From August, 2014

Introducing One Spark Berlin Music Creators: Nature In The City

If you have checked out the music creator section at One Spark Berlin website yet you couldn’t have missed these guys from Berlin. Nature In The City are one of my favourites among the 10 music projects that will showcase at the festival at Platoon Kunsthalle on September 13. I talked to NITC, who have just returned from their street gig tour through the far North of Germany… 50K MUSIC: Who are Nature in the City? Please tell us a bit about the band. NITC: We met for the first time in Boston, a couple of years back, where we…

Grandpa’s Cough Medicine: “I Wouldn’t Call It Luck. More Like Our Hard Work Paying Off”

Grandpa’s Cough Medicine have been the music category winners at One Spark in Jacksonville this year. I talked to Brett Bass about their One Spark experience and what they’d recommend One Spark Berlin participators … 50K MUSIC: Grandpa’s Cough Medicine is a quite unusual name for a band? Who had the idea and where does it come from? Brett: It was my idea, I started the band. My grandpa used to give me whiskey, honey and lemon if I got sick as a child before bed, wrapping me in blankets to make me “sweat it out”. I thought it would…

Dave Kerzner: “Once Music Is Written And Recorded It Lives On”

Dave Kerzner’s “New World” album project is in the final spurt phase – still 3 days for you to back his upcoming Prog Rock album. I talked to him about the time after leaving Sound of Contact, the Kickstarter experience and his further plans … 50K MUSIC: How have you been since you left Sound of Contact earlier this year? What have you been busy with? Dave: Overall, I’d say I’ve been great. Thanks! As you might imagine, it wasn’t easy seeing the band touring and performing those songs without me. It definitely felt weird. Songs are like your babies…