Beatsteaks
| Beatsteaks | |
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 Beatsteaks at Rock am Ring 2017 |
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| General information | |
| origin | Berlin ( Germany ) |
| Genre (s) | Alternative rock , punk rock |
| founding | 1995 |
| Website | beatsteaks.com |
| Founding members | |
| Peter Baumann | |
Drums |
Stephan Hirche (1995–1998) |
bass |
Alexander Rosswaag (1995–2000) |
| Bernd Kurtzke | |
| Current occupation | |
| Arnim Teutoburg-Weiß | |
Lead guitar, backing vocals |
Bernd Kurtzke |
Rhythm guitar, keyboard, vocals |
Peter Baumann |
Drums , backing vocals |
Thomas Götz (since 1998) |
| Torsten Scholz (since 2000) | |
| Dennis Kern (live member since 2012) | |
| former members | |
bass |
Alexander Rosswaag (until 2000) |
Drums |
Stephan Hirche (until 1998) |
The Beatsteaks are a German alternative rock / punk band from Berlin that has existed since 1995 . You are under contract with Warner Music . The band is one of the most commercially successful punk rock bands in Germany, along with other bands such as Die Ärzte and Die Toten Hosen .
Band history
Peter Baumann, Stephan Hirche, Alexander Rosswaag and Bernd Kurtzke founded the Beatsteaks in 1995. Shortly afterwards, Arnim Teutoburg-Weiß joined the band as a singer and additional guitarist. During the Boombox tour in 2011, singer Arnim stated that the song Territorial Pissings by Nirvana was the initial spark for founding the band. However, the band made it clear in an interview that it was a matter of an "information reduction" that did not exactly correspond to the facts. In 1996 the young band won a local music competition in SO36 and was allowed to appear as the opening act at the Berlin Sex Pistols concert . This was also the tenth band appearance at all.
The Beatsteaks named their first album, recorded in 1997, after the house number of their rehearsal room, 48/49 . It still contains several German songs, while the newer albums are in English. In 1999, their second album, Launched , was released on the American punk label Epitaph Records . At that time, the drums were already being played by Thomas Götz. There was a change on bass in 2000 and Torsten Scholz joined the band for Alexander Rosswaag. This was followed by joint tours with Bad Religion , Die Ärzte , Donots and Die Toten Hosen on their eat or die tour in 2005, which allowed them to introduce themselves to a wider audience.
In 2002, the third album, Living Targets , was released, for which the Beatsteaks released their first singles Let Me In and Summer , which was also heard for the first time on radio and television. At the end of 2002 the band played a concert in Berlin's Columbiahalle and recorded an EP for this purpose , which was given to every concert-goer. That living room EP was the band's first collaboration with producer Moses Schneider .
The Beatsteaks were mentioned in 2003 by the band Die Ärzte in their song Unrockbar with the words “How can you sit still with the Beatsteaks when pop singers bring tears to your eyes?”, Which further increased their popularity. Die Toten Hosen covered their song Hand in Hand for the album Nur zu Visiting , which was released in 2005.
The breakthrough came in 2004 with the album Smack Smash , especially with their second single I Don't Care as Long as You Sing . At the MTV Europe Music Awards 2004 they won in the category Best German Act . At the end of 2005, the double DVD B-side was released , which contains a self-produced documentary about the band's history and a compilation of several concerts as well as the music videos produced by the band up to that point in time. In 2006 the Beatsteaks played a short summer tour comprising three concerts and two festivals. After the release of the pre-single Jane Became Insane on March 9, 2007, the album Limbo Messiah was released on March 30, 2007. This album also includes the later released singles Cut Off the Top , Demons Galore and Meantime .
On June 7th, 2007 the band performed at the concert “ Your voice against poverty ” in Rostock in front of 70,000 spectators and a month later, on July 7th, 2007, they played their biggest concert up to then in the sold-out Berlin Kindl-Bühne Wuhlheide around 17,000 viewers. In the same year they were nominated again in the category Best German Act at the EMAs and were awarded the 1 Live Krone Listener Prize for the best live act. They received this award again in 2008. In 2011 they won the award for best band at the 1 Live Krone.
On May 2, 2008, a double live album was released under the name Kanonen auf Spatzen , which includes two CDs and a DVD. After their tour of Limbo Messiah ended in August 2008, the Beatsteaks took a break to write new songs afterwards.
At the end of December 2009 the Beatsteaks were confirmed as headliners for the Southside Festival and the Hurricane Festival 2010 as well as for Nova Rock .
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On January 28, 2011, the album was released with the title Boombox . The first single Milk & Honey was offered for download from December 3, 2010 and has been available as a maxi CD since January 14, 2011. On February 8, 2011 it was announced that the band was able to conquer the top of the German album charts for the first time with Boombox . The second single, Cheap Comments , was released on April 8th . In May 2011 the band received the VIVA Comet in the “Best Video” category for the song Milk & Honey . The third release, Automatic , will follow on July 15th .
