Soundtracking your perfect Berlin summer in the style that only true kids of the San Francsisco psych scene can, Ty Segall is exactly what Berlin needs right now. Seriously, for some reason the hotter the streets get here, the stressier everyone gets. Tourists just get drunker & messier, increasingly full of self importance. The Locals, exercising their obvious mastery of the art, get somehow even schnauzier than normal. Oy vey.
Having a psych-rock genius like Ty Segal here is going to exercise some of those demons and really change things at a fundamental level. This is truly possible or else we wouldn’t say so. Segall’s new album, Slaughterhouse, is going to gather all that dubious energy from the streets, channel it through both his guitar and an enthralled crowd at Festsaal, expelling it into the upper atmosphere, leaving everyone changed for the better, and we mean everyone, the whole city. The morning after will be like living in a beach-side town with nothing left to worry about and the city will be filled with super relaxed people just doing super relaxed things. The air will be sweeter, palm trees will spring from the ground, we’ll all lie in hammocks and learn to play ukulele. Dogs will be smiling, people won’t bother with work and we’ll all spend our days together sitting in the park thinking romantically about life and not worrying about material possessions. And so it goes.
That might not literally happen, but there’ll be a psychic flow firm enough in so many hearts & minds after the gig, that it may as well be. It’s a shame that Ty is only here for a short while, long enough only for a show at Festsaal, albeit one of the best this summer.
Supported on the night by ace German post-punk act 206 along with so-hot-right-now Berlin prog act Zentralheizung Of Death (des Todes), it’s not a small night to say the least.
To be fair and truly honest, we cant promise you that you’ll actually walk out knowing how to play the ukulele, but at least you’ll have let your hair down enough to maybe want to try.
