Kevin Hamann

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Kevin Hamann (* 1980 in Berlin-Pankow ) is a German singer and guitarist from Hamburg . In addition to his solo releases as ClickClickDecker and My First Trumpet, he also became known through the electronic project Bratze , as a member of the Ludger music group , as well as through the program he moderated, Initiative Herz instead of Kommerz, on Internet radio ByteFM .

Life

Hamann grew up in Hohenschönhausen . In 1986 his father received an exit permit so that he could attend his grandmother's funeral in Husum . Subsequently, as previously agreed, he did not return to the GDR . In 1988 Hamann and his two brothers were allowed to travel with their mother . Husum, first of all, he moved to Kiel , where he received his community service ableistete. He then came to Hamburg via Flensburg , where he has lived since 2003.

Career

1990 to 2001: beginnings

At the age of eleven, Hamann came to the electric guitar through a friend , which he learned self-taught . He played hardcore in various bands from the mid-1990s . Eventually he began to make music solo, mostly electronically at first. During this phase he called himself Tom Bola and released three self-distributed albums between 1999 and 2001. Sang at that time and he also played in the Hamburg band A No No .

2001 to 2006: ClickClickDecker

Subsequently he devoted himself increasingly to the acoustic guitar . Hamann wrote his songs to beats created by a drum computer , supported by a synthesizer and keyboard . He changed his stage name to ClickClickDecker , a reference to the song "Click Click" by the British band Wedding Present . As a ClickClickDecker , Hamann initially released various EPs and albums on cassette , CD and vinyl , including a split LP with the band Lattekohlertor . In October 2003 Hamann had his first appearance as ClickClickDecker , in the Alte Meierei in Kiel he played in the opening act for Turbostaat and Monochrome . Finally Bernd Begemann became aware of the young musician and persuaded him to record an album.

Kevin Hamann as ClickClickDecker (2009)

In February 2005, the album Ich sind nicht Angst vor ... was released by Audiolith Records , which he recorded with a multi-track cassette recorder , like all his publications up to then . It contains a selection of titles that Hamann wrote between 2002 and 2004. In December of the same year, Hamann released the live EP got only two guest places for the last time, a sound carrier in self-distribution. For his second album, Hamann received offers from two other labels, but turned it down. Sun also released No offense , which was published in September 2006, at Audiolith.

When Marcus Wiebusch offered Hamann to accompany him and his band Kettcar on tour, Hamann began to put together a live band. Wiebusch recommended Simon Rass, who worked for his label Grand Hotel van Cleef , as a drummer. On a tour with Fink he met the guitarist Oliver Stangl, and he was able to win Audiolith founder Lars Lewerenz as bassist .

2007 to 2008: Bratze and My First Trumpet

During a tour, Hamann got to know the electronic musician Norman Kolodziej ( Der Tante Renate ), who also publishes with Audiolith. Together they produced the song "Jean Claude" and, due to the great response, decided to continue making music together. This resulted in the Bratze project , with which they initially went on tour before the 2007 debut album Kraft was released. Since then Hamann has been working full-time as a musician.

In the same year Hamann published under the pseudonym My First Trumpet an instrumental album, which the net label Aerotone published and can be downloaded for free. It contained pieces that Hamann had written and collected over many years. In the same year Hamann founded the Heart Instead of Commerce initiative , which advocates freely available music. Since 2008 Hamann has hosted a monthly program of the same name on the Hamburg internet radio station ByteFM .

2008 to 2014

ClickClickDecker
ClickClickDecker live October 24, 2014 in the Stummschen Reithalle Neunkirchen
ClickClickDecker live October 24, 2014 in the Stummschen Reithalle Neunkirchen
General information
origin Hamburg
Genre (s) song writer
founding 2001 as a solo project,
2010 as a band
Website www.clickclickdecker.de/
Current occupation
Kevin Hamann
Oliver Stangl (since 2008)
Sebastian Cleemann (since 2017)

In the spring of 2008 Hamann began work on his third ClickClickDecker album. At first he recorded the album again at home, but was not satisfied with the result. Therefore, he recorded the album again in a studio in the summer of 2008, and for the first time other musicians were also involved in the recordings. According to the circumstances appeared in January 2009. On March 7, a concert that Hamann and his band played as part of the Visions Party in the Cologne workshop was recorded for the Rockpalast broadcast .

