History
1999
4 February
The band was created when Gennady Birenberg and Haim Nazarovsky came
Several musicians joined the band: Platon (bass), Michael Krol (guitar), Igor Khait (keyboards), Oleg (drums). Michael gave a name Abrahms Family to the band. Soon Platon left the band and Haim became a bassist instead of him. Also Oleg was replaced by Amit Argash.
17 June
On 17th of July 1999 the band played at their first concert.
In summer Sergey Zenkin became band’s technician.
The band had been performing in town’s small youth-clubs and other places
Few times Amit Argash left the band and came back again, being replaced by Nimrod Sasson and other drummers.
2000
In the early years Abrahms had a constant
In 2000 the band attempted to record their songs for the first time. The records were made
6 April
The band played in a fest with other local bands; they warmed up the Yehudim band.
8 August
Abrahms made their first concert outside
16 June
The band made their first video clip and first studio record.
19 September
The first constant drummer — Stas Barsky — joined the band.
2001
14 June
The Rematch gig which showed that Abrahms are obviously the best band in town.
17 December
A concert the band did was shown on local
2002
26 January
Stas was replaced by Omri Plotnik.
14 March
First gig with Plotnik (“The Green concert”)
2003
In 2003 Abrahms started to search for a place they could play regularly, both in order to have a constant stage and maybe to earn money.
At the beginning of the year they found a place called Underground II. It gave them a stage (but not money) and soon was closed.
In August Abrahms recorded a song and tried to pass the record to EMI.
10 October
The band started to play on Fridays in a pub called Infinity. They earned some money and some
2004
Abrahms stopped to work in Infinity near the beginning
1 February
This site was created.
8 July
First independent gig. Abrahms decided to make their own gig, by managing everything around the event. They took a hall on lease (Eshkol Pais), made an advertisement (posters, flyers etc.) and made a huge setlist.
2005
The band made many combined gigs with other bands, which brought more audience.
9 September
Kursik festival.
2006
In 2006 Abrahms continued to give a main priority to the shows.
18 May
Rock-Star festival.
6 June
A concert at Espada pub. Abrahms had intentionally made a gig on date 6/6/6.
11 August
AriHell festival.
2007
21 August
A concert at Sublime pub.
11 October
A concert at Krepost pub (last gig with Michael Krol).
2008
Year 2008 brought many changes.
23 January
Michael Krol left the band.
In February Abrahms found another guitarist — Kfir Peretz, who took part in three gigs and later left too.
12 April
Fresh III festival.
14 July
Stas Sergienko joined the band.
24 October
Haim Nazarovsky quit the band, and replaced by Sasha Mescheriakov.
2009
5 February
Live 10 gig, the first gig with Stas.
3 July
Recording of Love, which also became a soundtrack for a video-clip.
3 October
After the gig at Motorock club Abrahms concentrated on the recordings and the composing and stopped to perform (until summer 2010).
2010
In 2010 the band recorded their début album in Beit Dany.
5 August
A gig at Founders’ Square.
2011
25 February
The first album was released and was presented on a gig at Sublime club.
After the album release Sasha Mescheriakov left the band and was replaced by Itamar Levy.
Abrahms started to write material for the next album.
2012
March
Itamar left the band.
May
Alexy joined the band.
To be continued.