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
https://www.ticketmaster.de/event/339255?camefrom=de_va_01374

TixForGigs
Kombiticket:
https://www.tixforgigs.com/site/Pages/Shop/ShowEvent.aspx?ID=30486

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

Get Lost Fest 6 in Hamburg - Fr 31.08 Sa 01.09 / Wild Wax Shows

Since 6 year now, one of the best punk garage festival takes place in the end of August in our beloved city of Hamburg.

Get Lost Fest will celebrate rock and roll for its 6th edition with plenty of great bands such as No Bunny, Les Lullies, Exit Group, Death by Unga Bunga, Peitshen, Foster Care and many more...

It will take place at Hafenklang for the friday and saturday evening gigs, Molotow for the aftershow gigs on friday night, Komet for the welcome party on the thursday (30.08), and of course the traditional saturday boat trip gigs on Ms Hedi.

Be there peops!!!!





All the informations and tickets available here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1724958200916190/


FULL LINE UP :

- THURSDAY 30.08 KOMET - WELCOME PARTY
https://www.facebook.com/events/239103263376699/
START 21:00
BOYLE HEIGHTS (ES) & SUSPECT PARTS (WORLD)
VJ: @VeeJay Waysted
NOT INCLUDED IN THE FESTIVAL TICKET

- FRIDAY 31.08 HAFENKLANG
START 20:00
BAKERS (D)
SLUG BAIT (SWE)
SLANDER TONGUE (D)
ERO GURO (B)
DEATH BY UNGA BUNGA (NOR)
MODERN CONVENIENCE (USA)
FOSTER CARE (USA)
THE SUEVES (USA)

LATE NIGHT SHOW MOLOTOW
START 02.30
DENIM & LEATHER (UK) & EXIT GROUP (D)
DJ : MAYA & OIHANES ENGLISH DISCO
FREE WITH FESTIVAL WRISTBAND

- SATURDAY 01.09
BOATRIDE MS HEDI
14.30 - 16.30
MISS CHAIN AND THE BROKEN HEELS (IT) & SLUSHY (USA)
DJ: SNAKEFACE
EXTRA TICKET NEEDED

HAFENKLANG
START 20:00
PEITSCHEN (D)
HAKAN (IT)
JONI EKMAN & KOIRA (FIN)
TV CRIME (UK)
RÄJÄYTTÄJÄT (FIN)
LES LULLIES (F)
NOBUNNY (USA)

AFTERPARTY @ HAFENKLANG - GOLDENER SALON
DJ: Dj SHAUNA FAYE & OIHANE FOLLONES

The Garden at Komet Club, Hamburg, 19.02.2014 – Foggy Report (english)

Version française ici


Let's put it like this: I had been warned that the Shears Twins are a crazy bunch. It's just that I didn't quite expect the outcome of going to one of their gigs.

With The Garden's stage time at Komet Club being 10 pm – which is, without a support act, pretty late already for a weeknight – and someone (either club staff or their manager) being into football a bit too much, we legitimately wait upstairs for a full 45 minutes until the Champions League watchalong is over and we're let in.




As soon as the show begins, though, all disappointment is swept from my mind immediately, with a mix of amusement and awe taking over very quickly.

Identical twins Wyatt (bass) and Fletcher (drums), no older than 20, grew up in Southern California. Unlike those modeling first and then feeling the need to start a band, the Shears twins were hit with an offer by Yves Saint Laurent after having played a show at The Echoplex in January. Just the other way around. They're now the faces of YSL's Fall/Winter 2013 Menswear campaign and basically Hedi Slimane's new muses.
But does that stop them from playing to 40 people in a tiny basement club in a European city?
Not at all.

Their setlist is packed with 23 songs, but trust me, they play about 30. Is it any wonder with half the songs being 30 seconds long, though?




While Fletcher, squatting on his drum throne and making faces at everyone photographing him, gives us fast beats – a lot of them made up on the spot as well – his brother keeps shouting ordinary things like "I see an 8 foot tall man walking out of the forest", "VADA VADA!" and "I'm a woman" at us.
And sometimes, when nothing else comes to mind in between songs, intelligent outbursts like "BLAARRGGHHH rainbow."



I know the crowd enjoys it, but barely a quarter of them manages to move more than a few inches because they're both intimidated and awestruck by the craziness and laziness of these twins.

After about half of the 60-minute-set, we get the weirdest encounter with The Garden 'playing' us a quick interlude: Three or four songs consisting of Hip Hop beats from Wyatt's phone and the boys rapping. Both of them. While jumping around of the two square meters that the stage has to offer. And sometimes in the crowd.
No one can pretend they really saw that one coming.



"You don't like us, I know you don't!," cries Wyatt in between songs, and I'd love to tell him that's just our Northern reservation – we do seem aloof, but we're usually just shy.

