Martin Weber, this time a self-experiment of the unusual nature started.The default: ten concerts in Cologne in seven days. Details of the music marathon in Sparksta-Popblog.
Of course I was a precaution in advance once the family doctor of my choice. Cross-check of one's body.Liver function tests, blood pressure and cholesterol - all within the normal range. The family doctor of my choice does not understand though, why I am exposing this project, there are good conscience be okay. "You can do it," he says, and pushes me to always leave as a couple of jelly babies in hand. That's good. Finally, rituals are meant to be cherished and cared for. Health so everything is in the paint, and because I also feel stable in character,'s can begin without further ado.Seven days, more than seven concerts. If you have not even as a professional concert-goers all day.Monday 20 June 2011, Tame Impala, Building 9
Well possible that the Beatles would sound like in the year 2011, when they are not separated in 1970, but had fought hard and just keep in their quarrels, the respective drugs in the fashion of the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and noughties of the new century. What is certain, however, may be that the remains of Jim Morrison rotated violently, as they, also, and especially on the occasion of his 40th Death, were recently at the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris a couple of songs by the Australian psychedelic rock played via iPod on grave stone. Live in Building 9 Tame Impala prove that it can also produce rock fog without fog machine, and on duration of the concert, the four young boys and sometimes leaden sound extremely bad Bräsig. Which does not change the fact that their current record "Inner Speaker" is of course great.And anyway, Tame Impala already be interesting because everything is damn them after 1976. Your time is as if they were even curd in the refrigerator.The late 1960s to the final stop 1975th
Tuesday 21 June 2011, Bright Eyes, E-Werk
The way, how did his peace with Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes self-made house brand made expected, the sold out e-work one evening concert at least strange. The songs usually inflated the lanky man with more than half his 31 years more or less making music publicly, to such that some are now under suspicion of doping. In the voluminous, muscle-bound sound that gives him his band, which is brittle, sometimes shaky voice of a musician from Omaha, Nebraska, but always heard - but felt way too rare. If one Conor Oberst, the troubadour of the cultivated melancholy, the Scouts through the passionate human life, like a little credit, then this: The man does not want to stop. That he comes across in this type of passage such as the paperback edition of Springsteen makes it by no means relevant. There's still the real boss, and he does his job well. For a counterfeit, there is no need small boss.
And where the cause can lead to the stadium-ization, so you can see on the so-successful and ironed and boring broadband rock the once red-rock quirky Kings of Leon. Conor Oberst in the Constitution of 2011, which was unfortunately not so good. Too bad.
Wednesday 22 June
Janelle Monae, dancing fountains
Thank you, darling village. Since it has now for the opening concert of c / o pop as a guest - and then dance in fountains to Cologne again only allows low volume. Funky is different. Apart from the fact that the sound of the mini-big band to come quietly out of the speakers, is also a few other things in disorder at the gig by Janelle Monae, the 2009 was at least nominated for a Grammy. Sure, Ms. Monáe and her musicians bring their version of soul and funk klamotten technically very stylish and technically tippitoppi on the stage. The performance as a whole but has learned by heart, felt there is rather little. So far, Janelle Monae only one album out, her song material is so clear. Not so clear, however, that with a set that lasts just about 60 minutes, cover versions of mediocre play Stevie Wonder songs and would, as the crowning of imagination, "I Want You Back" 5 of the Jackson In between Mrs. Monáe paints in a song, why it does open up, not themselves.It is clear only that the outcome of the scenic interludes into something looks like as if you jammed a freshly hatched baby elephant a brush in the infant's trunk and the comical creatures "Come on, even once," whispered in his ear.Around quarter past nine in the scythe is actually dancing fountains, and the atmosphere at about the same as for a shooting match, if the volunteer firefighters were moving to clean up. File under: Our village is to remain beautiful.
Who Made Who, Gloria
Who Made Who, ever since their 2009-spec performance at the "c / o pop" our favorite Danes, still like the party division of the Amish people - up to the neck unbuttoned white shirts, black suspenders - but have all three of the unconditional willingness to cross borders and have more than one standard built-in ceremony beast. Their appearance in the shirt-sleeved Gloria combines indie rock with the hedonism of disco and house ideas and tips Schraddel even the gesture of punk about it. With a goal: not the conditions to be made to dance, but people. And it succeeds admirably.
