Madsen (band)
| Madsen | |
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 Madsen concert in Göttingen (2005) |
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| General information | |
| origin | Clenze , Germany |
| Genre (s) | Indie rock , punk rock |
| founding | 2004 |
| Website | www.madsenmusik.de |
| Current occupation | |
| Johannes Madsen (born January 21, 1979) | |
Vocals, guitar |
Sebastian Madsen (born June 3, 1981) |
Drums , vocals |
Sascha Madsen (born November 10, 1983) |
| Niko Maurer (born August 19, 1981) | |
| Lisa Nicklisch (during live performances) | |
| former members | |
| Folkert Jahnke (born March 26, 1970) (until 2009) | |
Madsen is an indie rock - band from Prießeck , a district of Clenze in the Wendland . Three of the five founding members are brothers, so their family name has become the name of their band: Madsen. Their music is made up of elements from rock, punk and pop . Sebastian Madsen writes the texts almost exclusively in German.
history
The Madsen brothers started playing music at an early age. In the mid-1990s, they first appeared under the name Ganz Klar! up, at the end of the 1990s they founded two bands, Alice's Gun and Hoerstuatz . While one leaned more towards hard rock , the other experimented with hip-hop / crossover elements. From 2000 to 2002 the development of the band Hoerstuatz was accompanied by NDR documentarist Roswitha Ziegler.
With the desire to develop musically and lyrically, the band renamed itself Madsen in 2004 . With a number of local and regional appearances, they became something of a local hero. The record company Universal Music became aware of the band by sending in demo recordings , and a corresponding contract was signed at the end of 2004. The first single The Perfection was released in January and the first album Madsen in May 2005 .
After the band played until the end of 2004, only a small audience, she was, by appropriate promotional activities of Universal, the possibility also on big stages and at all major open air - music festivals in Germany to play, coupled with promotion -Auftritten at MTV and various radio stations.
They went on tour in 2005 and played at the Rock im Park and Rock am Ring festivals , at the Highfield Festival and at the Hurricane Festival and its sister festival Southside , as well as supporting Avril Lavigne . In June 2006 Madsen played on the third day of the festival at Nova Rock , which also included Metallica , Motörhead , Placebo , Apocalyptica and Guns N 'Roses .
In August 2006, the second album Goodbye Logic was released, with which they entered the top 10 for the first time. They were on the tour of the same name from September 2006 to April 2007. In May 2007 the band took part in the MTV show "Band Trip", which was a multi-day race across Europe, during which various musical tasks had to be fulfilled. Madsen's opponent was the band Itchy Poopzkid , who just won the race. Afterwards Madsen played at many small festivals in the summer of 2007.
After the summer festivals, Madsen began recording their third studio album in Bochum in autumn 2007 . The album was released on March 7, 2008 and is called Peace in War . The first single on the album was the song Nachtbaden , with which Madsen competed on February 14, 2008 at the Bundesvision Song Contest 2008 in Hanover for Lower Saxony and took fourth place. After that, the second single, Verschwende Dich nicht, was released with its video, which climbed to number 93 in the German charts.
In summer 2008, as in previous years, the Lower Saxony toured the festival stages in Germany, for example at Rock am Ring, area4 and the Hurricane Festival. On October 17, 2008, the third single from the album Peace in War , Love Song , was released.
In mid-September 2009, keyboard player Folkert “Folli” Jahnke announced his departure from the band for personal reasons on the band's homepage and MySpace page. It remained unclear to what extent he was still involved in the ongoing production of the next album - the band had repeatedly given information about the work on it via MySpace. Even before the album was released, Lisa Nicklisch (also known from the band Lisa Who ) joined the band in March 2010. She is on the keyboard during live performances and sings mainly background, but also sometimes in a duet with Sebastian Madsen.
The fourth studio album Labyrinth was released on April 23, 2010 and should be accompanied by a tour in May. After the singer Sebastian Madsen fell from a height of five meters while shooting the video for the new single, the tour was postponed to winter. Only the festival dates could not be postponed.
In 2011 Madsen appeared again on Rock am Ring and Rock im Park . Ever longer seasons show the increasing popularity of the band. At the invitation of the Goethe-Institut , Madsen gave eleven guest appearances at schools in the USA in October and November 2011. The concerts were reserved for students from the respective schools and usually took place in the morning. The band acted as an ambassador for the German language. Another studio album was released on August 17, 2012 under the name Where It Begins .
In the 2013 feature film System Fehler - Wenn Inge tanzt , the band plays itself in a brief appearance. The film is about a fictional school band trying to win a record deal by playing as the opening act at a Madsen concert.
