Juhu – einer unserer charmantesten Lieblingsgastgeber feiert Geburtstag! 5 Jahre, oder in anderen Worten ausgedrückt, ein halbes Jahrzehnt begeistert die Event-Serie nun schon das partyfröhliche Publikum.

Mit zum Beispiel immer wieder tollen Bookings wie z.B. Steve Bug, Maya Jane Coles, Solomun oder Tobi Neumann. Oder sie lassen mit Mottos wie „Cirque du Pompadour“ die Zirkustiere los und verwandeln für eine Nacht die Tanzfläche in eine bunt-verrückte Manege. Für die grosse Geburtstagfeier am Freitag haben sie sich übrigens das junge italienische Duo Francesco Leali and Federico Maccherone aka Clockwork geholt. Mehr als löblich ist zu erwähnen dass die Jungs und Mädels von Club Pompadour auch ein richtig gutes Herz haben und in den letzten Jahren viele Veranstaltungen mit sozialen und wohltätigen Hintergrund auf die Beine gestellt haben. Wie z.B. „Butterbrot für Alle“ wo sie gemeinsam mit der Jugendinitiative der Volkshilfe zusammen auf die Kinder-und Jugendarmut hinweisen und sämtliche Eintrittsgelder und Spenden auch direkt den Hilfsbedürftigen weitergeleitet haben.  Das hört sich jetzt alles wohl so nach einer richtig grossen Liebeserklärung an – und ja das sollte es auch sein! Happy Birthday und alles Liebe von uns! See you on Friday <3

Wir verlosen 1×2 Tickets für dieses Event. Bitte einfach ein Mail an contact@c-heads.com (Gewinner wird am 17.05. verlost und schriftlich benachrichtigt)

5 Years Anniversary am 18.05.2012 @ Pratersauna
Line up:

CLOCKWORK (life & death, hot creations – italy)
NADJA (jesus loved you – zagreb)

Club Pompadour Residents:
THOMAS GRÜN
PHILIPP BLECHA
VERONIKA AMIE
ILYAS HECKMANN
ROBIN MA’AR

Entry: € 12,-
Start: 22:00 – Garten + Main / ab 01:00 –> Bunker

teaser image © Nick Ares

Photographer: Ted Emmons – tedemmonsphotography.com
Stylist: Amanda Carter
Mau/Hair: Brittany Meredith
Model: Tanya (Next Models LA)

 “When I did music about 10 years ago it was much more electronic, now it is maybe more organic but then maybe next time it will be more electronic again or perhaps it will be totally acoustic or something in between. It is actually the music that decides what kind of style it should be.” tells me the fantastic Danish producer and DJ Anders Trentemøller in our
today´s chat.

I love the fact that he is an artist that is so inspired by music itself and not by following certain trends and not even always sticking to his own style but always finding new ways of expressing himself. Listening to his own heart has not only given him the chance to be doing what he truly loves but also taken him on a huge road of success. Some of last year´s highlights surely have been his high-flying US tour with his band and his release of the double CD/vinyl Reworked/Remixed. And this year hasn´t started less exciting with the release of his latest single “My Dreams” feat. Marie Fisker, a cover version of The Gun Club´s song. And even better news – after his DJ gigs this weekend he will go back to the studio and continue working on his new album.

Having achieved so much already in the past years – what does Anders Trentemøller still dream about? “I actually don’t think that I have achieved that much. I am still very hungry for life – both musical wise and in my personal life there are a lot of things still to experience yet.”

Hello dear Anders, pleasure to speak to you. How are you and what have you been up to?

Hello, well lately I have been working in the studio on my new album and I have also been doing some DJ gigs. But most of my time I now spend in the studio writing new music.

Very cool, I am gonna ask you more questions about the new album later on, but first of all because you are playing in Vienna tomorrow at the Grelle Forelle: Do you have any associations with Austria, the party crowd?

