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Immergut Festival
The Immergut Festival is a yearly music festival in Germany in Neustrelitz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The first edition was organised in 2000. The festival focuses mainly on indie rock and is one of the largest festivals in Germany for this genre. Line-ups *2000: Beatsteaks, Die Jones, Luke, Nevis, , Porous, Pussybox, Readymade, Samba, Soulmate, Sportfreunde Stiller, Sweet Zoe, Tricky Lobsters, Virginia Jetzt! *2001: Donots, Blackmail, Readymade, Miles, Slut, Beatsteaks, Tom Liwa, Tomte, Sofaplanet, Eskobar, Pale, Porous, Virginia Jetzt!, Friends of Dean Martinez, Sportfreunde Stiller *2002: Aerogramme, Astra Kid, Beatsteaks, Bernd Begemann, Das Pop, Die Sterne, Dyade, Kettcar, MIA., One Man and his Droid, Pluxus, Samba, Scumbucket, Solarscape, Soulmate, The Monochords, The Soundtrack of our Lives, Tocotronic, Tomte *2003: Therapy?, Console, Readymade, Miles, Pale, Slut, Fireside, Kante, Superpunk, Blackmail, Virginia Jetzt!, The Robocop Kraus, Pelzig, Cho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Immergut Festival 2004 Foto Des Festivalgeländes
Immergut is a German surname, which means 'Always Well'. Notable people with the surname include: * Ellen M. Immergut, political scientist *Karin Immergut (born 1960), American judge * Mel Immergut, American lawyer See also * Immergut Festival The Immergut Festival is a yearly music festival in Germany in Neustrelitz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The first edition was organised in 2000. The festival focuses mainly on indie rock and is one of the largest festivals in Germany for this genre. ... {{surname German-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia Jetzt!
Virginia Jetzt! was a German Indie-Pop band founded in the small town of Elsterwerda in Brandenburg in 1999; the quartet dissolved in October 2010. The band has released four albums so far, their 2003 debut album ''Wer hat Angst vor Virginia Jetzt?'' — a reference to the Edward Albee play ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' — followed by ''Anfänger'' (English: ''Beginner'') in 2004, ''Land Unter'' (English: ''Land Under'') in 2007, and "Blühende Landschaften" (English: "Blooming Landscapes") in 2009. ''Anfänger'' spawned three single releases; "Ein ganzer Sommer" (German Charts # 28, 2004), "Das ganz normale Leben" (# 72, 2004) and "Wahre Liebe" (# 49, 2005). In 2005, the band represented Brandenburg in the Bundesvision Song Contest 2005, with the song "Wahre Liebe", placing 8th with 54 points. January 2007 saw the band release their album ''Land Unter'', containing the singles "Bitte bleib nicht, wenn du gehst"(German Charts The GfK Entertainment charts are the offi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die Sterne
Die Sterne is a two/three/four-piece indie pop band, from Hamburg, Germany. They were formed in 1991 and have released twelve studio albums, the most recent in 2022. Members The band consists of Frank Spilker (vocals and guitar), Thomas Wenzel (bass and vocals), and Christoph Leich (drums). Frank Will and Richard von der Schulenburg were both former keyboarders for the band. Thomas Wenzel is also a member of the bands '' Die Goldenen Zitronen'' and ''Cow'', while keyboardist Richard von der Schulenburg and singer Frank Spilker pursue their own solo projects. In 2018 the two co-founders Christoph Leich und Thomas Wenzel left the band. on (in German) Discography Studio ...
