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Einstürzende Neubauten

February 2023

  • Stevo, pictured here in 1990.

    Stevo of Some Bizzare Records: ‘The delay in any kind of recognition is outrageous’

    He’s been stabbed, headbutted and locked in bitter rows, but his label made bands such as Soft Cell and Cabaret Voltaire into stars. In the wake of a new biography, Stevo tells his own story

May 2020

  • I predict a riot … a 1984 Einstürzende Neubauten gig in London.

    'They'd greet us with fire extinguishers!': the wild times of Blixa Bargeld

    Fuelled by drink and drugs, his band Einstürzende Neubauten destroyed venues and invented industrial music. Now they’re back – so why is he doing cookery classes on Instagram?

April 2020

  • 28 Aug 1983 Children of the Berlin Wall Archive Observer magazine cover. Original cover image by Juergen Schadeberg (instagram.com/jurgenschadeberg)

    From the Observer archive
    From the archive: the punks of East Berlin

    It’s 1983, and strange anarchic goings on are witnessed over the Berlin Wall

January 2018

  • Hansa Studios: By The Wall 1976-90,
Featuring David Bowie & Tony Visconti & Edu Meyer,
© Edu Mayer.

    TV review
    Hansa Studios: By the Wall 1976-90 review – the most thrillingly creative place on earth

    The legendary studio in West Berlin, where David Bowie made ‘Heroes’, and Iggy Pop, Depeche Mode and U2 recorded some of their best music makes a brilliant subject in this resonant and romantic documentary

June 2017

  • Hymns to the Dead at the Odeon Theatre, Dark Mofo 2017

    Dark Mofo 2017: searching for meaning from dark music in dark times

    Clem Bastow went to the Hobart arts festival to find catharsis in metal – but found what she was looking for somewhere unexpected

December 2014

  • Einstürzende Neubauten

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Einstürzende Neubauten: Lament review – the weirdest first world war commemoration of all

    Alexis Petridis: Einstürzende Neubauten’s album is painstakingly researched, utterly bizarre and surprisingly compelling

November 2014

  • 'Depth and breadth': Einstürzende Neubauten.

    Einstürzende Neubauten: Lament review – a mesmerising first world war memorial

  • Einstürzende Neubauten

    Einstürzende Neubauten review – a powerful avant-garde tribute to the first world war

August 2011

  • Prinzenstrasse 85F

    Berlin city guide
    No Fear of Pop's Berlin soundtrack

    No Fear of Pop's Henning Lahmann picks his Berlin playlist, from Marlene Dietrich to Bowie to banging techno, as featured in our Berlin city guide

February 2010

  • smashed TV

    Shortcuts
    Having a smashing time at Scrap Club

    It's the new Saturday night out as clubbers batter away at old electrical items

April 2008

  • Now for a Benny Goodman number!

    Pascal Wyse meets a group of Germans who use scrap cars as musical instruments

February 2007

  • How to destroy the ICA with drills

    Next week the ICA in London hosts artist Jo Mitchell's attempt to recreate one of the venue's strangest events, the German group Einstürzende Neubauten's Concerto for Voice and Machinery. Neubauten's Alexander Hacke recalls what happened that night in January 1984.

February 2004

  • Einstürzende Neubauten, Perpetuum Mobile

    (Mute)

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