Einstürzende Neubauten @ Tramway
he pulls words from the air, arms outstretched, and screaming, he takes hold of the audience and makes them think
| 10 Jun 2007
Einstürzende Neubauten choose their venues with care and the Tramway has been chosen wisely. Its past, and its artistic resurgence provides the perfect backdrop to Einstürzende Neubauten's relationship with industry, power, disenfranchisement and artistic expression.
A band, infamous for their use of unconventional instruments (you could write a page listing them) take the stage with no backdrop and no lightshow. Nothing to distract you from the sight of six men playing at the height of their powers. Drawing from their most recently released cds, Silence is Sexy and Perpetuum Mobile, E.N's two hour set proceeds to pummel, seduce and beguile. And then pummel a little more.
Blixa Bargeld and NU Unruh have been doing this for some time - it has taken 27 years for Einstürzende Neubauten to play in Scotland. NU Unruh proves the fulcrum of the band. Funky, disarming and smiling, he smashes his coiled springs, squeezes his Styrofoam, and drops glass from a bucket for songs that give E.N an edge more conventional rock bands would kill for. This is not a conventional rock band. They are heavy, syncopated, driven; and completely in control of their meta-rock.
They swirl around Blixa Bargeld's cabaret as only bands who were so in tune could. Singing in German and English, captivating and charismatic. And when he pulls words from the air, arms outstretched, and screaming, he takes hold of the audience and makes them think… of Nations. Biology. Metaphysics, The minutiae of sound. Insects. Love. [Mike Feeney]
A band, infamous for their use of unconventional instruments (you could write a page listing them) take the stage with no backdrop and no lightshow. Nothing to distract you from the sight of six men playing at the height of their powers. Drawing from their most recently released cds, Silence is Sexy and Perpetuum Mobile, E.N's two hour set proceeds to pummel, seduce and beguile. And then pummel a little more.
Blixa Bargeld and NU Unruh have been doing this for some time - it has taken 27 years for Einstürzende Neubauten to play in Scotland. NU Unruh proves the fulcrum of the band. Funky, disarming and smiling, he smashes his coiled springs, squeezes his Styrofoam, and drops glass from a bucket for songs that give E.N an edge more conventional rock bands would kill for. This is not a conventional rock band. They are heavy, syncopated, driven; and completely in control of their meta-rock.
They swirl around Blixa Bargeld's cabaret as only bands who were so in tune could. Singing in German and English, captivating and charismatic. And when he pulls words from the air, arms outstretched, and screaming, he takes hold of the audience and makes them think… of Nations. Biology. Metaphysics, The minutiae of sound. Insects. Love. [Mike Feeney]