What's in a name? Like the year zero marked the start of the Christian era, 1993 is yet another pivotal moment in the history of mankind as this year saw the birth of one of the best bands around today: Beyond93. Started of in Hoofddorp, self proclaimed Main Village of Holland, as a teenage cover band playing grunge songs and whatnot Beyond93 steadily grew into a band with a style of their own, loosely based on fast melodic punk and secretly hidden slower songs just to please the girls (one of the main subjects of the band's songs). Build around singer,axeman,wordsmith Jake Styles and drumbeast Jan Beyond93 went through different personnel changes to get to the tight unit they are now. Former roadie of the band Frank joined to play guitar and bass player Evil was picked out of the gutter where he was left after the demise of his infamous emostonerpunkband BEP. In this four piece set up Beyond93 built a steady live reputation even rocking a packed Max at the Melkweg, Amsterdam, supporting old favorites Bad Religion in spring 2002. Over the years Beyond93 made quite a few records too (check the truly awesome 'Stop Looking Back!' from 1999, released on Dutch-records) and ten years down the line a new release saw the light of day. The EP 'Would You Give Up On The World?' made the year 2003 another historical milestone in music. The record contains 6 fabulous songs ranging from the loud and extremely fast and yet thoroughly melodic ('Don't Be Upset', 'Two Bad') to midtempo punkrock ('Someone Else', 'Unsaid') and there's even a 'ballad' ('A Telephone Ring')! But the c.d.'s best song is kept til last as titletrack 'Would You Give Up On The World?' is a stunning example of Jakes songwriting skills, setting of as a happy-go-lucky punkditty it gets darker and after an acoustic interlude the song ends in truly dramatic style. Dutch national radiostation Kink FM naturally chose this song as the focal point of the c.d. which was released in the spring, distributed by Sonic Rendezvous. The song stayed in the Outlaw41-list (KinkFM's hitlist) for six weeks. At that moment the band felt that the time was right to accompany the E.P. with a video. 'Someone Else', being the first song on the c.d. and a very nice popsong on top of that, was chosen as the Single. Plans were made quickly and a nice and talented chap, named Vince Fitz-Jim, was brought in to be the director. The whole video was shot in two frantic days (February 28th and March 1st of 2003) on a very low budget and just in time finished to be co-released with the EP. Official release of both 'Would You Give Up On The World'-EP and the 'Someone Else'-video was the 24th of March and took place at the Winston Kingdom in Amsterdam. 'Someone Else' took on momentum as KinkFM and The Box put the song on their playlist, staying in the Outlaw41 for 12 (!) weeks (hitting the highest spot at 8) and being in the Box's On The Roxx-chart Top 5 for at least 10 weeks (nr. 2 as the highest). Also there was a small England-tour that took place in June. Conquering Britain from York to the Isle Of Wight, from Southampton to Plymouth via Bath and Leicester and finishing off in Merksem (Belgium). Icing on the cake in the year 2003 was the 38th spot Beyond93 got in the annual Outlaw141 which lists the 141 best songs of that year according to KinkFm! With that in the bag Beyond93 is now ready to rock your world! You just wait and see! THE PAST.... 1993-1995 Beyond93 was founded by Jake and Ramon at the end of the summer in 1993. In 1994 Jan and Dré joined the band and the band started to create their own sound. In 1995 we recorded our first two demos and had our first "major" show. In the "Melkweg" in Amsterdam at the annual "Uitmarkt". 1996-1997 Released a compilation of our first demo's on CD and played a lot of local bars/clubs all over Holland. Frank joined the band in the end of 1996. Two of our songs were released on compilation albums which resulted in a lot of new shows and even a gig at the Amsterdam Paradiso! Also in 1997 we recorded another demo called "In for a change". It's called like that because our bass player Dré had left de band and former lead singer Ramon took over the Bass. Jake was to sing and write more and more of the new songs. 1998-2000 Beyond93 was signed to Dutch Records, a division of Columbia/Sony Music, and recorded their debut album "Stop Looking Back!". The album was released in the Netherlands in September 1999 accompanied by the Single "Lies". A video was made of the single and was broadcasted at MTV's alternative nation. The band played a lot of shows in Holland, Belgium and at festivals like Noorderslag and the Vans Warped Tour. At the end of 2000 Ramon left the band.