2:39PM Jess McGuire | Screw the White Stripes! German brother and sister duo Astrid and Otto Rot from Die Roten Punkte are one of my favourite musical couples. A lot of this is due to the fact that they sent me a badge back in 2005 which says “I’m in a band!” and I still wear it to this day. But also, their last album was both hilarious and rockin’ – so I’m very excited to learn they’re playing during the Melbourne Fringe Festival!
Berliner’s Otto and Astrid Rot are back in town to celebrate the local release of their acclaimed “Super Musikant” CD – a ten-track high-energy feast of rock, studded with rich veins of roll. The Teutonic twosome are hungry to back up the hype by ripping through a brace of their sparkling pop-punk anthems live.
From “Rock n’ ‘Roll Monster” to “Ich Bin Nicht Ein Roboter (I Am A Lion)” to the chilling “The 4:15 To Spandau Will Not Run Today”, the Best Band In The World are in rare form and they want to push their rock in you. What are you waiting for? Rock Bang!
As I said, they’re touring in October for the Melbourne Fringe Festival. I asked them for some bloody good reasons Defamer Australia readers should bother handing over money to watch them do their “thang”, and here are their answers.
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