Dead fish in the Oder and black clouds over Berlin’s Grunewald. Because an ammunition depot burned there. That was the apocalyptic setting as the Berlin band The doors recorded their album “Capitalism Blues Band”. Today one could add to this tableau the wars in Ukraine, Nagorno-Karabakh and Israel. To then counter with the title of a door song: “Too much going on right now.”
There’s a lot going on right now around Maurice Sumen, the band’s singer, who has been leading the important Berlin indie label Staatsakt for 20 years. The doors are something like the house and yard band there. And when Staatsakt celebrates its 20th birthday, a birthday tour of the doors is definitely part of it.
This will take the Berliners to the city on October 14th Munich Chamber Gamestogether with the Berlin musician Nichtseattle and the Munich postpunk band Friends Of Gas. In addition to their great new, post-punk album, Summen & Co also have the book “What appears is good, what is good, appears” with them, which is a kind of “oral history” of German indie pop in the form of interviews with almost 40 Staatsakt artists of the last 20 years. After all, the Munich native is also celebrating his 11th birthday on October 14th Music Club Milla (Holzstrasse 28). The neo-soul band performs here as musical well-wishers Zoelathe trash pop duo Cousins Like Shit and the Krautrock project Hodo Gaia at.
20 Years of State – The Anniversary Tour, Saturday, October 14th, 8 p.m., Münchner Kammerspiele, Falckenbergstraße 1, www.muenchner-kammerspiele.de