What a stupid concept. We do look back today with some help of the commrades from the Verdamniss E-Zine from France. These heroes of video creation recorded some most amazing live footage of us and created this little cut from the magnificent Dark Castle Festival. We want you to take a look. This is the best live footage that was recorded for us so far. Take a look. Especially at that outstanding audience. Obey.

We would like to expressivly thank Yannick for booking us, Nicolas, Helyzium, Future, Florent, Charlotte, Bertrand and everyone else that should be mentioned here for making that evening what it was. Especially we’d like to thank the Verdamniss crew for this great video.

Love, Rainbows, Unicorns,

-jl-

Commrades!

Hereby I declare this weekend of summer darkness a major success. We burned the dancefloor, even though it was early in the morning. We tested our new track “Die neue F-Klasse” and were pleased to see that it works. We were able to integrate a world class guitarist to our set, I had three cans of beer right on stage and spilt a fourth into the audience. I went swimming in a cool little hotel pool after the Kindervorstellung and had some weird types of most interesting belgian beer. Tripel Karmeliet and Delirium Tremens are truly some deliciously vicious brews.
I saw people burning flyers. I saw them burning money. I finally saw them burning their socks, and I am not even joking. With the help of Foamy we annoyed the crap out people by blip sequencing austrian and german war songs. We had fun looking at the amazingly efficient moves of Amduscias keyboarder, had fun before and during the Project Pitchfork gig and found out that four letter words are funny to play with.

Take a look at this video, take a look at the pictures and you’ll get the idea.

Baum, oida!

-jl-, Straftanz ZK

Genossen, unsere Darbietung im Saint findet nicht statt. Wir kennen die genauen Umstände nicht, aber es schien der Besitzer der Örtlichkeit, nicht aber der Veranstalter der Örtlichkeit zu sein der es sich plötzlich anders überlegte. Ein Ausweichtermin in einer anderen Örtlichkeit wird gerade gesucht.

Geschichte wird verbrannt, es geht vorran.

 Am Freitag, dem sechsten August 2010 wird Straftanz im Oberhausener SAINT spielen. Das SAINT ist ein großartiger Club, ist aber als solcher unterpräsentiert. Zu lange haben intellektuelle Schwätzer dort Partys sterben sehen. Zu lange wurden die Sets großer DJs, die sich dort an undankbaren Sonntagen versuchten, zerredet und kaputt diskutiert. Zu oft haben die Besserwisser es dort nicht besser gewusst. Da wurde viel geredet aber nicht genug getanzt. Da wurde versucht den Schleimscheißern, die sich seit 1998 keine Platte mehr gekauft haben, Moderne zu vermitteln. Da vergammelten die Revolutionäre von 1989 in ihrem Sud, denn die Kinder dieser Jahrgänge wurden, so gut es geht, ausgeschlossen. Damit ist jetzt Schluss. Zusammen mit den Genossen von Noisuf-X wollen wir zeigen, dass ein anderer Club möglich ist.

Entweder sind wir ein Teil des Problems, oder  ein Teil der Lösung. Dazwischen ist nichts. Die Scheiße ist seit Dekaden und Generationen von allen Seiten untersucht und begutachtet worden. Wir wollen das beenden. Am sechsten August findet eine Tanzveranstaltung statt. Wer es versteht, was es bedeutet einen Tanzboden nicht zu bespielen sondern zu verbrennen, der wird dort sein. Bringt sie mit, die Müden, die Jungen, die Alten und alle die es satt haben. Habt Mut zu tanzen! Habt Mut zu siegen! Denn für alles Reaktionäre gilt, dass es nicht fällt, wenn man es nicht niederschlägt.

-jl-, straftanz ZK.

We love the Club and as Club Lovers, we aren’t that much into large festivals. With one exception: Summer Darkness. It was our place of birth, the people of the Netherlands are one of our favourite partycrowds and the dense city of Utrecht a wonderful place to visit. We are proud to announce our appearance at this year’s Summer Darkness to deliver a one and only exclusive show full of turns, twists and some new glowing bits and pieces from our upcomming Album “Mainstream Sellout Overground”. Be prepared. This time we are going to get serious.

Dearest Victims,

while Straftanz is progressing again towards its second Album Release, we are happy to get a chance to give you another taste of what we are working at soon. At the 10th of July we are going to show of with an assorted blend of classic streetfight-dance in combination with never performed before post-gothic-modernism from our laboratory. Also this is going to be our first appearance ever in France. We are looking forward to visit a legendary city, to meet its sinister party crowd and to finally burn dancefloors on French soil. Paris! We want you to get mad!

Dark Castle Festival
Paris, 10.07.2010
Le Divan Du Monde

Yesterday morning our booking Manger heavily annoyed me by calling me on my phone at 10 in the morning. This Morn Omina had to cancel due to sickness and he had no other choice but to ask us. Six hours of time left to get the boys and the stuff ready. And we did. Even though I wouldn’t consider us to be the perfect replacement for our Belgian colleagues, the crowd did not seem to be too disappointed to see us. In deed it was amazingly amusing to play at Christmas and to throw chocolate at people. To give you an idea of what happened Jana was kind enough to provide us some Photos.

