Montreal (band)
| Montreal | |
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.JPG) Montreal at Rock Camp 2014 |
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| General information | |
| origin | Hamburg , Germany |
| Genre (s) | Punk rock |
| founding | 2003 |
| Website | www.montrealmusic.de |
| Founding members | |
| deer | |
| Yonas | |
| Max power | |
Montreal is one in 2003 in Hamburg , founded punk rock - band , which as one of the few bands with German lyrics is also known abroad and has toured already in 18 countries.
history
The band Montreal was formed at the end of 2003 in Hamburg, and the band played their first concert on December 21, 2003 in Vienna . The name Montreal is based on the birthplace of the drummer Max Power. In 2004 the band played their first appearances regularly in support of Pyogenesis as well as a tour with the Alternative Allstars .
In 2005 the debut album Alles auf Schwarz was released on Hamburg Records. The intro and outro of the record will be spoken by Oliver Rohrbeck , the German voice of Justus Jonas from the Three Question Marks . The released single As long as the flag blows was broadcast on MTV and VIVA . In the same year Montreal toured with Sondaschule , Loikaemie , Bombshell Rocks and EL * KE . After touring with Spittin 'Vicars , The Go Faster Nuns , ZSK , Randy and the Bloodhound Gang in Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Italy, Germany and Poland in 2006 , the band went into the studio and recorded the second album The Most Beautiful Language Welt , which was released in 2007 after a headlining tour in Russia. For promotional purposes, the band undertook their first own headlining tour through Germany, played as the opening act for Samiam and traveled with the Bloodhound Gang through Germany, Scotland, Ireland and Belgium. In addition, Montreal toured Estonia and Russia , where her video was now also shown on music television.
The band released their third, self-titled studio album on September 25, 2009, the pre-EP Zwischen Tür und Angel was released on June 26. From autumn 2009 to spring 2011, Montreal played their over 100 concerts in Germany and abroad, which included all sizes of audience from club concerts to headlining the Rock am Ring - Warm Up Party at the Nürburgring . At the end of 2010 the band was on their reunion tour through Germany and Austria with the German punk legend Slime .
In 2011 the band separated from the Hamburg Records label and went into the studio with producer Sascha Höhm in autumn to record the fourth album.
Shortly before the news from the Hobbythek tour in March 2012, the double single The wrong horse / Neues aus der Hobbythek was released . On May 18, 2012, the fourth studio album Paint by Numbers was released on the Amigo Records label , which the band founded for future releases.
In addition to its own Painting by Numbers tour, which lasted 18 months, Montreal toured with Royal Republic , Madsen and Itchy Poopzkid in 2013 .
Immediately after the anniversary tour Barefoot and Patent Shoe - 10 Years of Montreal , on which the band was able to sell out the 1000-person factory in Hamburg for the first time , work on studio album number 5 began. In addition to Sascha Höhm, Sebastian Blaschke was also part of the production team this time; the recordings took place in Cologne for the first time.
The album Sonic Ballroom , named after the Cologne punk bar, was released on August 15, 2014 on the band's own label Amigo Records, and the accompanying Zucker für die Affen tour took the band through Germany, Austria and Switzerland several times from October 2014 to March 2016. At the same time, the band accompanied the band Madsen on their Kompass tour for various concerts from October 2015 to February 2016 .
As part of a project trip by Viva con Agua , the band played two concerts in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa in April 2016 .
On June 23, 2017, Schackilacki , the band's sixth studio album with 12 tracks, was released.
For the 15th anniversary of the band, the single 15 years for the Punchline was released on November 2, 2018 - guests can hear: Farin Urlaub ( Die Ärzte ), Sebastian Madsen ( Madsen ), Ingo Knollmann ( Donots ), Costa Cannabis ( Sondaschule ), Sebastian Hafner ( Itchy ) and Pensen Paletti ( Monsters of Liedermaching )
Here and not today , the seventh studio album, was released on August 16, 2019.
