Trip Fontaine are Dudenhofen´s most respected and influential acoustic punk quintet + Trip Fontaine is Sachsenhausen´s answer to Psychiatric Chic! + Trip Fontaine invented themselves by accident a while ago and are a) very close, b) very shambolic (in a tight-as-rude-things sort of way, though), and c) very shouty + They are a ROCK BAND - yes - they are NOT urban + An iconic, five man strike force on twenty-first century apathy, undoubtedly + If you book them at your ethnic-soulful-funk fest they will scare the chickens and rape your ears + Be warned + Petite Müller, Louis Kahn and Gilbert Saar are Trip Fontaine (among others) + And Trip Fontaine are your musical salvation darlings + Just like the original pop star himself, they come from the Holy Land, have killer charisma and are gonna take you down + In the beginning they were mainly inspired by dancemusic and their fantasies about huge clubs where nothing was forbidden + Fantasies, because they were too young to be allowed into to most of the cool clubs + They were left with the radios weekly dancemusic-feature bootlegged to cassette-tapes + You could hear that in their 2002 promo + Yet somehow the music lifts the mundane teenage neuroses into something strangely grand, beautiful, and universal + A twelve-legged whirlwind of glitter-punk riffs and aviator shades + They have already amassed a rock'n'roll charge sheet to die for, but more crucially, they've given rock'n'roll a much needed shot in the arm without resorting to heroin chic or cosying up to the media + Trip Fontaine love to write promo sheets

Website + tripfontaine.de    Music + Shine On You Lazy Liaison    Label + Redfield Records