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Night Punch - Foggy Soundcheck, a foggy interview to listen loud!!!

A deflagration from hooded guys, oh yeah that was it. We met the hamburger punks before their show supporting Pisse at Molotow and we had a quick chat and some lifestyle tips.

For the record, we have been seeing Maddes, Yannick, Paul, Luka & David in some other cool bands in the past, to do some name-dropping for you to dig : Death Canyons, Brain Traps, The Haermorrhoids, The Dutts, Sgt. Cooper, Melting Palms, Mescal Owls, Wearemarvin etc…. Now is Night Punch, a fully loaded loudy pleasure, what more do you need?


They released their first tape a few months ago, the Get Lost Tape, and we highly recommend you to check them out, online and live. Before that, turn it up to 11, press play and be introduced to the dudes here (several links in case) :








Bonus : some playlist tips from our guests when we asked to pick one song:

- The Spits - My mess
- Sandy Nelson - Chop-Chop
- Chokebore - Valentine
- Everything from Total Control and Constant Mongrel
- The Urinals - Black Hole


Podcast Tracklist :

- Night Punch - Grey Blue Eyes / Get Lost Tape - 2019
- Pisse - CO2 Bilanz / LP 2020
- Night Punch - live 31/01/2020
- Sandy Nelson - Chop Chop 1961?
- Night Punch - Headache / Get Lost Tape - 2019 + live Zugabe Bring (Spits cover) 2020
- jingle credit : Couteau Latex - Téléportation + Siddiq Sarhan


https://nightpunch999.bandcamp.com/releases
https://pisse.bandcamp.com/

Thanks to Night Punch, Molotow, Pisse and St Pauli.

B / FGC. 

La Pochette Surprise Records, music label from Hamburg, a Foggy Interview to listen loud!!!

Proud to announce the first episode from a new serie of recorded interview or podcast, call it as you like!

In this first recorded Foggy Interview, we’re meeting a young fellow called Velvet. He’s the boss of La Pochette Surprise, a record label from the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg in the north of Germany. We are following his activity since the beginning actually, and it was obvious for us that we had to find out more deeply why he’s doing that.

This journey will lead us to talk about the genesis and purpose of La Pochette Surprise, its imagery but also the background of Velvet and his philosophy.
Let’s follow the Elbe, from Wedel to the Reeperbahn passing by Altona. Why has Hamburg this kind of unique vibe, always surrounded by great art and music scene and why a dolphin smokes weed.

Enjoy.

Part 1 to listen here (several links in case): 







Tracklist :
- Warm Sword - Save It All Up / Demostruction K7 - La Pochette Surprise Records 2016
- Demon’s Claws - Hambourg / Lost In The Desert LP - Telephone Explosion Records 2009
- Tommy Roe - Dizzy 1969
- Sick Hyenas - Hoe / LP Moody Monkey Records 2014
- My Friend Peter - Groovy Kind Of Stonedness / Entre Les Trous De La Mémoire K7 - La Pochette Surprise 2016
- Death Canyons - Enter The Void / K7 La Pochette Surprise 2017
- Swutscher - Drahtesel / Wahnwitz La Pochette Surprise 2016
jingle credit : Couteau Latex - Téléportation + Siddiq Sarhan



Part 2 to listen below (several links in case):

The second part of this recorded interview is going through the questioning of creating music. What were the big steps and what are the next steps for La Pochette Surprise Records, which with almost 40 releases, from cassettes, Cds, LPs, comics, organized its first festival “La Fête Surprise” last september and that was a success.

We started our journey from Wedel in the west of Hamburg and will of course have a stop in St Pauli. The famous and cosmopolitan harbour neighborhood which is never sleeping, where you’ll always be surprised, for better or for worse, where you’ll drink and talk, at a kiosk, at Komet, in a smoky club basement, where you’ll dance, to some wild concerts, to some crazy DJ spinning 7 inches till the morning light.

