Giant rooks

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Giant rooks
Giant Rooks at Rocken am Brocken 2016
Giant Rooks at Rocken am Brocken 2016
General information
origin Hamm , Germany
Genre (s) Indie pop , indie rock
founding 2014
Website www.giant-rooks.com
Current occupation
Frederik Rabe
Finn Schwieters
Finn Thomas
Jonathan Wischniowski
Luca Göttner

Giant Rooks is a German indie pop band from Hamm that was founded in 2014. In 2019 they were awarded the 1LIVE-Krone promotion prize and the prize for pop culture in the Most Hopeful Newcomer category. On August 28, 2020, the band released their debut album Rookery.

history

Giant Rooks live at Rock am Ring 2018

The band was founded in 2014 by cousins ​​Frederik Rabe (vocals, guitar , percussion ) and Finn Schwieters (guitar) as well as Jonathan Wischniowski ( synthesizer , piano ), shortly afterwards bassist Luca Göttner and drummer Finn Thomas joined them. The band released their first EP, The Times Are Bursting The Lines , in late 2015 . At that time some of the band members were still attending the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gymnasium in Hamm. In 2016 they were on tour as the opening act with Razz , Kraftklub , Von Wegen Lisbeth and The Temper Trap and played at various festivals in the summer. They also won the 2016 popNRW Prize for Newcomers and were nominated shortly afterwards for the New Music Award of the youth stations of the ARD radio programs , where they came in third.

Another EP called New Estate followed in 2017 , which earned them the first positive reviews and a growing fan base. The release was supported by hundreds of shows across Europe and eventually earned them a record deal with Irrsinn Tonträger ( Universal Music ).

In 2019 the EP Wild Stare was released, which was streamed 50 million times worldwide shortly after its release. In December 2019 the music of Giant Rooks could be heard in Tatort: ​​Ricochets with Wotan Wilke Möhring . Her debut album Rookery was released on August 28, 2020 .

  • Giant Rooks, Live at Rocken am Brocken 2016

  • Finn Thomas

  • Frederik Rabe

  • Finn Schwieters

  • Luca Göttner

  • Jonathan Wischniowski

Discography

Albums

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
EPs
Wild starlings
  DE 61 04/26/2019 (1 week)
Singles
Wild starlings
  DE 97 04/05/2019 (2 weeks)
Studio albums
  • 2020: Rookery
EPs
  • 2015: The Times Are Bursting the Lines
  • 2017: New Estate
  • 2019: Wild Starlings

Songs

Singles
  • 2017: New Estate
  • 2017: Bright Lies (Bergfilm Remix)
  • 2018: Wild Starlings
  • 2019: Tom's Diner (with AnnenMayKantereit )
  • 2020: Watershed (# 9 single trend charts on June 19, 2020)
  • 2020: What I Know Is All Quicksand
  • 2020: Heat Up
  • 2020: Misinterpretations
As a guest musician

Awards

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  1. ↑ The 1LIVE Krone Award 2019 goes to Giant Rooks. In: WDR. Retrieved August 28, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Most hopeful newcomer. In: Prize for Pop Culture. Retrieved August 28, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Giant Rooks Rookery. Musikexpress, accessed on August 28, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Five friends. In: MYP Magazine. Retrieved August 28, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Interview // Giant Rooks - We are perfectionists! In: Herzmukke. Retrieved June 11, 2019 .
  6. ↑ The 2016 winners - Pop music funding for NRW. Retrieved June 11, 2019 .
  7. ↑ mdr.de: NEW MUSIC AWARD | New Music Award 2019. Accessed June 11, 2019 .
  8. ↑ mdr.de: NEW MUSIC AWARD | Kytes get the New Music Award! Retrieved June 11, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Giant Rooks Release New Single Misinterpretations. In: TotalNtertainment. Retrieved August 28, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Giant Rooks return with candid video for brand new single 'Watershed'. In: House of Solo. Retrieved August 28, 2020 .
  11. ↑ a b Chart sources: Germany
  12. ↑ Official single trending charts. mtv.de, June 19, 2020, accessed on June 20, 2020 .
  13. ↑ ME editors: Prize for Pop Culture 2019: These are the winners. musikexpress.de, October 3, 2019, accessed on October 3, 2019 .

Web links

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