............

thanks for all the flowers that came in all different digital ways.....
where have all the flowers gone...the real ones, I mean ...
i'll buy some tomorrow..
birthdays are bloody useless, pointless .....well, thanks anyway....

I will keep on doing stuff, why, 'cause there is that illogical, irrational purpose ,the great feeling of finishing a new song; or a show- with the feeling, that some people felt the magic of those songs, the little observations of a world constantly changing, shivering, the cruelty and the beauty in it....
and it's fun!
please forgive me for writing some lines in the german language only ....
right now I feel far too lazy to translate it as well as I feel far too lazy to tour outside of Germany .....
there are some plans ...a live album in August;

also I will start to write new stuff again, soon....

 This live-album was properly 24track-recorded.

Some songs with Jaki Liebezeit , most without him.
We recorded shows in Berlin (Astra Club), Duesseldorf and Leipzig and I will mix them soon with Mr.Vella in Malta.
And why not!!!?!!!
 ....

.....also kopf hoch und weitermachen,denke ich und wenn ich Piraterie und Medienakzeptanz ehrlicher Kuenstler analysiere, dann ist Etliches  erklaerbar...und es funktioniert alles doch immer noch recht ordentlich(stolz)
am Ende zaehlen grosse/ eigene Songs (I love it!!)
 
wenn ich vor dem Kino stehe, so wie gestern abend, und alles ,was ich sehen will,  ein einziger der 16 medium-guten Filme ist, bei denen man sich sogar vor dem TV ueberlegt, ob man dann nicht lieber zum 80.ten Male "Blow Up" sehen will, eventuell der Avatar ist, eine beeindruckende digitale Prahlerei, ....

dann weiss ich es.........

...denn die Musik der Kollegen, so ambitioniert sie auch sein mag,  in ihrer ewig gleich-noergelnden Deutschtexterei recyclenden jungen Bands nicht besser ist als meine Songs, als meine aelteren schon gar nicht....dann sollte ich,verdammt nochmal, nicht aufhoeren, denn warum denn auch in Gottes Willen, wenn ich doch eine grosse,grosse Lust an der Songschreiberei, dem komischen Ausdruecken der Welt und ihrer Gefuehle und der wahrhaftigen Sound-Tueftelei habe........

 ....

...und man macht es fuer das beste Gefuehl je:
 wenn Toett und Maiki ins Auto steigen, zu einer Show fahren und wir erzaehlen uns genial-absurden Bloedsinn, bleiben an jeder Raststaette stehen und holen uns Cappucino, albern herum und sind wie Kinder ......wenn dann die Show noch irgendwie gut bis sehr gut ist,weil man spuert,dass eine respektable  Anzahl von Menschen sich gluecklich fuehlen,wenn sie diese Songs hoeren und am Ende der Show ihre Gesichter diese Art GLUECK ausdruecken...
 .....dann ist das der Sinn.....

oh hello d
am i so stupid
   i forgot to give you the name of the restaurant .
its called Re.....'s

every sicilian grande familia is quieter than my brain

i need another "holiday " with some studio reclusion and hanging out.
i think i will take the plane and you  elegantly shift your current clients out of the studio for 10 days.....ship them over to the other island and we meet outside the cinema

yesterday i was looking through c's file of vintage p.
and blew my whole pc.
it is damaged, forever.....oh well...
i had more virus virus virus than there are rats in strait street.....
 i blew absolutely everything,also my  itunes library of legally downloaded songs.....
oh well. i will download it all again.
actually- i just discovered the future  for the the record industry: virus over virus everywhere .....means:  download everything again.
then : virus virus everywhere, virus virus again and ......then.....download it again, then, after 2 years:
Everyone including generation y is back to proper cd and vinyl !!!!
and also the computerbusiness will be saved from bleeding out...
yes it means :  an old idea, but anyway: our way to save capitalism and planet earth in times of globalisation:  not war, as often demanded, no: it is but the total destruction of all digital existence.
i am up for it.
see you at the cinemas.

yeah yeah

bye p

What do Michael Jackson + Goalkeeper Robert Enke have in common?

