17.10.2019  Pluswelt Festivals

It has been almost twenty years now, since the Hamburg concert agency Pluswelt Promotion was born. It was  nearly 20 years ago, when we first booked - back then nameless – festival, with mesh as the headliner taking place on 30th October, 1999 at the Kulturfabrik in Krefeld, Germany.
Now here we are again twenty years later, in 2019, the Pluswelt Festival which will take place again on three consecutive days, at the same time in two different cities.
In total there will be about 18 artists with a combined ticket in Oberhausen and about 12 artists in Berlin. Day tickets are also available.

31.10. - 02.11. Oberhausen (Kulttempel)

Thursday, 31.10.2019
18.00 h Doors
19.00 h Vorsprung durch Technik
19.40 h Agent Side Grinder
20.30 h Girls Under Glass
21.25 h Iris
22.25 h Aesthetic Perfection
23.45 h Mesh

Friday, 01.11.2019
18.00 h Doors
19.00 h Adam Is A Girl
19.40 h Priest
20.30 h Empathy Test
21.25 h Sono
22.25 h De/Vision
23.45 h Zeromancer

Saturday, 02.11.2019
18.00 h Doors
19.00 h Kissin' Black
19.40 h Blitzmaschine
20.20 h Beborn Beton
21.25 h Armageddon Dildos
22.25 h Schattenmann
23.55 h Icon Of Coil (feat. Andy La Plegua/Combichrist)

01.11. - 02.11. Berlin (Columbia Theater)

Friday, 01.11.2019
18.00 h Doors
19.00 h Whole (feat. Thomas/Forced To Mode)
19.40 h Armageddon Dildos
20.20 h Girls Under Glass
21.25 h Iris
22.25 h Aesthetic Perfection
23.45 h Mesh

Saturday, 02.11.2019
18.00 h Doors
19.00 h Scheuber
19.40 h Adam Is A Girl
20.20 h Priest
21.25 h Empathy Test
22.25 h De/Vision
23.45 h Zeromancer

Tickets can be ordered here.

04.01.2019  13 Ghost Stories - with a contribution by Mark Hockings

For the CD 13 Ghost Stories Mark Hockings contributed a text including guest vocals. Here is the official press release with more information:

"You can come back to earth for ONE day, as a ghost. What do you do?"

It was this simple premise which Jean-Marc Lederman (Ghost & Writer, The Weathermen, Fad Gadget) gave to a number of vocalists he always wanted to collaborate with. The feedback was overwhelming because the vast majority of the singers Lederman wrote to were inspired and fascinated by the concept of 13 Ghost Stories. Consequently, the artists worked on lyrics to answer Lederman's question, which he then combined with the appropriate music from his musical universe. The answers were as different as the vocalists who participated in 13 Ghost Stories: From Elena Alice Fossi (Kirlian Camera, Spectra*paris) to Mark Hockings (mesh), RASC (Rotersand), Darrin Huss (Psyche) or JP Aston (Jene Loves Jezebel), the singers' feedback ranged from a total of ten different countries from the USA to the UK, France, Belgium and Australia. 13 songs sung by 13 ghosts resulted in: 13 Ghost Stories. The music is as diverse as the singers' background and origin: The compositions range from light and friendly relaxed synthpop, over melancholic dark ballads to disturbing experimental soundscapes bearing automated 'ghost messages'.
In addition to the musical performances, Julianne Reagan (All About Eve), Rodney Orpheus (Cassandra Complex) and comic writer Christina Z. (Whitchblade comics et alia) contributed short stories to Lederman’s concept. These appear in the limited edition of 13 Ghost Stories, a 36-page hardcover artbook limited to only 300 copies, also featuring haunting ghost shots by graphic artist Erica Hinyot, inspired by the famous photographer Albert Renger-Patzsch. A bonus CD of the artbook contains 7 more songs ("7 Emanations").
Jean-Marc Lederman was not only JimmyJoe-Snark III of the Belgian EBM cult formation The Weathermen, he also played live keyboards for various cult projects like Fad Gadget, or had published projects with Prof. Frank Spinath or Jean-Luc De Meyer (Ghost & Writer, Lederman/DeMeyer). With 13 Ghost Stories he now presents his perhaps artistically most exciting project. The album will be released on March 1st, 2019.