review auf yellow is the new pink
Somewhere on a dusty stage in Friedrichshain. A band climbs a stage. A keyboard is turned on, a guitar put on, a mic checked. Keyboard player Anna Hjalmarson salutes the still absent audience in her broken german: “sehr geehrte punks…†- then most of her drunken drivel got lost in the noise of clanging laughter and clinking glass as she raise her voice again to ask the punks: “wollt ihr bumsen?†A sudden interest appears on some of the gaunt faces but the band won’t wait. What follows was somehow in between punk and bums, or bumsen, to cite it correctly. The Berlin-based band kicks out the jams immediately with the most hyperactive garage punk you can think of. Drums, keys, guitar and yelps mashes together and bursts in a cloud of noise in front of two dozen puzzled punks. Herpes plays faster, harder and more uncompromising as they bang through their 15 minute set. The snotty punk trio, fronted by ex-Surf Nazis Must Die guitarist Florian Puehs, literally explodes on stage. Still they don’t loose themselves in mindless thrash (like the Nazis) but sputter some great new wave infused garage punk into the audience. Their cover of “computerstaat†by Abwaerts perfectly rounds off the entertaining gig. This won’t be the last thing we hear from this upcoming band. Go, see them live on their tour through Germany![phillip]herpes @ berlin hilton
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