In February 2009 the book Saturday Night was published by Piper Verlag, for which Hamann wrote a short story. He later wrote columns online for Opak magazine .

In October 2009, Hamann said in an interview that he was planning to work alternately for one year with Bratze and one year as ClickClickDecker .

In 2010 Hamann devoted himself again to the Bratze project , which released a second album with correction down and went on tour. In the same year Hamann co-founded the punk band Ludger , in which he plays bass. In November of that year the first album, Auf Eis , was released on audio cassette .

In 2011 he went on tour in Germany with Oliver Stangl as ClickClickDecker and on this occasion published the live album Du Ich Wir both about the flying buildings .

Since the beginning of 2012 Hamann has been working in the inclusive site "Barner 16" in Hamburg-Altona , where disabled and non-disabled artists work. His first intensive work there was the founding of the collective Barner 16, with whom he released the first album on the in-house label in March 2013.

In September 2012 he published the third Bratze album, Highlight, together with Norman Kolodziej .

On January 17th, 2014, after a year and a half of work, the new Clickclickdecker album I believe you nothing and somehow everything was released. It was created together with Oliver Stangl in a disused farming school near Emmelsbüll / Horsbüll in North Frisia. The two were accompanied by the photographer Sophie Krische, who made a film for the 12th anniversary and an illustrated book for the album from the pictures.

2015 until today

In 2017 and 2018 Hamann and Stangl worked on the next ClickClickDecker album. At the bottom of the little attentions arose again in the old farmer's school, as well as in Berlin, where the band rehearses. Sebastian Cleemann , who played as Petula in the opening act for a long time and then also supported the drums, was a permanent member of the band during the recordings . The band expanded their tonal spectrum, for example with elements such as fuzz bass, organs and kalimbas. The radio station ByteFM describes the album as a “wonderful piece of art pop”. Hamann spoke publicly about his depression for the first time before the album was released.

After the publication, a tour with the three-man cast from Hamann, Cleemann and Stangl followed in October 2019.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
I don't believe you anything and somehow everything (as ClickClickDecker)
  DE 100 31/01/2014 (1 week)

For the publications of Hamann with Bratze see Bratze # Discography .

As Tom Bola

  • 1999: emo on 4 (self-distribution)
  • 2000: marklenelusch (self-distribution)
  • 2001: why are so many records called Same (self-distribution)

As a ClickClickDecker

Albums

  • 2005: I'm not afraid of ... (CD, Audiolith)
  • 2006: No offense (CD / LP, Audiolith)
  • 2009: According to the circumstances (CD / LP, Audiolith)
  • 2011: You me we both to the flying buildings (CD, Audiolith)
  • 2014: I don't believe you anything and somehow everything (CD / LP, Audiolith)
  • 2018: In the ass of little gifts (CD / LP / digital, Audiolith)

Singles

  • 2006: Who puked on my shoes (CD, Audiolith)
  • 2008: It starts like it left off (Download, Audiolith)
  • 2009: Dialogue with the booby (Download, Audiolith)
  • 2009: Handshake at the turning point (Download, Audiolith)
  • 2011: GZK vs CCD (split single with Gisbert zu Knyphausen )
  • 2013: Neumünster Zoo. (Download, Audiolith)
  • 2014: What if nothing wants to come (Download, Audiolith)

