Hi again! I want to remind everyone that I’ll be in London for the Heavenly gig on the 20th (and then in Hamburg) in a couple of weeks. I can bring records with me to save on postage. Send me a message if you’d like me to bring some records!
++ The other record that surprised me very much was the Suffering from a Hangover 7″ “Note: It’s Open, Push and Go EP”. It’s great, pure indiepop! I’ve never heard anything about them before. Care to tell me a bit about the background of this band?
Actually I knew the band for some time and they passed around demo tapes. After agreeing to release the Forsakes 7″ (the singer of which is brother to the guitar player of Suffering..) we also talked about doing a 7″ with them. I didnt like the early tapes too much but the band improved a lot and they grew on me, so we ended up doing the single. They later got a support slot for a Throw That Beat tour. There are still tons of tapes and unreleased songs, some ended up on a Fan Club only 7″ in a tiny edition of 50. Some members of the band I still see from time, I am thinking of doing a 3-CD retrospective with them hahaha…
That is from an old interview I did with Blue Records’ Michael Wille. I was curious about this 7″ he had released in 1992 on his label.
Yeah, today I want to find out more about Hanau, Germany, band Suffering from a Hangover.
The “Note: It’s Open, Push and Go EP” (SHADE 003) was the first record I heard from them and it sounded great. It had “It’s Over” and “Girl” on the A side (also called Hangside) and “Dog Named Jack” and “Wonderful” on the B side (called Overside). Some of these records included a six-sided booklet on green paper. My copy doesn’t have it though. The songs had been recorded and mixed between August and September of 1992 by Nobby.
The band was formed by Robert Piesenecker on bass. Jens Helk on drums. Andreea Zimmermann on vocals and guitar. Michael Müller on guitar. Robert was on the band On before being on Suffering from a Hangover and Michael, Jens and Robert were together on the band Panama Red afterwards.
As mentioned by Michael Wille, there was a very limited 7″. 50 copies in a hand made sleeve for the Fan Club of the band. There were 10 more test pressings in picture sleeve released in 2004. This one was the “Whole Wide World” 7″ (SHADE 007) that was released in 1993. It included “Whole Wide World” on the A side and “Very Next Day” and “Boy Who’s Shyer” on the B side.
An interesting fact about this record is that there’s a review by Luis Calvo from Elefant on one of the labels of the previous record. There Luis mentions that he loves the song “Dog Named Jack”.
Michael also said that there were many tapes by the band. Two of them are on Discogs.
“Out of Reach” dates from 1992 and inccluded 9 songs, “Song Dedicated to Someone Who Ever Teases Me”, “It’s Over”, “I Wait for You”, a cover of Throw That Beat in the Garbagecan’s classic “Little Red Go-Cart”, “Your Mind” written by Claus Sterneck from the Hanau band Schulcore, “Epidemic On the Collective Farm”, “Begonia”, “Dreams” and “Time to Go”. From what I understand there was a first edition of 50 copies and that 32 of them came in a sausage tin can. It was recorded March 7 of 1992 and mixed by Matze Gruber from Forsakes and Mayflower Madam on the 12th of that same month. The photography is credited to Teeni. The second edition was mixed by Tvuzk and was released as a limited edition of 59 copies on July 3rd of 1992. This edition included the track “Your Mind” which wasn’t included in the first edition. This track had been recorded live at Metzergerstrasse in Hanau on April 17 1992.
The second tape listed is a 1993 tape titled “Still No Sign of Land”. This one was also self-released and included 10 songs: “Very Next Day”, “Boy Who’s Shyer”, “Why Baby”, “Final End”, “Whole Wide World”, “The Only Way I Know”, “Valerie’s Garden”, “Feeling So Blue”, “It’s Time” and “Dreams”. Tracks were recorded at mixed in April/May of 1993 with the exception of “Dreams” that was recorded live on October 18, 1992, at Exil in Trier.
I keep searching for more info about them and I stumbled upon a blog post by my friend Alex from 7iete Pulgadas. He beat me to it, writing about the band. There’s not much more info but it is a nice detail about how he discovered the band, again mentioning Luis Calvo and how he compared the track “Dog Named Jack” to Talulah Gosh.
And that’s what I could find. Sadly no more. Where are the members now? Still making music? Would be great to find out!
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