Marc Gärtner

Upcomming shows [updated]

admin — Mon, 30 May 2011 21:23:00 +0000

Here’s a list of shows I plan on attending. But No liability assumed! Sometimes I’ll have something better to do and sometimes my lazy ass will stay in bed. If you think you know some other show I need to go to, please tell me about it!

07.06. Social Circkle / Riot Reiser – Bla, Bonn
11./12.06. Ruhrpott Rodeo
14.06. The Headlines – Bla, Bonn
18.06. An Horse – Bla, Bonn
22.06. Radare / Corova – Bla, Bonn
23.06. Punch / Trainwreck – AZ, Köln
26.06. Punch – AZ, Aachen
01.07. Dumbell – Bla, Bonn
02.07. Rheinkultur – Bonn
12.07. Flying Over + The X-Rated Toons – Bla, Bonn
28.07. Lemuria – Zwischenfall, Bochum
11.08. Insubordination Festival – Baltimore
12.08. Insubordination Festival – Baltimore
13.08. Insubordination Festival – Baltimore
14.08. Dopamines – Rochester,NY @ Monty’s Krown
15.08. Dopamines – Portsmouth,NH @ Ezra’s House
16.08. Dopamines – Boston,MA @ Starlab
17.08. Dopamines – Brooklyn,NY @ lulus
18.08. Dopamines – Philadelphia,PA @ The Fire
19.08. Best Friends Day – Richmond – Converge/Strike Anywhere/OWTH/Dead to Me…
20.08. Best Friends Day – Richmond
21.08. Best Friends Day – Richmond
23.08. Not on Tour / Slates – Bla, Bonn
24.08. Descendents – O2 Brixton Arena, London UK

Knitting Factory Videos

admin — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:39:30 +0000

June 23rd @ Knitting Factory NYC:

Off With Their Heads:

Dear Landlord:

Dirt Bike Annie:

Cake Shop Show Videos

admin — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:34:07 +0000

Three videos from Tuesdays show:

Jetty Boys

Be My Doppelganger

Kepi Ghoulie

Dean Dirg live at KAW

admin — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 16:06:40 +0000

Last Friday Dean Dirg played KAW in Leverkusen at the opening of the new renovated hall. Unfortunately it was very dark and the sound wasn’t the best either. Didn’t stop me from recording though:

Ergs! Final Show Poster – Pre-order now!

admin — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:48:13 +0000

Ok, I will be selling these:

Click to enlarge!

full color | 18×24 inches | 12pt uncoated paper | 250 copies
Photo by yours truly
Artwork Mike Welch

- These will be on sale at Insub Fest for 7$ each. Poster tubes will be available (as long as supplies last.)
- If you are not going to Insub Fest or prefer to have it mailed to you: You can pre-order a copy now for 8.00$ + 5.50$ priority mail (US). Shipped in a tube. Click here to order.
- If you are from outside the US:
Shipping to Canada is 20$. Sorry, there is nothing I can do about it. I can offer to send a poster folded. That might save some money, ruin the poster though.
Europe: Shipping from the US would be 28$. I will bring some home with me to Germany, shipping from here should be a little cheaper. Contact me for pre-order!

Note: All mail orders will ship out after Insub Fest. Approximately Monday June 28th. Or when I’m back in Europe. Approximately July 2nd.

If these don’t sell out (I highly doubt they do) they will continue to be available until they are all gone. Price and ordering details might change though. If you are scared not to get one, email me for pre-order and Ill reserve you one.

Contact me if you have any questions.

Missing things

admin — Tue, 25 May 2010 21:31:53 +0000

Just for the sake of completeness: here is a list of blog-entries that could be written, but are missing, might come one day, or never:

Accelerators Tour: Paaspop
Accelerators Tour: gig with Stiff Little Fingers
Queensday
~~Banner Pilot in Düsseldorf~~
Eläkeläiset in Bochum, Aachen and Wiesbaden
Scheisse Minnelli / Idle Hands in Bonn
Icehockey Deutschland-Finland
Solinger Heartcoretage

Oh man….