Actually to be honest, I can´t say that I have any specific associations with playing in Vienna, because in most cities of Europe we have quite an open crowd. I can only remember that it was fun to play there and also there was Dorit Chrysler playing with us using this instrument called theremin. It is an instrument that you are playing without touching it. ( since I have never heard about this, Anders kindly explains and makes the sound of this instrument for me) It was really fun for us to have her playing on stage.

Do you have any expectations for this gig?

I am just looking forward to play a DJ set. Of course it is very different to when I play with a band, coz that is only my music then. And it is much more indie-rock orientated and when I play as a DJ it is more electronic sound.

After having toured so much together with your band last year, is it strange for you to be on stage on your own again?

To be honest, I really prefer playing with the band, because that is always something very special. It is a very special happening when several people are playing together. There is a lot of improvised stuff going on. And of course it is a very social thing. Of course it is also fun to work as a DJ, even though it is a bit more lonely travelling. But it is two very different things, and the crowd is also very different. When I play as a DJ people are a lot more out there just to dance and have a party, and when I play with the band people are actually also more there for the music.

Talking about this big US/ Canada tour last year – do you have any highlights from that time?

Yeah! We had two tours there last year and we played at the Coachella festival and that was something really special to me, as it has always been a festival that I have wanted to play at and so many of my favourite artists and bands have played there. So that was really something special. And we had like 30,000 people going totally crazy to our concert. We didn’t expect that many people to come to our show, because we are not that big over there, but after that festival gig we had nearly sold out gigs everywhere, so for me it is definitely something that I always look back to and that I think was my highlight last year.

So great! It is very hard to take over the US …

I think it was only after we played at the Coachella festival that people actually got to know about my music over there.  

And is there anything that you didn’t enjoy about the touring?

Actually for me touring is something that I really like because all the people playing in my band they are also my very best friends and we are really having such a great time, so for me I am actually missing playing with the band now. So that is also why I am working so hard in the studio to get back playing with the band and going on the road again. It is fantastic to travel, to play music every night and then go back to the tourbus and later wake up in a new city.

Can you describe the feeling when you are on stage?

It is a different thing compared to playing as a DJ. That is also fun, but it is also more me playing tracks and people dancing, but when we play with a band we can also play a lot more with the music and we sometimes also have a more intimate feeling with the crowd and the feedback can be very touching. Because my music is not only about dancing techno stuff – it is also about trying to build some beautiful landscapes. We have three vocalists and a drummer, guitar player and also a violin player, therefore many things can happen and also many things can go wrong, but that is also something that I like –that I don’t have the control over of what is going to happen on stage.

Your latest release single “ My Dreams” feat. Marie Fisker is great too – and you did two versions. My personal favourite is the acoustic version of it – love it. Why did you decide to make two versions and why did you choose to cover that song by The Gun Club?

It was actually Marie Fisker who came up with this song, because she is a huge fan of The Gun Club. I actually didn’t know it before but I totally fell in love with this song. And we actually just started doing it in the acoustic version just to see if it works. And then I was really happy with that version as well, and I thought it could be great to put it on the B-side. So we actually recorded this totally live just taking half an hour. It was quite a spontaneous thing to do and I am really happy that it actually ended up on the B-Side.

It took you many years to actually live from your music. Why did you never give up on that? What kept you going?

Since I was about 5 years old I have always been playing music. I used to play on pots and pans to the music on the radio and when I was a teenager I played in a lot of different bands. Music has always been my big passion and something that I really cannot live without. So for me it was never about earning money. For me making music is a way of expressing your feelings and sometimes for me it is a sort of a therapy as well. Even if I didn’t earn any money I would still be doing it. But then of course it is great now to earn a good living of doing what I really like, but it is important for me that I have my artistic freedom and only do the music that I really think is right and not having anyone tell me how it should sound.

