In retrospect, it is impossible to understand how long the former beer garden in Giesing was wasted as a car parking space. The Grünspitz is now being used again as a meeting place for a city community that, thanks to the initiative of committed citizens, can also enjoy concerts here with free admission. Of course, to the satisfaction of some neighbors who are used to sound, care is taken to ensure that the traffic noise from the neighboring streets is not distorted too much by the music being played.
It therefore made sense to stand as close as possible to the stage with its small loudspeakers in order to experience on Friday what sounds the sound magician Martin Lickleder made with just his harmonica at the band’s concert The Sound Of Money knew how to elicit. Rhythmically reinforced by percussionist Franziska Erdle and drummer Tom Wu, and temporarily supplemented by bassist Emily Xylander, the band presented anagramed song titles whose letters in a different order name the names of important long-playing records from the sixties and seventies. The polyphonic pop gem “Let’s Eat The Weed” with gospel underpinnings, for example, refers to a 1968 album by country singer Bobbie Gentry “The Delta Sweete”. And because the glamorous David Bowie once liked to pose with his right arm outstretched, The Sound Of Money transformed Bowie’s “The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars” into a no less provocative “Dr. Dr. Themefart “Frustrating Himself, Posed As Gay Old Nazi SS”.
The rock band was a little less encrypted, but still just as playful with language Rocket review, whose songs have already been sung along to by some fans. Her debut album will not be released until 2024 on the Munich label Trikont. However, some of their songs have already been published on the Internet. The three-year-old “Melancholy,” for example, in which one of the band’s two singers eloquently says to the jazzy music: “And I look into the distance and yet at you into nothingness.” The Hamburg School Blumfeld and Co would have found another master in Rocket Umschau. At Grünspitz they shone as part of an exciting Munich pop scene. Places like the Grünspitz offer such a scene further necessary publicity.