Subba Cultcha Likes The Album A Bit.
Normally we quote short excerpts from articles on the web, but this glorious review from Andi James Chamberlain at Subba Cultcha just demands to be reproduced in its entirety. Oh, and A Kiss Before You Go gets a 10 out of 10.
“The first KATZENJAMMER album was a mini masterpiece that pretty much took a week that was descending into a slow, pressure-cooker like fall into Hell and turned it into something akin to a party in my pants where everyone was invited…
It took the start of a dark, horrible Black mood and switched it into a free jiving, gypsy wedding extravaganza of epic proportions and brought me smiling into a brilliant mood for the rest of the week – much to the chagrin of the wankers who I work with, who were under the same amount of pressure, but lacking in any kind of free, righteous and brilliant Female orientated alt folk rock like I was…
KATZENJAMMER are an abundantly awesome Female folk rock act who peddle in the kind of sleazy, raunchy and extravagant music that makes you want to slap your own thigh and do the doozy doo with the nearest person of the opposite sex, before falling lovingly and debauchedly into the hay for a night of illicit passion. Read on →
On Beards And Buttocks.
Pete Hughes from Beard Rock came round to Scala in London for tea and an interview:
“One final question: what is your favourite beard and why?
Marianne: “I’d say the alpha male caveman beard: my boyfriend has a really good beard, it’s a regular caveman beard. It has to be full and thick and without a doubt a beard. You should be able to grab it like this.”
Solveig: “In the book ‘Cardamom town’ there is a weather guy living in this big tower and his beard is long and white like a wizard, and it represents wisdom and knowledge, that’s my favourite type of beard.”
Anne Marit: “My favourite type of beard is the ZZ Top. The story behind it is that the band had a break and they moved to different parts of the world, and they didn’t speak for a long time, and when they got together again it turned out two of the guys had not shaved since they last saw each other, and they both had long white beards. They didn’t plan it but they looked exactly the same.”
Turid: “My favourite beard has to go to a man in my little home town. There are about 4,000 people living there, and you can walk through in 5 minutes. The beard belongs to a man called Henning Doose (Turid pronounces it in a heavy Norwegian accent which I guess is meant to imply he’s very colloquial. I’m imagining the English equivalent would be an ancient farmer living in your town who put on fantastic bands. Like Michael Eavis). He’s a city original, and he owns two pubs. For the first two years we were a band we played for him several times. And he has a moustache which he never cuts: it started like this-” (Turid indicates reasonably majestic curls), “and now it’s like this (a 10-inch long extravaganza), and he’s driving an old American car and in the summer he driving along like this (leaning back looking very cool) “Hello girls!” He’s a real character.”
Wow. There’s a natural pause.
Anne Marit: And it’s my birthday today.”
Rock, Paper, Scissors Nabs The Rebel Playlist.
And once again all you super-duper people have propelled Katzenjammer onto every daytime programme on BBC6 for a whole week, via Steve Lamacq´s Rebel Playlist! Thanks again for voting!
Rock, Email, Rebels.
In February, all the fabulous Katzenjammer people on the net helped the band win the spot on Steve Lamacq´s Rebel Playlist on BBC 6, which meant that “I Will Dance” was played on every daytime programme on the channel for a whole week.
Well, now Katzenjammer are up for another round, this time for “Rock, Paper, Scissors”: you can lend a hand by going here and sending an email to Steve. Thank You!
Call Of The Wyld At Scala
Blog Call Of The Wyld reviews the Scala London gig:
“The girls take it in turns to showcase themselves. It is pure Vaudeville. Banjos are plucked, ukuleles are strummed, and accordions are wheezed. There is much harmonising. Anne Marit, Marianne, Solveig and Turid are so impressive that it is hard to resist them.”
“Watching them perform, you get the feeling that the only thing that could limit Katzenjammer’s success would be the size of audience that they can play to. They will do fearsome damage at this summer’s festivals.”
Back In The Р.о.с.с.и.я.
Yep, Tanya, Anya, Maschke and Sveta are going back to Russia this summer: June 2nd at the Wild Mint World Music Festival in Moscow, June 3d at lovely Arkhangelskoe Manor for the Usad’ba Jazz Festival.
The last time Katzenjammer visited the Russian capital, it was in the middle of (a bitingly cold) winter, as you can see from Turid (or Tanya)´s blog post. Hopefully, this time there won´t be need for that proto-russian headgear which we in Norwegian have named after a bear´s lady parts.
VISIT THE SHOP!