That is great and I think that is also one thing that is characterizing for you as an artist – that you always do different things, that you challenge yourself and you are not much worried about trends…

It is funny because on facebook sometimes people are writing that they are not satisfied that I am not doing the same music that I used to do 6 years ago and some people are getting kind of angry that I am not doing the same stuff. I am basically making music only for my own pleasure. It is great of course if people listen to my music and it is something that I am really grateful for, but for me making music is a very personal thing and of course I really cannot listen to what people want, but only listen to my own heart.

Do you think you will once release an album just full of indie-stuff?

I am trying not to think of music as electronic, or rock or classical. But just try to make the music that I feel like. Often it is a mixture of different things. When I did music about 10 years ago it was much more electronic, now it is maybe more organic but then maybe next time it will be more electronic again or perhaps it will be totally acoustic or something in between. It is something that I am trying not to plan too much but that happens while I am writing the music. And it is actually the music that decides what kind of style it should be.

So it means there is also a lot of your own personality within your music –it is like how you feel at the moment and what stage in life you are in at the moment…

Yeah, definitely. And also what inspires me when I am writing the music. And that can be many different things. It is not only other people´s music, but it can also be a painting or it can be just me walking down the street early in the morning and something comes into my mind.

Let´s talk about your new album now that you are working on. In an interview some times ago you said that for your next album you will give yourself the rule to keep it more simple. To cut off all unnecessary stuff. How is it going with that? Are you sticking to your rules?

Yeah, kind of. But then rules are also there to be broken. But for me I find it important to create something simple sounding but still with a lot of details in it. So the big challenge is to really try to write good melodies and to have a good basic thing going on and not putting on too many layers, but really looking more into the song writing process and maybe not make it too overproduced. Keeping it a little bit more rough and simple.

Another thing that I found quite interesting is that usually you like to retreat when you produce an album. But this time you are also touring so much. How come?

For the last two months I have not really been able to make music, because I have been busy doing remixes and also DJing, so when I am finished with this that weekend I am having two months where I will go back to the studio. Because for me it gets really hard to play on the weekends, travel a lot and then go back to my normal life here in Copenhagen and suddenly feeling that I should be creative and then when it´s weekend again be out playing in clubs again. It sometimes makes your life a little bit more schizophrenic. laughs

Of course, and you need to have some sort of peace and quiet around you to be able to create something. Is there a release date planned as well or you are just going to see how long it takes?

I will release it when I am happy about it. Right now, I do not know when it will come out, but I hope it will come out in Spring next year, but that really depends on how well the writing process is going and all.

I know that you would also love to do a collaboration with the great Hope Sandavol – but it´s hard to catch her – in the meantime did you manage to contact her –is there anything planned?

Not yet, but she is actually playing here in Copenhagen in August and my booking agency is also her booking agency, so I am really trying to see if I can maybe can get backstage and do something. I think it is much easier when you are talking artist to artist and not through management or record labels. So I hope that I might be so lucky to give her a CD or something…

And now some typical C-Heads questions:

Do people recognize you on the street and ask your for autographs?

Yeah, sure sometimes and of course people always get one. Because I think it is a really nice thing that people are listening to my music and showing their joy about that. So you should never be too cool to take a photograph with people.

What makes you happy?

Mhh.. what makes me happy in my life is family, friends, my girlfriend. And that is also what makes me sad, – if the love life is not working well, but that also inspires me sometimes.

Ok, so you already answered my next question of what makes you sad…

Laughs.  I am talking and talking.

Wonderful, I have more questions. You are a fan of Woody Allen movies – which one is your favourite?

Ah, they are many. Hannah and Her Sisters is one of my favourite. And also Manhattan is really great. His newest movie was quite good too, Midnight in Paris.

What has been the last concert that you went to see?

Last concert.. that was actually the Dirty Beaches.. no, no.. my latest concert was The Raveonettes, it is a really cool Danish band and they were playing here in Denmark. They had their 10 year´s anniversary so they played a lot of their old stuff and I am a big fan of their music.

You have achieved so much already – what dreams to you still have?