From Wedel, this will end in Veddel, for the one who knows, it’s on the other side of the Elbe and still stuff happening there…








Tracklist :
- Swutscher - Affenkönig / Senf EP - La Pochette Surprise Records 2020
- Yard Bomb - WTF / LP - La Pochette Surprise 2019
- Die Cigaretten - Pillen / Vibe Ride LP - La Pochette Surprise 2019
- montage - prügelei in der kantine / K7 La Pochette Surprise 2019
- Snøffeltøffs - Beach Dream / LP 2014
- Television Personalities - Part Time Punks / Kings Road 1978
- Don Hollinger - Where the young folks go / 1966
- Velvet Underground - I'm Waiting For The Man Live at Max's Kansas City 1970
- Derya Yildirim & Grup Şimşek - Kürk / Kar Yağar - Disques Bongo Joe 2019
jingle credit : Couteau Latex - Téléportation + Siddiq Sarhan



Dig that, buy the stuff and go to the concerts!!! :

https://lapochettesurpriserecords.bandcamp.com/
https://www.lapochettesurprise.de/

Thanks to Velvet, to La Pochette Surprise Family, all the bands, all the friends,  Couteau Latex for the use of the song, Baster for music tips and Robert for the good help. Pic above by Poli.

B / FGC.

Get Lost Fest 7 in Hamburg - Thu. 29.08 Sa 31.09 / Wild Wax Shows

GET LOST! FEST 7 is coming soooon!
BE THERE HAMBURG!!!!

TICKETS:

Ticketmaster
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TixForGigs
Kombiticket:
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Friday: https://www.tixforgigs.com/site/Pages/Shop/ShowEvent.aspx?ID=30487

Saturday: https://www.tixforgigs.com/site/Pages/Shop/ShowEvent.aspx?ID=30488


--> THU 29.08 
 
WELCOME PARTY
KOMET
LIVE: TRAMPOLINE TEAM (USA) + DADAR (ITA)
DJ: VJ WASTED
TICKETS AT THE DOOR ONLY

 
--> FR 30.08 
 
HAFENKLANG
Doors: 19:00 Start: 20.00
BUCK BILOXI (USA)
SHITTY LIFE (ITA)
ACID BABY JESUS (GRC)
FRIENDS OF DOROTHY (SWE)
LASSIE (D)
JIVE STREET REVIVAL (D)
PSCIENCE (USA)

LATE NIGHT SHOW
MOLOTOW
Doors: 02.00 Start: 02.30
LOS ASS-DRAGGERS (ESP) + SPECIAL GUEST
DJ: GUYBRUSH THREEPWOOD
FREE ENTRaNCE WITH FESTIVAL WRISTBAND


 
--> SAT 31.08

BOATRIDE
FRAU HEDI
Doors: 14.00 Start: 14.30
LIVE: MICHAEL HE-MAN (USA) & BEE BEE SEA (ITA)
DJ : SNAKEFACE
https://www.facebook.com/events/553275848530509/


HAFENKLANG
Doors: 19.00 Start 20.00
RADIOACTIVITY (USA)
TV’s DANIEL (USA)
EKE BUBA (HRV)
BAD SPORTS (USA)
MARTIN SAVAGE GANG (SW)
PIG FRENZY (NL)
DEATH ROW GROUPIES (AUT)

AFTERSHOWPARTY
DJ: OIHANE FOLLONES

POSTERARTWORK BY THE AMAZING Marcus Schäfer

SEE YOU SOOOONNNNNNN
WOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

La Luz - Interview and dreams

Version française ici.


In the beginning, there was Shana Cleveland (guitar), Marian Li Pino (drums), Lena Simon (bass), and Alice Sandahl (keyboard). La Luz was born and we discovered them in 2013 following the first releases : the Damp Face EP then the full-length album It’s Alive. At the time, we’ve been pleasantly seduced by the sweet and classy surf rock music played by the American quartet. (see Mixtape WOL).

Then came the end of the 2015 summer. Their second album, Weirdo Shrine, produced by Ty Segall, unveiled some darker-faced, wild and mystical vibes. The melodies were becoming heady, as well as the vocal harmonies – where the riffs and captivating rhythmics were enchanting. From now on, it was clear that these girls were showing us the way. Let there be light.





Their wonderful last album, Floating Features, popped up in May 2018 . It was not expected, but it was perfectly timed. Just before summer. And it really carried us the last month. We strongly recommend this album, a “must have” to be honest. Every song is beautiful, powerful, magic, warm… What more can we say other than, thanks girls! You are one hell of a rock band.

