![]() So on some songs Ruebi played the bass with his left hand on keyboards and on other songs he played just bass. ![]() We also had to do a few more already booked shows and quickly decided that Mic had to try to play guitar with being shown the chords by Tom and Ruebi had to take up bass additionally to keyboards. When Tom left the band, the rest of the lot had to audition guitarists and there were a few quite good but not really exciting. That leaves „I Coldly Stare Out“, „After All“, „That Was You“ and „A Moment Sometimes“ to Mic, so four songs for everyone on the album, with „That Was You“ being Mic first song ever and also being written before Pink Turns Blue was founded. That is why all songs written between 1985 and beginning of 1987 where credited „Elbern/Jogwer“.įor those who want to know, Tom’s creative children are: „State Of Mind“, „When It Rains“, „Missing You“ and „When The Hammer Comes Down“, with „Missing You“ existing before Pink Turns Blue was founded. To get the songs of bothh songwriters a fair chance Tom mic had agreed to share the copyrights on all songs (like Lennon/MacCartney). In spring 1987 Tom played his last show with the band and left the rest without a guitarist and with only half the songwriters. And also, without a record release it was very difficult to get many people to our shows, so quite often, people would just pop by to listen to a few songs and then move on to the club to dance or have a drink. So during this session Tom’s heart was already leaving the band. ![]() Plus, he got a job at WDR to be presenter of ‘Grafitti’, a very cool late evening radio show presenting new music (like John Peel on BBC). During this session Tom was getting uneasy about Mic singing his songs. The songs recorded were „After All“, „Slavery“, „The Girl From Another Space“ and „State Of Mind“. Only one publisher (Arabella) was interested in letting the band record another four songs in a small studio in or near Cologne (A. ![]() The Pink Turns Blue songs were much too downbeat to get the record companies interested. The band sent these recording to several record companies but all of them were only interested in German language „Neue Deutsche Welle“ with lyrics more tongue in cheek, humorous. During this session the band agreed that it would be better to have just one lead singer to sing all songs and with the support of the producer Mickey Meuser, Mic became the leader singer of the band. The other 3 songs recorded in this session were „Our Last Love Tonight“, „When It Rains“ and „When The Hammer Comes Down“. This session was produced by Mickey Meuser (bass player of Nervous Germans) and the band got to play his impressive EMU-Sampler which you can hear on the album’s „That Was You“. Also, the WDR paid for the second ever studio session in Cologne’s prestigious Studio N., a big facility, usually reserved for German popstars. The band got to play a WDR festival for newcomers and and was discovered by two amateur bookers who got the band to play in small clubs all over Germany. The band won a competition of the local radio station (WDR) with recordings of their first recording session at Janus Music with Mic on vocals and bass singing his songs „That Was You“ and „Our Last Love Tonight“, Tom on vocals and guitars singing his songs „Missing You“ and „Count On You“) and Marcus on drums. Which was a disadvantage for the German market but an advantage to reach an international fan base. The sound was heavily influenced by the members’ affection for post punk bands like Joy Division, Siouxsie and the Banshees but also (depending on the member) early The Cure, The Velvet Underground, Killing Joke, Jesus & Mary Chain and last not least Hüsker Dü.Īlways striving for a „deep“, atmospheric sound with multi-dimensionsal lyrics the band right from the beginning felt better to sing in English. Originally founded in Cologne by Tom Elbern (vocals, guitars)who had finished his project „Seltsame Zustände“ and Mic Jogwer (vocals, bass) who was studying bass at the Music Conservatory in Cologne, the duo was soon completed by Marcus Giltjes (drums), who then studied fine arts and Ruebi Walter (keyboards) who was working at a factory in Emmerich, a small town where both Mic and Marcus went to high-school also. Contains all lyrics and a picture of the band in 1987īy Mic Jogwer (vocals and guitars), Ruebi Walter (bass and keys), Marcus Giltjes (drums)Īdditional guitars and backing vocals by Tom Elbern on tracks marked with +
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