Formed in early 2003, by five friends from Almada - Joao on vocals, Paulo&Vik on the guitars, Patilhas on Drums and Damazio on bass, most of them with experience in the alternative Portuguese scene, in bands such as Sat on the Cat, Jack in the Box, The Firstborn, Pestox, Open Sore, We Were Wolves, and mainly influenced by all the punk-rock stuff, national and international, from the early and old bands to the recent ones, Decreto 77 took a while to move forward.
During the first year as band, several problems happened. Lack of money to rehearsal, personal problems that affected all the band members, a knee injury that lead the drummer to surgery, lazyness and lack of motivation were just some of those problems.
In February 2004, finally the first Gig! In Lisbon, with Jack in the Box and The Vicious Five, the band received great reviews of that show, and perhaps that were the motivation that was missing.
in October 2004, the first formation change, with Patilhas leaving, and Richie took the place on the drum set.
In March 2005 the first demo in cd-r format hit the streets. "Open Hearts & Open Minds, Give Freedom a Chance" is still available, containing five songs.Three of them in English, two in Portuguese.
In September 2005 the demo is released in GERMANY by SKPRECORDS (www.skprecords.com).
In March 2006 it was released in South Korea through BISSANTROPHY RECORDS, with a different artwork and containing two extra live tracks.
In November 2005 a new line-up change.Damas quit the band, and MR.EDDIE took his place on the 4 strings.
January 2006, MR.EDDIE's time to left, after playing and helped us out in 6 gigs with DECRETO 77, and so our friend NANDO stepped forward to the bass guitar. Then Damas returned and quit again. A new bass player is on its way.
Lots of energy, true feeling and always a high motivation to play live and all over, with all bands - no matter what their influences are, what sound they play - and aware that the problems will remain and that nothing comes easy, DECRETO 77 will keep up the hard-work (hard as possible), and will try to spread the word around, in the alternative underground scene and playing live.
Decreto 77 is here to stay!
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