Music is when you laugh anyway.
Reading by Christian PINGPONG Marwitz .
Is it autobiographical satire or painfully funny cultural criticism?
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Admission: A smile
Donations for the artist are welcome.
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Christian P Marwitz, a Düsseldorf veteran, met Bob Marley several times, sat on the tour bus with Zappa, was at Jimi Hendrix's last gig and in his career as a music journalist has been interested not only in music but also in the absurdities and dark sides of the music business, in the often brutal blues behind the stage. And in his book, various Düsseldorf rehearsal room bunkers are just as much the setting for drama and comedy as Sunday drumming in the Volksgarten. And bizarre things from Africa and, and...
His transition from journalist to musician and rhythm teacher, to globetrotter when it comes to music and decades of living in tropical cultures has now brought him back to Düsseldorf. His many encounters and travels feed his anecdotes, full of sarcastic humor: "Music is when you laugh anyway."