A little weird, but most of weirdness was probably due to the setting: three large recording studio halls in the office building a major German broadcasting company. Along with indie hip-hop, pop, and sad-bastard music (not my term), coat checking, ear-plug dispensers, and wurst were apart of the offerings.
Beer? Surely beer was to be kept on the outside and not in the studio halls with parquet flooring and delicate acoustical wall installations. I would be wrong. In a combination of perhaps strong social responsibility and a stronger Bavarian beer culture, Helles and Pilz were indeed plentiful inside the studio halls. I even caught an ephemeral whiff or two of hops' botanical cousin.
But the "laid-back" lifestyle that Bavarians' proudly claim came with a few twists. Dress code is what I would label Business Concert: smart, conservative, and polished all too well. The clean shaven outnumbered the growthers. Dancing was limited to the first 2-5 rows of people. Average age, to be conservative 30, but probably closer to 35. Even at the midnight shows, there were a few silver heads in the audience. Party on!
By far the highlight of the festival was Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip. With a bottle of goon in his left hand (which he shared a couple times with a tall blond in the audience by pouring some in her outstretched wine glass) and a mic in another, Scroobious Pip performed for an audience willing to get down.
From what I can tell, Dan le Sac is the beat maker/vocalist and Scroobius Pip is the MC. Pip is something of a MC Moses with a long, antediluvian-style beard and even has his own "Thall Shall Nots", directing that "Thou shall Always Kill" (He is advocating killing in a metaphorical sense, not literal.).
After one particularly somber song concluded a few concert-goers let out a few "Whoos." Pip responded, "You must be fans of teenage suicide," which was a theme in the song.
Their album can be downloaded on iTunes. Here are a couple of his videos: The Beat that my Heart Skipped and Letter from God (for the Radiohead fans).
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Munich!!! That's awesome man, what are you doing in Munich? I was actually in Germany just about a month ago. My roommates and I decided to head over there for a vacation (we went to Frankfurt and Kaiserslautern). Germany had some of the nicest people I met in Europe, and it was beautiful (with all the fall colors). Anyway, glad to hear you are doing well. Congrats on the marriage.
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