The 20 Belows – For better days.

admin — Fri, 07 May 2010 22:19:31 +0000

Hey remember when I went out to shoot empty roads at night? Have you ever asked yourself what this was all about? Well probably not, but here’s the story anyhow. Ulrich from The 20 Belows asked me for these night shots to use them for the release of the bands new album. I couldn’t turn this down, cause I had heard the recordings and they totally rule! So the record is coming out this months on Monster Zero Records and here is the cover art:

The back side uses another image from that night. I totally love the artwork! And congrats to whoever did the editing / photoshopping: great job! Anyway the band is streaming 8 new songs on their Myspace, go check them out. Also they come on tour and are gonna play Bonn on the 27th! See you there!

Bouncing Souls Queensday Videos

admin — Fri, 07 May 2010 21:53:33 +0000

Here are two videos of the Bouncing Souls show:

Queensday Festival 2010

admin — Mon, 03 May 2010 07:14:20 +0000

The Queensday Festival is an extremely nice event that takes place annually in Venlo, The Netherlands, just a few kilometers behind the German border. This year they celebrate the 10th anniversary and on this occasion they invited a big headliner: The Bouncing Souls. Beyond the conveniently located town the festival also has a great venue and a great atmosphere. Theres always a few hundred people mixed from all scenes of rock/punk/hardcore, theres three stages (one open air) and an interesting line-up each year. Tickets were a ridiculous 6€! A real insiders tip!
First I made a detour through the Ruhr area to get Berni. In the face of the the fact that its a Friday before a holiday this wasn’t a good idea. The whole region is a giant traffic jam, I even took a completely different route in order to avoid the worst traffic. As we arrive at the parking lot I meet the first friend already. And it continues like that. A lot of hands to shake.
First band I got to see were the Real Danger, melodic pop-punk that not only reminds of the Descendents musically, the singer has quite some optic features of Milo. They also do a Screeching Weasel cover and the audience really enjoys them. A real good start of the night.
After that the Dead Elvis the playing outside. It’s one guy in an Elvis costume with a zombie mask who is doing some one-man-band rockabilly and blues. The trash factor here is really high, but doesn’t enthuse me. Especially cause its open air in sunlight. Inside the next band are Banner Pilot. The four guys from Minneapolis have recently released their second album on Fat Wreck and are now touring Europe for the first time. A little bit of Dillinger 4 and Lawrence arms with ruff vocals and melancholy lyrics. I like them. The Italian guy (whose name I forgot but I’ve met him on the recent tour) standing in the front row is singing along to every song! Respect! Meanwhile on the open air stage the Accelerators are getting ready to play the final show of their two month long tour. Today all people that went on tour with them are here. (1 bass player, 1 drummer, 3 guitar players, 4 drivers), and without the technical difficulties this would have even been more fun. At the end of the night we took a photo with all 10 of us. In front of the Bouncing Souls Nightliner…
I was smart enough to forget to bring money with me. I could buy three drink tickets and loose one of them. I’m lucky cause they offer you give you a new drink if you return 20 empty cups. I do that twice. And Paul bought me a drink too. Thanks!
Only from afar I hear a little of Shaking Godspeed. A trio with drums, guitar and organ. At times the guitar sound reminds me of the White Stripes, but its getting too hippie over time. Relatively early at about 21:30 the Bouncing Souls enter the stage and the hall is packed! With some luck I get a place on the side elevated on a box so I can see everything just fine. The first song is the opening track of the new album and the hall starts dancing immediately, the hands are up in the air and the first crowd surfers start flying. It pretty much stays like this for the entire show. Every once in a while Greg gets the audience to help him singing. It doesn’t take long and it’s getting really hot in the room. Lots of fun!
Final act for me was the Kepi & Friends set on the small stage upstairs. His backing band consists of Greg of the Bouncing Souls on guitar and Gregs wife Shanti on bass. Both switch to the ukulele in between. Kepi is a born entertainer and his little rocknroll songs about monsters and zombies are unplugged as great as amplified. The audience is singing along, Ivo of the Apers fame, is playing the ‘drums’ (some eggshakers), and its a great time. Shanti gets to sing two songs as well. A worthy end of the night. Can’t wait for next year! The only downside of the near border location is that you get checked by German police searching for drugs. Not that we had any. But the officers were nice. And since our story was “we went to Venlo to some punkrockfestival” – I would have searched us too. Ha!

Here’s a great video of Kepis performance:

And some photos. Theres more in the Gallery:

About these updates

admin — Sat, 01 May 2010 13:55:41 +0000

I’m so far behind with updating the site. Not to mention the missing translations. So there is about one month missing, but Ill just stick with the present for now.