White Room is beginning to earn a name around town and this week sees them bring another fine local act to Auster Club in Delta Love, one of Berlin’s best live acts for some time now. Having played two of their finest shows yet at Antje klesund and Festsaal Kreuzberg in March, these two Berlin boys will have the stage to themselves for as long as they want and as anyone who’s seen them recently will know, it’s a great live experience, intense and dark in parts only to be relieved by sublime pop tunes the next.
Doors open at 10pm at the lovely Auster Club which is the old Privat Club in case any of you are wondering. And they’ve got two special DJs to entertain from then onwards already:
Behind the Wheels of steel we’ve got Psych Scene Biggies STEPHAN GOLOWKA (UP-CLUB Frankfurt) and
PYLO LYNGER (ELECTRIC BANANA Cologne)!Both have been spinning their wax all over Europe and are well known for their fantastic taste in British Psychedelia, US Garage and worldwide Dancefloor Dynamite.
Here’s a pile of stuff about Delta Love including live videos from Festsaal Kreuzberg:
Delta Love (Carl guitar/foot-organ/vocals, Til drums/vocals) have been winning over audiences in Berlin with their unique combination of reverb-laden guitar, drums, vocals and foot-organ, a dizzyingly brilliant mix of 60s garage-psych influences filtered through their own modern day approach.
Imagine a mix of The Sonics, Sic Alps, Dirty Beaches and Beat Happening and you’re somewhere close to their sound but nothing quite prepares you for the Delta Love live experience; equal parts a howling-reverb assault of guitar punctuated by stop-start drums that never outstay their welcome, washed over by a double-vocal assault which acts as a third instrument so dense is the effect…and then the actual third instrument kicks in, guitarist Carl kicks the bass-foot-organ into action adding even more depth to the overall sound with its droney/moog quality. Recent shows have been packed with new songs, the garage-psych scream, like that of I Swear, is still there but there’s a more fluid side bursting through to match their tunefulness, they’ve started playing some classic skewed, pop music.
Having sprung themselves upon unsuspecting crowds all over Berlin through support slots with Sic Alps, Bob Log III and Strange Boys, and regular shows around Berlin, they also played support to King Khan & BBQ Show in September, supported American indie legends Mission Of Burma in December in Berlin, and supported The Men in March, a sure sign that a band is coming of age.
Here’s a live favourite, I Swear and two live ones from Festsaal Kreuzberg last March, Can I See You Again? and And I:
