Tomte (band)
Tomte is a German indie rock band from Hamburg.
- 3.1 Studio albums
- 3.2 Singles
History
Founding and beginnings (1987-1996)
The band was originally founded in 1987/88 under the name Warpigs in the northern German town of Hemmoor. Later it changed its name to Tomte Tummetott based on the eponymous children's books by Astrid Lindgren, including the name of the band was reduced to Tomte.
In 1991, Tomte Tummetott on a demo tape in the living room of the singer and bassist Christian Stemmann, which, however, remains unpublished to this day. Only in 1994 follows the next, this time as Tomte. This contains among other things the song The Egoiste, the kiss later on a CD Supplement to the Come appeared fanzines. In 1996, the first single was released Blink muffle than 7 ".
From the first album until the first success (1998-2005)
His friend Marcus Wiebusch ( Kettcar ) took the first album you know what I mean to, which was released in 1998. Then we went for the first time on tour. To the second album to publish a sunny night in 2000, founded the label Tomte Hotel van Cleef. The song Korn & Sprite finally gave Tomte a first, small moderate success; which is also published on the album William, that was nothing made the jump to a small classic.
Through the merger with Wiebuschs record company BA Records was the label Grand Hotel van Cleef. Finally, in 2003 the third album Behind all these windows, which offers a much more professional and more opulent production and a abgeklärteres songwriting. It could nevertheless reach number 50 in the German album charts, and reached No. 1 on the reader and to number 5 in the charts of the year 2003 critics of the magazine Spex. The video for walking my mother's name came up numerous bets on music television.
Since the publication of Behind all these windows, the band writes a small but steady success story - so were now many sold-out club gigs and gigs opening for Coldplay, on the FM4 - stage at Vienna's Danube Island Festival in front of over 20,000 spectators or to the largest German festivals Hurricane and rock am Ring are celebrated.
The breakthrough with letters above the city and Eureka (since 2006)
In early 2006 released their fourth album letters above the city, which debuted at # 4 on the charts. The first single I sang all the time from you reaching number 38 in the German single charts. The songs the northern hemisphere and New York also achieved as a radio extraction or download Publication awareness. 2007 invited by the Goethe -Institut, the band several appearances after Russia. Tomte played in Moscow, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Krasnoyarsk.
On 10 October 2008, the new album Eureka was released, the first single with the title The last great whale appeared on 19 September 2008.
In September 2009, Tomte was as the opening act of the friendly band The Weakerthans tour the U.S. and gave four concerts in Boston, New York and Washington. In December 2009, the 7 "single Live from the East Coast appeared with the loan from U.S. tour songs ahead, ahead and nothing is as beautiful on the world as if drunk to listen to sad music from the album Eureka. The single is limited to 500 copies and each contains an exclusive photo of the tour.
Occupation
First, a rotating cast crystallized from around 1994, the trio Thees Uhlmann, Christian " Stemmi " Stemmann and Timo Bodenstein out. Here, Uhlmann and Stemman songwriting and the vocals initially divided about evenly and still turns playing guitar and bass, while ground stone acted as a fixed constant on drums. This division changed to 2001 quickly so that Stemmi last played mainly bass and barely earned songs. Last concert in this composition was held in the Rote Flora in Hamburg on 6 January 2001. Then Stemmi left the band and Olli Koch of Marr was solid bassist of the band. 2003 came his bandmate Dennis Becker as second guitarist to do so. Since the 2005 Tour is also Max Schröder, known as The Dog Marie of labelmates Olli Schulz and the dog Marie, member; First he played the piano and keyboard, and then took the place of drummer Timo Bodenstein, who left the band before the recording of the album Eureka in 2008. Simon Frontzek (Sir Simon Battle) came as a keyboard player new to the band. In August, the band announced then that Oliver Koch would be replaced for health reasons by Nikolai Potthoff. Previously Potthoff had already replaced several concerts cooking on bass.
Oliver Koch ( left) and Thees Uhlmann
Tomte live at the GhvC Festival in Bonn on August 6, 2006
Tomte at the concert in Cologne Live Music Hall on 11 March 2006
Drummer Max Schroeder
Discography
Studio albums
Singles
- 2009: Live from the East Coast ( 7 "single, limited to 500 pieces )
- In brackets the number of weeks in the charts.