In June 2011 it was announced that the song House on Fire will be featured on the European soundtrack for the third part of the Transformers series. Uwe Ochsenknecht and his son Wilson Gonzalez play in the video clip for the single .
In 2013 the band released the music DVD Muffensausen , which made it to number three in the German charts. On May 15, 2014, the song DNA from the new album was released as a free download. This was followed on June 20th by the download single Gentleman Of The Year , the first official release of the new album Beatsteaks , which was released on August 1st, 2014.
In 2016 they covered the stereolab song French Disko together with Dirk von Lowtzow , the cover serves as the title track for Fatih Akin's book adaptation of Tschick .
In May 2017, the band announced their eighth studio album, Yours , which was released on September 1st. When the double album was announced, two music videos were also released ( I Do and 40 Degrees ) and two other songs were offered for streaming .
Band members
- Beatsteaks, cast live at With Full Force 2018, Germany
Singer and rhythm guitarist Arnim Teutoburg-Weiß
Lead guitarist Bernd Kurtzke
Rhythm guitarist Peter Baumann
Drummer Thomas Götz
Bass player Torsten Scholz
Side projects
Thomas Götz (drummer) and Marten Ebsen, the guitarist of Turbostaat , started the project “NinaMarie”. Her first EP was released under the name Scheiss.Taxi - Scheiss.Paris in March 2006. In March 2013, the further EP followed fire in the neighborhood .
Arnim Teutoburg-Weiß (singer) and Torsten Scholz (bassist) also play DJs across Germany under the name Fra Diavolo. Even when Torsten wasn't in the band, they played in the Berlin Sage Club . Torsten often travels alone under the name of DJ Totze Trippi.
Another side project of the band, in which all band members are involved, is the cover band "The Roys" that was created during the recording of the album Limbo Messiah . With exchanged roles in the instrumental line-up and under the direction of Roy Baumann (Peter Baumann), well-known songs are covered because, according to his own statement, "the best songs have already been written". The first five songs can be found on the singles Jane Became Insane , Cut Off the Top and Demons Galore .
Recovery outside the band
The Beatsteaks were featured on the 2005 sampler On the Run by the human rights group Pro Asyl with a cover of the song Opel-Gang from the band 's debut album of the same name, Die Toten Hosen .
In the film, Tough Enough by Detlev Buck is also the song Fool from the album 48/49 to hear. The song Wicked Witch is the opener of the film Meier Müller Schmidt , which was released on June 30, 2016.
The song Atomic Love from the album Smack Smash can also be heard in the game NHL 06 by EA , the Beatsteaks with the song Hail to the Freaks in the game Guitar Hero 4: World Tour and with Monster on the non-English language versions of the game Guitar Hero: On Tour . The song Cut Off the Top can also be found in the track list of the German version of the PS2 game SingStar Amped .
Guitarist Bernd Kurtzke made a cameo in the film Video Kings as a customer of a video store. Furthermore, the songs Soothe Me , Summer and I Don't Care as Long as You Sing can be heard in the film.
After the singer of the Berlin bands Seeed and Boundzound , Demba Nabé, in the music videos for the Beatsteaks singles I Don't Care as Long as You Sing and disguised as a ninja in Hello Joe (a tribute to The Clash singer Joe Strummer ) was seen, Arnim Teutoburg-Weiß responded with a guest role in the video for the Boundzound single Stay Alive .
engagement
The Beatsteaks are committed to learning to read and write as part of the “iCHANCE” campaign, which is carried out by the Federal Association for Literacy and Basic Education . Furthermore, with the association Junge Helden , they call for organ donation. At their concerts the band regularly collects for the water initiative Viva con Agua , for the benefit of which they auctioned hand-signed sunglasses in 2010. In 2007 the Beatsteaks spoke out in favor of your voice against poverty . In this context, the band also performed on June 7, 2007 at the “Your voice against poverty” festival on the occasion of the G8 summit in Heiligendamm . At their concerts they are regularly accompanied by volunteers from the marine conservation organization Sea Shepherd .
In 2014 the Beatsteaks supported the call by Dresden to be Nazi-free to prevent the Nazi rallies on February 13th and 19th.
