One crappy cellphone picture per band, Waves Vienna edition: Destroy, Munich, October 1st, fluc_wanne Vienna

Oh, Waves Vienna, I already can’t wait until next year! Saturday was by far the best festival day of all. We saw Sweet, Sweet Moon, Bilderbuch, WhoMadeWho and Destroy, Munich (the latter in a very crowded fluc_wanne and with a Kurt Cobain double and an ecstatically dancing member of Agent Cooper among the visitors).

And then later, we hung out with the guys from Instrumenti (who are awesome), learned that when an artist asks for vitamin pills in their rider, what they actually want is MDMA, and after a Schwedenplatz food binge (gross gross gross “Käsekrainer mit gebratenen Nudeln”) eventually went to the Pratersauna (a.k.a. got lost in the dark and scary Prater, but luckily the Dirndl and Lederhosen people were very helpful and knew surprisingly well how to get to the Pratersauna).

= Success!

Mica: Des öfteren habe ich gelesen, dass euch ein kindlicher Zugang zur Musik nachgesagt wird. Sei es euer ausgeprägter DIY-Gedanke, sei es eben, dass ihr nicht gerade ein konventionelles Programm fährt. Ich finde ja schon, dass ihr bei Euren Auftritten sehr konzentriert und ernsthaft an die Sache herangeht. Keine Spur von Kindlichkeit. 

Gabriel: Also ich verstehe auch nicht, was bei uns ein kindlicher Zugang sein sollte. Vielleicht weil wir nicht so starr und professionell an die Sache herangehen. Sture Professionalität bei so vielen Chaoten wie wir sind, ist gar nicht machbar.

Klemens: Also eigentlich ist das eh eine gute Frage, weil über diesen Vorwurf stolpern wir wirklich ziemlich oft. Irgendwie ist das echt ein blödes Statement. Ich frage mich echt woher diese Behauptung des kindlichen Zugangs überhaupt kommt?! Wir sollten das jetzt bekriegen. 

Gabriel: Genau. Jetzt sei es gesagt: Wir haben einen erwachsenen Zugang! Wir sind sehr reif.

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Destroy, Munich summed up their recent Germany tour where they learned that people react differently to Slovakian license plates, that there are still raves in Saxon forests and that there are a lot of brick buildings in Northern Germany. They also played some music, I guess.

Destroy, Munich - Weninger: Whitney Always Knew

Basically, this is a video of Sweet Sweet Moon / Destroy, Munich (but mostly Philipp of Destroy, Munich), drinking Ottakringer and abgelaufene Milch and listening to Helter Skelter on Winamp.

Destroy, Munich’s debut album Don’t Forget The Birthday Cake is now available for full-length streaming and downloading on Bandcamp. Word on the street is that in order to fall in love with the band properly, you have to go and see them live in action though.

There are two recommendable events in Vienna:

1. Kreisky & M185 at the WUK, (entry: 7 p.m., start: 8 p.m.)

2. Türkenschanzparkfestival with Faulty Fertility; Daisy O’Hara; Ost in Translation; Destroy, Munich and dunkelbunt (more info here or here)

Or you know, you could go to both.

Destroy, Munich give us a glimpse behind the scenes of their video shoot for Feiersinger: My Mother Said.

Feiersinger: My mother said - Destroy, Munich

Destroy, Munich; Woyzuck: Don’t Forget The Birthday Cake

Trouble over Tokyo and Destroy, Munich are playing at Haus der Musik in Vienna on Friday, March 25th and it’s free, so the only excuse not to go is if you’re already going to this event (which, yeah, is literature but there’ll be music as well).