Already the first track of the current record "Knee Deep" sees the currently fashionable favorite accessory of the indie-fans, white, slightly angeschmuddelten linen bag, swinging beautifully - while the professional club-goers to the sound of the band, the raver fist in the air . craning In Lichtgestöber of flickering fluorescent lights, which illustrate the most gorgeous highlighter colors again and again the band's name, become a rock and rave very casual and totally unpeinlich one, drummer Tomas Barfod is ticking as precise as several Swiss watch manufacturers, Tomashoff thing builds with his bass lines both New Order and the Italo-disco is a monument, meanwhile, the main vocalist Jeppe Kjellberg shreds the beats with his guitar.Dance to "Every Minute Alone" all the linen bag, the bag-less leash and people are completely detached, the whole Gloria is out of control. It looks damn good here. And very happy.
Thursday 23 June
Brandt Brauer , WDR radio station
The interior of this location is to look really pretty, from every grain of the wood breathes the breath of a bygone era. In Klaus von Bismarck Hall in Broadcasting House for WDR, the good old Bonn Republic is still breathing, and also the history of music has something to offer the architectural gem.Karlheinz Stockhausen has premiered several of his works here, and in this respect is the Brandt farm Frick ensemble just right in this place. Docking to the popular idea of techno and house, have the Berlin Daniel Brandt, Jan Brewer and Paul Frick mission is to produce original electronic, minimalist sounds orchestral, with analogue instruments - and this task they perform, reinforced by seven guest musicians brilliant.
The first track of the evening the tuba player blowing into his tuba did not, but he consistently delivers one of the beats. Quite simply by tapping with the flat hand on the mouthpiece of the instrument. The wings, served mostly by Paul Frick, is the number one clock percussive, highly focused work to go in this regard but the cello and violin. After an hour, which is chock-full heart of the famous acoustics of the Klaus von Bismarck Hall with sound-permeable and-Silent-Switch, skillful and dynamic fluctuations polyrhythmic roller coaster rides, it is concluded. Disturbed has in presence of the Brandt farm Frick ensembles only one thing: the dutiful, public, WDR own Feuerwehmännern whose quite Prussian tone - "jacket make start or on your lap is forbidden" - absolutely was misplaced.
Friday 24 June, Philipp Poisel, dancing fountains
Philipp Poisel, only the 28-year-old Grand Master of the emotional and sobbing rain music, also without question the most gentle among the young German songwriters, thrilled the sold-out dancing fountains around 10,000 people. Not me. Which does not change the fact that even the current best in class before Clueso "Grönemeyer reloaded" contest in his chubby shyness, whether real or invented really good, really comes across perfectly. Sum on the way to the Museum Ludwig anyway, even for me to calm himself, always a great song from the very great Dannen Funny front of me. It is my solace and melodious and is also an imperative command, "Take your sad songs and throw them in the trash."
Wu Lyf, Movies at the Museum Ludwig
The Cologne media bubble, even without my humble self was already complete. Put myself anyway, almost as a stopover and a much-needed antidote to the ingenious set to music by Mr. Poisel diary entries, the cinema of the Museum Ludwig. If you believe the common opinion leaders, it is in Wu Lyf (an acronym for "World Unite Lucifer Youth Foundation") to the next big thing from England. Whether it's true, you can, what wonder, said even after the short concert. Interestingly, the sound of Wu Lyf is all. Singer Ellery Roberts rattles, croaks and groans with his early 20's like Tom Waits one day only in his forties and is roaring from behind a wood-paneled, altar-like thing and the rhythm section of drums and bass is massive and bulky and is counteracted by the guitar, the Evans Kati often plays as soft as it also incorporates into his song Richard Hawley flattery. Heavy pop that offer what is Lyf Wu, anyway - and all too brief strong stuff. Or, as one knowledgeable visitor concert afterwards summed up in one sentence: "These are just kid who like to drink beer." Wu Lyf - also in autumn 2011 club tour.
Beat! Beat! Beat!, Gloria
Microenvironment with gesture and with waking eyes to play "Beat! Beat!Beat! avoided by the songs of their debut album "Light Mares" and cleverly avoid the error that stopped the career of the colleagues of the Kilian probably before it is ever really gone off. While the sound from Dinslaken Kilian always like a Strokes cover band that accidentally take too long has bathed in Jim Beam, can beat! Beat! Beat! Viersen from their American and British models - the Arctic Monkeys, the Klaxons, and yes, even the Strokes - but by sound, but not to dominate them. "Fireworks" and "We Are Waves" are friendly, guitar-dominated indie pop, built into the various rhythmic snake lines, suggesting an expansion of the band's name necessarily. The audience at the Gloria uses this extension for persevering. Beat! Beat! Beat! also called dance! Dance! Dance!.
