News

14.12.2007

Some news :
The pix from our recording session together with the bands Recourse, Ollie Hartmann, Club of Chrome, Twisted Strings and Sheela are online at  allover-ffm-rock.de. You can see the show called “Rock & More ... uncovered“ on lokal tv station OK OF/FFM on 25.12.2007. ToJa was supported by Bernd “Berny“ Pezalla and Sascha Siebenlist from the band SYDER  and Andy Ecker. Thanx a lot, guys.
Merry x-mas and a happy new year, thanx a lot for your support.

18.09.2007

And another review, fresh from Melodic Renaissance magazine, japan. I’ve got no idea what this guy wrote down, but 4,5 Points out of 5 couldn’t be bad… here

17.09.2007

There’s a new review on RockHard No. 245 and RockHard online, written by Brother Cle, and you can read it here.
And now we are proudly announcing: Marc Bugnard, the man who mastered our first two CDs now is already working together with us while we are recording “The train of life“ and, Mr. TIM DIERKS is the drummer who will play the drums to be recorded at former Conny Plank Studio. So our sound will get more power then ever.

08.03.2007

Yes, we’re still alive. After the flu and some other handicaps we’re back in studio. Breaking news : On saturday, the 31.03. we’re recording two songs of our latest album for a rock-tv-show on a local tv station called “Offener Kanal Offenbach“. The date will be anounced asap.

22.12.2006

Merry x-mas and a happy new year, thanx a lot for your support.

30.11.2006

Another two new reviews on our page, one from FFM-Rock.de, the other from Bright-Eyes.de (online).

30.11.2006

2 new reviews on our page, one from Hardline magacine and one from Rockunited (online).

29.11.2006

Big bang: The second daughter is born on 21.11.2006 and JJ is more than proud. Mama, Daddy, daughter Zoe and, of course, Luna, are fine.

28.09.2006

Another review, this time from our french neighbours from the Passionrockzine (www.passionrockzine.com). You can read it in original french language.

Nothing new at the moment, we’re still recording the new album and really satisfied with the results.

24.08.2006

A new review on “Strutter-Magazin“ , you can read it here (in english only)

23.08.2006

At first urgent news : JJ can walk nearly normal and is able to drive by car again. Phantastic.

Our date at Rdio Fortuna was a really funny thing, the man on the mike, Xavier, is a fan of our music and we had a lot of time to talk about past and future of ToJa. Thanx to Xavier again. There will be some pictures from studio RadioBeat and Radio Fortuna comming up soon in our gallery.

15.08.2006

New date for our interview at Radio Fortuna is 7.00 p.m. on monday, 21.08.2006. You can listen to the show on cabel 87,9 & DAB frequency LG. Have fun.         

14.07.2006

Back from Prague with really great impressions from life interview at studio RadioBeat. A fantastic atmosphere with a lot of fun and beer. It’s a really great feeling sitting on the same chair where Manowar, Doro, Kai Hansen and many more stars of heavy metal have been before.

13.07.2006

Dear friends,
there’s a really great review in “BreakOut“ No. 4/2006. You can read it here (sorry, in german only).

03.07.2006

BREAKING NEWS :
Hucky Reinhardt, now ex-moderator at radio Fortuna told us, that he canceled his job without notice. So the announced ToJA-Special for this evening is canceled too. If there will be a new date, we’ll announce it immediatly. Sorry, shit happens sometimes.

28.06.2006

And here 2 important dates :

03.07.2006, 7.00 pm, we are at Radio FORTUNA studio, cabel 87,9 & DAB frequency LG, 2 hours ToJA-Special with Hucky Rheinhardt. The original line up from „The Spirit of ... ToJA“ will be there.

08.08.2006, 8.00 pm, 3 hours ToJA-Special live from RadioBeat Prague, national on air in Czech Republic, world wide via internet http://www.radiobeat.cz
The men on mike will be Mr. Honza Hamerník and Tommy. You can contact them per phone, sms or e-mail. Have fun.

Also we had some new fotos, and, yes, there’s a new face : Mellie.  Former times she was singing backing vox and finished a duet with ToJA just now.

01.06.2006

Today JJ and me are sending a big “Thank you“ to our fans all over the world. It’s a really international family for example from Spain, Greece, Portugal, France, Denmark, Great Britain, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Iran, South Korea, USA, Canada, Mexico, Czech Republik and of course Germany. Phantastic.
We would like to have some fotos from you to have a fan-corner on our homepage, we think it’s a funny thing and we’re looking forward to your pictures.

By the way : LORDI rules

24.05.2006

Long time no hear, here are the newest news : The first two songs for our third album “The train of life“ are already recorded, very melodic and soulful.
Sometimes a rock-musician should not try to play football.

Now the result : JJ has damaged his achilles tendon, that means 8 weeks of  calm and resting on the sofa. How about some wishes in our guestbook ?

24.04.2006

Hello, we’re back again after a very very very short trip.

13.04.2006

Have a little break, have a little holiday. We’re back on 24.04.2006. Happy easter.

12.04.2006

After nearly one year of silence we had some beers together in our new studio when Andy visited us last monday. Now he started a second band called “Can Gurus“and is totaly concentrated  on his job as a guitar player. The best regards from Andy to our fans.

06.04.2006:

Incredible. Now we are “ CD of the week“ at Target-Records. Thank you.

06.04.2006:

After being out of print for a while our first album "ToJA-The first Step" is available again and can be ordered. A big 'thank you' to all our fans!

31.03.2006:

Second album "The Spirit of ... ToJA" out now.

20.03.2006:

Our first album "ToJA-The first STEP" ist sold out for the second time at the moment. We already ordered for a third time. Please be patient for a little while and thanx a lot to our fans.

17.03.2006:

from Prague: Radio Beat just confirmed our second shot “The Spirit of ToJA” will be broadcasted in full as well. Pre-orders from czech fans are in already. THANK YOU !!!

16.03.2006:

The new CD „The Spirit of ToJA“ is due to be released in week 13 so it can ship starting in week 14. This is the latest update from the production plant.

15.03.2006:

On march 14th our first release “First Step” was broadcasted via Radio Beat (Czech republic) with the help of our dear friend Zdenek (McQuack) Rampa. Great chap!!

Zdenek, drummer of famous czech rockband Terra Ignota had put together our complete band history with additional details about the musicians, really great!!

The show took about 2 hours, feedback was fantastic, very positive!!

The final countdown runs: the second album THE SPIRIT OF TOJA is almost finished. It will be mastered sometime in November, the release date is yet to be announced (most probably Jan/Feb 2006).

The release was delayed because Andy, our old mate, took some time off ToJA to concentrate on his own project. After some thinking about the pro’s and con’s he decided to retire from work in ToJA.

We took the chance to settle in a new premise and set up a new studio.
We’ve already started work on the third release (working title "TRAIN OF LIFE") which is due to be released late summer 2006.