Which I regarded there recently in the Cologne Underground on secret tip of a dear acquaintance can one only with above reference and the following Impressionen introduce.
"Igitt! Art? No, of it I do not want to know anything. Which has to do with Gothic?"
On the one hand nothing, on the other hand however again also everything. Didn't we write us black smocks sensitivity and their own sense for the beautiful on our flags? And has to be then again and again low melancholisch? Thus of therefore it: Let you on one which the Melted Men to offer have and that is in the midst of festgefahrener structures of the concert enterprise really again and erfrischend. But who are the Melted Men? Thus that the musicians always masked, gives it also nothing arises to the persons to say. Only so much: It acts around a group out Athens, Georgia, the USA and after own statements is come out it 1995 from a mixture from polystyrene and circus peanuts. So far to it.

And if one experienced a concert of the Melted Men, then one must divide these impressions into two ranges: The musical and the visual. Because each concert of the Melted Men is different. The Melted Men arises in principle always masked. And in very best Madonna/Britney Spears/Whitney they change Houston tradition their costumes and masks to each piece. The costumes as such to describe is every now and then very difficult. Bathroom mats, Flokati carpets, skin Imitate, pair of overalls, Jogging suits, pasteboard, wire and which I still everything do not become white fantasyful and multicolored costumes verwoben. Times one means an ancient Greek in the Toga to see over the head with a simple paper bag decorated, then a nature comes from clothes hopped with a material mask into kind of a Insektes, which sprays even a liquid, then stands a masked bank robber at the schlagzeug for that approx. ten cigarettes smokes at one time there at one time and then again stands there a Alien with pointed head and completely broad eye sockets, gewandet with skins in best stone time manners in a red pair of overalls. The Melted Men has fun at the lining that is clear. And sometimes they make even also for sense. Thus as at one time the red insect animal of the stage and another melted one, disguised than old woman, jumps by which public hunts and tried with its poison teeth to bite and sprays its poison. With earlier concerts they came even on stelzen on the stage, another in a black pair of overalls, behangen with white ballons, which were then gradually zerplatzt. And even pudelnackt (however still masks!) they already arose.

General it is with concerts every now and then like that that the public at the beginning is reserved and before the stage an enormous free space develops that only gradually fills. With the Melted Men that exactly turned around. Because at the latest after the second piece one of those hops with security of the stage down and shifts the performance in the public. The other two melted Men copy it to it and a merry Ringelreihen go crosswise through the whole concert hall. ! One must see and energy of these three amusing humans experience that already hautnah around the clenched Impulsivitaet.
In this evening was then the crowning conclusion that two melted Men with bamboo staffs fought each other during third against them tried the stop to order as it a football gas horn on the two fighters released. And in a club that perhaps maximally 200 people seizes. AUA!

From the musical a concert of the Melted Men is just as chaotic, bizarr and impressing as the actions. That was as one is made music electronically here the baking LINE saw clear: A table on a record player, a Desktop Sampler/Sequencer, various Percussioninstrumente and then on the left and on the right beside it still two vestiges of a schlagzeuges stood, which were provided with electronic effect devices partly still. And which roared then from the loudspeakers is to describe indeed with difficulty. Times there was driving Beats over those any Noise Fetzen or Sprachsamples floated and one the Melted Men times with adjusted voice another time with the help of a toy megaphone any Sprachfetzen to the best one gave, times sawed themselves a schriller clay/tone permanently to the ears of the public, accompanied from Live employments at percussion instruments. The whole showed superficially regarded first of all no musical structure. But Pop Songs should not be played here also.