Saturday 25 Juni_Tom Vek, Studio 672
To ensure continuity, it is the man no more. 2005, Tom Vek his debut album "We Have Sound", then he left the music business until times on the left. Sun left that even Facebook groups were founded to bring something to the whereabouts of a man with experience. On Saturday evening in the choreography dancing Studio 672 could be observed worry: Tom Vek is back, explores with the songs of his new album "Leisure Seizure" dieMöglichkeiten computer-based music again and again from new and shows that even London's city bloke can show his feelings. "I'ma cowboy, lost, waiting for the truth," he sprechsingt in "Hold Your Hand" and then he delivers a full set of long eclecticism de luxe. Electronica Pluckernde mate with a rough garage energy, lo-fi disco has a one night stand with Electro-Clash. Surely a machinist in the human, this Tom Vek.
Sunday 26 June, William Fitzsimmons, Gloria
One recognizes the Gloria this evening hardly, it has disguised itself as a Finnish steam sauna. Outside the city plays short-term summer, inside the man who donated the word "caution" a new dimension. William Fitzsimmons, a trained psychologist and psychotherapist working in his life as a musician, has recently become so magnificently attended therapy sessions. With the difference that the care provider and treated compared to not sit in the brutal sell-out club, but are facing. Five Records is a musician from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, previously recorded, and he has made on any scenes from his damaged life to songs. The fears of his childhood, his parents' divorce, separation from one's wife - all these have been incidents, and make fun of white Fitzsimmons approach this work. Taken so seriously and he plays his songs, Fitzsimmons is so funny by the Bank in its interim announcements."Would you buy my records when they no longer would be so sad?" He asks the audience. That response is not quite as important, the next joke is already prepared. "On the new album, Gold In The Shadow 'is about disease.No physical, rather head broken, "said Fitzsimmons, and then the pain back to folk-soul songs. Sometimes slow, sometimes very slowly. Times slowly, then very slowly. Fitzsimmons and his three-man band that bears the beautiful name of "Slow Runner" play, "Beautiful Girl," "The Tide Pulls From The Moon" and "If You Would Come Back Home", and when in the sympathetic Fitzsimmons can ever criticize anything, it's that time on tour is his long, quiet river songs though unquestionably a fine group therapy with a flowing beard. But also uniformly badly and one-dimensional.
Monday 27 June
Blood pressure 135/75. Everything else stable. What happened tonight is not guaranteed: A trip to any concert. Instead, on a personal setlist: Rockerei fullest in private. The sofa calls, we answer. With an unqualified yes.
Well possible that the Beatles would sound like in the year 2011, when they are not separated in 1970, but had fought hard and just keep in their quarrels, the respective drugs in the fashion of the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and noughties of the new century. What is certain, however, may be that the remains of Jim Morrison rotated violently, as they, also, and especially on the occasion of his 40th Death, were recently at the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris a couple of songs by the Australian psychedelic rock played via iPod on grave stone. Live in Building 9 Tame Impala prove that it can also produce rock fog without fog machine, and on duration of the concert, the four young boys and sometimes leaden sound extremely bad Bräsig. Which does not change the fact that their current record "Inner Speaker" is of course great.And anyway, Tame Impala already be interesting because everything is damn them after 1976. Your time is as if they were even curd in the refrigerator.The late 1960s to the final stop 1975th
Tuesday 21 June 2011, Bright Eyes, E-Werk
The way, how did his peace with Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes self-made house brand made expected, the sold out e-work one evening concert at least strange. The songs usually inflated the lanky man with more than half his 31 years more or less making music publicly, to such that some are now under suspicion of doping. In the voluminous, muscle-bound sound that gives him his band, which is brittle, sometimes shaky voice of a musician from Omaha, Nebraska, but always heard - but felt way too rare. If one Conor Oberst, the troubadour of the cultivated melancholy, the Scouts through the passionate human life, like a little credit, then this: The man does not want to stop. That he comes across in this type of passage such as the paperback edition of Springsteen makes it by no means relevant. There's still the real boss, and he does his job well. For a counterfeit, there is no need small boss.
And where the cause can lead to the stadium-ization, so you can see on the so-successful and ironed and boring broadband rock the once red-rock quirky Kings of Leon. Conor Oberst in the Constitution of 2011, which was unfortunately not so good. Too bad.
