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Today’s feature is another tune that appeared on that wonderful netlabel, Comfort Stand. Truth to tell, the majority of Messer Chups discography does not carry a Creative Commons license, but they have placed a handful of tunes in the Commons. Devil Exit From Fashion is the B-side of a Comfort Stand Swinging Single (csr501). It comes from the Band’s “Vamp Babes Upgrade” 2004 sessions, but was never released on the Solnze record that resulted from the session.
The focus of the band has been Oleg Gitarkin from St. Petersburg in the Russian Federation. The Messer Chups’ website describes the genesis of the band:
It’s a paradox, but from the very beginning Oleg Gitarkin felt himself squeezed, framed in “Messer fur Frau Muller”, which he founded and managed within 10 years, and in 1998, like an alternative, he created “MFFM”, new project “Messer Chups”. First material, which was recorded together with Slava Amigo, did not go further, then the ears of the close friends, although it gained some interest. In the spring of 1998, promouter-girl from Hamburg Anette Schneider is arriving to Saint-Pete and expresses the wish to meet the musicians from “Messer Fur Frau Muller” personally, the tracks of this group she heard many times in Hamburg clubs, - so she gets acquainted with Oleg Gitarkin. In September,1998 Anette Schneider joins “Nozhik Chups” in Hamburg, and the name varies with German “Messer Chups”.
Over time the line-up has varied and currently Messer Chups is touring as a duo consisting of Gitarkin on guitar and Zombie Girl on bass guitar. According to the band’s Myspace page, Gitarkin is “a connoisseur of trashy esoterica, equally well versed in Italian horror flicks of the 60s and 70s, Roger Corman, Ed Wood and Russ Meyer as well as Nino Ferrera, Davie Allen and Larry Clinton.” You can’t miss those influences in Messer Chups’ music.
They tour Europe extensively and make the occasional trip to North America. They also have some swell video work available on YouTube.com. If you are in Marseille, France this evening (June 23) you can find Messer Chups at Poste a Galene.
Messer Chups-Devil Exit From Fashion (2:57)
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I love Messer Chups!! Another EXCELLENT choice Biotic. I am looking forward to beginning my week of posting tomorrow, but boy, do I have a hard act to follow.