Collection 1 - Nude – Pure – Us!

KALTBLUT
aMinus
Interview by Nicolas Simoneau
I am one lucky guy, check this out : I went to Bucharest
on a 3-day trip with HONK!’s “Artist Of The Year 2011”
winner Aminus aka Valentin Plessy.
We left Berlin thursday night at 8 pm and boarded a flight
to Cologne. Two hours later we were in Bucharest. We
barely had time to get off the plane and claim our
luggages, someone was waiting to pick us up. Quick stop at
the hotel to leave our stuff, and first tour of the city.
Bucharest is really beautiful, i mean of course “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” and as
such it is a completely subjective experience. Coming from Berlin, a lot of the buildings we
saw looked familiar. You can totally feel that the old communist regime is still very present
in the architecture. You’ll see a lot of old buildings that are in pretty bad shape and need to
be renovated, and here and there you’ll catch a glimpse of beautiful little houses in the city
center. You may also be surprised by the number of stray dogs wandering the streets of
the city. There are so many of them, it’s almost surreal. As you can imagine, they all look
perfectly healthy and beautiful. After a really big and tasty lunch, we make a quick stop
back at the hotel where we have to take the equipment we will need for the concert, and
then we go straight to the club to perform the soundcheck. Once we’re done with that, we
just sit and drink at the bar waiting for the show to start.
It’s finally time for Aminus to go on stage, he’s a bit stressed out, doing a lot of vocal warm
up exercises, and checking how many people are in the crowd. The show starts. The crowd
is a bit shy, but after the first song, everybody is totally into it. People are dancing and
singing along.
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