In December 2013 Madsen toured five Hamburg clubs within a week. Under the motto "5 albums - 5 nights" the band presented a full length album every evening. In line with the band's career, the clubs got bigger from evening to evening: Molotow (album: Madsen ), Logo (album: Goodbye Logic ), Knust (album: Peace in War ), Gruenspan (album: Labyrinth ) and Markthalle (album: Where it begins ). There were guest appearances by other artists such as König Boris von Fettes Brot , Thees Uhlmann and Porky von Deichkind . The concerts in Hamburg were all recorded. 26 songs were selected and released on the band's first live album 10 Years Madsen Live on June 13, 2014 for the band's tenth anniversary. After several summer festivals, Madsen played a club tour in ten smaller cities in Germany in October and November 2014. At the concerts, the band announced their sixth album for 2015. It was released on August 14, 2015 with twelve new titles under the name Kompass . This month Madsen competed for the second time for Lower Saxony at the Bundesvision Song Contest 2015 . With their song Küss mich they were in fourth place out of 16 participants.
In 2017 singer and guitarist Sebastian Madsen wrote the music for Max Richard Leßmann's (singer of the band Vierkanttretlager ) first solo album Love in the Times of Followers , which is stylistically rooted in swing , French chansons and hits from the Weimar Republic. On June 15, 2018, the new album Lichtjahre was released , with which they played a small tour in five cities in May 2018. Another tour in late 2018 with the same title has been announced.
engagement
Madsen work against right-wing extremism. For example, they can be seen on the DVD No Bock on Nazis , initiated by ZSK , or they express themselves in television appearances and interviews with slogans such as “Nazis Raus”. The band is also committed to the transport of highly radioactive waste to the interim storage facility in Gorleben in the Wendland region . For example, she played in the large demonstration against the imminent transport of eleven Castor containers from the French reprocessing plant La Hague on November 8, 2008 in front of 16,000 people.
Madsen have been the v. Bodelschwingh Foundation Bethel.
style
Thees Uhlmann , journalist and singer with the band Tomte , characterized the first album as "the best debut LP since I've been writing about music". With their music between punk and rock, loud and quiet, urgent and wistful, they are described in many pop music media as a new hope for the German music market, some even remind us of the young Tocotronic . Other critics also describe the music as coming from the “rock kit” and the lyrics, which mostly revolve around the problems of teenagers and young adults, as “repertoire of typical teenage worries” and not specifically. Sebastian Madsen himself says: "On the old CD the lyrics weren't formulated in concrete terms yet, I changed that to goodbye logic ".
The Real Hits
Since songs from outside the genre were repeatedly produced during rehearsals, the band decided to publish them under pseudonyms on the self-founded label The Real Hits for free. There you can find excursions into hip-hop, hits and the new German wave .
Awards
Johannes Madsen
Sebastian Madsen
Sascha Madsen
Niko Mason
Discography
Studio albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||
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 DE
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 AT
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 CH
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| 2005 | Madsen. |
DE23 (10 weeks) DE |
AT39 (9 weeks) AT |
- |
First published: May 30, 2005
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| 2006 | Goodbye logic |
DE8 (7 weeks) DE |
AT18 (6 weeks) AT |
- |
First published: August 11, 2006
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| 2008 | Peace in war |
DE6 (9 weeks) DE |
AT28 (4 weeks) AT |
- |
First published: March 7, 2008
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| 2010 | labyrinth |
DE7 (4 weeks) DE |
AT25 (2 weeks) AT |
- |
First published: April 23, 2010
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| 2012 | Where it starts |
DE2 (7 weeks) DE |
AT4 (4 weeks) AT |
CH84 (1 week) CH |
First published: August 17, 2012
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| 2015 | compass |
DE5 (5 weeks) DE |
AT10 (3 weeks) AT |
- |
First published: August 14, 2015
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| 2018 | Light years |
DE3 (5 weeks) DE |
AT20 (1 week) AT |
- |
First published: June 15, 2018
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Web links
- Official website
- Madsen at laut.de
- Madsen in Discogs (English)
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- ↑ 0itchy0: Bandtrip - Episode 1 Part 1 on YouTube , November 6, 2009, accessed on June 12, 2020.
- ↑ 0itchy0: Bandtrip - Episode 6 Part 3 on YouTube , October 19, 2009, accessed on June 12, 2020.
- ↑ Homepage of the band
- ^ Website of the fan club
- ↑ intro.de ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Labyrinth - The new album by Madsen - From April 23, 2010. (No longer available online.) Madsen, February 11, 2010, archived from the original on February 7, 2009 ; Retrieved February 11, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Madsen. February 11, 2010, accessed February 11, 2010 .
- ↑ The album is in the box. (No longer available online.) Madsen, January 18, 2010, archived from the original on February 7, 2009 ; Retrieved February 11, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Report to Musikmarkt.de ( Memento of the original from October 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Madsen | Bodelschwingh Foundation Bethel. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 26, 2017 ; Retrieved April 25, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The Real Hits website
