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Zeche, Bochum, Germany & Passionskirche, Berlin, Germany6th & 13th March 2009
Marc Almond
The boy who came back! After a motorcycle accident, British singer MARC ALMOND was in coma and after his awakening had a tough time regaining the ability to speak and sing again. With a touching album full of cover versions, he’s celebrating his survival and with his concerts in spring he’s celebrating his status as a gifted Entertainer. Returning to the stage was an even tougher thing to deal with than crossing the studio threshold. Eventually, it was Antony Hegarty, pushing Almond back on stage 2 years ago at the ‘Meltdown Festival’ curated by Patti Smith to overcome his fears.
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Passionskirche, Berlin, Germany19th February 2009
Alexander Veljanov
ALEXANDER VELJANOV is at home in Germany and Macedonia. For much too long he sacrificed the contact to his second home for his work. Suddenly he asked himself about his relations to his roots and knocked on Macedonia’s doors. “Due to the wars in the Yugoslavian countries, the situation was kind of paralyzed.” recalls the singer. “I still maintained loose contacts, but blinded out this part of the world almost completely. In 2003, I travelled to Macedonia in private. I reunited with old friends and started to work without pressure. With no record company in the back waiting for a product, I could do whatever I wanted.” The result of four years of work is ‘Porta Macedonia’. “The album comprises many world political thoughts from the Macedonian point of view and about me as a person. I evidently grew up in both cultures and sow how one culture got more and more saturated and reunited, while everything fell apart in Yugoslavia…
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Batschkapp, Frankfurt am Main, Germany,2nd April 2009
THE RASMUS, FRÄULEIN WUNDER
Nowadays, it seems to be a long time ago that THE RASMUS started their career in a school’s assembly hall in 1994. Everything’s happened so fast: THE RASMUS caught the national attention as a result of their first album releases in their native country Finland in the late 1990’s, followed by the international breakthrough with their single ‘In the Shadows’ that became a hit all over Europe. The albums ‘Dead Letters’ (2003) and ‘Hide from the Sun’ (2005) brought them more success.
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Colos-Saal, Aschaffenburg, Germany,17th March 2009
Nazareth
They are a living legend in the world of rock music and have just celebrated their 40th anniversary: We are talking about the Scottish rock band NAZARETH whose world-famous hits ‘Love hurts’ and ‘This flight tonight’ caused a sensation in the 1970’s. A straight, hand-made sound combined with the powerful voice of lead-singer Dan McCafferty and the fabulous songwriting established the band’s success.
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Colos-Saal, Aschaffenburg, Germany,1st April 2009
DIE HAPPY unplugged
After the release of their sixth album ‘Six’ on 18th April 2008 and being on tour from October to December 2008, DIE HAPPY can look back on more than 850 concerts and six successful studio albums since their breakthrough with ‘Supersonic Speed’ in 2001. According to such a creative output and enjoyment of playing it is not surprising that the four musicians will be on tour again this year.
- Preview MARC ALMOND - Frankfurt am Main 2009
- PSY'AVIAH - YouTube bans 'Moments feat. Suzi Q. Smith' videoclip for being too erotic
- Preview ZITA ROCK - Berlin 2009
- LALAH - Ich wär dann soweit
- DANKO JONES - B-Sides
- LUXUSLÄRM - New single "Unsterblich"
- NEIMO - Modern Incidental
- DIE SO FLUID - Interview on bonedo.de
- LIMBOGOTT - Free Song
- M.A.N - Rob Guz explains his guitars
