Well we went through a few different crap names such as Crash 74 and Electrik Shok before finally deciding to find the name for us. Our favourite band at the time was Black Sabbath and we all really loved the name and how different it was from everything else! So after discovering that they had simply used the name of a Boris Karlof film we got a list of all the films he'd ever done and picked Sabaka! It was definately the best one there (apart from Black Sabbath of course)!

Yes! We love playing live! We play whenever and wherever we can! We've played prestigious gigs in Liverpool, Birmingham, Telford, Wrexam, Shrewsbury and all over!

It definately makes getting hold of music much easier, but I still think that these bands/artists deserve to be supported and deserve to be paid for all their hard work!

Yeah man, most definately!

The story of Sabaka has been told many times (but never in the same way more than once!), but it is believed that the initial nucleus of Jamie Keeling (bass/lead vocals) and Jake Moore (guitar/backing vocals) formed as "Shok" in the post-grunge/Brit-pop guitarless wilderness years at Meole Brace Secondary School, Shrewsbury, UK, in the Autumn of 1998.

A couple of years of groundwork were laid down by the fledgling group (although quite why it took them so long to work out that lime green tshirts and gold lame jackets were a bad idea is still a mystery), before the band changed their name to Boreanizz, and spent the summer of 2000 recording an albums worth of material (it's called "work experience"!).

Hot on the heels of the long hot summer of that year, the band snapped up a local drummer, and rehearsed long and hard prior to their first gig that wasn't in someones living room on December 16th 2000 at Hadnall Village Hall, Shropshire.

The next couple of years were well spent knuckling down, gaining precious experience in writing, recording and rehearsing. Following a rotating cast of drummers over the next 18 months or so, the newly renamed "Sabaka" expanded and settled as a four piece in Autumn 2002. The amount of gigs mutated from bi-annual events, to semi-regular bookings locally in Shrewsbury, as well as elsewhere in the West Midlands. Subsequent demo recordings between the end of 2002 and the beginning of 2004 saw the band mature vastly - what was once a bottle of Concorde had metamorphosed into a Moet et Chandon!

Jake left the band in April 2004, and the band continued to go from strength to strength with another new line-up, playing further afield, and solidifying a small, yet loyal fanbase. Jake formed a new part-time group in Summer 2004 with Dan Wilde (drums), which specialised in Ramones and Who covers, and that's the way things remained until early 2005, when Jake and Jamie re-established contact, and started thinking about playing together again, although this time in a Sabaka side-project.
Although Dan had (unsuccesfully) auditioned for Sabaka some years before, he was immediately seen as the natural candidate for the drum-stool, and a few initial practices showed a lot of potential.
Now for the confusing bit. This side-project actually became Sabaka, when the pre-existing Sabaka, in a strange twist of fate, imploded around the same time that the side-project was just taking off. In effect, as all three members of the band had been part of Sabaka in one way or another before, this was effectively seen as a Sabaka reunion.

Deciding to dispense with most existing Sabaka material, the reformed line-up of Jake, Jamie and Dan quickly cracked on with writing some new songs, resulting in some of the best material written by the band to date. With a bit of luck they'll crack on with getting the songs dedicated to CD so everyone can hear what the fuss is all about...

Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, The Who, Queen, Motorhead, Metallica, The Ramones, The Beatles, The Doors, Velvet Revolver, The White Stripes, The Cooper Temple Clause, The Libertines

Edinborough is a beatiful place

MG100DFX 4 x 10" half-stack for guitar
Laney RBG500 1 x 15" and 4 x 10" Peavey Cab for Bass

We also have sites and music for you to listen to at:
www.purevolume.com/sabakaeng, www.sabaka.co.uk, and www.myspace.com/sabakaband

Check them out and let us know what you think of the songs through the guestbook!!