Trivia
- Montreal took over the 'school without racism school with courage' sponsorship for the Frankenwald-Gymnasium in Kronach . As a result, the band played on October 15, 2010 at the Struwwelpeter youth club in Kronach.
- In July 2013, Montreal played at an open air event under the title Rock Against Racism in Werne ad Lippe together with young bands and bands from the area.
- In March 2011, Montreal donated 1,000 euros to the financially faltering Rheinkultur Festival and also called on all the other bands that played there and are just as popular or better known than Montreal for donations.
- The three members from Schwarzenbek (Sebastian Sievers 'Hirsch', Yonas Farag and Maximilian Seibt) have been making music together since 1999 (partly on other instruments). They played English-language punk rock under the name Financial Freaks and in 2001 released the demo CD Masturbation saved our life with eight songs, which were later released with German lyrics and partly also on the first Montreal album.
- Montreal often play a cover version of the Neue Deutsche Welle song Katharine, Katharine by the band Steinwolke .
- On the band's own label Amigo Records, albums of the befriended bands Das Pack and Anadrinksdogpiss were also released.
- Yonas is a judge at the Berlin Social Court . Max works as an educator, while Hirsch takes care of the band's label and management.
- In April 2016 the band accompanied a project tour group from Viva con Agua to Ethiopia.
Discography
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Demos
- Advance (2004, Hamburg Records )
Albums
- Everything on Black (2005, Hamburg Records)
- The most beautiful language in the world (2007, Hamburg Records)
- Montreal (2009, Hamburg Records)
- Paint by Numbers kit (May 18, 2012, Amigo Records )
- Sonic Ballroom (August 15, 2014, Amigo Records)
- Schackilacki (June 23, 2017, Amigo Records)
- Here and not today (August 16, 2019, Amigo Records)
EPs
- Advance (2004, Hamburg Records)
- Between Door and Angel (2009, Hamburg Records)
- The wrong horse / news from the Hobbythek (2012, Amigo Records; double single)
Video albums
- As long as the flag blows (video clip 2005, director: Ronald Matthes)
- For the very first time (video clip 2007, director: Ronald Matthes)
- Some Kind Of Montreal - Making Of Disco Time (Documentation 2010)
- Finally disco time again (video clip 2010, directors: Peter Tokay, Peter Pallag)
- News from the Hobbythek (video clip 2012, director: Ronald Matthes)
- The wrong horse (video clip 2012, director: Ronald Matthes)
- Main prize (video clip 2013, director: Andries Heuts)
- Son-in-law of hearts (video clip 2014, director: Jan-Niklas Sievers)
- Day to night (video clip 2014, director: Max Threlfall)
- Idiots of the season (video clip 2017, director: Philipp Müller)
- Music in my ears (video clip 2017, director: Philipp Müller)
- Osnabrück (video clip 2017, director: Flo Ehlich)
- Movie theater?! (Video clip 2017, director: Philipp Müller)
- 15 years for the Punchline (video clip 2018, director: Philipp Müller)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rock am Ring WarmUp 2010. June 3, 2010, accessed on August 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Youth shows courage. Neue Presse, September 25, 2010, accessed July 5, 2014 .
- ↑ Your roots are in the European city. Bergedorfer Zeitung, October 10, 2009, accessed on July 5, 2014 .
- ↑ Happy punk rock from Montreal . Bergedorfer Zeitung, October 17, 2009, accessed on July 5, 2014 .
- ↑ Montreal CD - Masturbation Saved Our Lives, 2001 (then Financial Freaks). Retrieved August 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Andreas Haug: "What a great Tuesday evening in Hanover". November 20, 2013, accessed July 5, 2014 .
- ↑ On the way with Germany's only punk rock judge. December 25, 2015, accessed August 19, 2020 .
- ^ Dorfpunks on the road. August 20, 2014, accessed August 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Charts DE