Wednesday 22 June
Janelle Monae, dancing fountains
Thank you, darling village. Since it has now for the opening concert of c / o pop as a guest - and then dance in fountains to Cologne again only allows low volume. Funky is different. Apart from the fact that the sound of the mini-big band to come quietly out of the speakers, is also a few other things in disorder at the gig by Janelle Monae, the 2009 was at least nominated for a Grammy. Sure, Ms. Monáe and her musicians bring their version of soul and funk klamotten technically very stylish and technically tippitoppi on the stage. The performance as a whole but has learned by heart, felt there is rather little. So far, Janelle Monae only one album out, her song material is so clear. Not so clear, however, that with a set that lasts just about 60 minutes, cover versions of mediocre play Stevie Wonder songs and would, as the crowning of imagination, "I Want You Back" 5 of the Jackson In between Mrs. Monáe paints in a song, why it does open up, not themselves.It is clear only that the outcome of the scenic interludes into something looks like as if you jammed a freshly hatched baby elephant a brush in the infant's trunk and the comical creatures "Come on, even once," whispered in his ear.Around quarter past nine in the scythe is actually dancing fountains, and the atmosphere at about the same as for a shooting match, if the volunteer firefighters were moving to clean up. File under: Our village is to remain beautiful.
Who Made Who, Gloria
Who Made Who, ever since their 2009-spec performance at the "c / o pop" our favorite Danes, still like the party division of the Amish people - up to the neck unbuttoned white shirts, black suspenders - but have all three of the unconditional willingness to cross borders and have more than one standard built-in ceremony beast. Their appearance in the shirt-sleeved Gloria combines indie rock with the hedonism of disco and house ideas and tips Schraddel even the gesture of punk about it. With a goal: not the conditions to be made to dance, but people. And it succeeds admirably.
Already the first track of the current record "Knee Deep" sees the currently fashionable favorite accessory of the indie-fans, white, slightly angeschmuddelten linen bag, swinging beautifully - while the professional club-goers to the sound of the band, the raver fist in the air . craning In Lichtgestöber of flickering fluorescent lights, which illustrate the most gorgeous highlighter colors again and again the band's name, become a rock and rave very casual and totally unpeinlich one, drummer Tomas Barfod is ticking as precise as several Swiss watch manufacturers, Tomashoff thing builds with his bass lines both New Order and the Italo-disco is a monument, meanwhile, the main vocalist Jeppe Kjellberg shreds the beats with his guitar.Dance to "Every Minute Alone" all the linen bag, the bag-less leash and people are completely detached, the whole Gloria is out of control. It looks damn good here. And very happy.
Thursday 23 June
Brandt Brauer , WDR radio station
The interior of this location is to look really pretty, from every grain of the wood breathes the breath of a bygone era. In Klaus von Bismarck Hall in Broadcasting House for WDR, the good old Bonn Republic is still breathing, and also the history of music has something to offer the architectural gem.Karlheinz Stockhausen has premiered several of his works here, and in this respect is the Brandt farm Frick ensemble just right in this place. Docking to the popular idea of techno and house, have the Berlin Daniel Brandt, Jan Brewer and Paul Frick mission is to produce original electronic, minimalist sounds orchestral, with analogue instruments - and this task they perform, reinforced by seven guest musicians brilliant.
The first track of the evening the tuba player blowing into his tuba did not, but he consistently delivers one of the beats. Quite simply by tapping with the flat hand on the mouthpiece of the instrument. The wings, served mostly by Paul Frick, is the number one clock percussive, highly focused work to go in this regard but the cello and violin. After an hour, which is chock-full heart of the famous acoustics of the Klaus von Bismarck Hall with sound-permeable and-Silent-Switch, skillful and dynamic fluctuations polyrhythmic roller coaster rides, it is concluded. Disturbed has in presence of the Brandt farm Frick ensembles only one thing: the dutiful, public, WDR own Feuerwehmännern whose quite Prussian tone - "jacket make start or on your lap is forbidden" - absolutely was misplaced.
Friday 24 June, Philipp Poisel, dancing fountains
Philipp Poisel, only the 28-year-old Grand Master of the emotional and sobbing rain music, also without question the most gentle among the young German songwriters, thrilled the sold-out dancing fountains around 10,000 people. Not me. Which does not change the fact that even the current best in class before Clueso "Grönemeyer reloaded" contest in his chubby shyness, whether real or invented really good, really comes across perfectly. Sum on the way to the Museum Ludwig anyway, even for me to calm himself, always a great song from the very great Dannen Funny front of me. It is my solace and melodious and is also an imperative command, "Take your sad songs and throw them in the trash."
