THE FIRST LEG OF KMFDM'S TOURING-ACTIVITIES HAS ENDED. IT WAS A GREAT TOUR. 30 SHOWS IN 32 DAYS! THANX TO EVERYONE WHO CAME TO SEE US ON THE ROAD. ATTENDANCE WAS GOOD, WE PLAYED IN VERY SMALL AND ALSO IN VERY LARGE VENUES. MOST DATES WERE SOLD OUT, W HICH INDICATES THAT NEXT TIME WE SHALL PLAY SLIGHTLY LARGER VENUES...
SOME PEOPLE EXPRESSED THAT THEY ARE SURPRISED TO HEAR KMFDM ON COMMERCIAL-ALTERNATIVE RADIO LATELY AND DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO THINK OF THAT FACT. ARE WE FINALLY SELLING OUT???? WE SAY: WHAT CAN BE BETTER THAN SWITCHING ON THE OLD RADIO AND HEARING YOUR FAV ORITE BAND ON THE AIR, INSTEAD OF THE USUAL CRAP THEY PLAY DAY-IN DAY-OUT. WE HAVE ALWAYS DEEMED IT IMPORTANT TO GET INTO THESE CRUSTED AND INSTITUTIONALIZED MECHANISMS (THE MUSIC-BIZ IN GENERAL) AND SHAKE THINGS UP!
IN EARLY SEPTEMBER WE WILL START ANOTHER TOUR IN THE U.S. AND JAPAN. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TOUR-DATES, PLEASE SEND A SELF-ADDRESSED, STAMPED ENVELOPE ADDRESSED TO:
KMFDM-TOUR-DATES
P.O. BOX 470199
CHICAGO, IL 60647-0199
WE WILL SEND THEM OUT TO YOU AS SOON AS WE HAVE CONFIRMED DATES...... IN THE MEANTIME, LIFE'S A BLAST...... SUMMER IN THE CITY CAN BE NICE WHEN YOU HAVE A.C.!
IF YOU ARE WAITING FOR THE RELEASE OF THE KMFDM-BOOK, IT WON'T HAPPEN SOON...... BUT WE FILMED THE ENTIRE TOUR AND ARE CURRENTLY VIEWING THE MATERIAL. POSSIBLY LATER IN THE YEAR WE WILL RELEASE A VIDEO-DOCUMENTARY INCLUDING ALL OUR VIDEOS, LIVE-FOOTAGE, LIFE BACKSTAGE, INTERVIEWS AND EVEN A LOOK INTO THE SECRET LIFE OF KMFDM ON THEIR TOURBUSES....
ARE YOU ON THE NET? OUR WEB-PAGE ADDRESS IS: http://www.kmfdm.com AND KMFDM@sonicnet.com IS STILL ACTIVE BUT I HARDLY EVER LOG ON ANYMORE, TOO MUCH TO DO, TOO MUCH TO ENJOY..... LIFE IS SHORT
RIP THE SYSTEM!!!!
SASCHA KMFDM
KMFDM IS AN ACRONYM FOR: KEIN MEHRHEIT FÜR DIE MITLEID (NO PITY FOR THE MAJORITY). AS A REACTION TO THE FEVERISH EFFORTS (FUELED BY A POINTLESS "MARKETING CAMPAIGN") TO CREATE 1001 POSSIBLE MEANINGS FOR OUR NAME, WE MADE A POINT IN 1994 BY OFFERING AN ALTERNATIVE OPTION. KEINER MACHT FÜR DICH MEHR (NO ONE DOES MORE FOR YOU), CAN BE FOUND INT HE LYRICS OF KMFDM "LIGHT."
KEIN MEHRHEIT FÜR DIE MITLEID WAS FOUNDED BY SASCHA KONIETZKO AND UDO STURM, A GERMAN PAINTER AMD MULTI-MEDIA-PERFORMER, ON FEBRUARY 29TH, 1984, IN PARIS, FRANCE. THAT DAY, THE MULTI-NATIONAL KUNST-KONSPIRACY "ERSTE HILFE" (GERMAN FOR "FIRST AID"), WAS TO PERFORM FOR THE OPENING OF AN EXHIBITION OF YOUNG EUROPEAN ARTISTS AT THE GRAND PALAIS IN PARIS. THE AUDIO ACCOMPANIMENT WAS CONDUCTED BY STURM (HE PLAYED A FRAGMENTED ARP 2600 SYNTHESIZER IN FEEDBACK MODE) AND KONIETZKO (WHO TREATED A BASS-GUITAR AMPLIFIED BY 5 AMPEG BASS-AMPLIFIERS PLACED IN STRATEGICALLY SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF THE HUGE TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY STEEL AND GLASS-CONSTRUCTION) AS WELL AS FOUR ORIGINAL POLISH COAL-MINERS (PUTTING THEIR TOOLS-OF-TRADE TO WORK ON THE BUILDINGS FOUNDATIONS).
SHORTLY THEREAFTER, BACK IN HAMBURG, GERMANY, KONIETZKO STARTED ANOTHER PROJECT WITH PETE MISSING, AUDIO-ANARCHIST FROM NEW YORK CITY, "MISSING FOUNDATIONS." IN SEARCH FOR A DRUMMER EN ESCH WAS FOUND, WHO HAD RECENTLY MOVED FROM HIS HOMETOWN, NEAR FRANKF URT, TO HAMBURG. ESCH'S AND KONIETZKO'S PARTICIPATION IN MF DID NOT LAST, AND TOGETHER WITH ENGLISHMAN RAYMOND "NAINZ" WATTS, A FRIEND OF KONIETZKO'S, KMFDM (THE ABBREVIATION WAS INTRODUCED BY WATTS WHO COULD NEVER PRONOUNCE THE TONGUE-TWISTER) PICKED UP STEAM.
THEIR FIRST ALBUM "WHAT DO YOU KNOW, DEUTSCHLAND?" WAS RELEASED IN DECEMBER 1986. IT CONSISTED OF RECORDINGS MADE IN THE YEARS 1983-1986, SOME OF WHICH WERE DONE BEFORE EN ESCH JOINED THE BAND ("WHAT DO YOU KNOW, DEUTSCHLAND?" AND "THE UN-RESTRAINED USE OF EXCESSIVE FORCE"). IN EARLY 1987 KMFDM RELEASED "KICKIN' ASS" AND LICENSED IT TO A BRITISH RECORD-LABEL WHICH INTRODUDUCED THEM TO THE ART-WORLD OF BRUTE. THE 1988 RELEASE "DON'T BLOW YOUR TOP" WAS LICENSED TO WAX TRAX! RECORDS IN CHICAGO AND THE RES T IS HISTORY......
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