In the the Name of all of us at Straftanz I would like to thank Alex, Bianca, Armin, Photor, Bernd, Kirstin, Sandra, Frank und Sabi, Chris, Yvonne, Holger, Nina, Julia and Daphne for their support. Also I would like to thank all the others whose Names I do not know. Thank you for being there, for stomping your feet and showing your beautyfull hands.

With Love and Unicorns.

-jl-

Comrades, Revolutionaries, Nominal Members,

as good travelers we at Straftanz never had fixed plans and never had any interesst in arriving somewhere. Neither did I. This little tour of ten days with VNV-Nation and Ayria might have been our greatest travel so far and I have no idea where exactly it brought us to. Still I am not interested in where I am, as I am ignorant towards the concept of positions in that particular manor. Instead of thinking about were the road Straftanz travels might lead us, I prefer to celebrate the things I learned on that journey.
I learned how to live on a bus with twelve people and one toillet. I ate a deep fried mars bar in scotland and learned how scotch is meant to be drank. I had hot chocolate in Belgium, ate pizza that was more italian than Italy itself and had cocktails in Antwerp’s finest cocktail bar. I learned about the importance of food and drinks for me in general and that culture is perceived at best when it got swallowed.  I learned most spiffing new words and met most interresting people, most of them for a moment too short. I learned how it feels like to be in a place where I knew almost no one but almost everyone knew me. Even the search for food at four in the morning in a foreign city can not be more surreal than that. I learned how much a city can change within nine years. Today’s Sheffield seemed to me like a Sheffield 2.0 compared to the one I remember from the nineties. At the Slimelight I learned, that my Tequila Trauma is finally over and what it’s like to be kissed by Mark Jackson. I learned even more about the amazing toughness auf our singer and shouter, about his quality of never giving up and about his stubborness alike. I could not image anyone else at the center of our stage. Also I learned how much I can miss Jings presence on stage and learned his true meaning for the integrity of this project because we were forced to do this without him on the UK Shows. It is not the same without him. However. We grew and once more we were confirmed that we are doing the right thing and travel in the right direction without having any idea where we might arrive. 

For all these things I would like to say thank you to each and everyone making all this and more possible and to everyone beeing involved. First and foremost these are Ronan, Mark and Peddy for being courageous or ignorant enough to let us join the VNV-Nation tour. Everyone here at Straftanz is sure you did the right thing. I would like to thank Ayla, David, Daisy and Peter for a most splendid day in Antwerp. Hanging out in your beautiful city almost feels like home. Jennifer for the amazing pink tape. Mike for feeling bugged. I wish the world would be full of people like you. Gab for the Jelly Babies. Sebastian for his revenge on the world and for das Bus.  Diana and Tobias (with true love) for the constant support and everything. Jana (with even more love) for everything. Ingo for the space invaders, LED mice and that patchcable. Michael for not letting me touch anything. Volker for the second shot. Revolution by Night. You know why. The crews and security people from the venues we traveled, especialy Simon from London. All of you were simply amazing. Well, maybe except for some “get out” shouting bollocks at the scala. But I don’t mind.

Finally I would like to say thank you to our most excellent Audience: Mariann for helping me out with my stuff and for the charming company on day zero. That guy at the Slimelight and that most lovely girl with him. I lost your names but i still say thank you for the tequila and for the end of my trauma. Army is over at last and you did that. Also I’d like to thank all the other people at the slimelight whose names I lost. Case of you people read this, please remove these blind spots. Heidi and her company for being the energy hotspot in sheffield’s crowd. Lara, Katie and these people that sigend my book unreadable for enriching my english language in most spiffing ways.  Basically I need to thank the whole crowd of Sheffield for their kindness and their full force despite the fact that we needed a chair for doing that gig.  Norman, Fiona, Angela and the glowstick junkies from Glasgow for simply beeing there. It really would have been difficult without you. The cyberred Mark  for joining us on stage once again. We love you. Laura for the 1up, it truly helped. Luise for being beloved and for showing of with that. Also I would like to thank that guy that also signed unreadable. By the way, next BK after next BK is on me. Sylvie and Richard for getting in, despite all difficulties. I was happy to see you.  Normann (the one with two n) and the other Richard from Birmingham. The loudest scream of Birmingham, front right. Fiona, Sarah and Jenny for signing. Vicki for the lovely conversation. We constantly repeat: People like you are the driving force behind this project. You are the reason and the cause.

We are no one.

Bassdrum is the law.

-jl-

PS.: Please take a look at the final tour photo collection. You will like it. Obey.

Just a little update of the VNV Nation Tour Photostream.

Guys, you uploaded Video like crazy! Here is the youtube recap of the last 24h on Youtube:

More Videos bellow. Thanks for recording and thanks for sharing. We will give you some major update within the next hour.

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At the Slimelight with Revolution by Night.

Love, -jl-