Kettcar (band)
| Kettcar | |
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| General information | |
| origin | Hamburg , Germany |
| Genre (s) | Indie rock , indie pop |
| founding | 2001 |
| Website | http://www.kettcar.net/ |
| Current occupation | |
| Marcus Wiebusch | |
Vocals, guitar |
Erik Langer |
Bass , vocals |
Reimer Bustorff |
Keyboard , vocals |
Lars Wiebusch |
| Christian Hake (since 2010) | |
| former members | |
Drums |
Frank Tirado-Rosales (until 2010) |
Kettcar is a German indie rock band from Hamburg that was founded in 2001.
history
Before founding Kettcar, Marcus Wiebusch and Frank Tirado-Rosales had been part of the band ... But Alive since 1991 , which played punk music with political texts. Reimer Bustorff played with Rantanplan until the band was founded , as did Marcus Wiebusch. Shortly after the band was founded in 2001, the EP As long as the fat woman is still singing, the opera is not available for free download on the band's homepage.
Since no record label could be found for their debut album Du und wieviel von dein Freunde , Marcus Wiebusch, Reimer Bustorff and Thees Uhlmann von Tomte founded their own label Grand Hotel van Cleef (GHvC), on which the album was released in October 2002. The second album Von Spatzen und Tauben, Dächern und Hands followed in 2005. In response to the G8 summit in Heiligendamm in 2007 , Kettcar took part in May 2007 with many other artists on the Move with the title Imagine Everything (No Guillotine Far and Wide) -against-G8 sampler.
The third album entitled Sylt was released on April 18, 2008 and entered the album charts at number 5. On August 31, 2008, they played a sunrise concert on the Hamburg Kampnagel site with acoustic versions of some of their titles, supported by a string quartet. The recording of this concert forms the main part of the DVD Live on Kampnagel - 5:43 am , which was released in autumn 2009. In November 2009 they went on a six-concert tour with this program, supported by strings from the Neue Philharmonie Frankfurt . From the concert of the tour at Fliegende Bauten in Hamburg, a live album of the same name was released on CD and vinyl on January 22, 2010, which contains the songs from the concert without the intervening announcements. In June 2010, Frank Tirado-Rosales announced that he would leave the band to devote himself to other projects. His successor is Christian Hake, who was already on the drums with Home of the Lame and Olli Schulz . On February 10, 2012, the band released their fourth studio album, which is called Between the Rounds . From April 2013 Kettcar took a creative break. In July 2017, Kettcar ended their break with a new album and an extensive tour through Germany, Austria and Switzerland in January / February 2018. After the great success of this tour, the band gave further concerts in spring 2019 and several festival appearances in the same year .
On August 11, 2017, Sommer '89 (He cut holes in the fence) was the band's first release in over five years. The song is a statement about the refugee crisis . The fifth album I vs. We appeared on October 13, 2017. In the lyrics, Kettcar picks up on current events from “ego cynics, pegidists and concerned citizens” and jokes at live concerts that he is now “political punk”. On March 15, 2019, the band released the EP The sweet fragrance of contradiction (We vs. Me) , which contains five songs, the continuation of the album Ich vs. Wir .
style
Musically, Kettcar belong to the area of German-speaking indie rock and indie pop . With the last albums, especially with Zwischen den Runden , the style was broadened instrumentally by piano, string and wind instruments and thus more progressive and jazzy . The band is often mentioned in connection with the Hamburg School . Marcus Wiebusch does not see this connection, only the origin is the same. Reimer Bustorff describes the style as guitar pop.
Discography
All publications are on the Hamburg label Grand Hotel van Cleef , which singer Wiebusch and bassist Bustorff co-founded .
Studio albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||
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| 2002 | You and how many of your friends | - | - | - |
First published: October 28, 2002
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| 2005 | Of sparrows and pigeons, roofs and hands |
DE5 (8 weeks) DE |
AT49 (1 week) AT |
- |
First published: March 7, 2005
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| 2008 | Sylt |
DE5 (8 weeks) DE |
AT12 (3 weeks) AT |
CH78 (1 week) CH |
First published: April 18, 2008
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| 2012 | Between the rounds |
DE5 (6 weeks) DE |
AT15 (2 weeks) AT |
CH40 (1 week) CH |
First published: February 10, 2012
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| 2017 | I vs. we |
DE4 (6 weeks) DE |
AT11 (4 weeks) AT |
CH27 (2 weeks) CH |
First published: October 13, 2017
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| 2019 | The sweet scent of contradiction (we vs. me) (EP) |
DE22 (1 week) DE |
- | - |
First published: May 17, 2019
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Live albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||
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CH
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| 2010 | Flying structures |
DE32 (1 week) DE |
- | - |
First published: January 22, 2010
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| 2019 | ... and that's how it works (Live) |
DE28 (1 week) DE |
- | - |
First published: November 8, 2019
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Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
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DE
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| 2003 | Landungsbrücken out you and how many of your friends |
- |
First published: February 10, 2003
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| 2005 | 48 hours of sparrows and pigeons, roofs and hands |
DE45 (4 weeks) DE |
First published: February 14, 2005
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| Dykes Of sparrows and pigeons, roofs and hands |
DE69 (2 weeks) DE |
First published: May 9, 2005
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| 2008 | Graceland Sylt |
DE57 (3 weeks) DE |
First published: March 28, 2008
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| Sylt zero-sum game |
- |
First published: May 30, 2008
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| At the table Sylt |
- |
First published: August 29, 2008
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| 2010 | Money Left To Burn (Live) Flying Buildings |
- |
First published: January 8, 2010
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| 2011 | Rescue between the rounds |
- |
First published: December 27, 2011
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| 2012 | In the club between the rounds |
- |
First published: February 3, 2012
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| 2017 |
Summer '89 (He cut holes in the fence) Me vs. We |
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First published: August 11, 2017
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Video albums
- 2009: Kettcar - Live on Kampnagel 5:43 AM , November 6, 2009
literature
- Astrid Vits: You and many of your friends . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag 2004. ISBN 3-89602-621-6 .
Web links
- Official website
- Kettcar at Discogs (English)
- Kettcar at laut.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Twitter status
- ↑ Intro news ticker for the release of Sylt with playlist ( memento of the original from April 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Sabine Fischer: Between Pop and Politics . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . January 26, 2018.
- ↑ Kettcar - The sweet scent of contradiction (we vs. me). In: cybmag.de (Count Your Bruises Magazine). March 15, 2019, accessed March 24, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c Chart sources: DE AT CH
