Kraftwerk diary

Specially for Kraftwerk’s appearance at Tribal Gathering ’97 where they finally performed (there were negotiations a year before but it fell apart) in front of 35 thousand people, the Muzik magazine published a funny journal charting the preparation for an open rave by one of the founders of the Dusseldorf band, Ralf Hutter.

He could actually have written this great piece of self-mockery, pointing out the band’s scientific snobbism, their passion for bicycles and great devotion to their ideals if it hadn’t been for its inclusion of the names of non-existing band members, allusions to Being and Time and the last name of an unknown poet :-)

Monday

Weather: Gloomy. Drunk nine cups of coffee this morning before breakfast, and then undertook a 39-mile bicycle ride around the Eidsbach industrial region which surrounds our home town. I resolved to return next week and record the sound of an arc-welding machine I overheard en route. We are to rehearse this week for the concert we are playing on Saturday in a small English hamlet called Luton.