Wu Lyf, Movies at the Museum Ludwig
The Cologne media bubble, even without my humble self was already complete. Put myself anyway, almost as a stopover and a much-needed antidote to the ingenious set to music by Mr. Poisel diary entries, the cinema of the Museum Ludwig. If you believe the common opinion leaders, it is in Wu Lyf (an acronym for "World Unite Lucifer Youth Foundation") to the next big thing from England. Whether it's true, you can, what wonder, said even after the short concert. Interestingly, the sound of Wu Lyf is all. Singer Ellery Roberts rattles, croaks and groans with his early 20's like Tom Waits one day only in his forties and is roaring from behind a wood-paneled, altar-like thing and the rhythm section of drums and bass is massive and bulky and is counteracted by the guitar, the Evans Kati often plays as soft as it also incorporates into his song Richard Hawley flattery. Heavy pop that offer what is Lyf Wu, anyway - and all too brief strong stuff. Or, as one knowledgeable visitor concert afterwards summed up in one sentence: "These are just kid who like to drink beer." Wu Lyf - also in autumn 2011 club tour.
Beat! Beat! Beat!, Gloria
Microenvironment with gesture and with waking eyes to play "Beat! Beat!Beat! avoided by the songs of their debut album "Light Mares" and cleverly avoid the error that stopped the career of the colleagues of the Kilian probably before it is ever really gone off. While the sound from Dinslaken Kilian always like a Strokes cover band that accidentally take too long has bathed in Jim Beam, can beat! Beat! Beat! Viersen from their American and British models - the Arctic Monkeys, the Klaxons, and yes, even the Strokes - but by sound, but not to dominate them. "Fireworks" and "We Are Waves" are friendly, guitar-dominated indie pop, built into the various rhythmic snake lines, suggesting an expansion of the band's name necessarily. The audience at the Gloria uses this extension for persevering. Beat! Beat! Beat! also called dance! Dance! Dance!.
Saturday 25 Juni_Tom Vek, Studio 672
To ensure continuity, it is the man no more. 2005, Tom Vek his debut album "We Have Sound", then he left the music business until times on the left. Sun left that even Facebook groups were founded to bring something to the whereabouts of a man with experience. On Saturday evening in the choreography dancing Studio 672 could be observed worry: Tom Vek is back, explores with the songs of his new album "Leisure Seizure" dieMöglichkeiten computer-based music again and again from new and shows that even London's city bloke can show his feelings. "I'ma cowboy, lost, waiting for the truth," he sprechsingt in "Hold Your Hand" and then he delivers a full set of long eclecticism de luxe. Electronica Pluckernde mate with a rough garage energy, lo-fi disco has a one night stand with Electro-Clash. Surely a machinist in the human, this Tom Vek.
Sunday 26 June, William Fitzsimmons, Gloria
One recognizes the Gloria this evening hardly, it has disguised itself as a Finnish steam sauna. Outside the city plays short-term summer, inside the man who donated the word "caution" a new dimension. William Fitzsimmons, a trained psychologist and psychotherapist working in his life as a musician, has recently become so magnificently attended therapy sessions. With the difference that the care provider and treated compared to not sit in the brutal sell-out club, but are facing. Five Records is a musician from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, previously recorded, and he has made on any scenes from his damaged life to songs. The fears of his childhood, his parents' divorce, separation from one's wife - all these have been incidents, and make fun of white Fitzsimmons approach this work. Taken so seriously and he plays his songs, Fitzsimmons is so funny by the Bank in its interim announcements."Would you buy my records when they no longer would be so sad?" He asks the audience. That response is not quite as important, the next joke is already prepared. "On the new album, Gold In The Shadow 'is about disease.No physical, rather head broken, "said Fitzsimmons, and then the pain back to folk-soul songs. Sometimes slow, sometimes very slowly. Times slowly, then very slowly. Fitzsimmons and his three-man band that bears the beautiful name of "Slow Runner" play, "Beautiful Girl," "The Tide Pulls From The Moon" and "If You Would Come Back Home", and when in the sympathetic Fitzsimmons can ever criticize anything, it's that time on tour is his long, quiet river songs though unquestionably a fine group therapy with a flowing beard. But also uniformly badly and one-dimensional.
Monday 27 June
Blood pressure 135/75. Everything else stable. What happened tonight is not guaranteed: A trip to any concert. Instead, on a personal setlist: Rockerei fullest in private. The sofa calls, we answer. With an unqualified yes.
