Interview with ALPHAVILLE 2/3

“After the third or fourth listen, it dawned on me how awesome this is…” (Marian Gold)

In the first part, we spoke to Marian Gold about how it feels to look back on 40 years of Alphaville and to what extent the 1980s were the last innocent decade. On the occasion of his best-of “Forever! Best of 40 Years”, we continue the conversation.

“The journey is not over yet.”

Can Marian Gold also take something positive from the present day? “I’m still a member of Alphaville, from that band,” he nods. ” Alphaville feels to me like some kind of astral spaceship that flies us through space and time, and this journey isn’t over yet. That’s the great thing about it.” But what has changed? “It’s not that I somehow only ever think about the eighties. The years that Alphaville don’t start there, but rather in the mid-seventies, when I heard “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars” for the first time. That was the first time I was shot into space.” He pauses and then corrects himself: “Or maybe even much earlier.”

Whisky à Go Go

“I bought my first record when I was twelve years old. It was a live album and I didn’t even know the artist. “Johnny Rivers live at the ‘Whisky à Go Go'”. I had no idea what kind of music was on it. The record was used and quite scratched and cost 8 marks. I only had 10 marks and couldn’t afford a new album. And the first time I heard it, I couldn’t do much with the music either. But I listened to the record again and again because it was the only one I had. After the third or fourth listen, it dawned on me how cool what this guy was doing was. I think I played that record at least a million times and each time I imagined I was in this famous club in Hollywood, the ‘Whisky A Go Go’, where the The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and so many other of my heroes at the time had performed.” Years later, things would come full circle. On the last US tour in 2017, Gold was driving down Sunset Boulevard with his driver after the gig in Burbank. He noticed the neon letters “Whisky à Go Go” out of the corner of his eye. It turned out that the original “Whisky” still existed. Playing in 2018 Alphaville finally live there, and Marian fulfilled a childhood dream. A dream that began in 1967.

In the last part, we ask ourselves what David Bowie would actually do and venture a look into the future.

Katrin Hemmerling

Experience ALPHAVILLE live:
November 02, 2024 DE-Kempten, bigBox Allgäu
November 03, 2024 ZH-Zurich, Kongresshaus
November 16, 2024 DE-Bremen, Metropol Theater
November 17, 2024 DE-Lüneburg, LKH Arena
November 29, 2024 DE-Lingen (Ems), Emsland Arena
November 30, 2024 DE-Wetzlar, Buderus Arena
December 10, 2024 DE-Nuremberg, Meistersingerhalle
December 11, 2024 DE-Pforzheim, CongressCentrum
January 23, 2025 DE-Kiel, Wunderino Arena
January 24, 2025 DE- Hanover, Swiss Life Hall
February 06, 2025 DE-Düsseldorf, Mutsubishi Electric Halle
February 07, 2025 DE-Bochum, RuhrCongress
February 13, 2025 DE-Berlin, Tempodrom
February 14, 2025 DE-Hamburg, Inselpark Arena
February 22, 2025 AT-Vienna, Raiffeisen Hall in the Gasometer
March 01, 2025 DE-Freiburg, Konzerthaus
March 02, 2025 DE-Frankfurt, Myticket Jahrhunderthalle
March 08, 2025 DE-Mannheim, Rosengarten Mozartsaal
March 09, 2025 DE-Bielefeld, Stadthalle
March 17, 2025 DE-Magdeburg, Getec Arena
April 14, 2025 DE-Stuttgart, Liederhalle Hegelsaal
April 15, 2025 DE-Saarbrücken, Saarlandhalle
April 29, 2025 DE-Leipzig, Quarterback Immobilien Arena
April 30, 2025 DE-Dresden, Messe Dresden, Hall 1
May 27, 2024 DE-Munich, Circus Krone
May 30, 2024 DE-Münster, Messe+Congress Centrum Halle Münsterland
August 23, 2024 DE-Latschach, Burgarena Finkenstein

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