Well-I try my best to explain: the deaths of people like James Brown and his funeral,that attracted ten thousands of fans,  worked as a role-model for a new Marketing Tool/Profit-Gainer:
 
Michael Jackson was worthless to his moneysucking environment.
As a Product he turned out to be "profit-less" over the years.
But right now ,as a Dead product ,  his legacy(Songs, Shirts, Films...name it!) can sell eternally.
As clever as all the Jackson-benefitters might be, they did not exploit enough the NEW Profit-Machine of the century: not Death, no: FUNERALS!!!

The people who manage the death of Germany's Football-Goalkeeper Robert Enke(he committed suicide recently) were one big step ahead:
they let not only 50000 people in a stadium see Enke's coffin and look in a macabre,confused way  at the mourning and crying widow, but let All Major TV-stations see this event live!

I don't know how much money  was exchanged for the TV-rights, but I am already planning MY funeral live, in one of my favourite clubs, no TV + Radio of course, 80,-Euros/ticket and give my once half, now quarter-successful Popstar-career a proper boost.

My friend Thomas K, agent, has already secured the rights for a world tour of Michael Jackson's coffin, laid out in the middle of the football-pitch and every fan present has the right to touch it once.

This all leads us to a complete Re-Thinking of Celebrity-careers: more than ever, early Death is an option: it will be part of the recording or management-contract!!
Another prosporous marketing idea for the future: " Live Suicide" or "Live and let Die"
Or: Celebrity No1, 2 and 3 fight against each other, Live in Arenas  and Worldwide on TV!
Survival is NOT an option, as contracts demand.

P.B.

GERMAN LANGUAGE/deutsch:

Was haben der Tod von Michael Jackson und Robert Enke gemeinsam?
Ein zaghafter Erklaerungsversuch:
ich denke, der Tod von James Brown diente zunaechst als Vorbild/RoleModel fuer die zeitgemaesse Vermarktung eines verstorbenen Kuenstlers: zigtausende waren zu seinem Sarg gepilgert.
Michael Jackson, als Mensch fuer die Absauger dessen, was er als Produkt abwirft, absolut wertlos geworden, als Produkt nicht mehr profitabel genug,  wuerde als toter Kuenstler endlos unendlich wertvoll werden; was er dann bereits jetzt schon geworden ist.
So gewieft wie die Vermarkter von Jackson auch sein moegen-in einem Punkte waren sie weder konsequent noch schnell genug:
die Vermarkter des Todes von Fussballtorwart Robert Enke waren da schon einen grossen Schritt weiter:
sie bahrten den Sarg des armen Robert Enke vor 50000 Zuschauern in einem Fussballstadion auf und liessen nicht nur diese auf geschmacklos-makabre Art und Weise  auf die weinende,trauernde Witwe starren anstatt auf ein anstaendiges Fussballspiel, nein:
sie  liessen dieses Event direkt Live von den groessten TV-Sendern uebertragen.

Nur Gott weiss, wieviele Gelder mit diesen gigantischen TV-Rechten umgesetzt wurden; aber ICH selbst plane bereits mein Begraebnis in einem meiner groesseren Lieblings-Clubs, 80,-Euro/Ticket, um der ex halberfolgreichen, nun eher viertelerfolgreichen Karriere meines Popstar-Daseins einen entscheidenden Push zu geben.

Mein Freund, Agent Thomas K., hat sich nun die Rechte gesichert fuer die weltweite Stadiontour des Sarges von Michael Jackson, der in der Mitte des Fussballfeldes aufgebahrt wird
und den jeder Eintritt-leistende Fan dann einmal anfassen darf.
Dies fuehrt uns zu einer neuen Form des Profitmachens: die gigantische Vermarktung von Beerdigungen!!!!!
....aber auch die Re-Strukturierung von Celebrity-Vertraegen: gegen Ende der Vermarktungskette, wenn das Produkt kaum noch etwas einbringt, wird in den Vertrag die Klausel der Vermarktung des Todes hineingeschrieben.
Dann kann es womoeglich Gladiatorenkaempfe geben, die in grossen Arenas+ TV (spaeter natuerlich als Kinofilm oder DVD etc) live stattfinden und die Ex B-Promis im Stadium des D-Promi-Daseins dann vertragsgemaess ausfuehren.