For me that was to be seen a heath fun this completely to Bekloppten with their work and heard. Because very fast clearly where the hare had long-run. Me as old Residents fan was immediately the parallel to my large Idolen clear. THUS the Residents would have made also concerts, would have already begun it in the seventies thereby.
But the Melted Men as bare Residents plagiarism abzutun would be too thoughtless. The Melted Men has its own style and is regarding the visual still another property part of crazy and more bizarrer than the old masters of the avant-garde. On visual level the Dadaismus and Fluxus as two craziest developments of the action art one gehuldigt here.
And then so many elements appear in music, which let other fan of the Industrial aufhorchen then nevertheless or. Here reminiscences appear to the Residents, at Throbbing Gristle at Skinny Puppy and also little Cabaret Voltaire and let this old Heroen in their concerts again revive. Marvelously! Geil!
And connoisseurs of the new electronic classical music discover here also or other element again which one with stick living, Varèse or Xenakis already heard. Place for quiet tones does not give it with the Melted Men. There gibt's on eat permanent aeh ears. These do not get a breathing space. Perhaps now and then, if times SAM-polarize one brings in from an age-old hit or Chanson. But at the latest after one minute the post office goes off again and clenched raw energy, set free by the Melted Men typical insanity unloads itself again. To dance one cannot to this music, but that would divert the visitor also much too much from the actions of the Melted Men.

One is however basic condition for the attendance of a Melted of Men concert: One must possess humor and be able oneself for this lunatic asylum performance to let in. Because if one only on the music to concentrate wants, does not fold.
It harms only that this concert already again past was after scarcely 60 minutes. The subjective time feeling obtained rather an impression of a half hour. But as said, if one gets involved in such a thing correctly, then one has fun without end at the actions and if one stands on Noise/Industrial anyway. And together momentarily only the Melted Men and otherwise nobody makes both!

Thus here my call to all lovers of the Noise and all this those, which see their Gothic existence not too dogmatisch:
GO SEE THE MELTED MEN! Who first information about this amusing troupe to have wants recommends I also the bind-own homepage www.meltedmen.com.
I do not want to verhehlen also that the Melted Men ascended after this concert directly into my own Top Ten the favourite volume. And still another small tip at the edge: Viva took up this concert and wants whole at the beginning of of June, I believes with VivaPlus to send. A concert last year in May was likewise noted by Viva and already sent. Thus eyes on with Viva if those of it again which send.

I also with concerts points to distribute for the output so the Melted Men received by me for it 20 of 10 points!!!!!!

The Grand Duke

MELTED MEN INTERVIEW>> ROME ITALY outside of INIT CLUB, MAY 2003:

E' 26 May 2003 and we find ourselves hardly outside from the INIT to Rome. I am in order to interview one of the groups more crowds than these last years, the Melted Men, already recensiti in one of the last numbers of SuccoAcido. Pure schizoide cabaret to the standard of the provocazione and the taken one for the culo of anyone, included if same...

Mallet: Ok, we begin...

IT KNOWS: What fairies?

Lobster Lung: Beh, what we make normally is to raise the morning... I put of the socks on my hands, a pair of socks white men, on this hand and on the other, I make a small cut on the plant of everyone of they, then I join the hands in this way, and I push to them and the release, one against the other, you see..., and I produce one risen of noise stridulo, sbuffante... fffrr! Just therefore! After I take to the other sock white man and sbuccio it like this here and... generally, I put to us a little borotalco over and I thread a pezzetto of it in mine culo, between the chiappe, the pigio lì within...

IT KNOWS: Within the hole?

Lobster Lung: Not, not in the hole... between the chiappe, but a pezzetto... then I only have a long one tightens, as along thread... that he goes from the Georgia to Amsterdam, with one carrucola to the extremity, one to Athens, in Georgia, and an other to Amsterdam and... therefore, having of borotalco on the that sock white man and a hole in the same one... to the usual I must fargli a node, in order to put to us within a hot dog... I tie the other extremity to the node, I hang the sock to the thread and I send it in a sure laundry on to Amsterdam, from Wertyuy Werty and... what you us with that normally make hot dog that you receive you cook?

Wertyuy Werty: If I receive it... I try to cook it... if the sock is still lì, but are cases in which I find to having it rispedire to Berlin, where is an other Melted Man that is trying to make the same thing.

IT KNOWS: An other Melted Man?

Wertyuy Werty: Yes, ce n' it is an other.

