The Buggs

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The Buggs
The Buggs (2017) (at UZS: Juliusz, Kacper, Tobias, Karsten, Victor, Jasper)
The Buggs (2017)
(at UZS: Juliusz, Kacper, Tobias, Karsten, Victor, Jasper)
General information
origin Dusseldorf , Germany
Genre (s) Indie rock , Britpop
founding 2012
Website thebuggs.de
Current occupation
Karsten "Dylan" Wegner
Victor Kohmann
Kacper Sciechowski
Louis Maikowski (since 2020)
Jasper Möslein (since 2013)
Tobias Martin (since 2017)
former members
Juliusz Konieczny (until 2020)

The Buggs is a German indie - rock band from Dusseldorf , which was founded in late 2012 found. The band sings their lyrics mostly in English. Special features of the band are the British-inspired style of music and the diverse uses of wind instruments.

Career

The four founding members, at that time high school students at the Archbishop's Suitbertus Gymnasium , came together in autumn 2012 as the new school band The Buggs (originally: The Wankers ). After a short time, the band began to write their own songs and look for opportunities to perform outside of school. In the course of 2013, they produced their first EP (Red Shoes) with alternatively seven or nine tracks, which the band members individually burned and gave away. The band regularly invited wind players to perform, including trumpet player Jasper Möslein , who became a permanent member at the end of the year and optionally accompanies the band on the Hammond organ .

In the years that followed, the band took part in various school band and newcomer festivals in the Ruhr area and the Rhineland, gaining popularity and presence. Especially her appearance at the finale of WDR : Planet Rock 2014 paved her way into the media. In 2015 Mary Ritchie and Vom Ritchie became aware of the band and signed them to their label Drumming Monkey Records in November . This was followed by appearances as supporting act for, for example, Cryssis , The Computers , The Spitfires and The Undertones , as well as production work on the first studio album in Kiesgroup 's Wildwood Studios . In January 2016 it was announced that The Buggs had won the annual band funding from the cultural office of the state capital Düsseldorf. With his financial support, the band was able to expand their album and shoot their first music videos. On August 12, 2016, their debut album Symphony for the Minority was released, which contains twelve tracks and was distributed both physically and digitally through Drumming Monkey Records .

In the spring of 2017 the band met with the music producer and founder of Mamba Records Marc Aschmann and planned the release of a new EP, which was to be released exclusively as a 7 "single . At the same time, the band met the big band drummer and jazz saxophonist Tobias Martin, who quickly joined them. Together they completed the recordings so that the EP Instant Love could be released on June 2, 2017. It was named album of the month by the music magazine coolibri . With their song Aggravating Circumstances , the band is featured on the CD compilation New.Heimat.Sounds 2017 . In September of the same year, the band played at an open-air festival lasting several days in Hechuan , a district of Chongqing , in the People's Republic of China . In 2018 the band was nominated for the popNRW award in the Best Newcomer category. In the same year the band played a two-week tour through southern France and northern Spain , which they repeated in 2019.

In the course of 2019 the band met Volker Sonntag, the founder of the Cologne label Tag-7, who signed them and soon released new singles digitally.

style

Both the style and the sound of The Buggs are based on the British musical culture of the 20th century, starting with the beat of the 1960s. The band's four-piece beat combo has been supplemented in the course of their career by numerous wind instruments, optionally saxophones, trombones, horns or trumpets. These gave the sound a soulful and partly jazzy component. Later influences from the Mod Revival of the 1970s and the Britpop of the 1990s, combined with organ and synthesizer sounds, let the band give way in an experimental direction.

Discography

Albums

  • 2013: Red Shoes ( EP , self-published)
  • 2016: Symphony for the Minority (Album, Drumming Monkey Records )
  • 2017: Instant Love (EP, Mamba Records)

Singles

  • 2019: Bumblebee Bumbershoot (Day-7)
  • 2019: Photograph Girl (Day-7)
  • 2020: Rich For Two (Day-7)
  • 2020: Fuck Off Lovesongs (Day-7)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Band. Retrieved October 19, 2017 (German).
  2. ↑ wdr.de: Youth band "The Buggs" is developing. January 4, 2017. Retrieved October 19, 2017 .
  3. ↑ "The Buggs" will be a conveyor belt in 2016 . ( nrz.de [accessed October 19, 2017]).
  4. ^ The Buggs. Retrieved October 19, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Florian Sawatzki: "The Buggs": Liverpool in Kaiserswerth . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung . February 1, 2017 ( wz.de [accessed October 19, 2017]).
  6. ↑ The Buggs - Instant Love (Mamba Records / Drumming Monkey Records, June 2nd, 2017) - HandwrittenMag . In: HandwrittenMag . June 2, 2017 ( handwritten-mag.de [accessed October 19, 2017]).
  7. ↑ The Buggs: Love at first note . In: Coolibri magazine . ( coolibri.de [accessed October 19, 2017]).
  8. ^ The Buggs. Retrieved October 19, 2017 .
  9. ↑ musikszene-duesseldorf.de. Retrieved October 19, 2017 .
  10. ↑ The nominated newcomers 2018 , popnrw.de, accessed on September 4, 2019
  11. ↑ The Buggs , popnrw.de, accessed September 4, 2019
  12. ↑ DAY-7. Retrieved December 21, 2019 .
  13. ^ Britpop from Düsseldorf: The Buggs - Instant Love. Retrieved October 19, 2017 .