Neo-Krautrock Wunderkind from Old Orchard Beach

May 2012

Panel 1

1: Elke Heidenreich walks with her distorted guitar through Berlin.

Panel 2

1: To the delight of Berlin visitors, she sits alone at the Wasserklops and plays hits.

2: Colonies of love, I love the colonies…

3: That is the Rowohlt publisher.

4: They need to know what’s good for them.

5: Ah! Else Stratmann–the crazy chicken from the Mittelland Canal.

6: It’s the same amp I have at home.

7: But it has active speakers like a man.

Panel 3

1: But suddenly, the performance is interrupted by a calf cramp!

2: Waah! The distortion hurt my leg!

3: True, it doesn’t distort even more.

Panel 4

1: Fortunately the guys from Tocotronic are in the audience.

2: Let me through! I am Ernst Hugo von Salen-Priesnitz of Tocotronic and have cramp ointment here.

Panel 5

1: I’m with Rowohlt.

2: Oh, really? We are with L’Age D’or  but are distributed by Motor Music Group.

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