Music: ever since, but more intensively since 1994

I was taught classical voice at school in my Suebian homeland, but my greatest success back then as a junior student was to perform with the senior high school choir ;) Harry Rose who gave us Carsten's phone number taught me in Düsseldorf from 1998 on, but since 2007 I have been coached by Renate Otta (stimmwerkstatt, Cologne).

Do-it-yourself-and-play-guitar: Playing the guitar started as a campfire affair, but during the sessions with Elleven it turned into a real passion, especially for my blue De Armond, affectionately called »Blue Poison«. For heavier sounds I use my sweetheart from the darker side (»The Guitar of Destiny«), an Epiphone Prophecy SG EX, modded skull knobs of course. As I can't solder and I haven't got the patience to build a big guitar rig, I can't live without my Line6 PODXT live - simply love it!

Former bands: Cereals, Brainside and april.days (CD Produktion »restart«, 2004)

Musical influences: The list would be really as long as my CD/MP3 collection. I'll try to keep it short ;) – Anything similar to Porcupine Tree (I still can't tell which of their albums is my favourite) inspires me as much as Pink Floyd, Genesis, Led Zeppelin who laid the foundation and even »softer« Bands like Saga or Supertramp. My sister is definitely responsible for that, since she used to make everyone in the house listen to Pavlov’s Dog and other usual suspects while I was still messing around with Europe or Bon Jovi. There was a time when I was into soul and blues with my first band »Cereals« when the movies »The Commitments« and »Blues Brothers« came out (back then I didn't know Spinal Tap). Anouk, Skin of Skunk Anansie, Sara Bareilles, Annie Lennox, Heather Nova or Alanis Morissette (in her later years) really inspire me. At the end of the 90s live recordings of Marillion opened a new world for me, my favourite studio album, however, is (die-hard Fish fans may excuse me) »Seasons End«. Today my musical taste includes anything that may be called Post-Rock, e.g. Oceansize, dredg, Mogwai and so on. You can get a better idea if you look at my playlist ;)

First concert: Guns‘n Roses, Use your Illusion Tour, 1991… and I still don't like to remember me wearing the standard G'n'R outift (bandana, longsleeve T-shirt slung around the hips and workmann trousers, eww)

Last concert: Archive, Stuttgart, January 2010

First LP: Best of the Blues Brothers (1981) or Huey Lewis & the News, Sports (1983)

Last CD: Crippled Black Phoenix »200 Tons of Bad Luck (2010)

Last Download: Tara Bush »Pilfershire Lane« (2009)

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