Lobster lung: But other is also this here that it is in the North Carolina. It thinks... where he lives it puts the cones on the advanced part of freezes to you!

HE KNOWS: Ah... and you six of Athens?

Lobster lung: Of Athens, Georgia... and he of the North Carolina...

Mallet: Alive in mountain.

Lobster lung: E' a mountain dweller!

Mallet: When I receive the sock, sometimes I scramble up on and I take it, other times of it I see only the trace... naturally in top to the carrucola I have of the cones from ice cream: of it I detach the tips, therefore, through of they I can watch the thread that goes from the Georgia to Amsterdam, in order to take heart that Wertyuy Werty after has its Bravo hot dog the morning.

IT KNOWS: How there are meets to you?

Lobster lung: Ah, beh... is one long history!

Mallet: All we have made a dream... in the same moment. In the dream there are meets to you and... recognized!

Lobster lung: Succeeded E' therefore: I was sleeping, when I have met he (n.d.r.: he indicates Mallet), then we have spoken a bag, chatted... then -- I have a dog -- we have taken the dog and we have rasato it. When we have rasato the dog... was my number of telephone on the posterior one... but there was also its number of telephone, but behind the skull. All and two at the same time we have made the same dream: the rasatura of the dog... we have seen those numbers... therefore, the day after there are raises to you, there are calls to you and we have fixed an appointment to Cherokee in the North Carolina.

IT KNOWS: In The North Carolina...

Mallet: To Cherokee, the Indiana reservoir.

Lobster lung: The spaghetti are eaten with the ice cream, and they place to us over of the mounted cream.

IT KNOWS: Who, the Indians?

Lobster lung: Yes... and they have also a Burger King. The Indian head is just of forehead to the Burger King.

Mallet: But it is not a Cherokee, is a Apache.

Lobster lung: E' a Apache... is in front of the Burger King and sells roba triple type "Whoppers" (n.d.r.: a species of Big Mac) and when one of this Whopper eats you... my girl has tried to eat some - it is African - while she was guiding the machine... beh, has opened wide to such point the mouth that them is remained blocked the jaw... poveraccia... more did not succeed to close the mouth!

IT KNOWS: ... Hour the beautifulr thing: the travel. Task that is the more interesting side of the matter... to travel and to know new people. Here in Italy it is indeed difficult to organize an any ones tour. How us succeeded you?

Lobster lung: Beh, the better way in order to make it is possession a head that turns to speed crowds, the more to along six in tour, more are breathtaking the capogiri... we make like when smoke much quickly the first cigarette of the day, fa' therefore and you will try this drunkness for some second... by now we know the trick for having capogiri permanent during the tour: you take of the tobacco to chew, you know the tobacco to chew... we we have "diapers"... like small bustine of tea... foderiamo ours labbra with this tobacco to everywhere chew and ficchiamo behind the our throat end on to the nasal cavities... tobacco! He flows in our system, therefore we we breathe and inaliamo tobacco constantly, than us da' one constant feeling of vertigo... for all the duration of the tour: nient' other that one feeling of vertigo, word mine... but I do not know if for you it is the same thing, Mallet...

Mallet: Boys... you have given to me of the murderous drops and... you have drug addict to me, cursed!

Lobster lung: It cannot know what is happened in truth...

Mallet: Me piacciono the "diapers" do not shoot you on for the nose... therefore they give me of tablets and... I sleep... wide awake me then and I have the capogiri... in Italy, Germany, France... ovunque...

Wertyui werty: Mine capogiri comes directly from the culo, I has the giramenti of culo!

Lobster lung: It has the giramenti of culo, as it says, because we do not have need to go in Canada... because we have already the giramenti of culo! Our next one tour will be only on the ski-lift, ce has it organized ours agent, in order to plant poles in earth from Europe to the South America, will be on the ski-lift, but therefore, they give under, people will be able to see to penzolare our testicoli.

IT KNOWS: Ah...

Lobster lung: Other questions?

IT KNOWS: Ehm... not.

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