MATSKI
it almost seems unavoidable to not dedicate a few words to former friend Matski, as he’s been insulting me for weeks on the internet. now anyone doing that without talking or writing to me privately, i hardly can call a friend, even after knowing one and another for so long. and i really couldn’t care less if his tone wasn’t getting more pathetic every time his frustrations need an outlet.
i know Matski since i was 15, when i slided into the local punk and squat scene, almost 30 years ago. for someone who doesn’t care about the past, only lives in the present and only cares for the future – as he states over and over again on his blog -, he writes an awful lot about that past, even way more than i do. funny, isn’t it? but, i don’t want to get into a competitive comparison about who is right or wrong, or what is true or not. people should figure that out themselves. i have absolutely no desire nor a need to confirm or deny his allegations, except…
the newspaper article Matski is referring to? well, i didn’t cooperate on that as the paper’s staff is made up of lazy, cynical and superficial assholes, who are mostly in their fifties. hell, nobody from the old scene cooperated with the newspaper, they just copied, cut up, shuffled and pasted it from a more extensive story which appeared in local yearbook Buun, which is, by the way, on some important issues factually incorrect. so one could imagine beforehand the paper’s article would be worse than bad, just like it turned out to be. i explained all of this to Matski in person months ago, but he just keeps treading down this public warpath, fixing his anger on me. so do i feel responsible? no. should i have told Matski? no, as i didn’t contribute and i don’t care what the paper writes, but mainly because Matski stated to me on several occassions - very strongly and long before all of this happened – that he doesn’t want to be bothered about ‘the old days’. well, no problem.
but, Matski is always right. anyone who spends considerable time with him knows this. how can one be wrong when one never reflects on himself? anyway, i wrote a poem for him a while ago, which most of you probably didn’t connect to him. you can find it here to study again.
05.1.10PUDELWALD
Hoch in den
Bergen,
da bastle ich
mein Gericht.
Dort wo man
laut bellen kann -
hinunter.
Und man mich
hört,
ob Wille
oder nicht.
Karyn Kuhl
it already has been a couple of days ago, but we had a short visit of New Jersey’s singer/songwriter and guitarist Karyn Kuhl doing a solo-performance in De Splinter - a bar located in the middle of town. the gig was organized by local radioshow Ze Majjem in collaboration with 80s independent label Limbabwe of tour manager Matski.
Karyn is the former guitarist/singer of nineties band Sexpod, which in all honesty, didn’t ring any bells to me. the nineties passed me by without much music and i still don’t keep track of what’s going on: there’s too much around, i don’t download and i prefer to be in for a surprise. Karyn’s songs on the web were promising, though. no bullshit rocking songs.
Photo by Constance
nice to see a bunch of old faces together again last tuesday, although it would have been better some unknown ones had found their way to Karyn too. she definitely has more to offer than performing solo in a small bar where the crowd is yapping away during her songs – myself included later on. but all in all it wasn’t that disturbing as Karyn herself was all relaxed about it, doing two extensive on and off acoustic and electric sets, and even inviting people to join in. it was hilarious seeing her guitar and mic being confiscated after she quit: the audience clearly hadn’t enough. an improvised semi-drunken jam followed. ‘do you allow that?’, i asked her, and ‘would this have been possible in New York?’. ‘no’, she commented, ‘they would be thrown out by bouncers’, while she stood by watching it with an amazed grin. the rest of us laughed.
next time she probably will take the band with her, which sometimes was really missing. but the moments she sent her guitar into overdrive you only became fully aware what potential she and her songs really have. could do with a bit less control in my opinion. don’t be too modest Karyn, not to shy. let it hang out more, it suits you just fine.
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