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Das Pop
Das Pop was a Belgian band founded in Ghent by school friends Reinhard Vanbergen, Niek Meul, Lieven Moors and Bent Van Looy. Biography Das Pop was initially called Things to Come, but the band changed its name to Das Pop when Tom Kestens joined the band. In 1998, they won Belgium's influential HUMO's Rock Rally contest. Tom Kestens and Lieven Moors later left the band, and in 2007 New Zealander Matt Eccles (formerly drums in Betchadupa) joined the band as the new drummer. In January 2008 Das Pop released "Fool For Love" on UK independent label Prestel Records. The release featured remixes from French DJ SebastiAn and Yuksek, and was called a "monumental new single from the Belgian electro band" in the Culture section of UK newspaper ''The Sunday Times''. In 2008 Das Pop toured extensively with other acts including Soulwax, The Feeling, Gossip, The Kills, Alphabeat and Justice. They also played at many festivals including Rockness, V Festival, Reading and Leeds, Pukkelpop a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernd Begemann
Bernd Begemann (born 1 November 1962 in Braunschweig as ''Kay Stephan Rönnau'') is a contemporary German alt/ pop singer-songwriter, actor, producer and filmmusic-composer linked to the Hamburger Schule. Biography Begemann's biological parents were Aykut Ünyazıcı, a footballer from Turkey at Eintracht Braunschweig and a woman from Germany. In 1963, he was adopted by Bernhard Begemann at the age of six months, who gave him his new name. He was very successful as sportsman as a teen and young adult and won a lot of competitions, because he was extremely talented as very fast runner but in the end of the 1970s, in his hometown of Bad Salzuflen (Germany) he became a punk and he founded in 1979 a punk rock band with the "real rebel name", "Vatikan". The members of this band were Bernd Begemann, Frank Jacobs (later in the band "Out of Order" and "Time Twisters") and Martin Stammeier (later, the drummer of many Metal-bands). From the middle to the end of the 1980s he was part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astra Kid
Astra may refer to: People * Astra (name) Places * Astra, Chubut, a village in Argentina * Astra (Isauria), a town of ancient Isauria, now in Turkey * Astra, one suggested name for a hypothetical fifth planet that became the asteroid belt Entertainment * Astra (Marvel Comics), the name of two otherwise unrelated Marvel Comics characters from 1977 and 1999, respectively * Astra (DC Comics) * ''Astra'' (film), a 2012 Bengali film * Australian Subscription Television and Radio Association * ASTRA Awards, annual awards presented by the Australian subscription television industry * Astra, a character in the TV series ''Ultraman Leo'' Music * Astra Chamber Music Society, a Melbourne, Australia concert organization, formed in 1951 * Astra (band), an American psychedelic and progressive rock band * ''Astra'' (album), a 1985 release by Asia * ''Astra'', a 1990 composition by Charles Wuorinen Sports * FC Astra Giurgiu, a Romanian football club, currently playing in Liga I * Astra Kro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aerogramme
An aerogram, aerogramme, aérogramme, air letter or airletter is a thin lightweight piece of foldable and gummed paper for writing a letter for transit via airmail, in which the letter and envelope are one and the same. Most postal administrations forbid enclosures in these light letters, which are usually sent abroad at a preferential rate. Printed warnings existed to say that an enclosure would cause the mail to go at the higher letter rate. The use of the term ''aerogramme'' was officially endorsed at the 1952 Universal Postal Union Postal Union Congress in Brussels."The Evolution of the Postal Service in the Era of the UPU" by Jamie Gough in ''The London Philatelist'', Vol.114, No. 1331, December 2005, pp.362-363. Thereafter, the term ''air letter'' quickly faded from use. Most aerograms have an imprinted stamp indicating the prepayment of postage. As such, this meets the definition of being postal stationery. However, some countries such as New Zealand, Zimbabwe and Irel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friends Of Dean Martinez
