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Date: November 15, 2001
Title: Rammstein will drink milk in Vilnius
Source: Vakaro Zinios
Translator: Translated by Milda from Lithuanian
Press Article
On November 21st, in the new drill-hall "Sportima," one of the most popular industrial rock bands Rammstein will give a performance. The world famous stars have already adduced their demands for food, from which the wish "fresh milk" stands out.
They wait impatiently for the desserts
From last Wednesday, the tickets for 40 LTL are being sold. The tickets
will take a jump to 50 LTL from this Wednesday, and on the performance
day, the entrance tickets will cost 80 LTL. The requests of the band
aren't very special or hard realizable. Only one fact is astonishing.
Besides the hard drinks, they have ordered, the musicians want even
4 litres of fresh full cream milk.
The band wants that all day long fresh coffee and tea, many sorts of
fruits, especially grapes, would be easily approachable. Rammstein would
like various snacks in their dressing rooms- few sorts of ham and cheese,
white bread, butter, various green grocery and sauces, and various sweets
too.
The highest-class food must be served professionally and mannerly. On
their lunch table, they would like to find two sorts of hot food, which
would have vegetarian tallies. It seems that the Rammstein members are
lickerish, because they mentioned to the concert organizers, that they
couldn't wait till they get to taste the dessert.
They ordered various drinks
The band (together with the crew) plans to drink out about 40 litres
water, 5 litres soda-water, 10 litres three sorts of juice, 5 litres "Coca
Cola Classic," 5 litres of the Diet Coke, 2 packages of "Beck's" or "Heineken" beer,
10 big bottles of "Gatorade," 4 one litre capacity good dry red wine
bottles, 2 bottles of champagne, 1 litre capacity bottle of Finlandia," "Absolut" or "Moskovskaja" Vodka
and 1 litre bottle of good quality brown tequila.
Next to all these goodies, they require 20 glasses, porcelain plates,
forks, knives, spoons, overlays, 40 big plastic cups and 20 kg ice for
the drinks. There has to be 120 clean towels and 2 litres of shower
gel in the dressing rooms of the band.
The group will need 4 rooms (2 for the band, 1 for the crew and 1 big
common room), which have to be clean, good lighted, with air conditioning
and locking doors. Big mirrors, chairs and sofa have to be in each room.
It was strictly required, that there would be no blending fluorescenting
lamps.
They surprise with the pyro effects
Rammstein gigs distinguish with a gigantic shows, it is a theatre of
the 21st century, which shines sadomasochistic elements, burning humans,
fire apparels, spectacular lights and wonderful innovatory rock music.
"We offer music for the ears, and pyrotechnics for the eyes" - says the vocalist
of Rammstein Till Lindemann. Everything what we want to do is to entertain the
viewers and offer them to experience a wonderful party with flamethrowers and
other good stuff. Our music isn't destructive; it hasn't such thing, which would
stimulate violence. We simply play such music, that we like, and if there are
people who like it too, they are always welcome at our concerts. Everyone has
the right to listen to the music that they like and if someone likes Ricky Martin
or Michael Jackson, I wish them a good listening".
The name- from a catastrophe
Rammstein sing in their native German tongue and they say, that they
want to show to other groups, that everything can be reached even
in your own language. The bands name came from a big catastrophe during
an American aircraft show, which took place in vicinity in Germany,
called Ramstein. "During the show there were killed or hurt over 80
people. The first song of the band was about this accident. Everyone
just talked about that incident: Ramstein, Ramstein! And this word
just stuck to us. We just changed the spelling a little bit- we put
another "m" to the title. This word is just like a symbol to us, an
anthem." - say the group members.
From the release of the first album "Herzeleid," which went platinum
in few European countries, the group won a respectable place in European
rock music history. Their second album "Sehnsucht" was not only the
logical elongation of the conception, but more successful too. The second
album went platinum not only in Germany, but also in USA, and brought
a lot of awards to the band in other European countries. The band in
Vilnius will present their third studio album "Mutter."