Staring girl

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Staring girl
General information
origin Hamburg , Germany
Genre (s) Americana , singer-songwriter , indie pop
founding 2005
Website www.staring-girl.de
Founding members
Guitar, vocals
 Steffen Nibbe
guitar
 Nils Ranft
bass
 Timm Steenbock
Keyboard
 Ingo Rotkowsky
Drums
 Thorsten Broda
Current occupation
Vocals, guitar
 Steffen Nibbe
Drums
 Lennart Wohlt (since 2019)
bass
 Frenzy Suhr (since 2015)
Guitar, keyboard
 Gunnar Ennen (since 2015)
guitar
 Jens Fricke (since 2015)
former members
guitar
 Peter Schumacher
bass
 Christoph Kohlhöfer
Drums
 Painted log house
Drums
 Robert Weitkamp (2015-2019)

Staring Girl is a band from Hamburg, whose style can be classified between Americana , singer-songwriter and indie pop with German lyrics.

history

Steffen Nibbe, born in 1983 in Itzehoe , went to study in Kiel and founded the group Staring Girl in its first line-up in 2005. Before the official debut album Seven Hours and 40 Minutes was released in 2012 on the Dresden label K&F Records , the band had already released two mini-albums on their own and sampler contributions on the net label Omaha Records . This label was originally founded by Gisbert zu Knyphausen , who had previously covered the staring girl song Everyone goes alone in his live program. The band already played concerts in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, u. a. a two-week support tour for Gisbert zu Knyphausen in 2011. In an interview with the NDR , Nibbe describes that the line-up of the band has changed after moving from Kiel to Hamburg . In addition to Robert Weitkamp (drums), three members of the original Knyphausen band have also been part of the current line-up since 2015: Gunnar Ennen (guitar, keys, vocals), Jens Fricke (guitar) and Frenzy Suhr (bass). In 2017 the band also joined a. as opening act for the band Erdmöbel . On April 20, 2018, the band released their second album In Eine Bild on KOMBÜSE Schallrodukte, the label of the Hamburg kitchen sessions , where the band already recorded their pieces live in 2012 and 2018. At the release concert in Hamburg's Knust , the band played the full length of the new album. For the music video for their song Diebe, Halunken und Menschen , the band documented a day in the life of the homeless Nicole Förster, whose story the band became aware of through the magazine Hinz und Kunzt . In August 2019, the band announced a line-up change on the drums: Lennart Wohlt joined the band for Robert Weitkamp, ​​who also plays for OVE.

style

Musically, Staring Girls can be classified in the field of guitar-oriented, melancholy singer-songwriter music and indie pop with German lyrics. The mostly restrained and unexcited songs live from Nibbe's narrative voice and lyrics. Above all, the observation prose Nibbes stands out for the Kieler Nachrichten : In the piece mattress shop neon tube light he describes a journey out of Hamburg “so vividly and dreamily that you sit next to him on the bus in your mind's eye”. For Laut.de it is "precisely this tendency towards the everyday and undiscovered beauty that makes the lyrics and the restrained melodies of the northern lights something very special". With In one picture the style became musically more variable and diversified, partly reminiscent of Neil Young and Wilco .

Discography

Albums

  • 2012: Seven hours and 40 minutes (K&F Records)
  • 2018: In one picture (KOMBÜSE sound products)

EPs

  • 2005: Staring Girl EP # 1 (self-distribution)
  • 2006: Staring Girl EP # 2 (self-distribution)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ TV Noir: Gisbert zu Knyphausen - Everyone goes alone (Staring Girl Cover) (live on TV Noir). May 9, 2010, accessed September 3, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Schøftland & Staring Girl. Retrieved September 3, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Staring Girl at Hamburg Sounds on NDR 90.3 on April 22nd, 2018. Retrieved September 3, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Staring Girl. Retrieved September 3, 2018 (German).
  5. ↑ form Salon: KNUST Hamburg. Retrieved September 3, 2018 (German).
  6. ↑ Staring Girl: In One Picture - Album Review | SOUNDS & BOOKS. Retrieved September 3, 2018 (German).
  7. ↑ Kitchen Session # 44 | Staring Girl | Hamburg kitchen sessions. Retrieved September 3, 2018 (German).
  8. ↑ Kitchen Session # 257 | Staring Girl | Hamburg kitchen sessions. Retrieved September 3, 2018 (German).
  9. ↑ Staring Girl at NDR Info Nachtclub Magazin April 18th, 2018. Retrieved September 3, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Staring Girl with music video for "Thieves, Scoundrels and People" . In: noisiv.de . ( noisiv.de [accessed on September 3, 2018]).
  11. ↑ Staring Girl. Retrieved September 7, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Thoughtful indie pop with Staring Girl. Retrieved September 3, 2018 (German).
  13. ↑ Staring Girl - laut.de - Band . In: laut.de . ( laut.de [accessed on September 3, 2018]).
  14. ↑ Staring Girl: In One Picture - Album Review | SOUNDS & BOOKS. Retrieved September 3, 2018 (German).