The Faderhead Lifetime VIP passes are now for sale. These are limited to only 100 passes and they allow you to get:

1) free access to any Faderhead show (excluding big festivals)
2) all Faderhead releases as free downloads

FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!

Passes are 103 Euros (incl. postage, not incl. bank or PayPal fees!) for everyone outside of Germany and 125 Euros (incl. postage and MwSt) for everyone in Germany. If you want to convert Euros into your currency, simply use the quick and easy XE Converter.

The passes have already been offered to newsletter subscribers last week, but there are still passes left, so send me an email to info@faderhead.com if you are interested!

I just got the first batch of the “Trilogy” digipacks from L-Tracks today, so we’ll have them at the show in Hannover on February 27th. You can also pre-order them now at places like MusicNonStop, InfraRot or Storming The Base among others.

This is the tracklist – my favorite songs from FH1 to FH3 (who are all sold out now except very few copies of FH1):

01. Tanz Zwo Drei Vier (4:06)
02. Dirtygrrrls/Dirtybois (feat. Ultimate MC) (3:49) **
03. Electrosluts Extraordinaire (3:53)
04. Girly Show (3:41)
05. Exit Ghost (4:50) ***
06. Hammer Of The Gods (3:43)
07. ZigZag Machinery (4:53)
08. Houston (4:42)
09. Noisebastardz (3:58)
10. Naughty H (4:25) *
11. Vanish (4:01) *
12. Coke For My Ass (4:05)
13. Burning/Dancing (4:49) *
14. O/H Scavenger (5:18) *
15. The Protagonist (4:10)
16. Acquire The FIre (3:54)
17. Mono Man (3:43)
18. Still Missing (3:23)

* remixed version
** previously unreleased version
*** previously not available on CD

Total Playing Time: 75:15min

… this is what the record business is really like!

So glad to be on L-Tracks Records!!!

Unfortunately the organizers of next Saturday’s gig in Zwickau have cancelled the whole show. So sadly there won’t be any Faderhead show in Zwickau. They are aiming to reschedule so I hope to see you all soon!

I am happy to announce that I will be opening all shows of the Christmas Ball Tour 2010.

Tickets are 30,00 Euros (+ presale fees) in advance and this tour has been sold out on a number of dates in the past years, so you might want to get your tickets early.

The lineup is: Fields Of The Nephilim, Project Pitchfork, Laibach, Agonoize and Faderhead, except for Hannover where Fields Of The Nephilim won’t play and a different headlining band will be announced in the future.

Needless to say: I am super stoked to be part of this and I can’t wait for christmas now! Hope to see you all there!!

Today I got invited to see Blowsight and Kottak by my friend (and their tourmanager) Jenny Seibold so I went and saw two really cool bands:

Blowsight are a young band with a lot of potential and energy, I liked their commercial pop-rock songs like “The Simple Art”, so I’ll definitely grab some of those on iTunes. They are fuckin’ catchy, and a tight live band (kick-ass drummer!) so check them out!!

But Kottak really took the cake tonight. The band is comprised of Jimmy Ratchitt (who’s real name is James Kottak and who is the drummer of the Scorpions) on vocals, Athena (Tommy Lee’s sister) on drums and Price Vernon/Johnny Lucas on bass and guitar. And damn, this was a fun show! Due to the Tuesday night and the terrible weather (snow, snow and more snow) there were only about 50 people at the club, but Kottak really entertained by being rowdy rock’n'roll veterans.

Singer Jimmy was totally hungover and left the stage 4 times to puke in the backstage, yet he came back every time and gave 120% to entertain the crowd. Some tracks like “Rock’n'Roll Forever” got even me (aka bored by 99% of all concerts) to sing along and the sheer willingness to entertain the audience no matter what was great. I am already over at their iTunes store to download my faves. The gig itself was pure chaos, though. Jimmy was gone, then Athena was gone and an audience member replaced her on drums for 1 minute and all of a sudden Uli Jon Roth came on stage to jam on one song. Athena was still missing and Jimmy had taken over the drums so they played a tune I was unfamiliar with. Immediately after that Jimmy dropped off-stage into the backstage room and the gig ended with a totally confused Uli Jon Roth standing alone on stage … *lol*

A gig that was pure chaos was a perfect example to me how shows are played and audiences are won: despite puking all day (which I was later told by Jenny) Jimmy went on stage and totally rocked the 50 ppl. He made it a personal thing, had little chats with the audience, jumped into the front row to take pictures with people while singing the song and he was never short of a joke. Was it unprofessional that he left the stage to puke 4 times? Hell no, it was super-professional to come back and continue playing to a tired 50-people-on-a-tuesday-night-audience DESPITE puking 4 times!

My hat goes off to this band. This is how you gain new fans! I don’t think there was anyone who wasn’t entertained!