Falschgeld

In the organizer's words:

Counterfeit money

It started with seven of us on a beautiful morning, we were all students, with a teacher
teacher who believed in us. We wanted to be rock stars, just in the fourth
class, all ten years young. That's why we called ourselves "the seven flashing mountains".
Jona's father, a musician himself, was highly motivated to guide us through the highs and lows of childhood and adolescence.
through the highs and lows of childhood and adolescence and wrote the songs with us
songs with us, depending on our abilities: Because we had only just started with the instruments
instruments, the only musical style left was punk.
Between burying stick insects and cleaning the aquarium, the melodies and themes found their way to us
and themes found their way to us - during the concerts, the instruments were
tuned so that the first two chords came across compact, energetic and groovy at full throttle.
full throttle. Direct contact with the audience was our bridge, which brought us
which brought us more and more appearances at various school festivals.
We began to rehearse in a more or less disciplined and chaotic manner. These
times together were always characterized by spontaneous incidents: The
The drummer was constantly dressing up with the school's theater props in the same room
the school's theater props in the same room, while the bassist sat bored on the sofa
and asked when the rehearsal would finally be finished. The electric guitarist was deepening the E minor
chord loudly and uncoordinatedly with the drummer in fat distortion.
This resulted in the first song: "Football fever." In E minor and G major. The focus
was to bring the music into a common meter in the first place. The
The snare was ripped to shreds at some point, whether by a jealous classmate or a
a fit of rage on our part, is still not clear today.
The "seven mountains" became the "Wooden Heros". In the fifth grade, the band wanted
out into the big wide world - they actually found their way out of the school
school: to the local market square 50 meters away at the annual village festival with countless
with countless fans from their own ranks. At some point, part of the band ran out of time
and so they ended up being just the two of them - Jona and Jakob.
A keyboarder and a saxophonist joined them and the band was formed
"Counterfeit Money". We grew so close together that we made the school unsafe as "the infamous four"
school and the teachers enjoyed our creativity,
but almost despaired at our lack of impulse control.
We began to rehearse persistently and more seriously and the coach was always with us
with us - in a good mood, highly motivated or on the verge of a nervous breakdown. With the
instrumental skills, the possibilities for arrangements and lyrics grew.
When we slowly reached the more settled age of about fifteen, we thought about
how we could make old people's homes unsafe as a pensioners' band.
We never let go of the vision of playing on big stages - until we actually played at
we were actually able to play in front of 40,000 people at an event on Königsplatz. In the
we played in Munich at Tollwood, at the Sammersee Festival and at many private
many private parties, festivals and open stages.
One day will be remembered forever: we played at lunchtime at the Gautinger
Kulturspektakel, in the afternoon at the Herrschinger Jugendwettbewerb and found out
the night before our third performance on the same day at the circus meeting in Garmisch that we had
had won the youth prize in the afternoon! We were nominated for the Tassilo Prize
and then - came Corona.
During the forced break, when everything went down the drain, the saxophonist dropped out.
The decision was drastic and not easy, the friendship remained - but so did his decision to leave.
but so did his decision to leave.
Now there were three of us - there was only one thing for us to do: carry on!
New songs were written, new lyrics emerged from the crises that we
through. There was a new clear "yes" to our band
We decided to ask for a bass player, because after Corona the gigs came back and so did we.
gigs came back and so did we. As Jona had already been singing and dancing with Max
and danced with Max, the request turned into a permanent engagement: now there are four of us again
four of us again and we're moving on! We are highly motivated and look forward to everything we can experience together.
can experience together.

#Falschgeld are young, from Munich and make dirty indie pop rock with German lyrics, stylistically somewhere between TonSteineScherben, Wanda and AnnenMayKantereit.

#The most sophisticated half-strength riot! high fun factor! no consideration for losses!

#The punky attitude of the four pop louts, who have been making music together since they were kids and deliver a correspondingly powerful performance, meets profound and thoughtful lyrics in a rich contrast.