The Radio Field – Don’ts & Dos (Album) – VÖ 25. Aug

“Die Songs von The Radio Field bohren sich wie ein kleiner fieser Alien-Wurm durch meinen Gehörgang direkt in das Wohlfühlzentrum meines Gehirns – und bleiben dort für immer! Schon das Debüt ‘Simple EP’, die Lars (man kennt ihn von der institutionellen Düsseldorfer Band Subterfuge) noch ganz alleine eingespielt hat, war grandios, jetzt kommt endlich das erste Album ‘Don’ts And Dos’. Die zehn im Domblick Studio von Bassist Christoph in Köln eingespielten und mit einigen prominenten Gästen (Robert Stadtlober, Stefanie Schrank, Phantom Handshakes, Bukahara) veredelten Stücke sind durch die Bank weg Hits! Und Ohrwürmer! Und Meilensteine! Oder wie nennt Ihr denn Songs, die ihr sofort mitsingen und niemals vergessen könnt?” MARK KOWARSCH (Sharon Stoned, Speedniggs, Antikörper auf ByteFM)

THE RADIO FIELD: Was als Lockdown Homerecording Projekt von Lars [Subterfuge] begann, ist mittlerweile zu einer passablen Band aus alten Bekannten herangewachsen durch Christoph Schneider [Klee, Clayton Farlow, Soccer], Philipp Breuer [Pale] und Mark Specht [ehem. Subterfuge]). Mit Don’ts and Dos liegt nun das Debut-Album vor, welches am 25. August auf Subjangle (Südafrika) und Less Records auf LP. CD und digital erscheint, vertrieben durch Cargo Records.

(Längere Bandbio für Leute mit etwas Zeit weiter unten)

A1 Clover

A2 Valhalla

A4 Disorder

A5 The Version

B1 She Needs Therapy

B2 Sick And Tired

B3 The Wait

B4 Years Ago

B5 Love

Eine Less Records & Subjangle Produktion. LER0032 CD / LER0033 LP / LER0034 digital

Live Dates

05.08.2923 Nürnberg, Radio Z (mit Sharon Stoned)

05.08.2023 Nürnberg, mono-Ton (akustisch)

25.08.2023  Cologne, Stereo Wonderland

26.08.2023  Düsseldorf, Datscha

29.09.2023  Kassel, Kulturfabrik Salzmann

2023

30.09.2023  Berlin, Posh Teckel

02.12.2023 Cologne (private event)

15.12.2023 Italy tbc

16.12.2023 Italy, Bologna

Band Bio (long version)

So here i was in late 2020, the first year of the pandemic. We were in our second lockdown and things at home started becoming more and more a routine. My band Subterfuge had just recently reformed and our album Dots. was in the final stages of recording, where my parts were fully done already. Also for my other, almost life-long project The Modern Air & Space Society on which I had been working for the last 15 years (still to be released) all recordings had been made and I was still waiting for my partner Lomp to create the corresponding comic.

Some say it only takes enough boredom and a musical instrument to create something good. I picked up the guitar much more than usual while the Social Media work for Subterfuge had reminded me a lot of the heyday of my musical socialisation: C86, early Creation, US College Rock. Within a couple of days a handful of songs came out just like this. All shops were closed at the time so I mail-ordered a Rickenbacker 12-string, got the AC30 home from the practice room and started recording those songs. Josephine came with the train one Saturday, sang her angelic backing vocals in the corner between the wall and the wardrobe and my son Gustav added some high notes right in time before he went into his puberty vocal change. And so this was that.

On its release the reactions to Simple EP were close to overwhelming. Not only was there lots of interest and very positive feedback, i was also asked by good friends if we should form a real band out of it. And here we are now with Mark Specht (Drums, founding member of Subterfuge), Christoph Scheider (Bass, former member of Klee, Clayton Farlow, Soap, Soccer) and Philipp Breuer (Lead Guitar, of Pale fame) and myself. With people sharing similar tastes and a musical vision an album full of songs was arranged in no time and recordings were started already at the second rehearsal. From first ideas to a longplayer (album drops in August) in a bit over half a year is an absolute record time in my personal musical story and the result still entails more of myself than any other release before.

Aren’t three musical outlets (I have another postal indie electro band called Quent, which had a break at the time too) enough i was asked. And the answer probably should have been a clear yes. Well, you wouldn’t be reading these lines if I had followed that advice. And hey, isn’t it the silly and superfluous that is the most fun?

(Lars, May 2023)