¿Las putas?

A novel alternative to a pyrotechnical accompaniment:



In all honesty I wouldn't know how to feel if I were invited on-stage for a song lyrically addressing a whore, as these female fans were. It seems like a pretty back-handed compliment. Kudos to those chicas for getting up there though. That takes cojones...so to speak ;)

Olli Speaks Too!

The strongly silent types are getting chatty this month. Not only has Till opened his mouth off-stage, but Olli has given an interview too.

A translation of the Spanish is kindly provided by SkeletonCrew, along with the source link itself:

Hello, I'm Oliver of Rammstein. I'm grateful for the opportunity to be here in Chile. We have a friend in Berlin who is Chilean and told us a lot about his country and we are very happy to play here.

How has it been in Chile?
-I feel very good in Chile, the people are nice and happy. The people that attended to us in the airport were friendly and polite. The Rammstein fans were in a frenzy but without being extreme.

Rammstein has always had to deal with censorship...
-We come from a socialy rigid system in which art is a mean for escape. We rebelled against the system. After the wall came down we formed the band.

Rammstein has controversial lyrics...
-It's our way of venting. But we don't see it as agressive but as a way of expressing ourselves.

Rammstein fuses Industrial sounds with Metal. How did this combination come about?
-There's 6 of us in the band and we all have our own influences. And out of that came Rammstein.

What do you expect from the Santiago (Chile) concert?
-We don't know what to expect...Tomorrow we'll do a show with fire, but it wont be the same as in Europe. It'll be a spectacular show with lights, music and fire. At the end we'll play Liebe ist für alle da and we'll do some kind of theatrical act with the song...

Further to this a correction of the German to Spanish translation comes from Ganxxxter on Herzeleid:

"Translation fail of RockNvivo.com.
Olli talks about the LIFAD album, not the song.
In fact, Olli says that: "Letztenendes (=letztendlich) spielen wir jetzt die Show zu LIFAD und das ist dann eigentlich schon wie ein Theaterstück, wo alles einstudiert ist."
In English: "After all we play the show for LIFAD and that is actually a (theatre) play, where everything is studied."
In addition, he never said that the song LIFAD will be the last song of the concert."

Reise Reise Ad

A tip-off about this commercial from 2004 was posted to Herzeleid by rammsteinbrit:



The original online publication of this ad was by Pierrick of Rammstein World.

Chile Set-List

Rammstein Mexico has published the set-list from the first show back in this leg of the tour:

Intro
Rammlied
B********
Waidmanns Heil
Weisses Fleisch
Keine Lust
Feuer Frei!
Wiener Blut
Fhruling in Paris [sic]
Mein Teil
Du Riechst so Gut
Benzin
Links 2-3-4
Du Hast
Pussy
Sonne
Haifisch
Ich Will
Ich Tu´Dir Weh
Te Quiero Puta

Contrary to rumours of a severely truncated and almost LIFAD-free set punters got the full bang for their buck.

New RZK Interview

SkeletonCrew has come through once again, this time with an interview with RZK (GLT - original Spanish here).

Best Headline Act?

Rammstein have been nominated for an award for the best festival headline act for the year. What do you think? Yeah me too, and I've not actually gone to the BDO yet. So damned biased by those videos...

Now take your stinking bias and go and vote.

NY TV ad

Till Speaks (Really)

SkeletonCrew has kindly shared this Argentinian interview (GLT - original Spanish here) on the Affenknecht forums. GLT doesn't do the best job on it, so if there are any Spanish-speaking readers out there who care to translate the interview parts of the article, if not the whole thing, that would rock. I'm locked in a lovers' embrace with German at the moment. I don't fancy becoming a Spanish scholar too.

Alice in WTFland

I just found an interview with Alice Cooper, which is pretty cool, in and of itself. What really tickled me, though, was this Q&A:

THE SUN: I REALISE it's hard to tell, behind the mask of Alice, but is there anything that ever makes you blush?

ALICE: I did when I gave the female lead singer in my band, Tiffany, something called a Rammstein Box set as a present. I had no idea of its contents, which turned out to be an assortment of anatomically correct but exaggerated representations of the band.

New 'Best of' Album in 2011

I've been slack. I know this information has been out for a day or so, but I wanted to verify it, because it's just the sort of thing that goes from rumour to fact to anger in a few easy steps, so I'm a tad behind the times. Nonetheless this is fantastic news, especially the bit about the new songs...

w00!

Rammstein go on Safari

Rammstein have announced South African dates on their website. This is awesome, and I know of at least one ZApper who will be very happy.

Win Rammstein's Entire Catalogue

Metal Sucks are running a photo caption contest to win your very own Rammstein album collection. Go and be witty and win, and then come back here and comment when you win.

Chilean Support

Rammstein have announced that their support for their Chilean show will be Kanatran. I've never heard of them, but they sound okay.

Apocalyptica Tour Postponement

It seems that all is not well with my favourite finns:

We wanted to let you know that sadly we are having to reschedule the current run of US dates to the beginning of March 2011. This is due to issues with Perttu's health; we have taken the advice of several doctors before making this decision. We are working on all details and more information for you right now, and of course we will keep you fully informed!

If you're planning to attend note these changes and watch the band's various community channels for updates, so you can adjust your plans accordingly. Get well soon, Perttu.

Vettel

I've just watched the last (recorded) Formula 1 Grand Prix race of 2010, and saw my driver win the world championship. Awesome.

Dildos on Sale - Gwarn!

Yes, the deluxe edition of LIFAD is on sale, sex toys and all.

And please do ask Alan Cross why he knows about this...

Rammstein Back in the Studio

Well, the Rammstein site has been updated with a nice little nugget of information:

...the band has visited a studio on the outskirts of Berlin in the past week...

This comes along with the information that rehearsals have begun again for the next leg of the LIFAD tour. Awesome.

Silvijo's Portraiture

Silvijo has come through again with a lovely slide show of individual Rammstein shots. If you're new around here Silvijo produces some lovely photography and seems to like Rammstein as much as we do, so check out the rest of his site and enjoy!

Ping! Pong!

Yes, I am still here. It has been more than a week since I saw anything post-worthy, which is tragic. I also had a conference, which kept me busy all of last week. It's okay though, because I am still combing the interwebs for tasty titbits of Rammstein news for you, so rest assured if it's worth reading I shall post it.