Wyatt is convinced that we do like him when a few brave fans call for an encore after the set, and we get another three or five or maybe seven songs … who even knows with those lengths?

Let me get this straight: The Garden twins are more than just two pretty faces (undoubtedly), they're great entertainers as well, and even if you don't like to listen on their dirty lo-fi garage punk on record (which you should), you better go see them live the next time you get the chance to.
And don't be scared to yell along: most of the songs don't consist of more than one sentence.
Learning by doing.


Sonja P
All pictures © Sonja P



- The Garden - "The Life And Times Of A Paperclip" (LP on Burger Records)

- All discography here

- The Garden at Komet Club, Hambourg (DE), 19.02.2014 presented by WildWax Shows 

The Garden au Komet Club, Hamburg, 19.02.2014 – Foggy Report

English version here 


Disons le franchement, on m’avait prévenu que les jumeaux Shears (Ndlr : Cisailles en français…) étaient dingues, c’est juste que je ne m’attendais pas à ça en assistant à leur concert.

C’est à 22 heures que The Garden doit théoriquement jouer ce mercredi soir au Komet Club, horaire plutôt tardif sachant qu’il n’y a pas de première partie. Mais au vu de la passion de certains (employés du bar ou manager) pour le football, nous devons logiquement attendre encore 45 minutes jusqu’au coup de sifflet final du match de Ligue des Champions avant de pouvoir assister au concert…




Dès que le show commence, la frustration est immédiatement balayée de mon esprit et je suis rapidement envahie par un mélange d’amusement et d’émerveillement.

Les jumeaux Wyatt (basse) et Fletcher (batterie), pas plus de la vingtaine, ont grandit dans le sud de la Californie et, à l’inverse de certains qui ont débuté par la mode pour ensuite ressentir le besoin de se lancer dans la musique, les frères Shears ont reçu, à leur plus grand étonnement, une offre d’Yves Saint Laurent après l’un de leurs concerts à l’Echoplex (LA) en janvier 2013. Ils sont ensuite devenus les visages de la campagne Homme Automne / Hiver 2013 et les nouvelles égéries de Hedi Slimane.
Est-ce que ça les empêche de jouer devant 40 personnes dans une cave crasseuse d’une ville européenne ?
Pas du tout.


Leur setlist comporte 23 chansons, mais croyez moi ils en ont bien joué une trentaine. Est-ce étonnant si la moitié de celles-ci sont expédiées en 30 secondes chrono ?




Tandis que Fletcher trône derrière sa batterie en grimaçant à qui voudra, et nous balance insolemment ses rythmes frénétiques, son frangin prend un malin plaisir à nous hurler des choses ordinaires comme "I see an 8 foot tall man walking out of the forest" (Je vois un mec de 3 mètres de haut sortir de la forêt), "VADA VADA!" ou encore "I'm a woman" (Je suis une femme).
Et, quand rien d’autre ne lui vient à l’esprit entre les chansons, c’est un mugissement primal qui sort de sa bouche… "BLAARRGGHHH rainbow"…



Je sais que le public adore mais à peine plus d’un quart d’entre eux n’ose remuer, à la fois intimidé et émerveillé par la folie pleine de nonchalance des jumeaux.

Arrivé à la moitié de leur set, qui durera une petite heure, The Garden nous propose un court et surprenant interlude : 3 ou 4 chansons, constituées de beat Hip Hop sortant du téléphone portable de Wyatt sur lesquels les 2 rappent, tout en sautant sur et autour les 2m2 qui constituent la scène tout en se faufilant parmi la foule. On peut dire que personne ne s’y attendait.



"Vous ne nous aimez pas, je le sais ! " pleure Wyatt entre les chansons, et j’aurais aimé pouvoir lui répondre que c’est seulement notre « naturelle » réserve du nord qui lui donne cette impression – oui nous avons l’air distant mais c’est seulement de la timidité.

Wyatt finira convaincu du contraire quand quelques braves fans demandent expressément un rappel, et nous aurons droit à 3, 5, peut être 7 chansons… comment en être sûr vu leur durée?

Soyons clairs, les jumeaux de The Garden sont plus que 2 gueules d’anges (sans aucun doute), ils sont également de très bons artistes et entertainers.
Même si vous n’accrochez pas trop à leur garage punk lofi et crado, vous n’aurez aucune excuse à ne pas aller les voir la prochaine fois que l’occasion se présente.
Et si c’est le cas, n’ayez pas peur de hurler avec eux, la plupart de leurs paroles ne font pas plus d’une phrase.
Apprendre en pratiquant.


Sonja P
All pictures © Sonja P



- The Garden - "The Life And Times Of A Paperclip" (Burger Records)

- Discographie par ici

- The Garden au Komet Club, Hambourg (DE), 19.02.2014 présenté par WildWax Shows