The Girl & The Robot

As you can see, the blog is now happening - today, I want to introduce you to a new band: The Girl & The Robot - this duo: Deadbeat (from Sweden) and Plastique (from Germany) offer us wonderful synthpop at its best. Let me say it like this, if you enjoy Welle:Erdball, Second Decay, S.P.O.C.K and Client, you'll definetely not be disappointed when checking out either their debut EP 'Whole / Flowers' (which includes an excellent remix by Die Perlen) or the debutalbum 'The Beauty Of Decay'. Although the year is not that old, but I am convinced, the releases will end up high in my personal charts. A listening pleasure from beginning to the end! Check out their Myspace Page for snippets from 4 songs.

Petr Muk (ex-Ocean) - R.I.P.

Just read the very sad news, that Petr Muk (Oceán) has died on May 24th, 2010.
Muk founded Oceán back in the Mid-80es and they even supported Erasure in 1989/1990 + were well known in the Czech Repuplic among the synthpopfans with their sound obviously being influenced by Depeche Mode and the already mentioned Erasure. In the early 90es Oceán split, leaving him to form Shalom. After a couple of albums, Petr Muk went solo, although his songs went a bit more into the slow pop / musical direction, he never forgot his influences, releasing a tribute to Erasure album 'Oh L'Amour' in 2004. Just a couple of days ago, his brandnew album was released when the sad news of his death hit the airwaves/websites. Petr Muk was just 45 years old... (a report in German can be found here)

Blind Passenger

One of the best news so far of this year, was the announcement of the one and only Nik Page to play again as Blind Passenger - nope, I didn't miss the 's' of his former band (it is just Nik of the original lineup), but he decided to play some of the old classics again + record a new album 'Next Flight To Planet Earth' that is supposed to sound a bit like Blind Passengers could have sounded today if they hadn't gone into the electro-rock-metal direction in the late Nineties. Should be interesting what he'll come up with...
The first concerts have already been announced + will be on sale soon at Ticket69:

28.08. Rostock - Mau-Club
11.09. Lübbenau - Kulturhof *
17.09. Magdeburg - Sackfabrik *
18.09. Annaberg-Buchholz - Alte Brauerei *
24.09. Leipzig - Werk 2 *
25.09. Schwedt - Exit **
08.10. Brandenburg - Haus der Offiziere *
09.10. Guben - Fabrik (E-Attack) **
23.10. Hoyerswerda - Pitchers *

* Support: Angelzoom
** Support: KASH

Vince Festival (Karlskrona)

If you are in Sweden in early June, make sure to head over to Karlskrona on 5th June 2010, as there'll be a lovely synthfestival there. Appearing amongst others: Covenant, Colony 5 and (hooooorayyyy finally again - one of my fave Swedish synthpopbands) Voister Litz - For more information make sure to check Adora BatBrat's very entertaining blog (her own band Asperger Synthdrome will play as well)...