Friends of Dean Martinez is an American instrumental rock/ post-rock band featuring members of Giant Sand, Calexico, and Naked Prey. The band combines Americana with electronica, ambient, lounge, psychedelia and dub and intertwines surf rock-inspired lead guitars. History The band was formed in Tucson, Arizona as an experimental side-project by various members of Giant Sand, Calexico and Naked Prey. Their debut album, ''The Shadow of Your Smile'', was released on the Sub Pop label in 1995. Friends of Dean Martinez have gone through a variety of line-ups in Los Angeles and Austin, Texas before reforming in Tucson. Currently, the band includes Bill Elm on steel guitar and organ, Naim Amor on guitar, Tommy Larkins on percussion, Joe Peña on drums and Thøger Tetens Lund on bass. Former members Burns and Convertino started the band Calexico. Cinematic musical work They performed a live score to the silent film '' The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'' at the Alamo Drafthouse in Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eskobar
Eskobar is the name of a Swedish Northie(Northern Indie)/indie/pop band that was founded in 1996 some 30 kilometres north of Stockholm, in the small town of Åkersberga. The band features Daniel Bellqvist as its lead singer, Frederik Zäll on guitars, and Jocke Brunnberg on drums. History Formation ''Eskobar'' has its roots in the early 1990s when Daniel Bellqvist left his band to join Frederik Zäll’s band called ''FOF'' (an acronym for "Fish Or Fantasy?") in 1994. The two musicians had previously met in their high school band class. In their incarnation as ''FOF'', Daniel played bass while Frederik played guitar, and since Grunge was the popular musical style of the time, the band settled on this genre as their signature style. During this time the band also changed its name to ''Cripplefish''. In less than a year, ''Cripplefish's'' sound began to evolve from Grunge into Pop, prompting the lead singer, Staffan Atling, to leave the band. This shift in genre style led to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomte (band)
Tomte is an indie band from Hamburg, Germany. Their lyrics are almost completely in German and their sound could be described as guitar pop with some punk influences. The group are a part of the “Hamburger Schule” (Hamburg indie “school”) on the basis of the band Tocotronic Tocotronic is a German rock band founded in 1993 (see 1993 in music). Similar to Blumfeld or Die Sterne they are considered a part of the Hamburger Schule (''Hamburg School'') movement. They are influential for bands such as Wir sind Helden. ...'s influence on their work. Singer and guitarist Thees Uhlmann even worked as a roadie for Tocotronic's "K.O.O.K."-Tour and wrote the book "Wir Könnten Freunde Werden..." (We Could Become Friends...) about it. Tomte's first EP was entitled ''"Blinkmuffel",'' which came out in 1996. Two years later, Tomte released their first full-length album, ''"Du weißt, was ich meine" ("You Know What I Mean"). '' Following the trend of releasing an album every two y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Liwa
Tom Liwa (born ''Thomas Greiner'', 25 October 1961) is a German singer-songwriter who has been performing as a solo artist in addition to being a founding member and frontman of the band Flowerpornoes. While his artistic solo output long went unnoticed by German mainstream news sources and radio stations, he was recognised early on for his work with the band. In recent years, he has been receiving increased attention due both to a steady fan-base and various collaborations and contributions, e.g. to Klee's 2006 album ''Zwischen Himmel und Erde''. Liwa has cited Joni Mitchell's '' Hejira'' as one of his favourite albums and as a major musical influence, and has named Neil Young as an early idol. Tom Liwa is married to former fellow Flowerpornoes member Alexandra Gilles Videla, the couple has three children. Life and career ;Flowerpornoes 1 In 1986, Tom Liwa was a founding member and became frontman of the band, Flowerpornoes, in his native Duisburg. The four albums released duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slut (band)
Slut is a German indie rock band from Ingolstadt, Bavaria. The band's lyrics are primarily written and sung in English. History The band was founded in 1994 by Christian Neuburger (vocals, guitar), Matthias Neuburger (drums), Rainer Schaller (guitar), Gerd Rosenacker (bass guitar) and Phillip Zhang the accompanying keyboard artist. After they recorded their first album, Rene Arbeithuber (keyboard, vocals, guitar) also joined. From 1997 to 1998, along with Rene and Rainer's band, 'Pelzig', they lived and recorded in a castle near Ingolstadt. In 2002, two of their singles charted on the DAC: ''Easy to Love'' got to No. 8, and ''Time Is Not A Remedy'' hit No. 18. In 2005, Slut represented Bavaria in the Bundesvision Song Contest 2005, with the song "Why Pourquoi (I Think I Like You)", placing 12th with 17 points. Discography Albums * ''For Exercise And Amusement'', 1996 * ''Sensation'' (EP), 1997 * ''Interference'', 1998 * ''Lookbook'', 2000 * ''Teardrops'' (EP), 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
