C.A.F.B.

C.A.F.B.
Origin	Budapest, Hungary
Years active	1990–present
Associated acts	Sledgeback, Soffi, Ritualis remtettek, Fixa Idea,
Website	Official Website
Members	Lajos Suto Laca Urban Gabor Szakacsi Istvan Mogyorosi

C.A.F.B. is a Hungarian alternative rock band from Budapest originally formed in 1990 with Gabor Szakacsi and Mihaly Szita. The group has been through several line-up changes since its start but officially never broke up and released seven full-length albums in its more than 20-year career. The last remaining original member, Gabor Szakacsi, left the group in 1999. Today C.A.F.B. is led by Suto, who was the bass player from 1996 to 1999 when he changed to guitar and tried to re-establish the sound.

C.A.F.B. formed in 1990 and started playing live shows in early 1991. Immanuel Olah joined the band late 1991, replacing the first drummer. He wrote and sang about forty percent of the songs performed by the band from 1991 to 1994. With the help of Benedek Fliegauf C.A.F.B. has been booked in the legendary alternative rock club "Black Hole" the first time ever in the summer of 1991 which helped the group move forward and get noticed in the Budapest punk scene. From 1991 C.A.F.B. regularly performed at the famous club with some of the most important Hungarian hardcore and punk rock bands of the era, like A.M.D., Leukemia and Tankcsapda. They recorded their first album Utcastilus ("Street style") in 1992 but it did not release until 1998, (when the "Hungarian Metal Hammer" magazine owned label, "Hammer music" issued the material for the first time ever) in limited edition. Later in 1993 the Hungarian underground label Trottel records signed the group and released the full-length album, Ne bizz senkiben ("Don't trust anybody") which featured the song "B.R.F.K." (Budapest Police dept.). The song almost instantly became a crowd favorite because of its anti-establishment lyrics. Szita and Olah left the band in 1994 when Szakacsi was serving his one-year army service.

The first temporary lineup of C.A.F.B. formed in early 1995 after Szakacsi returned from his military service. The group consisted of friends, mostly from the group that started the successful Hungarian “jungle beat” outfit Brains from this lineup, (Balazs Babinecz, Gergely Jeli, Abel Tokes) following the departure of Szakacsi. Brains moved to different direction, and Szakacsi brought together another short lived project for a 1996 summer tour with members of the punk band, Leguan. The final and most recognized lineup of C.A.F.B. got its shape following the 1996 summer tour.

C.A.F.B. recorded the album Zanza at Reaktor studios Budapest with Gabor Nemeth (Bikini) producer. Released by Premier Art records in September 1997, the album featured the song "Engedj be". Produced by Andras Szitanyi and Gabor Varga (Sexepil), the video that has been filmed for this song was a major success and charted in almost every Hungarian music channels in 1997 and 1998. The video mainly hit the rock music charts of Z+ TV and ATV that time. A year later C.A.F.B. recorded its next album Minden-hato ("All-mighty") but Premier Art refused to release it. This work later came out by Edge records which is part of "Metal Hammer Hungary".

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