Picking up on postponed concerts which are now finally taking place, you can be up to a few surprises. After being postponed for two years because of the Corona pandemic, and with the tour now being called Year of the Rat Year of the Ox Year of the Tiger, the Einstürzende Neubauten concert in Cologne …
There’s no rules. Show me the rule book. Liam Gallagher Noel Gallagher has a lot of things to say about his brother Liam, but it was just one thing that was very apt: „He’s the angriest man you’ll ever meet. He’s like a man with a fork in a world of soup.” True Noel, because …
I tuned in into the public Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard trial because I am done with our hyperreality and cut myself off from reading the news and discourses produced by the mass media for good. Hard to resume the dimension of alienation caused by the many various fatalities of the past two years. I …
Gabi Delgado has passed away a few hours after publishing this interview. He meant the world to me, and he will be terribly missed by his fans. Things indeed can come to a certain end. Gabi Delgado, March 2020 For me, you are without a question the most influental German band. Many people would name …
Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence. Werner Herzog Anticipations are high when a new GAS record is being released, as they are addictively cinematic and fuel our defrauded cravings for inspiration. Not only does Der Lange Marsch (“The Long March“) not disappoint these anticipations, but …
We must be aware of the superiority of our civilisation. Silvio Berlusconi For some Dario Argento’s best giallo and lesser known masterpiece, the modernistic, cold, and stylish Tenebrae is worth watching for many reasons: bold psycho murders, moonstruck and somnambule acting which adds to the overall delirious suspense, extensive shots of memorably unusual ankles, vivid …
In 2003 or 2004, I worked for an international art-book publisher based in Cologne, and was on a business trip in New York City. We had breakfast scheduled with some people from the art and publishing scene at Gramercy Park Hotel. When I sat down at our table and looked around, I realized a strange …
one-two-three-fuck America is best not when it is exercising in being the world’s twisted moral police, but the America we love is honestly and fiercely degenerate for our pleasure. This was expressed in the rise and global conquest of rock’n’roll with its openly sexual, depraved and violent rhythms and lyrics while simultaneously being rooted in …
Film titles which take on a different meaning in the course of their translation are an interesting and frequent phenomenon. Lost in translation, a classic such as The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly becomes “Two glorious scoundrels“ in German, Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now reads as “When the gondolas are in mourning“ and Melville’s …
Tenement Kid: From the Streets of Glasgow in the 1960’s to Drummer in Jesus and Mary Chain and Frontman in Primal Scream Despite being a great fan of Primal Scream, JAMC and Bobby Gillespie, nothing had prepared me for the greatness of his first memoir Tenement Kid. Written during the lockdown periods of the pandemic, …
