PipemanRadio Interviews Nitzer Ebb at Welcome to Rockville 2024

0:04 Hey, you have one to censure. I'm see why for you young roll why become of America. It's time for the Adventures of White Man on W four c HY dot com. West pomp Beats is number one internet radio station. Here's your host, the white Man so so so so it's the Pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio. And I'm here with mister Bon Harris Daniel Mayer. Nice of night. And you know why I do that because like, bands always do it better than I will.

1:19 Yeah, so I like to hear how the band says their name. They go ongoing controversy with our name. There, you go, tell us about that, because I bet a lot of people mispronounce it, say all kinds of weird shit, right, Yeah, I mean back in the day, we just made up the name and we wanted it to sound vaguely European. So we cut up a load of letters and words and kept rearranging them until something come up that we liked. I love that night. It was it. And you know, we started saying Niser but a lot of people in the US say Nitza. Well, you know, but we don't mind. The funny thing is is I I know it was nightser, but went It's like, okay, that's there's ready for you. Yeah, And I'm like, yeah, okay, I hope I am saying it right. Like you say, there's no rules, just beat yourself exactly one hundred. So is this your first time I had Danny Wimmer Festival? Yes, I believe it is. Yeah, yeah, because I don't remember seeing you at one.

2:19 And man, what an iconic one to start with. Welcome to Rockvillure. Yeah, thanks man. Here at the Daytona International Speedway. Yeah. So does that mean anything to somebody that comes from outside the United States? Oh yeah, I mean Daytona's pretty iconic. I used to follow motor racing and motorcycle racing when I was a kid. So there was a famous British rid called Barry Sheen who had a massive accident here testing a Suzuki. It was part of the documentary I was watching when I was a kid. So so yeah, you know, I'm well familiar with Daytona and it's it's quite quite an occasion to be sitting in the middle of it and driving on it too, right around it. Indeed we did. Yeah, it's crazy.

3:00 It's pretty exciting when you when you first get it right, like you're fan boying out on the racetrack. Yeah, you know, forget the bands or anything else. It's the race track, like I'm all about. That makes it more special, that's for sure. Yeah. So, like my kids will ask me, oh, you excited to go to this festival, and now I'm like, I'm excited to drive on the speedway, Like that's the highlight of the festival right there. But now the highlighters you guys playing. Yeah, so tell us a little bit for the listeners that aren't familiar with your music, how you, as the artist would describe your music to them, not necessarily boxing you into a genre because I have you know, yeah, I've always kind of described it as minimalistic electric punk rock in a lot of ways. I mean, I like that, you know, that's kind of how we started. It was a little harder edged electronic music. We're always into minimalism, you know, there's not a lot of solos or anything like that. Is just kind of straighthead dance music very much, you know, very much up for people dancing. Yeah. So, driving on the way here today, one of the people that was with me, she it was funny yesterday there was something wrong with the app and was showing today's schedule on Thursday, and so she thought she missed your set, and she was so bummed. I can understand that. And I was like, you know, well, I don't know, I think they performed today. Yeah,

4:31 and then she's so excited. She's like yeah, because they're really like they're the originators of industrial music. That's how she put you, guys, maybe one of them. There's quite a few bands a right, but yeah, I mean who were your influences? You know, early days, a lot of sort of post punk sort of stuff, Killing Joke, Bowerhouse, very early days, Adam and the Ants, and then moving into electronic music, you know, craft Work, daf you know, a bunch of sort of new wave stuff out of Germany. Yeah. Yeah, So I come from the eighties, you know, and I remember when kraft Work first came out.

5:15 So it was wild when you mentioned that because not many people remember that nowadays, and I was like, wow, this is pretty cool, you know. And there I love that nowadays you can kind of bend genres and put genres together because it's like one of the things somebody said to me, Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing him because he went normally see him at festival like this, and I'm like, well, maybe you would, because there's plenty of us like you that want to see it. You know, it's not like the old days. Funny story you mentioned Adam and the Ants. Yeah, I was a total thrash metal head in the early eighties and one of my best friends he was a closet and him in the nce fan okay, because back then you had the gatekeepers. You couldn't like anything else, okay. And I found his album one time, Kings of the Wild Frontier, and I'm like, what the hell is this and he was like, you know, he's like and then he played it for me still to this day, one of my favorite all time ever outs genius. You know, all the rhythm stuff, the jungle sound to it. It was genius.