But I actually don’t think that I have achieved that much. I am still very hungry for life – both musical wise and in my personal life there are a lot of things still to experience yet. I am not like an old man yet. Laughs. So of course also making music is always a big challenge. And for me I think that I am feeling that I have only been starting. And I want to explore other kind of music and play more music myself.

Do you actually play a lot of instruments yourself? I know you play the piano, also the guitar..?

Yeah, but I am really bad at playing the guitar. So when I am playing it, I might play for one hour and then maybe I am cutting out one minute that sounds good. So mostly I am writing what the people should play but I am not that good at playing it myself- especially not live.

Do you also think about writing lyrics?

I am not that good at writing lyrics. It is always something that I do together with the vocalist. Because it is very important to me that the vocalist is also singing something that he or she really means. So it is often something that we do together. Maybe I have some ideas for texts, but most of the time I also think the music itself kind of gives a clue of what the lyrics could be about and of course most of my music is quite melancholic and dreamy. So often the songs are also more dark.

Are you a melancholical person?

Yeah, sometimes. But I am also a happy person. I am not sitting in my studio crying laughs. But I definitely see the beauty in melancholic moods and I am not really this guy for whom it is easy to write a happy-go-lucky song. It is really hard for me to do.

Anything you still want to add at the end?

No, I think that I have talked pretty much. Laughs

Yeah, you took away most of my questions..

Laughs. Yeah. Well, I really look forward to play in Vienna tomorrow!

Austria can´t wait for you! Thanks a lot, was a pleasure to speak to you!

Thanks as well!

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Interview by Sigrun Guggenberger

Wer liebt sie nicht – die lauen Sommer und Partynächte. Endlich kann man wieder getrost anziehen was man will – kein stundenlanges schichtenweises Einpacken mehr und natürlich kein fröstelndes Warten mehr auf die U-Bahn. Die Sonne mit ihren warmen Temperaturen feiert jetzt endlich ihr Comeback und mit ihr auch unsere Partylaune.

Vorbei der monatelange Winterschlaf und seine gemütlichen Abende die man meistens auf der warmen Couch mit Popcorn und zu vielen Filmen verbracht hat. Grund genug für uns- wie jedes Jahr – mal wieder etwas Platz im schon etwas unübersichtlichen Kleiderkasten zu schaffen. Es wird ausgemistet, anprobiert und abgewägt. Vieles kann man ja mixen, neues mit Altem und auch sonst gilt natürlich: Klamotten werden längst nicht mehr einfach so weggeschmissen. Klarerweise mal aus ethischen Gründen und auch einfach weil man ja Weiß, dass vieles (oder alles) irgendwann mal wiederkommt und es gilt ja sowieso: Man trägt was man will und wie man will. Nicht zuletzt werden ja auch Flohmärkte und Second Hand Veranstaltungen immer beliebter – und das zu Recht. Da gibt es richtig tolle Möglichkeiten seine „alten“ Sachen loszuwerden und vielleicht aus dem Geld wieder etwas Neues und Passenderes zu finden. Wir haben ein bisschen im Netz gestöbert um vielleicht für das nächste Wochenende ein passendes neues schickes Party Outfit zu finden. Wer den glänzenden Auftritt liebt und ein richtiger Eyecatcher sein will – der hat es wirklich nicht schwer. Wir haben aber zur Zeit eher die Lust an dem Klassiker und dem ewig Zeitlosen: das kleine Schwarze. Mit den richtigen Accessoires ist es für uns immer noch eines der schicksten und auch eines der gemütlichsten Outfits. Schließlich wollen wir ja auch richtig tanzen. Yeah! Da haben wir zuerst mal ein schickes Guess-Kleid auf Fashion24.de gefunden. Das figurbetonte Bandeau-Kleid hebt sich dank der formschön drapierten Stoffbahnen auf der Front vorteilhaft ab. Wer es dann lieber noch einen Tick glamouröser mag: Ein simples aber wunderschönes oui Fransenkleid aus Leder. So wird jede Nacht zum Tag!