NEWS FROM STRAFTANZ ACTUAL
We are Straftanz. We are people without morale and discipline and yet people adore us when we sagaciously state the wrong. We are the soft concrete that offers good rest for your weary brains. We piss on graves to show you that parables are sometimes parabolic. We do not care for the cave paintings on the faces of the elitists. We set words to march in rows and hide explosives in between them. We know that hand that held the chisel, but that does not mean that those words engraved in stone still have meaning for us. We will drown your Hierarchies in sweat.
Get ready to escalate everything.
Mainstream. Sellout. Overground.
Interview ReGen Magazine
When hanging out in New Haven at Toad's Place just across the street from Yale's Sterling memorial library Lüke from ReGen Magazine was kind enough to record a nice little interview with le Band. Check it out. It shall bring you enlightenment. Really.
Read moreManifesto for Mayhem: Escalated House Visits
Musicians should pay house visits to their fans in order to escalate their dwelling spaces. Feel your intellectual musings on Facebook aren’t getting through to your crowd? Scared your MP3s aren’t ricocheting off the walls loudly enough? Petrified your precious groupies are slipping into mundanity? Feel your cyber is lacking …
Read moreA quick note on the escalation of everything.
It is not enough to look at it. It is not enough to join in the song and raise the hands. It is not enough to be someone, or to have a name. Escalation does not mean to be where the action is. Escalation is the action and the reason. …
Read moreA Tour in Pictures.
30000 miles traveled. Hearts touched. Minds opened. Spirits agitated. Dancefloors escalated. Bullshit resisted. We got things broken and fixed. We touched ground in almost every major city of the US. This was a travel of a lifetime. We were happy to meet you. This is not the last time our …
Read moreThe Backdrop Auction is on!
As some of you my already know, the Backdrop Auction is on NOW and the first bids are in. Check it out here now: http://www.ebay.com/itm/270931336295?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649#ht_1104wt_1169 In context of the Auction we'd like to give you some additional information on the Items we are talking about. History of the Banners. …
Read moreFESTIVALS!
Comrades, we'd like to announce and to remember that STRAFTANZ is going to appear on these Festivals: 1. 7-8.04.2012 Resistanz 2012, Sheffield. We return to celebrate our personal highlight of this year's festival season at the Corporation, Sheffield. Most people know about our very much special relationship to this …
Read moreBACKDROP SELLOUT!
We decided to sell three items which share a history. They traveled far on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Until the end of this tour they will have occupied the stage of 46 VNV Nation shows we opened. They will have traveled 23964 miles or 38566 km and will …
Read moreHalbzeit.
The second tour leg with VNV Nation here in the USA was a success for us so far. Sitting in Lawrence, Kansas being blessed with an additional day off that we didn't really ask for. Due to some construction work the whole of the venue was filled with a fine …
Read moreLiberty, Freedom and Bassdrum for all!
People of the United States of America! Straftanz is coming back to Finish what we started in 2011. We are ready. VNV NATION: AUTOMATIC TOUR - NORTH AMERICA - PART 2 EXTENDED LIVE SET with special guests STRAFTANZ Shows are "all ages" unless indicated 15 Feb 12 USA Nashville, TN …
Read moreBullshit Merchandise at the KuFa in Krefeld, Germany.
Yesterday at the KuFa in Krefeld I saw something seriously upsetting. Some Cogwheel-EBM guy sold T-Shirts that advocate to keep the scene clean from cyber-people. The idea of marking a group of this very festivals attendees as outsiders is bloody fucking bollocks. The method (see pictures) to associate cyber people with …
Read moreSeattle.
It's my first visit to the USA and I got to admit, that this is a rather surreal place for me. Everything around here seems to exist in it's extreme. If it's the rule of the Internet that whatever it is there a porn version of it, It seem there …
Read moreTriumph is more than just a visit to Haight Ashbury.
I had Ben and Jerry's ice cream right at the corner of Haight Ashbury. In some way every chocolate chunk that gloriously melted on my tongue invoked a feeling of triumph and happiness. For the first time in months I felt like, that in some way I won. I made …
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