Me and my buddy Sören filmed a little documentary over the course of two years, trying to depict the folkpunk scene of Nuremberg, what is it, what brings it together and how it stretches out internationally. The film is called IS THIS FOLKPUNK and we'll see what happens with it in the future. Thanks to everyone involved and everyone who attended the premiere party at Stringbreak Festival this year :)
“There is a new gang in town” The Broken Lo-Fi Hearts present their self-titled debut EP straight out of the depths of loud-guitarred horse-saddled heartbreak.
Starting September 11 (2022) I will upload one brandnew song each sunday as a kind of countdown to the upcoming album
FIXING GREAT MISTAKES WITH DUCT TAPE
I am really happy with the outcome of our december recording session and can't wait to show all of you what we did. There will be vinyl by the end of the year - or so I hope. Pressing plants worldwide are in a bit of a crisis I understand. Fingers crossed :)
You can order the brandnew FOLK'S WORST NIGHTMARE CARD GAME in a strictly limited first edition here:
THE FOLK'S WORST NIGHTMARE TOP TRUMPS CARD GAME
*play top trumps with your favorite guitar people*
- 40 card featuring folkpunk- and songwriter-acts who are friends with the FWN collective
- manually cut with much love and little precision
- first edition limited to 40 sets (other acts from the card game might sell it also)
classic top trumps rules with 5 categories:
PUNKNESS (0-5)
INSTRUMENT SKILLS (0-5)
STAGE HOG (0-5)
GIGS PER YEAR
FIRST SHOW
presented by FOLK'S WORST NIGHTMARE
conceived and produced by egotherapie & the black elephant band
artwork by egotherapie
I don't know much about Brian Eno, nor did he influence me in any way creatively (not that I know of). But I love this particular Briano Eno quote. Recently found it again to describe to a friend what I am looking for in sound mixing and arrangements:
In a lucky coincidence, hanging in my mum's garden recently I have caught on camera what was perhaps the most exciting incident in the life of this peculiar creature. So I turned it into a music video. Zero budget, zero skills:
Nobody asked for it, yet here it is: a list of 50 albums that I would deem 'pretty close to perfect'. For utterly different reasons these 50 have outlasted many others in my ever shifting listening habits. In many cases, something deeply personal is attached to the sound - a memory, a well-known face, a chapter of adolescence. Sometimes the listed title is more of a pars-pro-toto trying to stand for an artist's entire awesome oeuvre. Sometimes two albums are needed to properly reflect the impact one particular band had on me. And finally, some bands will forever refuse to be defined by one single album and instead force me to list them just by name, in the 'appendix'. I love lots and lots and lots of music and it is impossible to convey all of the joy it brings to my existence. This is a little glimpse. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
FILTH FROM THE GARAGE
gluecifer - tender is the savage
gluecifer - basement apes
the hellacopters - high visibility
the hives - tyrannosaurus hives
zen guerrilla - shadow on the sun
modey lemon - modey lemon
them crooked vultures - them crooked vultures
fidlar - fidlar
benjamin booker - benjamin booker
CALM DOWN A BIT
lou reed - transformer
joe vickers - notes from the wood burning stove
beck - one foot in the grave
joe strummer and the mescaleros - streetcore
damien jurado - rehearsals from departure
mazzy star - so tonight that i might see
THE LYRICS BIBLE
jeffrey lewis - em are i
geoff berner - we shall not flag or fail
geoff berner - canadiana grotesquica
phoebe kreutz - the age of reasonableness
ezra furman - day of the dog
the homeless gospel choir - i used to be so young
billy liar - some legacy
THE SONGCRAFTING BIBLE
the clash - london calling
dr dog - be the void
ezra furman - perpetual motion people
tom waits - rain dogs
daniel romano - modern pressure
KICK UP THE DUST
blood meridian - kick up the dust
tom waits - real gone
black rebel motorcycle club - howl
possessed by paul james - there will be nights when i'm lonely
travels & trunks - i get along
middle brother - middle brother
mischief brew - this is not for children
NOISE PILLOWS
hop along - painted shut
pearl jam - vs
east cameron folkcore - for sale
dinosaur jr - beyond
black mountain - in the future
mark lanegan - bubblegum
GARAGE REVISITED
the gories - i know you fine but how you doin
kings of leon - youth and young manhood
the black keys - rubber factory
reigning sound - time bomb high school
martha - love keeps kicking
the afterpartees - glitter lizard
night beats - who sold my generation
the orwells - disgraceland
2nd grade - hit to hit
the wave pictures - look inside your heart
MORE INCREDIBLE BANDS
dead moon
the stooges
the ramones
the cramps
jon spencer blues explosion
queens of the stone age
violent femmes
together pangea
black lips
thomas function
radiator hospital
the taxpayers
the smith street band
holly golightly
schwervon
daniel johnston
howlin wolf
all members of FWN