[CANCELLED: October 31, 2020] Einstürzende Neubauten
Einstürzende Neubauten are infamous–they have been making noise (their name means collapsing new buildings) for forty years.
It never even occurred to me that you might be able to see them live. Apparently,
The last time the Berlin-based band attempted a tour across the Atlantic was back in 2010.
Unfortunately, Blixa Bargeld and Co experienced heavy losses when their ten date 30th-anniversary tour of the US was held up by bureaucratic red tape.
Neubauten had two cancel the tour just two days before the first gig at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles, at the time stating:
“While the US Department of Homeland Security did issue approvals for the band’s visas, it was not done in time to secure the appointments at the overseas embassies and consulates that represent the necessary final step in the process.”
Their earliest music was largely noise and mechanical sounds. They have morphed over the years (Blixa Bargeld played with Nick Cave for many years).
What began in 1980 in the Berlin Wall City in impetuous noise constructions went through countless metamorphoses and can still be called the avant-garde today. To avoid the impressive work outstripping the band, Blixa Bargeld, NU Unruh, Alexander Hacke, Jochen Arbeit and Rudolf Moser always set new artistic goals.
I wonder who was going to open for them.
I would really enjoy seeing them live. However, I would never be going to a show on Halloween night–I have kids after all.
It’s a shame that this whole tour was cancelled–I would imagine they would never try coming back to the States. But if they do, I will certainly try to get there.
