Birmingham 6

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Birmingham 6 is a Danish electro-industrial / EBM music group that was founded in 1991. It was named after the Birmingham Six , a group of Irish men mistakenly imprisoned for the Birmingham bombings . The band members are Kim Løhde Petersen and Michael Hillerup.

subjects

The name was chosen because the themes in the texts focus on injustice in the world, especially that of Western democracies. The texts often provoked a controversial echo. While some radio stations refused to play the songs, other musical groups did not want to be associated with the band. Birmingham 6 wrote several songs about questioning government systems and their refusal to admit wrongdoing. The play Israel is about the conflict between the Palestinians and the Jews . Contagious addresses AIDS as an issue and Who Do You Love? describes the difficulty of distinguishing good from bad. Song 6794700 describes the Church's view of abortion that the band members disagree with. Love Child is about how tour operators help fulfill some men's requests for child prostitutes in Thailand. The song Policestate is about the unrest in Copenhagen in the wake of the referendum for the Maastricht Treaty in 1993, in which the police fired shots into the angry crowd, injuring several demonstrators.

Publications

The first album, Mindhallucination , was released in 1994. In the United States, it was released in 1995 as Assassinate with some changes to the track selection. Her next album, Error of Judgment , was released in 1996. In 1999 Resurrection was released , a collection of previously released pieces and two new remixes. 7 tracks from the album Error of Judgment were sung by Jean-Luc de Meyer, who is best known as a member of the band Front 242 .

Birmingham 6 also released a single of their cover of KMFDM's Godlike and covered AC / DC's Thunderstruck for the 1997 Cleopatra Records tribute album Covered in Black . They also covered Metallica's Seek and Destroy for the tribute album Tribute to ... METALLICA .

Concert tours

In 1997 they embarked on a five-week coast-to-coast tour through the United States with the Seattle-based band Rorschach Test . Due to the bad organization of the tour, singer and founding member Kim Løhde Petersen left the group after four appearances. At that time they were called "one of the most promising bands in industrial".

Unable to tackle the remaining shows on the tour without Kim, they canceled the trip and returned broke to Denmark.

As an expression of appreciation for the Danish club Metropolis, Kim Løhde Petersen and Michael Hillerup got together for one night on March 7, 2003 to play live at the celebration of the club's tenth anniversary. There also appeared Diary of Dreams on.

In October 2008, Birmingham 6 played at the 12th Elektrisch Festival in Zwickau. The German label Black Rain released the live compilation 12th Electrisch Festival on December 17th, 2008. Absolute Body Control and Tyske Ludder also played at the festival . The Birmingham 6 tracks on the live compilation are You Cannot Walk Here and a cover version of the song Godlike by KMFDM .

In March 2009, Birmingham 6 performed at the 10 Years of Black Rain show in Copenhagen to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Black Rain label. The bands Hicoctan and Feindflug were also represented there.

Discography

Albums

  • Mindhallucination (Transfixion Records)
  • Assassinate (Cleopatra Records)
  • Error of Judgment (Zoth Ommog Records, Cleopatra Records)
  • Resurrection (COP International)

EPs and singles

  • Israel (Transfixion Records)
  • Contagious (Transfixion Records)
  • Policestate (Cleopatra Records)
  • To Protect and To Serve (Cleopatra Records)
  • The Kill (Error of Judgment 12 "Promo) (Zoth Ommog Records)
  • You Cannot Walk Here (Zoth Ommog Records, Cleopatra Records)
  • Mixed Judgments (Zoth Ommog Records)

credentials

  1. ↑ Bush, John. " Birmingham 6: Biography ", Allmusic . Retrieved 2010-03-16.
  2. ↑ Ehrbar, Joe (January 9, 1997). "Industrial strength," The Spokesman Review , p. 2. Convenience link .
  3. ↑ Discogs: Birmingham 6 . In: discogs.com . Retrieved March 7, 2010.

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