Berlin ! .
We've played quite some times in Berlin for now, we've played goth clubs, soup kitchens, minor zoos and this time we ventured right in on an indian summer night to the fabulous ruins of Antje Öklesund. Placed in the backyard of common buildings in the mid of Rigaer Strasse, in between squads, punk afficianado stores, yellow light kebab pushers and just plain berlin condos, with no sort of indication that there could be a club here, we found the place...
This is kind of a dream place to play a gig, very flexible, you can refurnish the stage you can move things about and on top of it all, there were really nice people helping us out with sounds, carrying, serving us mexicans.
That night we played with UK band, The Rhythm Method, really nice guys that we hanged out with, drank some beer and wasted time until it was around showtime. So to kick it off the place offered us Mexican shots ( bloody mary with a bit more tabasco i would guess ) , and shortly after we were about to start.
Everyting about the show was perfect for us.. cool setting, a dedicated crowd listening to every single noise burst and that just gives us so much energy, so ended up being a real cool show and also a really good afterparty.
I've put up some videos to show what it was all about (all of them pretty lofi and recorded by Peter from Quartermain Records, crawling around :
Opening song that evening :
Not so long after, we took on Sidekick Trip To Mars from the "Illuminations" EP
And then some postcore .. Acorns Fall again from the "Illuminations" EP, with a bit of "Dawn" new song in the beginning
and one of the finals.. Carisma
enjoy!
Monday, September 28, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Tour update September 2009
A couple of days around europe, playing at cool venues in Luxembourg, Berlin and Leipzig has ended.
It was a very joyful experience, playing for dedicated listeners at all three venues.
Luxembourg was a once again a joy to attend. You can't really say that there was a lot of people because that was really not the case. However, every single person seemed to enjoy the show.
Luxembourg is somehow a very quiet town, mostly consisting of a population of bankers ( several people attending our show was actually bankers :-) ), but the d:qliq venue is something apart from that, it's run by Fred, the very dedicated manager of the place, and is in a very big contrast to the rest of the luxembourg life a place where alternative music can thrive.
A bit before the show, we had a visit at the Disagreement.net Radio to give an interview, talking a lot about distortion, and who the typical LNV fan is.. Puzzling questions :-).. A german reviewer said in a review that we only do the kind of music we do, to hook up with girls and get summer festival crowds to wave their arms in euphoria. That's kind of funny :-) .. maybe that's our fans then, hard to tell.
Anyway.. Luxembourg was kind of as we expected, we had a good time, went late to bed and quite a hangover the day after.
In a later post I will put some recordings from the show here ( i just have to hear them through to make sure I don't post the ones with all the mistakes in ).
Day after was travelling day. 10 hr. drive to Berlin in a hot bus, arriving late, and went to our sleeping place. of course went out to have a couple of white russians and some beer before sleeping in.
Second show was at the venue Antje Öklesund i Rigaerstrasse in the heart of Friedrichshain, Berlin.
And what a cool place, completely DIY, with lots of art and a nice stage. Really one of our best shows was played there, more people, again very dedicated listeners, and a nice afterparty along with UK band : the rhythm method.
Pictures and video to be posted a bit later.
Finally we went to Leipzig to play at the Cafe Mule, a special place for me, since I met my wife there. This night was the last night the cafe would have live music ever, so quite a special night. Lots of people came, we played a longer show, and again had a really good time.
I will Post a bit more in detail about the days, along with som live clips and pics, but for now you can watch this lo-fi video taken at the Cafe Mule in Leipzig.
A pretty new song, in the beginning of the show :
It was a very joyful experience, playing for dedicated listeners at all three venues.
Luxembourg was a once again a joy to attend. You can't really say that there was a lot of people because that was really not the case. However, every single person seemed to enjoy the show.
Luxembourg is somehow a very quiet town, mostly consisting of a population of bankers ( several people attending our show was actually bankers :-) ), but the d:qliq venue is something apart from that, it's run by Fred, the very dedicated manager of the place, and is in a very big contrast to the rest of the luxembourg life a place where alternative music can thrive.
A bit before the show, we had a visit at the Disagreement.net Radio to give an interview, talking a lot about distortion, and who the typical LNV fan is.. Puzzling questions :-).. A german reviewer said in a review that we only do the kind of music we do, to hook up with girls and get summer festival crowds to wave their arms in euphoria. That's kind of funny :-) .. maybe that's our fans then, hard to tell.
Anyway.. Luxembourg was kind of as we expected, we had a good time, went late to bed and quite a hangover the day after.
In a later post I will put some recordings from the show here ( i just have to hear them through to make sure I don't post the ones with all the mistakes in ).
Day after was travelling day. 10 hr. drive to Berlin in a hot bus, arriving late, and went to our sleeping place. of course went out to have a couple of white russians and some beer before sleeping in.
Second show was at the venue Antje Öklesund i Rigaerstrasse in the heart of Friedrichshain, Berlin.
And what a cool place, completely DIY, with lots of art and a nice stage. Really one of our best shows was played there, more people, again very dedicated listeners, and a nice afterparty along with UK band : the rhythm method.
Pictures and video to be posted a bit later.
Finally we went to Leipzig to play at the Cafe Mule, a special place for me, since I met my wife there. This night was the last night the cafe would have live music ever, so quite a special night. Lots of people came, we played a longer show, and again had a really good time.
I will Post a bit more in detail about the days, along with som live clips and pics, but for now you can watch this lo-fi video taken at the Cafe Mule in Leipzig.
A pretty new song, in the beginning of the show :
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
AND .... back on the road
I know it's been a long time.. pretty much no activity on the blog, I got personally and professionally overhauled and have had little time to update my blog, although I do enjoy doing that.
And then comes the time when I sit there once again at the backstage of a venue, with bandmates sleeping and me awake, getting ready for the show tonight at the fabulous d:qliq venue in luxembourg.
Time to write a bit on the blog, and within the next couple of days also post some memoires and some music and hopefully also some video footage, which will be recorded in the next couple of days.
Our small tour will this time include a stop at d:qliq in Luxembourg, Antje Öklesund in Berlin and Cafe Mule in Leipzig.
We're touring a bit here and there to support our release of the Illuminations EP, which is now available lots of different places around europe, for example at amazon.de.
But you can go and listen to all the songs and even a couple of pretty new demos that we have put online on our myspace.
At the moment just getting ready for tonight, hanging around in luxembourg, listening a bit to Lali Puna and the new Yo La Tengo stuff..
More to come
And then comes the time when I sit there once again at the backstage of a venue, with bandmates sleeping and me awake, getting ready for the show tonight at the fabulous d:qliq venue in luxembourg.
Time to write a bit on the blog, and within the next couple of days also post some memoires and some music and hopefully also some video footage, which will be recorded in the next couple of days.
Our small tour will this time include a stop at d:qliq in Luxembourg, Antje Öklesund in Berlin and Cafe Mule in Leipzig.
We're touring a bit here and there to support our release of the Illuminations EP, which is now available lots of different places around europe, for example at amazon.de.
But you can go and listen to all the songs and even a couple of pretty new demos that we have put online on our myspace.
At the moment just getting ready for tonight, hanging around in luxembourg, listening a bit to Lali Puna and the new Yo La Tengo stuff..
More to come
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