6:28 Then I went back and got into Dirk War's White Socks. How many people know about that album album? Oh? Classic, Classic, It blows my mind. He's touring now too nowadays. Yeah, It's it's amazing too, because nowadays everybody can get exposed to the music. I think we're kind of finally eliminating the gatekeepers. There's a few left, but they don't mean anything anymore. And I think you're gonna have a huge crowd here at well that's what we're looking for exactly. So what can we expect from a live show? From from a live show, Really, it's all about energy, just physical energy, getting up there, encouraging people to dance, dancing ourselves and just enjoying the power of the music and enjoying dancing, really being on the dance floor. Yeah. So when did this happen that you make got this itch to do music? Growing up? Like in high school, we were all skateboarders, and so there was always sort of a connection between energy and physicality and music, and there was a certain music scene that went along with that. And then I think, just as any teenagers do, you start graduating into getting interested in buying records, buying clothes, being part of a scene. And after a while, it wasn't enough for us to just be passive consumers of it. We wanted to We wanted to create it and sort of take the energy that we've grown up with and put it into a

7:59 music call context. So, you know, right right around our sort of we were maybe sixteen seventeen, years old when we first started getting the itch to actually play nice. Yeah, and how the kind of start out. We started out with one little synthesizer called an sh one oh one, a keyboard amp, half a drum kit and a microphone, half a drum kit, half drunkt Yeah. Yeah. We couldn't play a full drum kit sitting down, so we just had we stood up and played it, played a stand up kit. Yeah, and I say it was very much like a punk rock approach to it. It was very garage and quite rough and quite rough and ready. And that's how we liked it. You know, I love it. I love it. And how do people connect to you guys on your socials on the web. Get all your merch, check out all your tour deads, all that good stuff we've got On Instagram? We are Knights are EBB. It's just as simple as that Instagram. We have a web page nightsreebb dot com. I believe it nets redproduct dot com. Yeah, so you know all the usual social channels. Just look for nights or you'll find the official official stuff. When you're like eighty years old, one story, good or bad, you'll share about this whole musical experience. What would that be? Well, now you're asking, and some of them you can't really say, I know, right, but you know, I mean we were lucky enoughter tour with Depeche Mode on their Violator tour, and you pretty much any one of those nights just being part of that, that scene

9:31 and that time, you know, you were very aware that history was being made and something magical was happening. And on that tour we happened to meet Tony Hawk, who became a good friend of ours, and he invited us down to his house for a weekend to go surf and go skate. So that was that was kind of like a bucket list moment of hanging out for a whole weekend with Tony Hawk. Oh yeah, that's amazing. I love that. So I tell you something funny also about the speedway here. Yeah. So I live in South Florida, so I drive up here. Yeah. Last year, I have it with me again this year too. I went to Christine, who runs the media here. I'm like, I have my skateboard and my jeep, and do you think I'll lose my media pass if I go skate the speedway? She's like, yeah, I wouldn't do that. I'm like, okay, but then I brought it again this year.

10:24 I'm like, hmm, maybe I'll just like do it on the last day. I was gonna say, wait until we've done our set and I'll come and do it with you and if we get kicked out right exactly? Did you see that wall? Though? Like what you see on TV. It doesn't look like that at all. I said to my friend this Whey, I'm like, you know what, I'll probably break my arm, but it'll be worth it. Oh. So is there anything else you want to share with the listeners. We haven't covered alray that they need to know about what's going on with you now and coming up. No, I mean just that we're happy to be here. We've had it a few sort of personality personnel shake cups in the last thing, so this is why Daniel has come in to help us perform. So yeah, it shows a little bit different from traditional, but we've been doing a bunch of them around the US and around Europe now and it's going over well and we're enjoying it. The crowd's enjoying it. So yeah, I would just say come along and have a good time. Really you're taking over to us by storm, aren't you.

11:24 Yeah, exactly. I love it. Well you are to talk of Rockville. So glad you're here all right. Thanks for being on the Adventures of pipe Man. Thanks for having us so. Hello. I'm Bon Harris, I'm Daniel Moira, and we are Nights arep and you're listening to the pipemin on W four c Y Radio. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipeline on w fur c u I Radio.