Beatsteaks is a bomb (or grenade, rocket, dynamite or some other preferably menacing expression that underlines the musically explosive force of our five friends)! Don’t get the wrong impression here: the five guys from Berlin are all pacifists, yet the goal for the bands latest album Limbo Messiah was obvious: “we wanted to set off another couple of bombs again”, says singer Arnim Teutoburg-Weiss. Beatsteaks have already succeeded in creating an unmistakable full-speed-ahead sound on their four previous albums. Smack Smash (2004) delivered the climax so far and was even awarded Platinum status in their native Germany.
It’ s somehow typical that composing, rehearsing and playing live is not enough for these crazy citizens of Germany’s capital. Freely adapted from the punk motto “Do It Yourself” the somewhat scatterbrained, but likeable band, takes care of almost all aspects of what is a complex organisation. Torsten works in the Mail Order shop, Arnim helps with management and designs tasteful T-shirts (or at least what he considers tasteful). Bernd takes care of the equipment. Peter has taken on the Herculean task of answering all of the band’s e-mails.
