Not exactly a new one but I’m not sure if i have shared it yet and I’ve just come across the live footage below that reminded me of uploading it.
Whenever I get people dancing like loonies to this one being played out in the club it brings back memories of one of the sweetest concert moments ever: The Yellow Press at Trainspotting Festival back in… erm, 2005? Perfect crowd, perfect band, magic happened.
I swear the air was actually sparkling of excitement and energy and joy.
The mix includes Gossip (Soulwax rmx), Robbie Williams (Soulwax rmx), Beastie Boys, The Yellow Press (R.I.P. <3 )
A silly trashy track and artwork – upped just for you to celebrate the resurrection of my website/webspace and black arrows of death to those who had hacked it.
Posted in Uncategorized on August 24, 2009 by evemassacre
“Everyday it’s a-gettin’ closer
Goin’ faster than a roller coaster
Come what may…” B. Holly
Breathing the morning. Getting up early to have a little time to waste. I enjoy the stripey blue sky / wooden shutter view I get when waking up in my new bedroom. Not sure about the wide balcony window situation in the other room. I definitely need something like a curtain to not feel so exposed. Tsk. Me thinking about curtains. Tsk.
I’ve slowly started the moving process. Got one room painted, need to pain another one that’s quite big and might take two days. Have already shifted clothes and cds. I HATE garbage separation. It’s fine for everyday garbage but not for a massive tidy out of a whole house. I enjoy painting walls although it takes longer than I had thought. But it feels good to be busy with something that takes a little less thinking and to get rid of the constant feeling of ‘I must have forgotten something’ that kept nagging on me lately. I usually enjoy coordinating stuff for the MV but from time to time it takes over too much of my thinking and starts haunting me like a little ghost that clings to your ankles and is all cute so you can’t hate at it but still it takes twice as much energy to keep moving if you carry it with you. Maybe a ghost would make a proper motif for the next ORCHID poster. Still had no cool idea for it. Would love to (ab)use another ‘pleureuse’ with cutting up and moustache and collage work but am not sure if it isn’t too boring to have a similar picture twice. Hmmm….
I’m looking forward to our robot party on the 28th of august, next Friday. At the same time it’s a bit sad that it’s also some kind of goodbye party for Simon who mainly organises the robot party and will move to Madrid in September. He will be missed. We’ll try to make it a night to remember and will meet on Wednesday to make proper robot costumes and hopefully we will find time to make some extra parts for guests to put on. If someone wants to join us and help with making costumes and decoration or make a robot-head or something for yourself, get in touch! We plan to meet for it on Wednesday night. I still got no clue how to make a robot head that’s comfy and lets me use the headphones I need for djing. Wish I had a little more time cause I’d love to do something with tiny LED lights but got no clue how.
HEALTH is my new favourite live band. Along with EDIE SEDGWICK it leads my ‘best shows in 2009′ charts. Love how much they seem to be into their music while playing. Love how they seem to use every wave of feedback and noise consciously and skillfully while at the same time they are all rhythm/movement/in-the-moment. Not necessarily a contrast but often is. Also love that there still are noise bands that don’t have that smell of back-to-nature esoterics that most of the times sets my caydar (conservatism radar) on alarm. Love their sense of melodies. Love their sense of fashion too. Oh, and I loved that there were so many people at the show and stayed so long afterwards although it was a Monday night.
Other news: I’m thinking about letting go off my self-hosted website cause it still gets shown by google as hacked / spreading malware although I’ve wiped my whole webspace clean and only got a tiny forwarding htm to my blog on wordpress online. Don’t know what else to do but in this state it’s useless and even if it’s not that expensive there’s no reason to keep paying Servage when the site is down for months. Tsk. And sites like soundcloud or fairtilizer are also good for hosting tunes so I guess I’ll go for such a ‘decentralized’ web presence.
Well, I’ll go back to the painting job now. Listening to the second Dexter audio book.
Posted in Uncategorized on August 2, 2009 by evemassacre
“My inky hands will stain your blouse, your good blouse.”
