Slut
Albertplatz, 2008
We are still wondering what “Knicki-Knacki” at the end of the video to “Still No 1” means. Maybe it is a special Bavarian term for enjoying something. Or maybe it is some sort of insider joke within the band. We don’t know. What we know is that the five guys from Ingolstadt, Bavaria, are one of the few German bands that have survived more than ten years in the indie-rock business. Over the years they made quite heterogeneous records, for example 2001’s more electronic-influenced “Lookbook”. Though, they left the classic pop way in 2004 after five increasingly successful albums and started working at the Ingolstadt Theatre, where Slut were responsible for the music of Bertolt Brecht’s “Threepenny Opera”, originally composed by Kurt Weill. They wanted to release their contribution to the opera as a record as well, but due to legal problems weren’t allowed to. 2008 is the year of their comeback to the pop-music stage.
- Photography
- Simon Brugner
- Artist
- Slut
Albertplatz
Not far away from the busy nightlife along the Gürtel, Albertplatz is a small square in Josefstadt, the 8th district of Vienna, which is one of only two districts governed by the Green Party (the other one is its neighbour Neubau). Most of the houses around Albertplatz were destroyed in the Second World War, but the 1812-built Graberschlössel (No 8, watch out for it in the Slut video), a former court house, gives an impression of what the square looked like before. In 1833/34 the Isisbrunnen (Isis Fountain) was erected in front of the court house to celebrate the construction of Vienna’s very first water conduit. Albertplatz is named after Albert Kasimir von Sachsen-Teschen, who was Duke of Teschen (Poland) in the late 18th, early 19th century and co-founder of the Albertina, one of Vienna’s most famous museums.