Alexander Hacke (Einstürzende Neubauten) - In Conversation

“Blast - Distorted Memories”

Reading by and with Alexander Hacke

Alexander Hacke started experimenting with cassette loops at 14 in the early 80s, obsessed with music from an early age and dropping out of school to hang out in the West Berlin underground scene among punks, squatters, and bohemians. After initial musical projects under the pseudonym Alexander von Borsig, Hacke became a member of the band Einstürzende Neubauten in 1980.

Einstürzende Neubauten went on to become a groundbreaking and internationally successful band, Hacke not only experimented with all kinds of stimulants, but also continued to develop musically: whether as an internationally successful solo artist, collaborating with Crime & the City Solution, as a film composer, or together with his wife, the artist Danielle de Picciotto, with whom he has been roaming the world since 2010.

"Blast" is a dazzling historical document of the wild West Berlin before the fall of the Wall, the rise of Einstürzende Neubauten, and the captivating life story of a true polymath that has been breaking boundaries in music for over four decades.

During the readings Alexander Hacke also entertains the audience with stories and anecdotes about his many adventures, mishaps and creative outings with international colleagues such as Mike Patten and Billy Gould of Faith No More, Nick Cave, Unsane, Al Jourgensen of Ministry Lydia Lunch, Foetus...

*Please note, this is a MATINEE EVENT, 4PM - 7PM*

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Age restriction: 14+ / U16s accompanied by an adult