Discography
Studio albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||
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 AT
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 CH
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| 1997 | 48/49 | - | - | - |
First published: 1997
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| 1999 | Launched | - | - | - |
First published: May 7, 1999
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| 2002 | Living Targets | - | - | - |
First published: January 28, 2002
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| 2004 | Smack Smash |
DE11  (39 weeks)DE |
AT19 (17 weeks) AT |
CH74 (6 weeks) CH |
First published: March 1, 2004
Sales: + 200,000 |
| 2007 | Limbo Messiah |
DE3  (24 weeks)DE |
AT4th (17 weeks)AT |
CH19 (9 weeks) CH |
First published: March 30, 2007
Sales: + 110,000 |
| 2011 | Boombox |
DE1 (28 weeks)DE |
AT3 (8 weeks) AT |
CH14 (4 weeks) CH |
First published: Jan 28, 2011
Sales: + 100,000 |
| 2014 | Beatsteaks |
DE1 (11 weeks)DE |
AT6 (9 weeks) AT |
CH11 (6 weeks) CH |
First published: August 1st, 2014
Sales: + 100,000 |
| 2017 | Yours |
DE2 (9 weeks) DE |
AT7 (4 weeks) AT |
CH27 (2 weeks) CH |
First published: September 1, 2017
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Awards
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1 live crown
- 2007: in the category "Best Live Act"
- 2008: in the category "Best Live Act"
- 2011: in the category "Best Band"
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Comet
- 2011: in the "Best Video" category ( Milk & Honey )
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MTV Europe Music Awards
- 2004: in the category "Best German Act"
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Pop culture award
- 2017: in the category "Favorite Band"
- 2018: in the "Favorite Video" category (L on the forehead)
- 2018: in the category "Most impressive live performance" (Beatsteaks & Guests - Waldbühne)
- 2018: in the category "Favorite Band" (Yours)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Concert in the Halle Münsterland 7000 Beatsteaks fans dance for two hours - Tuesday, March 15, 2011. WDR , accessed on June 16, 2011 .
- ↑ Video interview with the Beatsteaks. Getaddicted.org, accessed June 16, 2011 .
- ↑ lineup ( memento of December 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ *** BEATSTEAKS *** NEWS-HAGEL *** November 12, 2010. Facebook , November 12, 2010, accessed on November 12, 2010 .
- ↑ Oliver Götz: A boombox from the Beatsteaks. Musikexpress , November 5, 2010, archived from the original on November 8, 2010 ; accessed October 1, 2015 .
- ^ Milk & Honey. (No longer available online.) Beatsteaks, formerly the original ; Retrieved November 12, 2010 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Beatsteaks conquer the charts ( Memento from March 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (www.stern.de, February 8, 2011)
- ↑ http://www.beatsteaks.com/
- ↑ Beatsteaks: There's a new… Facebook , June 16, 2011, accessed on June 16, 2011 (English).
- ↑ Beatsteaks: New video with Ochsenknecht duo. Radio PSR, December 8, 2011, accessed February 3, 2012 .
- ↑ For you: Beatsteaks announce new album “YOURS” - listen to two new songs here. In: Musikexpress . Axel Springer Mediahouse Berlin , May 25, 2017, accessed on May 26, 2017 .
- ↑ 1.9.2017 YOURS double album !! In: instagram.com. Instagram , May 25, 2017, accessed May 26, 2017 .
- ↑ Hello there Ladies & Gentlemen. In: facebook.com/beatsteaks. Facebook , May 25, 2017, accessed May 26, 2017 .
- ↑ Critique of fire in the neighborhood by NinaMarie , popshot.over-blog.de, accessed on April 26, 2016.
- ^ Pro Asyl: On the Run , JKP, 2005, 57162.
- ↑ http://www.elektrolurch.com/spezial/beatsteaks/beatsteaks-interview.htm
- ↑ iCHANCE Profi Portal: Celebrities. Retrieved August 2, 2011 .
- ↑ YouTube: BEATSTEAKS for ALFA music. September 5, 2008, accessed August 2, 2011 .
- Jump up ↑ Young Heroes: Supporters. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 26, 2014 ; accessed on February 22, 2014 .
- ↑ Beatsteaks: Young hero shirts at Beatstuff. Retrieved February 22, 2014 .
- ↑ Viva Con Agua: Rockin 'Shades For Charity. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 27, 2014 ; accessed on February 22, 2014 .
- ↑ Beatsteaks: Sunglasses for Viva Con Agua. Retrieved February 22, 2014 .
- ↑ Stand Up from the Beatsteaks. Retrieved February 22, 2014 .
- ↑ official homepage. In: Beatsteaks. Accessed January 12, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Beatsteaks stand across. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 25, 2014 ; Retrieved August 2, 2011 .
- ^ Dresden against Nazis: Beatsteaks. Retrieved August 2, 2011 .
- ↑ The 2017 winners at a glance. preisfuerpopkultur.de, September 9, 2017, accessed on July 29, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c winner 2018. preisfuerpopkultur.de, October 19, 2018, accessed on October 25, 2018 .
Web links
- Official website
- WDR-Rockpalast Documentation 2007: Out and about with the Beatsteaks - Backstage, concert impressions, photos, background report
- WDR-Rockpalast Backstage: Beatsteaks - backstage interviews, concert impressions and specials
- Beatsteaks on MusicBrainz (English)
- Beatsteaks at Discogs (English)