A Facebook Group For Your Attention

A Facebook group dedicated to bringing Rammstein to NZ has come to my attention. This, along with the Aussie version, is something I want to support.

Yes, we have them down this way for the BDO now, but we're greedy. We want full tour dates, with the cock cannon and the Engel wings, and the Ich Tu' tower, and we want them for more than an hour! We didn't get enough from the BDO.

Come on guys, lets get Rammstein locked in for some real tour shows down here. Join the groups, post to their walls, show some love, and lets see what we can pull off.

Voxy Music

Voxy posts:

A decade since ruling over BIG DAY OUT with a reign of fire, pyrotechnics, monstrous riffs, wicked humour and industrial savagery, RAMMSTEIN will return this summer to reclaim their sovereign territory. The RAMMSTEIN live experience is "dizzyingly ridiculous", says the BBC. "Rock is at its best when confrontational, subversive, curiously camp and bold, which is why RAMMSTEIN are currently one of the most important bands in the genre." Armed with their sixth album, Liebe ist fr [sic] Alle da, Germany's infamous techno-metal masters bring nothing less than the greatest show on earth: "RAMMSTEIN are in pulverising form, the crowd are going crazy, the atmosphere is electric and the firebombs launching from the stage are like World War III on apocalypse LSD" (The Quietus, February 2010). Bow down to your kings, BIG DAY OUT 2011, for RAMMSTEIN have returned.

Nice. Note the emphasis in this quote is not mine. I am not alone in my shoutiness.

Rammstein is COMING

Yeah, look at those upper-case letters. That's called emphasis. Get used to it. I'm going to be very shouty in the literary sense over the next four months, because RAMMSTEIN IS COMING TO NEW ZEALAND! Edit: AND AUSTRALIA! See? I did it again.

Here's what is being said down here:

Rammstein are brining six containers of pyro gear and dildos. ‘Pussy’ was my favourite single in recent memory. I can’t wait to see this live, with backing flames and pelvic thrusts.
- David Farrier - local Twit (and journalist)

The return of several major rock acts - especially German shock-metallers Rammstein and aggressive Sacramento band Deftones - will please Big Day Out fans who complained that artists like Bjork, Dizzee Rascal, Arcade Fire and Neil Young had made the main stage a little soft in recent years.
- Stuff (NZ)

Heavy metal giants Tool and Rammstein are the big names heading to Auckland in January next year as the Big Day Out announces the first of its line-up.
- TVNZ (er NZ, and LOL at Rammstein being heavy metal giants - the metalheads will be pfft!ing themselves silly)

I'll post anything and everything that seems remotely interesting to me, as it comes to hand...with emphasis on the good stuff.

Big Day Out

Yes, I will be there. Yes, Rammstein will be there. Yes, I will tell you all about it. I'm at work right now. More later...

Pearls

There's something very frustrating about Rammstein. Their work has been described as 'music to invade Poland to', the live show with 'Rammstein don't play, they burn', or something like it, but both are fairly trite and inadequate.

Rammstein's music, live show, and public life are authored to fuck with the programme. On the latest album there's a heartfelt Piaf tribute about the deflowering of a young man, a very poppy pop song about European sex tourism, and a heavy anthem about Rammstein and its fans. If you got the bonus disk you can listen a very pretty track about the rape of a goose-girl, and a operatic piece centred around the image of conjoined twins. The live show includes as much drama and choreography as any classical ballet, and a foam canon dressed up as a cock. The front-man only opens his mouth to sing and otherwise stands back and stares, and their lyrics are almost entirely German. Yes, fuck the programme. Let's just confuse the uninitiated and drive our fans to distraction, shall we?

To me Rammstein resemble nothing so much as a grain of sand in an oyster's shell. Consider the grain of sand. It gets into the oyster shell and irritates the shit out of the oyster. The oyster is forced to protect itself by coating the grain with crystalline calcium carbonate, and the end product is a pearl, and an overwrought oyster.

Despite the fact that their albums are coherent, thematic, and well-balanced Rammstein manage to avoid fitting into any pigeonhole you might care to invent for them. The tracks are distinct and disturbing, the hooks and riffs keep your body involved, even if you stop consciously listening, and that's without considering the actual meaning of the lyrics, around which this site is built.

Rammstein's stock in trade is their live performance, which I have never experienced. If they don't come down this way I expect to turn out a lot of pearls. Please support this Facebook group, and save me a lot of frustration.

Bring Rammstein to Australasia

How many fans does it take to bring Rammstein halfway around the planet? I have no idea, but shall we find out?

RammsteiNZ - For Kiwi Rammstein Fans

I've started a NZ Rammstein fan-site at RammsteiNZ.com. I'd really appreciate it if you guys could propagate this, more particularly to any New Zealand residents or citizens you know. I am going to mirror the Rammstein news from here to that site, but keep the LILT stuff and the NZ-specific stuff separate.

The way I see it, there are two way Rammstein would come to NZ. The first is if they elected to take part in BDO (Big Day Out) again. The second is if a demonstrable number of interested fans piped up. I reckon the best way to achieve either is to create a NZ Rammstein fan community. This will be interesting...

Peaceful

Just in case you're wondering why I fill my head with Rammstein, it's because of where I'm from. Hah! We seriously need a Rammstein tour.

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