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-Man, that's gonna be loud! -Yes, this will be loud!
Okay... Sven, are you ready?
Dirk, you've already been to Malta... Tell me something about it!
Malta... I've been to Gozo, that's the Island next to Malta,
only a few kilometres next to it,
or 500 metres or something like that.
And, er... Gozo is a bit smaller and there are not that many tourists,
so you meet many locals and they have a very cool kind of culture there.
You can imagine it a bit as how it is like in Canada.
They all sit in the streets there, make music
and they're talking to each other all day long and
and I find that really cool, because in Germany you could not just go somewhere,
sit down there and talk to people, because... that just isn't possible here. -Will at least be more difficult.
-That was cool. Okay... Since you already mentioned music,
you've played a concert there together with some professionals. What was that like?
That was really cool. I met the double-base player from the Maltese national orchestra. Cool guy!
And that was really a nice thing, they could play really good and helped us a lot.
We could easily stick to them while playing.
The Malta-Project
It's blending well, it really works well.
They are really willingly, they are playing almost all of the time,
even during the breaks, and that's a nice thing. -God!
They are more or less always playing.
And they really work hard.
It was one beautiful chaos. An absolutely creative chaos that was getting more aligned and I think like that, everyone could adopt something from the others, get inspired,...
I think Martin Eibach explainded it very good when he said it would all be like a big puzzle. Because everyone was working on a different "construction area",
the room doors were always closed and you only heard a little bit from the other one's music, some tried this and some others made that, everyone ran around,
"we need the violin player from one band in the other band", it was like a small version of the chaos theory, everything just mixed up
but i think that it would come down to one event that goal-oriented could not have been expected by anyone.
That it turned out that well shows how professional everyone worked on their tasks, even though you didn't know the whole extend.
So are you doing a lot together with the Maltese?
Of course. It's really cool with them, they're not sulky, they join us very often. Yesterday we were at the September Special, that was cool
and they like everything we do here.
The Band Project
It really surpirsed us, because we never met before of course and at the beginning everyone was kind of shy
and then we thought "God, if they'd just dare" and later on it was beyond everything we expected before.
I mean it's one thing for the separate groups to work well together, but when suddenly everyone agreed to help the other groups
and even when they probably made some kind of music the one would not prefer at all and to say "Hey, I've got an idea for that", that was really great.
You supported each other really good, treated each other with respect and also very professional. That was really nice to see.
-Well, the rehearsals were pretty chaotic, but everything we played was good, there was nothing bad we played. -Yes, but maybe we didn't have the proper audience for our style...
-Yeah, the rock band is of course a little heavy for an audience that... -...that is not really true. -They are really not that true, they are all a bit too old for that.
-I think... I don't know, if they, when they... -Maybe there will be some hippies at the concert. -Maybe some hippies, maybe some ravers, or something like that...
-Some punks... -Some punks..
-Some skinheads... -Some skin... Nooo!
It was a really nice experience, we didn't know what was coming towards us and we were surprised in a positive way.
The overall impression we got is that we came to a school where those who were really interested in that project got involved with it and also wanted to get involved
most of them already started at a very high musical level, i mean really into music, really interested and it is not a matter of course to sit dowm for 2 or 3 hours
sometimes hungry and to work, and to do what you never did before. that includes handling instruments, you can barely handle or only for a short time and to enhance there,
or to sing loud, write lyrics, what you have never done before, and the results are really amazing, because in that short amount of time you got the most out of it,
there is no more space above to be filled, there's nothing where you could have said "well, there..." -"..there's still something you could still have done"
Or "we could not realize this be cause there was not enough time left." You worked that out as well as possible. Respect! Seriously.