2025 … what a trip, right? Back then I felt even better in good hands on the 12-hour trip in the coach with a magendar than in this torture year. This column is said to be honey in a large scale on all the wounds. You have to be allowed to come back to the mind again if you can drive through the Internet.
Most recently, I dealt with Israel hatred as a global pop trend at this point and then in my parade role of the cheesy music weird with an unsteady view of eleven nerdy songs, which should be encountered away from the omnipresent Algorithm rails.
Today I’m leaning back in a relaxed manner. So far that I fall almost in the back of the office chair-and I advertise the friendly feel-good topic “Selfies with musicians: inside”. With this hot take, the doomscrolling finally takes a break.
And who doesn’t know the situation? For whatever reason, you share space and time with a star. Perhaps it has already released a awkward sentence that should state your own fantum … and sees yourself in a top view from above as if you were finally disappearing your own body before excitement. But you slide back into your meat prison and finally stammer the magical words: “ÖH, can we still make one, uh, selfie together?”
I as a hardened popjourno also ashamed again and again when I listen to this sentence. But the alternative – to let the chance pass – is quite depressing. A small illustrated Listicle on the subject. Have fun!
01. You only have one attempt
If you look on the selfie that you shot at the quarry lake, like drift material, then you can just do it again. And again and again. Until you finally find yourself okay. This is not the case with photos with the stars. The promoter (in this case) presses and bye it once. Which leads me to this image of water, including a grotesque, swollen giant hand. What was wrong with me or the perspective on this wonderful day when I was allowed to have an interview with my favorite Spice Girl? I worship “I turn to you” by Mel C – but I would not hang this common picture of us on the wall. Which is certainly not related to Sporty Spice …
02. Do not miss it with strange gestures
Well, this finger of mine was intentional. I once drove with the Rhenish Smart Pop magician Peter light in the ICE. Definitely! For a long time, his trademark was that he did not show his face on records and photos. I respected this in our common picture. After all, you make such selfies especially for your own fame, but on the other hand, you also secretly hope that the stars think you want to be so great that they want to be your friend after the encounter.
(In this case it worked so moderately)
03. When the stars give hand signals
Of course, it is okay, of course, I would even say it is particularly nice to have a photo together and the photographed celebrities bother to do something with hands or facial expression. This is what happened in the latest picture in this collection. In an unadorned conference room in London, I interview me Corin and Carrie from Sleater-Kinney. Sleater kinney, a very important band for me in the nineties. Even today, they still look busy, whimpered and wide awake. V for Victory? And how!
04. Share preferences
In order to get the maximum out of the short moment of nearby, it is advisable to mirror the artist. This creates a pleasant feeling of common ground (#manipulation). In order to make the encounter with Kurt Krömer profitable for me, I started smoking, for example. I hoped at the time he thought we were so the same. If he thought that, at least he didn’t mention it.
Since then I have been difficult to nicotine and no longer come to the second floor without breaks, but the photo was well worth it!
05. The matter with physical contact
With such snapshots, you not only share a photo and the same air but usually also a touch. And if the both side is consensus, you can also enjoy it. Old fan net! I still know how Macauly Culkin hung on my shoulder. The background of the meeting in Paris (again: noble!) Was an interview with Adam Green. The friendly, thrilling anti-folk guru had made a film in which his friend Macauly (“Kevin alone at home”) also played a role. So I talked to both, at my side the eccentric photo editor of the MusikExpress’ Peter Kaaden. He unpacked several bottles of sparkling wine during the conversation and encouraged everyone involved to drink. I think I have never been so drunk at two in the afternoon and that day. But the trick had an effect: we all got on well – and at some point Macauly Culkin was hung on my shoulder for the photo. I don’t know why Rudolf Augstein or Henri nannen went into journalism, with me it was definitely such moments.
PS: I also shot a small video from this meeting at the time. It is still online …
06. Meeting point beauty
Sometimes you already suspect that you will get a chance on a selfie. This should be taken to the hanger not to wrap himself into its usual rags, but to trigger the suit from the pawnberer. Nevertheless, in the end you fade behind the broadcast of Nadja Benaissa from the No Angels – but you can at least not accuse yourself and show the photos at Christmas Mutti. (“Who is that? No angels? I don’t know. You always hear so noise music!”)
07. Who is a star? You still determine yourself!
I still know when I was whispered on a trip through the rock pubs from Bremen … Ole, the guitarist from the Dimple Minds. Yes exactly, the Dimple Minds. Bremen’s most drunk Asi band. As a teenager, I owned her first EP with the beautiful title “Blau on’m Bau”. And I spent many hours hearing them, but of course also interested in staring at them and learning all the information about it. Had I mentioned that I didn’t have so many friends at the time, or could you already think of it? In any case, in my world this guy was and is a celebrity here!
08. Don’t wait too long for your chance
If you hesitate too long, you run the risk that the shy animals (star) will retire back into the forests (penthouse suite, opium cavity or tikok). So it happened here. When is the right opportunity to ask the doctors to ask the doctors for a selfie? No idea … but probably before Farin went back to the room. Well, missed! For that I was able to generate my own meme from the picture.
09. Speaking of memes …
Milky Chance, the guitar folk duo from Kassel. For a story, I actually traveled to her North Hessian hometown. It seemed more bleak to me than in some abandoned cities in the Ruhr area, but I didn’t show anything. The poor artists had to stay here at the end of the day. Hopefully you forgiven me for the little fun with the memeization of my hairy fan photo.
10. Being fan begins in childhood
As a small child, I crouched on the carpet of my children’s room and heard pumuckl cassettes. When I got older, I just stayed, exchanged the radio play cassettes with the strenuous goblin against adventure from the city center – i.e. TKKG. I ate yellow cassettes like others at that time Dextro Energen or Fruchtzwerge. Yellow cassettes? Yes, the cases of the slightly reactionary youth gang were found on such. The company behind was the same that also takes care of the three question marks: Europe. With their light form, Heikedine Körting, I have this fan photo. The other nerds get green with envy – but so be! So in 2010 I looked at Heikedine. And when you are very quiet, you hear the butterflies in my stomach.
11. Photos are memory aids
Some photos that I was incredibly hot at the moment of their triggering falls back into my hands years later and I have to find that my love is then cooled. Here in 2012 I am at the Melt Festival in the middle of the horror-electro-punk band Bondage Fairies. That was our slipknot at the time. I still love their song “He-Man” very much. With each of the types (Sweden), however, I have now overslooked on social media. Well, it was good as long it lasted.
12. Pictures of you survive
Haha, that would have liked Torsun that I overwrite his section with this unspeakable hit by Laith al-Deen. Or maybe not? Not that he is now haunted as a spirit. Because Torsun died one day before New Year’s Eve 2023. Anyone who knows him, his nature, his attitude and music probably knows all too well, what a loss is still. Back then I took a fan photo with him. 2011 or so at a festival. We had never met personally before. At the time, I was amazed at how he was still raising the motif with this wild kiss. I think you can see that in my eyes too. I was very happy anyway.
Submit film
I don’t want to indicate (yes!), But I still want to mention that I could line this column even more epic. A lot of such photos have come over time, don’t Judge me. However, I think that if you put twelve (!) Photos of yourself in your own column, that’s really enough. See it to me!
And like to talk to me for a selfie if you discover me in the subway, in the waiting room at the doctor or on the pub floor. I am always ready.