I'm not sure whether these guys are the best band I've heard in a while or if they are just shit.
There myspace is: www.myspace.com/dieplankton
what do you think? there site seems very self-deprecating and drenched in irony, but I think they've got something.
I'm gonna go see them in a few weeks in Leeds, let's hope it's a good un. Has anyone seen them before? Are they worth seeing? I've got to travel from Manchester so I need to know it's gonna be worth the trek.
Kupo
i think you're in
die plankton
If he is
then he is so lacking in confidence that you should probably let it slide and just nod along in case he snaps and gets a bit dangerous
argh
i cannot construct a sentence
Hmm
I think you should brush up on your detective skills. I think Die Plankton are German anyway
im not interested either way
im bored and starting arguments for kicks
I think you're right though
nobody makes their first comment as a link to a band's myspace in a new thread unless they are in the band
JAGtacular
Jeez
you ask for info/opinions on a band you've discovered on myspace and suddenly you're a member?
Check out www.radiohead.com, does that mean I'm in Radiohead now? I want my royalty cheque!
wanna form a forum-crime-fighting-detective-duo?
we could be called...
JAGgart!
yeah I'm in
can we have a car
The JAGmobile
or a
JAGuar? with JAGgart written on the side
We'll have to be armed
with JAGgers, and when we find JAG, we go for the JAGular
There's nothing more witty
than internet injokes
why dyou think we've gone so far
with this lengthly rigmarole? ('sarcasm' is turned off on my PC)
we'l have a look through some
JAGazines to see where we can buy both the JAGuar and the JAGgers
Die Plankton
are amazing. I saw them in Leeds recently.
Hot stuff.
I think they are on the next Dance to the radio compilation too
cool
That's the label Forward Russia are on/do isn't it? I think I might have to check them out
Forward Russia
were on DTTR now on cooking vinyl
cooking vinyl?
really? how bizarre!
Really?
I was told we couldn't have them because Brew Records had signed them.
Confused
Is this Forward Russia or Die Plankton you're on about? Are they on a label?
no we tried to sign them but
DTTR said they'd fix it for Die Plankton to win Futresound so they went with them instead
that's crazy
but I'm not particularly shocked, there's a lot of backhand dealings that go on with record companies/battle of the bands type things.
it's a fucking
disgrace
but
are they worth travelling from Manchester to see?
it depends on what
you are expecting
confused
are they "plakton must die!" or "The Plankton in german"?
either way, pathetic JAG and questionable behaviour makes me hope they are lost to the murky depths. Planks.
Hallo, we are Die Plankton
thank you kupo for starting a thread on such a distinguished artist as us!
It would seem to be a trend on musik website to accuse people of being Die Plankton, I am glad to see this trend is not a local one! I believe Jon Gomm was a victim of this for a while.
send a message to us kupo and you can be placed on our guestlist for the show you are wish to attend.
As for the other points raised, we are not on any label, and know nothing of Futuresound (perhaps the Svengali controlling our career is striking again?) I also have no knowledge of us being on any compilations, but our manager Klaus is an odd man and often tells us little of what he does in our name.
We are German, so Die Plankton is The Plankton, but when we realised the double meaning we kept it.
I hope that answers concerns.
Karl / DP
CRAINE!!!11!
ahem, sorry.
I saw Die Plankton and they were fucking shit!
And all ugly fuckers, to boot!
Nu-krautrock
is not about looks, let us have only good looking artists? Mark E Smith is worse than Cheryl Tweedy
do you live in a barge
by any chance?
what?
why would anyone do that?
because they really are that colour?
It would seem
that I do not understand the complexity of British humour just yet, my mother's tongue is German, I am only watch Monty Python, perhaps you are like? Or not?
i stand by my original accusation
JAGgert forever!
oh...
dear.
I like
your accent
like my sound?
everybody does eventually
Not really
just your accent. Like, when you speak
Not really
just your accent. Like, when you speak
I think
you need to learn English. I have no time for people who get their/there/they're wrong.
pah
I speak five languages, I think a few errors are fitting no? I have no time for snobs of language, how good is your Deutsch, I think my Deutsch is better than your English, or not.
Perhaps you will benefit from reading Saussure, the linguistic sign still makes sense to you no? It conveys meaning?
You are a pedant and unsecured with your own confidence.
Please stop becoming a child
Just so you know...
I don't have a problem with non-native speakers making mistakes, I can hardly remember GCSE French let alone any other language, so I find it extremely humbling and impressive when I can have a conversation with someone and they're making all the effort and I wouldn't know where to start in their language.
I do however, have a problem with native English speakers who can't speak or write their own language properly. Snobby I know, but there you go!
You can't be german.
Germans have better english than that.
And it's DAS Plankton in german...
wrong
It is not Das.
...
" Ohne das Plankton der arktischen Gewässer fehlte den riesigen Plankton filtrierenden Bartenwalen wie zum Beispiel dem Blauwal oder dem Finnwal die Nahrungsgrundlage. Auch große Fischschwärme ernähren sich von den Planktonmassen."
Der/Die/Das/Die
"Vergleichende Thiergeographische Untersuchungen über die Plankton - Fauna des Skageraks in den Jahren 1893-1897"
or
"Plankton Labs (Innsbruck, Aut) Seit der Gründung im Herbst 2002 sieht sich die Plankton als Freiraum für verschiedenste medienkünstlerische Experimente ohne ..."
or
"Die Plankton-Expedition und Haeckel's Darwinismus. Ueber einige A ufgaben und Ziele der beschreibenden Naturwissenschaften. Lipsius & Tischer, Kiel. ..."
We don't tend to pluralise plankton, it's not right - personally I would never bastardise my mother's tongue in such a way, but then language does evolve. Perhaps we are both right
nice googling...
Die Fauna
Die Expedition
You seem to be plagging every music messageboard at the moment...
it's so funny
Yorkshire German wannabe's pretend to be average messageboarders to JAG poor music.
I think we should make up new Die Plankton rumours.
Die Plankton were once arrested for stealing livestock from a farm in Brittany.
i heard die plankton
caused a pig-lorry pile up on the motorway that led to several of the afformentioned pigs being shot by the police..just what i heard
this is half true
we stole a goat from a farm near Tamworth, we were never arrested though
Oh shit!!!!!
My above comment was made for the original post, not for Die Plankton! So sorry! :(
I dig this
These are funny dudes. I loved the reviews!
next gig
Die Plankton can't bake cakes as nice as me.
Mmmm cakes
is that
Air Freshener Man? how are you 10000 day celebration?
I'm Die Plankton
we're all die plankton
we're one big die plankton together
What a crazy ass thread this has become
I got my guest list places for me and the missus, I heard Die Plankton got into a fight with Ian Brown at a farmers' market in Bristol...
this is known in physics
as plankton effect
FOUR UPLOADS
Hallo planktonmensch,
we have uploaded four new songs for your enjoyment. they show a more sensitive side to Die Plankton.
Please enjoy, feedback, come see us play live etc.
Karl / DP
www.myspace.com/dieplankton