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.... and Punkmusic is still alive for sure! Proved by bands like the Toydolls, the UK.Subs and the Exploited live on stage during the past year, so Peter & his Test Tube Babies underline this fact one more time. And be honest, with bands like "Green Day" the future and next generation of punk is secured, even maybe in a bit more commercial way. However, with Peter & The Test Tube Babies we got once again an english group from the late seventies, who came along with the Sex Pistols etc. But compared with the cultlegend Pistols, the Test Tube Babies are still very much alive. Jes.... once again I find it very impressing, how different a character of a punkmusician can be, compared from the off stage - normal average guy to the - on stage - animal. Peter is one of them, who still seems younger than he actually is and doesn't draw too much attention concerning his normal guy - look. But be careful when he shoots off on stage - raw and pure. The punker heart is exploding and the rebellion soul is on fire, - so much, that Robbespierres and his french revolution (1789 - 1799) seems like a fairytale, compared with this.

The walls are shaking and the old punk heart is delighted. Nice to watch all the fans, not only the ones left over from the past, but also these youngsters, who are inspired from Green Day, and now wanna explore the roots of this kinda music. And exactly this is the guarantee, that punk will never be forgotten or even dies.
Also from the very beginning with the Test Tubes, there is guitarist Derek Greening, who is, what it's said, the most english of all guitarists. He and Peter Bywaters are the solid foundation of the group and kept the bond together. A new record was released recently, the first one for seven years, named: "A Foot Full Of Bullets". Beeing sure, that this is the best, they've ever produced, the setlist includes six new tracks. Otherwise the slogan still is: "Elvis Is Dead", performed with all the anger and heart and soul you can get within the punk attitude.

Yep, we got the message once again, including two encores and loud demands for even more. And with Peter's message, - we’ll be back again soon, and we promise, it won't take another seven years 'till the next album, the hope is increasing for a colourful future, and the fact, that punk is eternal - forever - amen!

Winter and Snow - it's pretty, as everybody knows. But not tons of white foam, which is spread over our heads during the first song. Yeah, true, it got something to be honest and impresses the aprox. 1.500 fans. Only one person is suffering, and that's me, trying desperately to save my baby from the white death. Then as everybody knows, nothing is worse for digital cameras than every kind of dampness and wet. And I wanna take some more shots in the future. So I battle up there in the front on my own in the photopit against the white liquid to the suitable song "Schneekönigin" (snow queen). So this first track I need the time completely to save the camera, but I got the time of two more songs. And I get another 100 shots of the band. The slogan once again is - back to the future from the ancient middle age time. This german band Subway To Sally are going this way for quite a few years now. And the trend is more popular than ever before. Though I'm not quite sure where I am right now, because of at least 3 frontrows of screaming teenie girls, who squash each other almost to death. I haven't experienced that many fainting fans for a long time and I stop counting them at no. 21. The question - why will never get an answer. Because Subway To Sally ain't no boyband or anything like that. And there's even a female in the group named Frau Schmitt. Whether they are attractive or not, it doesn't matter anyway. The strategy to combine german lyrics and rockmusic and play it with old fashioned instruments, at least a few of them are so, is their way for many years now.
They actually belong to the first ever artists to play this kinda music. However, the program leads us through the whole catalogue of their songs and includes tracks like: Feuerland , Knochenschiff Kleid aus Rosen , Liebeszauber , Die Schlacht , Unsterblich , Eisblumen , Maria , Traum vom Tod 2 , Mephisto , Henkersbraut , Haughs o cromdale , Lacrimae 74 , Feuerkind , Rätsel II , Sag dem Teufel , Ohne Liebe , Veitstanz , Hexe , Falscher Heiland , Sieben , Julia und die Räuber , Seemannslied etc.... Fans know, what I'm talking about.