The Paper Chase
As you might have recognized from my silence here I spend more time on facebook (www.facebook.com/evemassacre) and twitter (www.twitter.com/evemassacre) these days as those seem less flooded with advertising and spam and thus more fun as little communication and entertainment tools while working.
But also I’m more and more often lost for words which I find a bit scary because writing to me always has been something necessary. Something I do to make myself slow down and assure myself that I’m really there. Something like an anchor to which I knot all the lose ends of the things and thoughts that flood through my life so I don’t get lost in it. We’ll see how good I’ll be in giving that more room again.
Right now I’m sitting here in my kitchen-studio typing these lines into my new notebook (thanks again for the lenovo recommendation, works wonderful and I’m especially surprised by the cooling system as after a few hours my old notebook got so hot you could burn your lap), I’m typing away and watch the sun disappear behind clouds that have by now tightened up into a little grey and wet explosion. The radio plays LOST.FM and I cringe a bit when I hear Seppo announcing MISS TK & THE REVENGE as ‘a band who’s singer is the wife of a guy of LIFETIME’. Defining a female artist by her marital status to a better known male artist – tsk, the implications! You may tie a Cymothoa exigua to my tongue if I ever start doing that. ;)
Lately I feel my inner feminist sending soft warning signals a bit more often again. Reminding me that nothing has changed. Most bands I get to see and hear about around here are all-male, all the new djs of the younger generation are boys, and I don’t see new females turning up as promoters either. Of course there are exceptions but exceptions are nothing but exemptions to the rule. Most of the time I ignore it like everybody does but sometimes it boils up and I want to shout: Ladies, what’s wrong? There are so many of you I see at shows or parties who know exactly what music and sounds they like and I see that some of you really love music. I can’t imagine that if you dance in the dark in your room you play the imaginary girl in the audience who waits to get eyed up by a guy from the band or the dj. Get your asses in motion! And by that I don’t mean shake ‘em for the boys. At the same time I don’t understand how you male musicians just lean back and are happy with your status instead of feeling uncomfortable keeping music such a boy’s club thing. What about encouraging and inviting … ach, I don’t really have the energy to warm that dreary subject up again.
Death and the helplessness that comes with it was a lot on my mind lately too. How we can’t communicate the sore hole that it leaves to lose a person that matters to you. How that loss adds a new cruel and cold dimension to life as it goes on as if nothing had happened. How isolated the mourning person is in that sphere. Even from those who feel the same loss. I’m again and again amazed how perfectly we sealed off something so natural and omnipresent in our world. I hate feeling helpless.
I wish this soothing light grey Sunday afternoon would last a little longer. Some sparse sunrays come back through the clouds righ now. Don’t want tomorrow to come. It holds a visit to the dentist for me as I’ve lost a filling on Friday. You know, I’m one of those people who prefer a five hour tattoo session to 15 minutes at the dentist’s.
Posted in Uncategorized on July 16, 2009 by evemassacre
“Sometimes I honestly want to join the festival goers in the rain, lose myself in the crowd, the music. Then I think of my shoes touching mud.”
TIGA twittering from some festival
Soooo – friends! I hope not all of you will be at MELT (or the KV Straßenfest/FREEZE) on Saturday so we can have a fabulous night at the K4 too: WORLD/INFERNO FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY come and play (ca. 21:30) and KILL THE POOR (Qurin and me) will dj after the show (ca. 23:30).
You better come over and let go and dive into the wonderful world of WORLD/INFERNO, of Vaudeville gangsters, psycho gamblers and firespitters and cuddly cute anarchists where you share your last sip of wine with scabby alley cats and hopeless romantics, and dance against all the sad and stupid things that are going on in our lives and from time to time threaten to drench all the hope out of us. Let’s forget about that for this one night, let’s make this night a spark that we carry with us into the greyer days to come, and let’s dance and dream and chat and kiss and hug and party together, and with ‘together’ I mean together. To quote WORLD/INFERNO – Let’s ’stay on the charming site of drunk!’
If you come in proper evening attire, suit or gown, we’ll let you in cheaper.
