| Photoshooting with Dead Guitars now online |
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Just in time for the release of their excellent first album Airplanes on June 1st 2007, Sparklingphotos is happy to present the pictures I took at my photoshooting with the Dead Guitars in January of 2007. Dead Guitars are Carlo van Putten (The Convent, White Rose Transmission), Pete Brough (12 Drummers Drumming) and Ralf Aussem (12 Drummers Drumming). Their music is located somewhere in the wide fields between Wave and Rock where bands such as The Chameleons, The Mission and Coldplay come to mind, but the Dead Guitars are no knock-off, they are able to present a fresh new album without forgetting about their roots. The band is also on a small but fine concert-tour through germany which should not be missed! Dead Guitars Live: 01.06.2007 K17 Berlin* 02.06.2007 Tower Bremen* 03.06.2007 Logo Hamburg* 09.06.2006 Message - Mönchengladbach 10.06.2007 Underground - Köln 29.07.2007 Eier mit Speck-Festival Viersen 31.08.2007 D-Bielefeld, Kamp, tbc *with: White Rose Transmission Dead Guitars Biography (taken from Dead Guitars Myspace page): In 2003 Pete Brough, one of the founder-members of German band TWELVE DRUMMERS DRUMMING, and Ralf Aussem, guitarist from the original 12DD cast, joined forces with vocalist Carlo van Putten and collectively gave life to DEAD GUITARS. In addition to being a principle writer and lead vocalist with German band THE CONVENT, Carlo van Putten also had a flourishing partnership with the late Adrian Borland, mastermind behind the British cult band THE SOUND, under the name WHITE ROSE TRANSMISSION and has worked with various others over the course of the years, including Marty Willson Piper of THE CHURCH and Mark Burgess of THE CHAMELEONS. DEAD GUITARS are an amalgamation of exhilarating downbeats, saturated electro-acoustic guitar work, and vocals that reflect an incisiveness and emotional intelligence. DEAD GUITARS are the resurrection of authentic pop, the reincarnation of sweeping, melancholic ballads, the renaissance of the wall of sound, those filigree, towering guitar riffs that make Ralf Aussem such an exceptional guitarist, and the surreal way his licks blend with clear song structures, shattering the listening habits of the pop genre finally! DEAD GUITARS do pop, not pap. Their music is crafted, not production-line, original, not synthetic, a healthy alternative to the nursery rhymes that currently mob the singles charts. It is emotionally charged and vibrant. Songs like Name Of The Sea or Crash are, unpretentiously post-modern: honest, grounded, rising above the fleeting trends and toe-curling embarrassment that haunts the current pop idol generation. DEAD GUITARS have now completed their debut 'AIRPLANES' alongside Guido Lucas at the 'Blue Box'. The album will be released 1st of June 2007. A tour of Germany is currently being finalised, venues and dates to be announced.
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