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Go Go Berlin is working as a band throughout the semester on Performers House. For the midterm showings the band was asked to play a short session of brand new songs. Guitarist Mikkel Dyrhave describes the bands preparations during the weeks before the showings.
“We started out from the idea of trying to use different basic songwriting techniques, in order to see how many new songs we could write in two weeks. The aim was to play a totally simple concert with focus only on the best of the music and not on the performance part.”
“On the first day we did some song writing exercises, starting out with nothing, and each member of the band brainstorming on his own, writing one whole song in half an hour with lyrics! Everybody came up with a song or a piece, but none of them ended up being used in the performance.”
“Then we decided to jam up songs from scratch or jamming over a riff someone brought. Slowly we managed to develop three songs. Most of the work was done in the second week because we were out doing gigs in between.”
“On the day we where going to play, we had three songs to practice and a stage to build, and yet we started doing a fourth song of which we only had the chorus. Quickly putting the parts together with help from our bandcoach Jacob Mayland we had it ready in some hours.”
The new songs have a different sound than all the other Go Go Berlin stuff, Mikkel explains. The reason being, that the band wrote them without any other frames than: What does Go Go Berlin sound like right now?
“The new numbers cover a broad variety of genres - they are very different from each other, but I like to think they have a red line going through all of them tying them together in a nice necklace, we call the Go Go-sound.”
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