EPs and tapes

  • 2002: tomtomla vs clickclickdecker (self-distribution)
  • 2002: I'll play something for you - I just upload it (self-distribution)
  • 2003: that's how it should be (self-distribution)
  • 2003: Lattekohlertor - clickclickdecker (Split LP, f @ ul collective)
  • 2004: 7 (sea value)
  • 2004: just one attempt (self-distribution)
  • 2005: only have two guest seats - live (self-distribution)
  • 2011: and everything (EP / MC, Audiolith)
  • 2013: Windmühlen Split EP with Love A (7 "/ Download, Rookie Records)
  • 2014: Split EP with Petula (Audiolith / Analogsoul)
  • 2015: Split EP with Spaceman Spiff (7 ", Goddamn Records)

As My First Trumpet

  • 2007: Frerk (Aerotone)
  • 2010: Bene (Aerotone)
  • 2010: Rune (Aerotone)
  • 2016: Oke (Anette Records)
  • 2018: Ursel (Anette Records)

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  1. ↑ Kevin Hamann at OPAK . Retrieved June 6, 2010.
  2. ↑ a b Sascha Krokowski: ClickClickDecker: a portrait of Kevin Hamann ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Published on October 19, 2009. Accessed on June 6, 2010.
  3. ↑ INTERVIEW with ClickClickDecker 1 excerpt from the TV Noir program on October 4, 2009.
  4. ↑ a b c d e Jan Wehn: Kevin Hamann (ClickClickDecker, Bratze & My First Trumpet) ( Memento from September 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Interview for salmon eye . Retrieved June 2, 2010.
  5. ↑ a b c d biography of ClickClickDecker at Laut.de . Retrieved June 3, 2010.
  6. ↑ a b c d e Daniel Decker: clickclickdecker - No asshole ( Memento from July 17, 2007 in the web archive archive.today ) Published in Nillson . Published April 25, 2005. Retrieved July 27, 2010.
  7. ↑ a b c d e ClickClickDecker: Tonträger ( Memento of December 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved on June 2, 2010.
  8. ↑ MySpace the band A No No . Retrieved July 27, 2010.
  9. ↑ Daniel Decker: Clickclickdecker - I'm not afraid of ...  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Published in Nillson . Published February 20, 2005. Retrieved July 27, 2010.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.nillson.de
  10. ↑ a b Jasmin Dreger: Interview with Kevin Hamann alias ClickClickDecker ( Memento from June 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Published on May 16, 2009. Retrieved on June 2, 2010.
  11. ↑ a b c d INTERVIEW 2 with ClickClickDecker excerpt from the TV Noir program on October 4, 2009.
  12. ↑ Aerotone: My First Trumpet - Frerk (aer009) 2007 ( July 7, 2010 memento in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved June 2, 2010.
  13. ↑ Kevin Hamann ( Memento from June 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) at ByteFM . Retrieved June 6, 2010.
  14. ↑ Initiative 'Heart Instead of Commerce' ( Memento from June 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) at ByteFM . Retrieved June 6, 2010.
  15. ↑ ClickClickDecker: Record Letter ( Memento of 6 February 2009 at the Internet Archive ) to the circumstances According . Retrieved June 2, 2010.
  16. ↑ WDR : ClickClickDecker Recorded on March 7, 2009.
  17. ↑ On Ice Review by Mainstage ( Memento of the original from December 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mainstage.de
  18. ^ Barner 16: About Us , Retrieved April 28, 2013.
  19. ↑ http://www.17rec.de/kb16.htm
  20. ↑ http://clickclickdecker.tumblr.com/info
  21. ↑ a b website of the artist. ClickClickDecker, accessed April 28, 2020 .
  22. ↑ ClickClickDecker - "On the ass of little touches". In: ByteFM Blog - News and reviews from our editorial team. November 11, 2018, accessed on April 28, 2020 (German).
  23. ↑ Chart discography Germany
  24. ↑ ClickClickDecker - What happens when nothing wants to come  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ). on audiolith.net. Retrieved February 22, 2014.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.audiolith.net

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personal data
SURNAME Hamann, Kevin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES ClickClickDecker; My first trumpet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German guitarist and singer
DATE OF BIRTH 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Pankow