With a lovely view of Hamburg’s harbour, we met the American girls to have a chat before their concert at Hafenklang. (4/10/2018).





x The first line up of La Luz was included only Shana and Marian, if I’m right. How did everyone find each other?

Shana : Yeah and 2 different girls. Before that, me and Marian played in a band together, The Curious Mystery.
I was kind of tired with it and I had this idea, “Hey I wanna form a band that has like four female vocals” so I asked Marian if she wanted to be in it and play drums and she said yes. We had the two of us then she recommended Alice because they had played together in a band but then Alice kind of blew us off… So we went first with this other keyboard player. Then Alice finally joined so it came through at the end! Then the former bass player wanted to do other stuff after couple of years, so Lena joined.


x Could you please tell us about your first encounter with music?

Shana : My parents were musicians, so just through hearing their band was my first encounter with music. They played together in different bands when I was born. They’re still playing in different bands… like my dad plays in 10 bands or something. He lives in Michigan, that’s where I grew up and my mom lives in Seattle.

Marian: My parents were not in bands or anything so for me it was just through education. Like in school, they introduced you to music, you just pick an instrument and I picked clarinette. I discovered and learned to play music that way, classically and then jazz, then rock and roll…

Lena: Same for me. But my first memory was being on the floor, I guess as a really young child, listening to Peter and the Wolf, like the story and the music. My dad was just playing that. It’s actually really cool, I loved it.

Marian : I also remember when my parents got me my first drum kit for Christmas. At first they put out only the snare drum and I was already elated, just by that one piece, like “oh my god, this is the coolest thing, this is the best christmas present of all time! “. And they had actually combined with the rest of my extended family to get the whole drum kit, I was literally out of my mind!

Alice : I remember my mom playing the piano a lot, and it intrigued me. Then I wrote my first song very young before I even knew how to play… It was about cat (laughs), but it was like very boring. And my dad played guitar, he was really into this folk musician Gordon Lightfoot so I would just sing along with him… so now I really love Gordon Lightfoot.

x About the last album, Floating Features, what does ‘Features’ really mean?

M : Feature is like your nose is a feature, your eyes, it doesn’t have to be on a face, it’s more little details…
S : It’s also something that people use to describe films, like a feature film so it has a lot of meanings.
I think of it as a psychedelic kind of way that dreams and movies can be. They can be close to reality and also just a little bit off. I feel like that’s a sort of a recurring theme from the album.


x Then, where do these Floating Features come from?

S: From your mind!
I have had a lot of dreams where my mouth gets really big for some reason…
But the features on the cover were sort of a happy accident. We had this idea to make sort of a set for the cover of the album and also for the Mean Dream video. We thought maybe it would have plants, just sort of look like a beast in reality but being a little off and strange and with a performance…
And actually my friend Lauren Corden already had made these giant features so it was perfect and tied in the title, even more than the original idea…

M: We also liked the idea that Floating Features could be a band. It could sound like a different band, the Floating Features but it was also the title of the album. It’s kind of letting you write your own narrative, I guess, to how it would be perceived.
S: I thought it could be a really cool band name with the instrumental title track. It’s kind of the way we thought of it: The Floating Features play this title track, like Sgt. Peppers...





x Your music always evokes the natural world to me, like in a mystical way, do you know where that comes from?

S: Do you mean the kind of imagery in the lyrics?
As I wrote half of those lyrics in the country actually, in California, in a small town. I’ve always liked going to parks to write lyrics, I don’t know why. I think that there is something about the white noise of nature and that it’s less intimidating to come up with words in a place where there is sort of noise than in a silent room... Sometimes it’s even nicer to go to the ocean or to the river, some place that is naturally loud and so you can just sing into the air. It’s less claustrophobic… I feel it’s easier for my mind to wander – when it is not so confined…


x Reminds me of Seattle – where you’re from originally, before moving to LA. It’s completely surrounded by nature isn’t it?

S : Yeah, parks, mountains, it’s beautiful nature.
M: Everywhere there is a forest or a lake or a river... You almost can’t escape nature, it’s there all the time…


x Like an "enchanted forest"?

S: Yeah. The first time I went to the Northwest (Pacific Northwest, Seattle etc.), I was moving up there from LA. I stopped at a rest area but it was just so beautiful, I couldn’t even believe it, it looked like “Hobbit land” (the Shire). The trees were covered with moss and that’s totally normal in the Northwest but I’d never seen anything like that before… I was like “Holy shit, this is like a magical Jungle”, it does feel really magical – sort of dark and lush and green…




x Is it important for you to live close to nature?

