Name: 69 Arten Den Pubrock Zu Spielen
Brand: Das Lunsentrio

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

TR489

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-11-26

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Supplier GB

Shellshock

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8428846212708

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TR489LP

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4015698136975

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Artist

Das Lunsentrio

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Tapete

Nothing about Das Lunsentrio is quite what you'd expect. The band formed by Franz Ferdinand founder member/guitarist Nick McCarthy.

Firstly, they are not a trio, but a five piece. Secondly, their new album <i>69 Arten Den Pubrock Zu Spielen</i> ('69 Ways To Play The Pub Rock') doesn't contain 69 songs but a mere 13. One of them ('Aufruf') appears twice on the album. Thirdly, the album opens with a song about destruction, a song that celebrates ending things with a bang, hinting at Keith Moon's exploding drum kit and Niki de Saint Phalle's shooting at her finished art work ('Die Offenbacher Küchenzerstörung'). Incidentally, Niki de Saint Phalle gets a second mention in the finishing track of the album, where an imaginary cider bar in the sky represents heaven, nirvana and paradise, populated by Niki and all the deceased who deserve to be in a place where food and drink is provided a-plenty.

Throughout the album the 'trio' ventures into Irish pubs, sings about the great nothing ('Nix), dips their toes into soft waters with a cover of the Krautrock classic 'Weiches Wasser' (Bots), pays tribute to the large Turkish communities of Kreuzberg and Hackney (Insan, Sieben Simit Ringe) and takes a long hike in the Zillertaler Alps. 

Das Lunsentrio is not a new project. Three albums in, it was originally started by Berlin-based visual artist Hank Schmidt in der Beek, Nick McCarthy (Franz Ferdinand, Box Codax, Manuela, The Nix, KT Tunstall producer) and Seb Kellig (Sausage Studios London, KT Tunstall producer, The Nix). They were swiftly joined by Martin Tagar (Friends of Gas, Das Weisse Pferd) and Albert Poeschl (Echokammer, Suzi Trio, Grexits, King of Japan to name but a few), completing the 5-piece 'trio'. 

<i>69 Arten Den Pubrock Zu Spielen </i>was recorded in a barn in the foothills of the Bavarian Alps... "we wanted to sound like Neil Young but didn't nail it at all. We are just too loud."