Diagonals at Alamo's Music Monday, May 7th

This monday we'll be playing before the movie "We Were Never here: A Film About Mutter " at the Alamo Drafthouse downtown. The movie starts at 9:45, so we'll probably be going on around nine. This will be one of our last few shows for a while as we're losing our guitarist Michael to some rinky-dink art school in New York called "Columbia University". I guess he must have drawn one of those turtles or pirates on the back of a book of matches really well.

Music Monday: We Were Never Here Showing at the Downtown Drafthouse on Monday May 7th at 9.45pm

WITH DIAGONALS PLAYING LIVE BEFORE THE MOVIE!

US PREMIERE!

The German avant-rock band MUTTER is virtually unknown in the US, and may in fact only spark recognition in those familiar with the transgressive horror films of Jorg Buttgereit (NEKROMANTIK), whose 1993 film SCHRAMM involved the collaboration of MUTTER frontman Max Muller as composer and drummer Florian Koerner Von Gustorf as the title character (a delusional serial killer who hallucinates and has sex with a blow-up female torso). Made up of longtime vets from the German art-rock scene, most notably from bands like HONKAS and CAMPING SEX, MUTTER's often slow, heavy, brutish sound is undercut and refracted by self-mockery and humour - the latter of which makes them unique among their contemporaries. Mixing tour footage, interviews, and private super 8 films, the documentary takes us back to the Berlin of the 80s and early 90s.