Neoangin!

combi asesina

There wasn’t much sleep between Lima and Sao Paulo. My wall in Lima wasn’t finished for the opening party, so I had to complete it the next day and then went directly from work to the airport. In the plane I sat between two big guys with even bigger elbows underneath a lamp that mysteriously had to be on all night, arrived Sao Paulo in the morning and then went directly to work again to paint a big truck together with brasilian artist Carlos Dias. But my head is full of good memories from that trip , working with carlos, the exitement when I played “combi asesina “in Lima and DJ ticotico doing an amazing djset after me … I guess it was woth any minute. For june there are some shows in germany ( some together with Nova Huta ), an art festival in italy and there will also be 3 brandnew videos on youtube in the next weeks…

it's that time of the year again

after 2 big exhibitions with not so big Neoangin shows in Aix en Provence ( where i had some communication trouble with the "french only" audience ) and Hamburg ( where i invented a 23 inch cardboard record player ) i am glad to tell you that i am preparing for a nice trip to south america with shows and livepaintings in Lima and Sao Paulo and a couple of brand new tunes in my hat. right now i am writing a new one almost every day and i can say if it goes on like this, i have a new album ready within the next 2 weeks. There are also some more new shows on my gig list and plans to go to russia and italy in summer. if it goes on like this - no complains from my side

unpaid work

it`s 3 months later and not too much that I can tell. Winter seems forever and everybody in Berlin experienced the darkest February in Berlin in the last 50 years. I didn’t mind too much, because most of the time I was sick and in bed anyway. January was much better, I went to italy for a couple of shows together with nova huta and also had a show in teapot gallery cologne with my stage on a movable platform. In the middle of the show the stage went up to the roof and down I came as a Michael Jackson Coverversion. French german TV station ARTE bought a couple of videos for their Mediathek but then it turned out that it’s a hell of a paperwork to make the deal perfect so maybe thats never happening. I am also preparing for my multimedia spectacle at the Kunsthalle in Aix en Provence in end of march and there is a couple of new shows in the list – please have a look, maybe I am somewhere near you soon... And if you haven’t downloaded my free minialbum “ unpaid work”- its still there waiting for you…

whats going on when nothing goes on

The last 4 weeks haven’t been the most healthy time in Neoangins life. Not only do I still have to carry that bandage on my broken right hand, I also became sick immediately after I wrote the last news here - went to in bed with tonsillitis for 2 weeks and for the first time in my life had to cancel a show. In the meantime things are a bit better, I went to Exground filmfest to finally see my appearance in “Chapiteau show”, then went to Paris to do 2 shows with my man Nova Huta and will have a second try with japanese dancer Yuko at Eschloraque next Wednesday. Hope to see you…

what's new friendly dog ?

i broke my hand a few days ago. for a week i tried hard ignoring it , but at some point i had to admit somethings not okay. i went to xray and now i have a beautiful but monstrous bandage that somehow makes it a bit difficult to continue with my shows like before...the good thing is: for a long time i had been dreaming of doing a totally different kind of show and finally theres a really good reason to do it. Japanese dancer Yuko Matsuyama will collaborate with me for the next show, not only did she invent some breathtaking choreographies for the show, she also made several beautiful costumes and she will be the wild dancer now. there will also be virtual guests singing duets duets with me like Masha Qrella, Nova Huta or Quioquio to name a few and there will be also a couple of brandnew songs that i am going to sing for the first time... neoangin time again..

wish you were there

Looks like homeland security weren’t the only ones to read my homepage. Thanks for the many nice and supportive emails and letters about me being kicked out of the US! So far I am doing good adjusting back in Europe….Some of you asked, why there is no new Neoangin album in almost 3 years… the one big reason is, that we had a masterplan with my second band Anxieteam to have an album out in 2010 and I wanted to wait for that with a new Neoangin album. But Anxieteam songs don’t get written in half hours so in the end it took over 2 years to finish our first proper album. but finally – here it is – , comes with a 160 page hardcoverbook, that we want you to use a as diary or sketchbook, write or draw in it and take it around with every once in a while…. The music is a beautiful mélange of lofi singalong & dancefloor , we spent nice evenings in james studio in chelsea , using chairs as drums and humming melodies into the dark…. we like it a lot and we hope you do to. Its going to be officially released next year on hello thor / heye but I already have a couple of books at home. If you like to order one, just send an email… The englandtour was fun , looks like we are going to do another one soon. In the meantime Neoangin is back on track with a show this saturday in on of my favorite rundown rocknroll places: villa nachttanz in Heidelberg . There’ll be more in Nov…..

byebye, miss american pie

Finally there is proof that somebody is reading this website. When I went to the American consulate to renew my USA visa they claimed that I had been using my journalist visa to do a lot of things ( shows , exhibitions ) in the USA wich I wasn’t allowed to do. They had a nice documentation about it, and to my surprise one of their sources was this nice little homepage. My visa was denied and from now on I am “persona non grata” in the US, wich means I am not allowed any more for the rst of my life. This will change my future travel plans a bit. Right now there is so much going on in Europe that I am not worrying too much about it, a mini friendly capitalism lounge in Kassel, England Tour with Anxieteam and a bunch of shows on various places in Europe – have a look and lets meet…

long time, no hear

Thanks to all the people who sent emails and asked what happened to Neoangin. no, i didn't disappear completely. let's say i stayed offline for half a year, and even that isn't the whole truth. i went on a 6 week tour through central america in February and March and did shows in Managua, Guatemala and Panama to name just a few. And for the rest of the time i stayed in New York , busy doing shows with my other band Anxieteam, we finished recordings for our first proper album and did a show almost every week, the last one was a spectacular rooftop show in Bushwick some weeks ago. And 10 days ago i flew back to Berlin, did a first Neoangin warm up show in Rome last weekend and prepare gigs for the next months. more soon here...

the pop-up-police never rings twice

Neoangin is back in Brooklyn. 2 months out of the suitcase behind me and a head full of memories: giant ship in Budapest with only 50 people in the audience but whole show got filmed for TV and i had to shoo the audience around to make them pretend they were 1000plus ! Sold out show in London with Anxieteam and a weird brother in the audience! A naked guy on stage and Max Tundra sleeping before and after his show in Nantes! having to compete with 3 ambitious youngster Djs in Bordeaux, shortest set 25 min in HamburgGolem! longest show 3 hours 25 min Stuttgart/Waggon. Arriving 8 times in Berlin SFX and painting a complete exhibition in the train. For the last time in this life playing the same old Cure coverversions with Nova Huta in Monarch! Watching the pop-up police in Basel closing down the show just the minute everybody started to dance and finally being trapped in a tiny backstage room with a funny barkeeper on weird drugs who was unable to count the doormoney!

It's Neoangin season again

No escape from Bushwick. Not only did my New York band Anxieteam write a song and video about this pitoresque, soon to be gentrified, yet still hipster wasteland area in the heart of Brooklyn, i also spent half october- half November painting a massive 60 m wall there. Very nice that it had sunny mid september weather till now, so my only risk was to get sunburnt. Before we went into winterbreak Anxieteam played the pictoplasma festival and released "Bushwick Dream" last week with a bumpy last show. And now suitcases are packed and neoangin is ready to rise from the grave with shows next week in Nantes and Bordeaux and the week after in Budapest. More soon....

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