Posted in Uncategorized on July 11, 2009 by evemassacre
“Wipe the blood of those knuckles …
There are other things that hands can do
To create or to destroy
Mini gods and goddesses…
We dance to the sound of sirens…”
Bloc Party
A while ago WORLD FAMOUS AUDIO HACKER invited me to be part of an electro funk originals / mash ups / remixes compilation and I said yes although it’s quite a challenge for me because that’s not exactly the genre I’m at home in. Was fun working on it though. For my track “Dance to the Sound of Unity” I used:
Afrika Bambaataa & James Brown – Unity (Pt. 6 – World War III)
Math Head – Get Hype
Bloc Party – Ares
Dynamix II – Pledge Your Allegiance To Electro Funk
The work on it is finished. WFAH put THE SOUND OF FUNKY BREAKS online for you to download for free right here: http://breaks.audiohacker.com I really like the used-record-look cover art work.
Thanks for all the work goes out to Derek WFAH!
Now go and enjoy.
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Bad luck stays with me. Yesterday I tried to install a flashy littly theme on my new notebook. Turned out a mistake. Something went wrong. Seriously wrong. Had to use my recovery disc and reinstall everything. Took me hours. No practicing for KILLING MISTER MOONLIGHT cause it was 11pm when I was done. Then I had a nice night out at the last ELEKTRONISCH ROCKEN party. (It will be missed!) I spent a lot of time chatting and learned a lot about scottish clan family politics. Missed my last nightliner bus and drank too much. Stumbled on the stairs and fell so stupidly that I sprained two fingers of my left hand and one of my fingernails got folded over. There even was blood. Yuck and ouch.
Today I tried a little bass guitar playing but it hurt more than I accept for practicising. Will try again later this evening. And there’s still tomorrow. At the moment I’m still willing to do the show but am curious what else will get in my way. When it rains it pours.
The good side of it is that I have decided to take today off of anything stressful and work-related and while doing so I only just realise how much I needed that. So far I’ve done nothing but having a long late breakfast and watching a few TORCHWOOD3 episodes. Sadly this series keeps killing main characters I like (and not all of them get revived). And they replaced the lightness and wittiness and the often LGBT-focussed and polyamorous sexyness of the first two seasons with a rather politics-centered plot that reminds me a bit of 70s sci-fi or catastrophe movies. And I don’t find it exactly daring that it all gets a bit more conservative and less surprising. Even the tough female gets pregnant just like a good woman should (yawn – hope they don’t start focussing on a job-vs-kid theme next season) and the queer stuff is almost tamed down to a ‘Streets of Philadelphia’ level. All in all it got not much in common with the fresh and new and daring air that older episodes like ‘day one’ or ‘kiss kiss bang bang’ had. Still they manage to keep me entertained well so far. This season is all about the individual-vs-(police)-state-dilemma played out on a story about almost almighty aliens coming for the most innocent and weak humans: children. Classic stuff. Well, I’m off to watch the final episode now.
Posted in Uncategorized on July 10, 2009 by evemassacre
“I’m messing in the dark and feeling all alone
I got ice in my fire”
The Jesus & Mary Chain
So many news since I’ve last blogged that I hardly know where to start.
I’ve started a new music project I haven’t blogged about yet: KILLING MISTER MOONLIGHT. Genrewise I think of it as ‘angst pop’. Shoegazing noise pop. Something like that. I was in the mood to get back to playing indiepunkish stuff with a real bass guitar. It feels good to have this alter ego for when the depression kicks in that – I guess – is the natural dark companion of partying too heavily. I’ll play live as KILLING MISTER MOONLIGHT next week, on Tuesday 14th at the K4 Zentralcafé. It will only be a short set because I sadly hadn’t had any time to write more songs and practice properly over the last weeks. Sorry bout that but sometimes I overestimate my multitasking powers. Here’s the KILLING MISTER MOONLIGHT MYSPACE and here’s a KILLING MISTER MOONLIGHT FAIRTILIZER page from which you can get some songs for free download. Spread the word!
