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Started listening to music at age 4. Favourite song at that time: "my bucket's got a hole in it"(german extended version). Started dancing at age 5. Fell down, bruised my knee and stopped dancing career immidiately. Fell in love with the Stray Cats on a K-Tel compilation at age 10. First record bought from pocket money: Stray Cats "s/t". Tried to look like Brian Setzer, but my hair wouldn't stand up and Ma was laughing at me. Turned to Punkrock instead, as hair is easier to manage (Ma stopped laughing). Waded through musical underground for the next few years, collecting vinyl like mad. Started DJing in the early 90s, first friends parties, then parties of friends friends, then parties of someone who knows the girlfriend of a brother of a friends friend and so forth.
First club-gig: 1997 at the legendary Inner Rhythm Club, Stuttgart.
First regular night: "El Ritmo Primitivo" at Barbarella.
Gigs at Rock'n'Roll festivals all over Germany and Europe (Satanic Stomp, Planet Cheese, Beachparty Aachen, Rockin Around Turnhout...).
Monthly Radio Show "El Ritmo Primitivo" starts in January 2000. This year also sees the first overseas gig at the "1st NY psychobilly rumble", which despite the name, happens in New Jersey, USA.
Tour DJ for the US leg of the MONSTERS America Tour in 2003 (Sin-E, Maxwells, CBGBs).
In 2004 pure coincidence leads to the formation of a spectacular DJ-collaboration: together with Hot Poppa Pete I team up as the incredible Katzenjammer Kids!
In January 2005 we start the weekly Club Calavera at zwölfzehn, which soons develops into the homebase of Stuttgart Rock'n'Roll.
In December 2005 it's time for another trip to the states. The NYC-tour takes place with 5 gigs in 10 days, highlight being off course the New Years Eve Party at Otto's Shrunken Head with a fantastic live show by Nigel Lewis, founder member of the Meteors.
In 2006, friendly pressure forces me to start Lindy Hop dancing, despite my failed attempts at dancing in my formative years (see above). Soon after we start "Dig Those Mellow Kicks", a monthly cafe for swing dancing, where I play everything between 20s Jungle-Jazz, 30s Hepcat Jive, 40s Jump Blues and early 50s RockaRolla.
Some of the Clubs in Stuttgart I played so far (no particular order):
Barbarella, Inner Rhythm Club, Mono, Keller Klub, Libero, zwölfzehn, Universum (old & new), Uhu Bar, Etzelstraße, Travellers Club, Schocken, Limelight, Che, Hi Bar, Rocker 33 (old & new), Oblomow, Erster Stock, Le Fonque, Die Röhre, Landespavillion, Schlesinger, Beat!Club,...
When travelling, I found myself behind the decks in: King Calavera Hamburg, Queen Calavera (opening party) Hamburg, 20 Flight Rock Hamburg, Hafenklang Hamburg, Gaswerk Winterthur, Nachtwerk Villingen, McCormicks Ballroom Leipzig, Horns Erben Leipzig, Escobar Gelsenkirchen, Soul Hellcafe (Opening Night) Essen, Alte Weberei Gütersloh, AZ Aachen, Hauptquartier Aachen, Aoxomoxoa Aachen, Gaskessel Bern, Moods im Schiffsbau Zürich, MotorCity NYC, CBGBs NYC, Otto's Shrunken Head NYC, The Scenic NYC, Sin-E NYC,Maxwells Hoboken...
Had the chance to play the pre- and aftershow parties of some of the finest musicians on this planet, such as:
Andre Williams, T-Model Ford, Ray Collins Hot Club, The Pyromanix, King Khan & His Shrines, BBQ, The Sixty Foot Combo, The Solarflares, The Charles Napiers, The Cybermen, Green Hornet, The Cheeks, The Montesas, The Fuzztones, The Cynics, The Satelliters, Achtung Spitfire Schnell Schnell, Rachael Gordon & The Bad Apples, The Monsters, The Staggers, The Neanderthals, The 5.6.7.8.s, The GoreGore Girls, Tee & Thee Crumpets, Digger & The Pussycats, The Meteors, Batmobile, Guana Batz, Nekromantix, Demented Are Go, Frantic Flintstones, Tiger Army, Big John Bates & The Voodoo Dolls, Smokestack Lightnin', Whiskey Daredevils, Jack Oblivian, Masons, The Rivieras, Rock'n'Roll Stormtroopers, and many more...
Music keeps me going. There is so much good music around, my aim is to dig out the jewels without being bound by genres and blindfolds. I get as much kicks outta crude primitive Rockabilly as outta '67 fuzz-drenched guitars as outta superheavy funky basslines as outta uptown soul-struts as outta snarling punk-rawk as outta kitschy '40s exotica mambosis.