Hair Entertainment - live

The Faint im Club Maria

jk — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:57:03 +0200

The Maria was sold out again when I showed up to see the Faint a few weeks ago. Doesn’t Berlin have a good sounding slightly bigger venue to house shows that sell out like that? I missed Shellac because of that over capacity bullshit. Anyway, they were turning people away at the door as usual, there was complication about the guestlist, but we caught the error (too many pseudonyms meself) and I thankfully slipped inside. (Click for full story)

Three Fall at Arcanoa

stü — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:25:14 +0200

Brass, percussion and woodwind that somehow sounds like a beach. Possibly everything I ever want from a band. They entered the “stage” area looking quite unassuming with a minimal drum kit, tenor saxophone (later bass clarinet) and trombone, and all three players looking quite different.

Oxbow, Parts And Labor, Harvey Milk

os — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:50:58 +0200

oxbow berlin © os/haireTonite Oxbow/Parts And Labor/Harvey Milk - three bands, three different stories, but they have one thing in common - crossovering rock music.
Some can do it good some can make you feel sorry you where born. The event took place in Festsaal Kreuzberg, the theater-like decoration set the right mood for this crossover-doom music.

Boris/Growing: We Own You

os — Sun, 18 May 2008 22:09:35 +0200

boris 1/foto: osVolume. Massive Volume. it's interesting to see how in the last few years the Amps getting the status of and instrument, just like the guitar and the drums. since the all doom-stoner-drone-metal revolution, led by Stephen O'Malley and his gang, More and more people are neglecting the sound system and the PA in favour of walls and walls of heavy old amps, chaining them with mics, creating a massive, pushy, warm sound. No wonder that the first thing you notice when you walk towards the Magnet-Club small stage is three piles of amps, one by Orange, one by Sunn and one by Ampeg. The minimized drum set between them looks so innocent and harmless next to them. I was appear to be wrong.

CURRENT 93: Between Us and Them

fe — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:24:46 +0200

current93/photo:peVolksbühne: Monday, April 14:
The haunted night of the 14th of April at the Volksbühne theatre in Berlin was a tribute to the dark side of life and the bright side of death. Current 93, positioned on stage as if on the initiation of the performance of a ritual, indicated the trip from silence to chaotic audio expressions of sentiment.

Land the SILVER APPLES

fe — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:28:23 +0100

silver apples/photo:feMaria am Ostbahnhof: Wednesday, March 5:
Formed in New York, 1967, Silver Apples was the music project that consisted of percussionist Danny Taylor and vocalist Simeon Coxe. Taylor would perform on an extensive drum kit their clear and decisive beat and Simeon, apart from doing vocals, would manage the duo’s peculiar home made synthesizer, constructed by the latter. The intelligence of two diverse units of sound telling the same story with such unusual for the cause instruments as narration vehicles is what makes Silver Apples a unique and avant-garde sound project to the present day.

CTM08: A Crack In The Curtain - Efterklang/Ignatz/Islaja/Maschinefabriek

pan — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:26:48 +0100

Ignatz/Olivier Schrauwen//CTM08Club Maria: Thursday, Jan 31: Efterklang, Islaja, Machinefabriek, Conrad Schnitzler, Ignatz // Despite having lived here for six months, I still find it remarkably easy to get lost in Berlin. And so it was trying to find Maria, walking along some wind tunnel of a street looking for a bridge. Eventually, pointed in the right direction, we arrived at Maria a la CTM, a cavernous place buzzing with people, small holes in the wall with Japanese girls selling okonomiyake, others records, others enormous wooden cars.

IRON AND WINE: The Sermon of Sound

julie — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:43:11 +0100

30/01/08 : The huddled masses have entered through the double wooden doors of the church at Passionskirche, filling in hurriedly out of the rain. Some stop to gaze at the altar with wide-eyed reverence, which is tonight adorned with all kinds of musical instruments. Tonight Iron and Wine will be preaching to the devoted. In the great, red brick Passionskirche, every seat is filled. There are so many devotees that many had to stand or sit on the ground and the wooden, straight-backed pews have no place left. From the balcony, one can see that the entire floor level is nearly full. A hush is on the crowd, lights fade from the massive, starry, stained glass chandelier as Iron and Wine take the stage.

CTM Unpredictable : Tron Lennon / Thomas Ankersmit

stü — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:28:43 +0100

stoolsClub Maria : Tuesday, Jan 29:
The first time I’ve been to Maria, I’ve heard a lot of things about it, from it being a “bratzen” club to it being a very cool place. My view is cool, and very “Berlin”. Down some dirty path and right next to the Spree it’s an old waterworks or something and still retains that industrial vibe but has had a lot of money spent on it, for example there were about 15 projectors on the rig in just one half of the main room. Then there was all these little cardboard tables or stools across the floor, looked at first like some kind of art but then I realised they were just stools as for this kind of experimental / drone music it’s not really good to stand around, it’s much more pleasurable to sit.

Black Mountain/Urlaub In Polen

stü — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:00:17 +0100

blk mntFestsaal in Kreuzberg is a cool venue, seems quite small but has ample space, the delusion in size i think comes from the theatre-esque balcony that stretches all around 3 walls facing on the relatively small stage. The stage looked quite hectic, as they often do at the start of a night with 2 or 3 bands equipment on, now tonight was only 2 bands, between them having 7 members (2+5).