The show next Tuesday will be support for the CROCODILES (ex-PLOT TO BLOW UP THE EIFFEL TOWER, ex-SOME GIRLS) who play wonderful 80s style wave/shoegazer indie rock stuff, like a 21st century bastard child of SUICIDE, JESUS & MARY CHAIN and LOU REED. They only play two shows in Germany: at the 14th of July at K4 Nürnberg and at the 15th at Bang Bang Club in Berlin. If you haven’t yet, check them out: www.myspace.com/crocodilescrocodilescrocodiles
And we got a brandnew addition to the line up: As Cafe Marat in Munich surprisingly got shut down because of decrepitude (it will reopen, don’t worry!) Simon of the Musikverein had the idea to get a band on board that would else have an off day because of the shut-down and that would be a shame because they are a pretty fine band, posthardcore/emo style from Lisboa, Portugal: I HAD PLANS. Check out their music here: www.myspace.com/ihadplans
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Other news: I’ve stopped doing the CASTROP radio show on RADIO Z. The reason is simple: Lack of time. I don’t want to get sloppy. If I do that show I don’t just want to shove tunes down your speakers but want to give some proper thoughts and information with it. And that takes time that I sadly don’t have at the moment. As some of you know I’m part of a concert group, the MUSIKVEREIN, and we had some problems with the new administration of the building we put up our shows at. Things seem to be getting better by now though. If it wasn’t for some shows that I really burn for I might have gotten mad those last weeks. By now I’m really happy that we can bring PATRICK WOLF (3rd of ooctober at the z-bau) and THE PAPER CHASE (20th of october at the k4) to Nuremberg. My heart would have bled if we got the chance to have these two and would have to say no for some shitty reason. Musikverein-work has over the last 3 weeks given me my 4th or 5th shiny silvergrey hair, I swear, but I’ve just dyed my hair black again so all is fine and we can simply look forward to the shows. Yowsa. I love the new records of both of them, THE PAPER CHASE and PATRICK WOLF and will leave you with some of their music: PATRICK WOLF recorded 3 songs for a fine website called DAYTROTTER and you can listen & download those tracks HERE. And THE PAPER CHASE have a nicely disturbing/disturbed video clip to my favourite song of their new album (‘Someday This Could All Be Yours Vol. 1′ on Kill Rock Stars). The song is called “What should we do with your body (The Lightning)”. Enjoy:
PS.: Here you can read a a few lines by TRENT REZNOR about what he thinks unknown bands today should do to get their music heard.
Posted in Uncategorized on June 5, 2009 by evemassacre
…. i was here for SUB:CITY birthday bash tomorrow!
make it a blast, bros! :)
but i got no need complaining because i’m out for another sweeeeeeet night: i’ll dj at the OFFEND YOUR GENDER! queer party (schlachthof wiesbaden). i haven’t been there for ages – and i’m so old that you might take that literally – but always had a fun time there! come over and dance and chat and have a good time! before the party there’s a reading about homophobia and football. yeah, well, i’m not exactly a football person too but it might be interesting and entertaining as it’s held by G. Dembowski (taz columnist, www.myspace.com/fefczak)!
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lately i sometimes felt like falling into a big black hole after a heavy party night. not as bad as a classic post-tour-depression but not nice either. so as counterbalance to all the hyper-euphoric-fun-clubnight djing i have put a brandnew musical outlet online (sorry, the myspace site looks just as quicklymade as it is):
KILLING MISTER MOONLIGHT is about the more nihilist depressive side of eve massacre. it’s all about angst pop, or shoegazesadcore, or however else you might call it. i’ve just got two songs online by now but i’m working on a third already.
feel free to add me: www.myspace.com/killingmistermoonlight
in case you wonder: the name plays at the Bauhaus song ‘who killed mister moonlight?’ (and a tiny little bit at my Beatles aversion).
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that’s it for now, hope you are all doing fine, especially those of you i know personally. feel a bit out of touch. plus: these days i use twitter and facebook a bit more regularly than this myspace thing so say hello over there too if you like: www.twitter.com/evemassacre www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=545954204
(there’s an eve massacre artist profile too on facebook but i don’t use that to communicate)
PS.: The Paper Chase – “What Should We Do With Your Body? (The Lightning)” is soooo good.
