Continental Tuesday # 1

How you know, I have finished my twanging series last week and I considered what series would come next. Finally I decided to make a series about music made from bands not from Great Britain. No matter whether these are German-speaking artist, bands from continental Europe or both. Anyhow it is no matter whether it music from today is or whether this was taken up before decades. Main criterion should be that the music and the songs in a way at all are worth to be heard once again. Besides, it should play no role, whether it is punk, New Wave, Krautrock or electronic it should be music from outside the island. So be curious what will appear the upcoming weeks.

So let's start with Kettcar, a band formed in Hamburg in 2001 by Marcus Wiebusch after the split of their punk influenced band ... But Alive. It's a band I followed during the last years and I like them melancholic way in their music. Not only the music is what impresses me it's also about their lyrics that touches my little soul.

I am not embittered

only try out this

Now after food

I want, actually, only home

They do not brag

they only let know

Am I still unfair or quite envious?

These are your oldest friends

probably both

It only shimmers through

It stands in the air between us

And all these subjects, this are good subjects

About the cooking and travelling and what we take so

before immediately one says

So, this it was

If your glass raises

Come, raise your glasses

A toast

on the life

the luck

only I, I do not come along any more

with the life

to the luck

A toast

on the friendship

the certainty

in one year from here and now in

if the compassion certainly comes

We were always so proud of it

to know you

More notion of all

when we everybody together

Here you say only nothing

and then this cryptic dung

We have decided

as well as most

for rat race

and for own home perform

And you look down

with this knowledge what is wrong

This evening no mistake

and if then not mine

I am no betrayer

and feel me like one

Do you think then seriously this life makes fun?

If your glass raises

Comes, your glass raises

A toast

on the life

his lies

and as we struggle all the life

for nothing

and nothing at all

A toast

on the life

a place

on one is able once thus his

how one is

who is one

Kettcar - Am Tisch (At the table)

As a bonus a song from Wiebusch's first band ... But Alive (Forever 16)