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Music: Dirk Darmstaedter celebrates the great pop song – ABC Online

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His almost 30-year-old song “Brand New Toy” is still one of the more pleasant radio hits of popmusikalisch bad repute 80s. But the brief period Dirk Darmstaedter has as frontman of internationally successful band The Jeremy Days long behind him.

Since then he looked at times as a record label boss of wallpaper, especially but as a singer-songwriter under its own flag his luck. With “Beautiful Criminals” (Beg Steal & amp; Borrow). The 51-year-old now presents an album in which he lives out his love for the larger than life pop design

“Pop Guitars” is because even a the best songs this challenging disk, and it sounds probably not accidental as a tribute to “Electric Guitars” of Prefab Sprout, a British 80-project, the venerated Darmstaedter. “Pop guitars have always saved me. Whether a teenager or even in later times (…) Pop guitars I have a break, a vision given a hope. That’s what the song “says Hamburg. Also Gitarrenpopbands like The Smiths or Aztec Camera were probably Godfather

found The recordings for this opulent 56-minute work -. Believe it or not – in large part on the home roof floor instead. The backbone of the songs created the singer and multi-instrumentalist with his longtime companions Lars Plogschties (drums) and Ben Schadow (bass), who had already taken part in the similarly ambitious album “Appearances” (2012) by Darmstaedters sideproject Me And Cassity.

The 13 carefully arranged songs from “Beautiful Criminals” curry favor any current pop fashion. “I do not care if it’s radio friendly or whether the press would find something else better,” says Darmstaedter. “. For such thoughts, I have no more time in my life” Is it good, this intransigence – especially when it brings so timelessly beautiful results

live performances by Dirk Darmstaedter in May: 06:05.. Magdeburg, Hofgalerie, 08:05. Leipzig, Täubchenthal, 09:05. Frankfurt / Main, Mousonturm, 10.05. Berlin, Oyster Club, 11:05. Hamburg, Knust, 12.05. Dusseldorf, Pitcher, 13.05. Cologne Stereo Wonderland, 17.05. Munich, Milla, 24.05. Dresden, Bärenzwinger

 

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