Interview with ALPHAVILLE 3/3

“And we thought to ourselves: ‘Is this guy crazy?”” (Marian Gold)

In the first two parts of our big interview, we spoke to Alphaville mastermind Marian Gold about the “Forever! Best of 40 Years” and mainly looked back to the past. That now changes in the final part. What does the future hold for Alphaville?

“What would David Bowie do?”

Gold remembers the early days, when it was more or less thanks to the publisher at the time that “Forever Young”, then still an uptempo song, became an overwhelming ballad. The work on the recording took too long for him, so he had the individual channels on the mixing desk explained to him. “He put his outstretched arms over the faders of almost every track and pulled them down to zero. What was left were strings and vocals. And we thought to ourselves: ‘Is this guy crazy? But then it turned out to be a brilliant idea as soon as we heard it for the first time.” Does Marian Gold like to be talked into his work? “Since this experience, I’ve been totally open to ideas from others,” he explains. “Then you realize that sometimes even the biggest numbskulls have the greatest ideas. There’s nothing wrong with trying things out quickly.” He also has a trick that gets him out of creative blocks: “When I get into situations like this, where absolutely nothing works, I ask myself: ‘What would Bowie do? In truth, of course, I don’t know what he would do. But the moment I ask myself that, it changes my mindset. Then I’m no longer stuck in this dead end mentally, but I follow my free-flying imagination about David Bowie. That has often helped me to get out of such lockdown situations.”

“Very basic.”

How does the journey of the astral spaceship called Alphaville continue? First comes the tour, in November, to promote the new album. “I don’t really know what will happen after that,” Gold ponders. “We’re working on the usual next studio album, of course. It will probably be called “Thunderbaby”. We’ve already written a lot of stuff for it. All I can say about it: At the moment it’s very, very simple, naive music. Very basic. I can’t say that I don’t like it. I think it’s pretty cool in that simplicity. It could possibly be the simplest and catchiest album we’ve ever made. But not all the songs have been written yet. And sometimes a song comes up unexpectedly that is a game changer. It turns the whole concept you had before completely on its head. And you say: ‘We have to do everything completely differently now’. That can still happen. And that’s wonderful, no matter how it turns out.”

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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