Otto & Astrid:
EUROSMASH! (Die Roten Punkte)
22:10 (70 mins)
3– 27 August(Not 9, not 15)
What
was the inspiration for this performance?
This
time in Edinburgh my sister Astrid and I are playing all the songs
from our EUROSMASH! album. We wanted to create the best rock and roll
concert you’ve ever seen in your life. It starts with a song called
Do You
Speak Dance? where
NASA asks us to go to planet Kepler 22b. We find out that the only
way to communicate with them is to make a party with them.
Is
performance still a good space for the public discussion of ideas?
Yes!
Sometimes I have ideas and Astrid won’t listen. So it’s much
better when we do a performance in front of an audience. That way
it’s not just Astrid listening.
How
did you become interested in making performance?
We
saw David Bowie in Berlin on his Sound and Vision tour. It was like
being touched by an angel. Our whole lives changed. We started
a band and never looked back.
Is
there any particular approach to the making of the show?
Every
night before we go on stage we think about our rock and roll heroes
and try to channel their amazingness. I think about Iggy Pop, Pete
Townsend, The Hives. I try to inject every moment with as much energy
as they do.
Does
the show fit with your usual productions?
This
is our third time to Edinburgh. The first time we did songs from
Super
Musician.
With that album we wanted to make the best rock album we could. The
next time we did Kunst
Rock (Art Rock).
That was more experimental and avant garde. Eurosmash! much more of a
Europop album. There’s still songs with drums and guitar, but
there’s more dancey songs.
What
do you hope that the audience will experience?
Like
they’ve just eaten a sweet juicy rock and roll mango and it’s
made a party all over their face.
What
strategies did you consider towards shaping this audience experience?
We
played shows all over the world and when people went crazy and made a
party we know we had something.
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