As much as I love my hometown, I can also hate it viscerally: for its provinciality and nationalism culminating in the city’s mind-numbing and degenerate carnival festivities fueled by the home-brewn beer called Kölsch, or for the mismanaged and ugly build-up of the city after 95% of it was destroyed in the merciless bombings of …
Music is a fascinating beast. Twisting and turning, contorting when you least expect. And the changes, the innovations are going to happen when very few are looking. And just when you think it’s all been said and done. It bites back and something new comes form seemingly nowhere. Since making his mark on popular music, …
You have expressed in past interviews that you prefer playing live rather than recording in a studio. This fits with your vision of music as a synergy between audience and band. Also, your lyrics and vocals emphasize improvisation and repetition. It’s not so much that I prefer one or the other–it is that the concert …
Chad and Theo had been hunting prey in Cologne since the Hohe Domkirche Sankt Petrus was first built. Both were merciless hunters. Theirs was an ancient and unholy curse. The time of regret had long past and they settled in and shared their damnation together. The Kölner Dom (Cologne Cathedral) was the perfect location from …
