Junction Bar 26.1.98 auditioning new candidates for the two vacant positions on Lead Vocals and Drums. No official anouncemwent as who´d be the new members has been made yet! The band plans to record their CD as soon as they´re complete. So keep your fingers crossed!!! In the past, Yellowhouse had trouble with finding a suitable drummer too. Toralf Kaiser: "...the problem is that most drummers really can´t play, I´m sorry to say this, but they start a simple 4 minute song like "Evolution" at 150 beats per minute and end it at 100. They obviously never heared about timing..." Commenting on former drummer Lars Thomas and him leaving the band again Hartmut Kreckel said: "Lars really had a lot of influence on a lot of drummers through his intelligent drumming on songs like "For Ever"... but things certainly change..."

02.04.1998
Yellowhouse Video "Through A Private Eye" broadcast
The Yellowhouse-video "Through a Private Eye" will be broadcasted at OKB, the city cable channel, on saturday April 25^th at 23.00 and repeated on Tuesday April 28^th at the same time in its entirety. It was good to finally get it out on a saturday night, as lots of people should be zapping through OKB at that time. Certainly Berlin has many people with a cable TV.

29.03.1998
Yellowhouse Video "Through A Private Eye"
Yellowhouse have just released their self-produced live-video, titled "Through a Private Eye", which can be ordered at the e-mail address given in this homepage, especially for those of YOU outside Berlin, who will not be able to see it on OKB. The band had a rough time putting it together; the strict time restriction of one hour meant that most of the songs had to be edited, as all of them had been included, except for "Fair Share Of Nothing". The material was filmed during the bands "Yellowhouse rocks again tour 1997/98" and coupled with some private scenes. It compiles as following:

15.03.1998
Yellowhouse "Living In The Light" !
The bands first demo "Living In the Light" is still available in a very limited quantity. It has four songs (Diana - For Ever - Burn, learn and turn - Ain´t no cure (for a messed up youth)), three of them could be heared as samples in the audio section of this homepage. Recorded at Masterix-Studios in the north of formerly East-Berlin from the 4^th til the 8^th of december 1995, the line-up was Hartmut Kreckel (Lead Guitar), Jürgen Weißig (Lead Vocals and Guitar), Ulrike Steinbart (Bass Guitar & Backing Vocals) and Lars Thomas (Drums).

01.02.1998
Lars Thomas leaves Yellowhouse!
Lars Thomas has definetely left Yellowhouse after the last gig of the tour at Junction Bar 26.01.98. It is rumoured that the rest of the band was unhappy with his attitude of not signing autographs. In the meantime the band is auditioning new applicants.

17.01.1998
Yellowhouse and the thieves!
Dominic O. S. had his mike-stand clamp stolen yesterday at the gig in Non Tox, by some jerk in the audience. This happened during the bands spectacular rendition of "Mrs. Gentle". The last time Yellowhouse performed there (17.12.97), Hartmut had his guitar-stand broken...

12.01.1998
Yellowhouse goes online!
Yes indeed... Yellowhouse is on the internet!