All: Sure….
M: That’s kind of how the US feels to me, there is always nature or any coast by… Maybe every country is like that…
S: When I lived in Chicago, I felt like there was no escape.
M: I guess NYC feels like that too.
L: But you can go to the beach though…
S: But it’s like a city beach…


x Shana, I read that you were drawing comics, do you still have time for that? And is there a link with your music?

S: Yeah a little bit, not as much as I’d like too… it’s pretty hard... Comics are hard. I wanted to do a comic for The Creature, like our song The Creature. I started one but I never finished…
About the link, it is sort of vague. The magic of media made much more made of it than actually existed. There is this comic, “Black Hole” from Charles Burns, which is based in Seattle and a lot of the action takes place in this park that was right next to where I used to live, and had some really of strange experiences. So yeah, I just think it asserted the feeling of that comic in the previous album Weirdo Shrine..





x What do you like about performing live?

S: It’s just great when you have a great show and when you make a connection. That doesn’t always happen but that happens a lot. Some nights, people are not really engaging – you’re gonna have the worst show…
I don’t know if people realize that necessarily, but they have a lot of power in what kind of performance it’s gonna be. And we give more, the more we get from the audience.
It’s always sort of a gamble. You don’t know what kind of night it’s gonna be. Then sometimes this magic thing happens, when it feels like we are all, everyone in the room is going to the same thing together. There is just a connection. For me that’s what I like the most about it. When there is this magical understanding taking place through the power and the beauty of music…

M: We are playing mostly the same songs every night and every day can feel vastly different. One night can be, they didn’t care or I didn’t care, and it wasn’t a good show or it can be “Wow, that was so much fun”, they were dancing, we were dancing, everyone is smiling…

L: You see them laughing and smiling and singing and it makes all the difference… Ok this is worth it now! Like some adrenaline I’m sure. There was one of our shows in this tour where I felt like that, it was either in Copenhagen or Paris and the audience made me really happy. I felt warm inside.





x Actually I was asking myself, do you sleep well during a tour?

M: Actually yes! I was just talking about that this morning. I tend to sleep very well on tour.

x And do you dream?

M: Sometimes… They say that changing where you are everyday helps you to dream… But I have no control over my dreams.

S: I remember my dream of last night… You want me to tell...? (laughs)
I just dreamed I went out for a hamburger with my grandma…. It never got to the eating but we were going out to eat an hamburger…

x Then you arrived in Hamburg...

S: Yeah that’s true! Have you guys got a lot of good hamburgers here?



--Hafenklang’s cook shouting: “ THE DINNER IS READY !!!--“ “


x Before you go to dinner, could you give us some playlist tips? What did you listen during the tour for example?

Shana: Dig in the Cutworms album!

Lena : I just put on one of the latest Deerhunter album, from 2013 (Monomaniac). I hadn’t really ever dived into it and there were some cool tracks. It’s the one where it kind of go back and forth between this fuzzy garage and more bedroom electronic sounds. It’s cool.

Marian : I’m listening to classical trompette music, this lady Alison Blossom, she’s the best.

Alice: I have a lot of music in my phone, but I’ve been listening to Erykah Badu’s latest mixtape, I really like it, it’s really good… It’s not even that recent…

...Yeah the basic….

---Outro ---

That night, the show definitely made us feel warm inside. A lot of passion, nice riffs, nice people, a great harmony where the girls made us dance and sing.

La Luz were also supported by a really cool english band: Peggie Sue.
To be continued…
Check out our interview related playlist here:




Thanks to La Luz, Ryan Hardly Art, Hafenklang's team, Malko, Christopher and Francis.

B.


La Luz / Discography :
- La Luz - Damp Face EP 2012
- La Luz - Brainwash EP - Suicide Squeeze 2013
- La Luz - It's Alive - Hardly Art 2013
- Shana Cleveland and the Sandcastle - Oh Man, Cover The Ground - Suicide Squeeze 2015
- La Luz - Weirdo Shrine - Hardly Art 2015
- La Luz - Floating Features - Hardly Art 2018