Billion (band)
Billions is a rock band from Berlin that was founded in 2013. After an EP in 2014, their debut album was released in 2016.
history
The band was formed in 2013 from a meeting of the singer Ben Hartmann with the pianist Johannes Aue at a university. In 2014 their EP Kokain und Raspberry Ice was released as a vinyl version on Vertigo Berlin and they appeared on television for the first time on the show Inas Nacht . After winning a band contest, her song Freiheit ist ne Hure became the soundtrack of the 2015 Oskar Roehler film Tod den Hippies !! Long live punk chosen and the EP was also released on CD.
In 2016, Billion Ton Steine Schherd accompanied the opening act on their tour. This was followed by appearances by the band at the Rock am Ring and Rock im Park festivals . In August, Vertigo released their first full album entitled Betrüger . In 2016, the Pro7 program Circus HalliGalli saw two appearances worth billions of euros as well as participation in one contribution.
style
The music of the band Billions has been assigned to punk or post-punk on various occasions, but has also been described as a “mixture of indie pop and retro German rock ”. Critics saw strong bonds with the band Ton Steine Scherben , just as Ben Hartmann's voice reminded some of the former Schherd singer Rio Reiser .
Discography
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- 2014: Cocaine and Raspberry Ice Cream (EP)
- 2016: Cheaters (album)
- 2018: Berlin (album)
Filmography
- 2018: Tomorrow (short film)
Web links
- Official website
- Billions at laut.de
- Billion at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Blueprint Fanzine: BILLIONS - 2 + 3 = billions
- ↑ Uniglobale Magazin: Interview with the Berlin post-punk band Billions
- ↑ Universal Music Group: "Cocaine and Raspberry Ice Cream": Billions present their first EP
- ↑ Guerilla Entertainment: Billions in the new Oskar Roehler film "Death to the hippies, long live punk"
- ↑ laut.de: Billion band portrait
- ↑ a b Die Zeit: With Punk Spirit: The Band Billions
- ↑ Rock am Ring: Billions ( Memento from October 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Circus Halligalli: Season 7, Episode 10 , Rock-am-Ring-Special , Season 8, Episode 5
- ↑ laut.de: The copy of a copy. In bad.
- ↑ Noisey: 'Starving in Bed' of Billions is the best music video in the world today
- ↑ Friday: Album of the Week: Time and Change
- ↑ Charts DE