P.B.

hey there,
the experiment worked.
It seemed difficult in the first place: Jaki Liebezeit, since his days with Can, a "refuser" of songstructures, breaks,arrangements etc.
agreed to play with us live.
 us-that is the Voodooclub, me +Pia,Toett,Maik T.,Moses,Oli:
a band known for complicatedly  arranged song structures (just listen to "This is Michael", a more successful single for us: it has so many surprising stops + weird parts that even our classically trained guitarist Oli had immense problems to play it).....and on top of that I like a nice melody,by the way...

Jaki had endless discussions with us that he can't play those weird arrangements, but in the end...he did!
the rehearsals were difficult,the soundcheck of the first gig in Hamburg was like a heavy culturepolitical fight between a professor and some stubborn students...
but-the gig worked!
now, after 4 shows, with a triumphant show in Berlin, Jaki feels comfortable and happy and is sad that next saturday(Duesseldorf) will be the last concert with us(99,9%- you never know).
 After Duesseldorf I will feel the same, but now...
it's before!!!
so don't miss out  or prefer to watch the absurdest light entertainment for the masses at home: TV. Watch "Popstars" or the fucking jungle and get older, dudes.....
we won't.
cheers, boa.

all was going good...Then about 1 hour before the show decided to put everything in doubt by discussing the sense of any western music.  For one hour I feared that Jaki was going to quit and leave the project.
I talked to him: I explained that I am a songwriter and of course I use recycled Western music-klischees as much as every pop/rock/electro-blablabla-band. I use it because I grew up to...Songs! and beats. And i compose songs to make the people -?move? think? doubt? love? trigger the good memories? feel warm? and all over , with the help of beat and sounds, create something that makes the people ...yeah-happy!!
And I play the songs live to people for exactly the same reasons: I want them to come to my shows, listen to new + old songs and make them shout+scream or just listen....and I want them to walk home...well,yeah: happy:
Jaki doesn't like rock/Pop-music very much .....and he suddenly realized that he prefers to -only-play ethnic/world music beats. Well, ok; I died. For a minute. But its 2009 and I don't die that easy anymore.
Well, Jaki played! And he was great!
Now,after the first show, I know he was very nervous,too ...playing to/with  a rock band....must have seemed weird and contradictious to him ....and his doubts were how he expressed his"fears".
I guess he thought that the V-Club-Fans would not like his performance.....because he mainly plays on "slow" songs...
but the fans did welcome him or,at least,just saw him as a normal member of the Voodooclub.
In fact almost all the people liked what Jaki was doing and respected him very much.
On the old song"Moon" and the 1996-song "Sleeper" Jaki played a rhythm that sounded extremely unusual to the rest of us. Not a rock-rhythm at all. But we managed still to put Pia's atmospheric , dreamy vocal lines on top of that.
Oli's solo to "Sleeper" was again a 60..s influenced Shangrila-Guitar-Solo that Oli played on top of Jaki + Pia; basically an impossible thing, but Oli did it.
Oli did some little mistakes, but on the whole he played wonderful-and brings a good new influence into the band.
Jaki was a guest on the first 11 songs + then decided to play on "Fine art in silver", "Black Light" and then, believe it or not, "Kill your ideals".
After the show he was smiling like a happy kid. I felt relieved. He said: yes, we will play 4 more shows like that, of course!
Because I think Jaki noticed, that the Voodooclub and him made the people  happy.
This is it: wake up in the morning or do the dishes..or drive in the car or being in a bus or train........while listening to great music.
That's it. It seems like nothing but it means a lot more!!

bye bye, P.

hey,
my new EP is out now, Friday 18
hope you like it...
this will be the last single from the diamonds fall-album.
most of you know "Black light" + "jane wyman", but these versions are shorter, with more compact editing.

the 3 new songs on the physical EP are from the time around 2003 and 2007   ...roughly...since they are all a bit different.

David Vella and me + pia wrote,recorded + produced them...with no help of an extra-producer....
"holly said" is a fast rockabilly,psychobilly rock piece...
"morse code" is electronic, with a great ,leading Pia-voice
".....and sunday lunch "(oh my god-i forgot the title of it) is fast,  indie-dance song with a great fucked-up stop in the middle and lyrics that i wrote when i felt lonely one morning in Malta, went to a pub and spent 5 hours there...

anyway.....thanks to the people who helped me release another "product" with love.

bye bye,phil