Welcome to the new Herr Fische site

As you know, we have returned from an unbearably long hiatus. Now that we're back, we thought it would be useful to get the old site back up and running again. So you'll find everything to do with us here in one handy site. We'll try and keep it up to date this time. So without further ado, navigate away!!!


Latest News

On Tour in USA and Canada



Tour Dates and Appearances

All Dates for the proposed January Tour were cancelled due to unforseen circumstances. All ticket holders may keep the tickets as dates are being rescheduled or you can return ticket and receive a full refund plus 10% of ticket price cos we fucked you around again!!.

The new dates have now been confirmed. These will take place in March 2010. See below.

Herr Fische U.K Tour MkII: March 2010

10th: The Borough Hall, Hartlepool
11th: 02 Academy, Newcastle Upon Tyne
12th: SECC, Glasgow
13th: Corn Exchange, Edinburgh
15th: Hallam Arena, Sheffield
16th: The Apollo, Manchester
17th: Echo Arena, Liverpool
19th: The Odyssey, Belfast
21st: Milkwoodjam, Swansea
22nd: The Globe, Cardiff
23rd: 02 Academy, Birmingham
24th: Extra Date Added: Trent Arena, Nottingham
25th: De Montfort Hall, Leicester
26th: The Academy, Brixton, London

N.B. Tickets are available for the extra date added in Nottingham. Please go to Nottingham Trent Arena box office to buy. There are a few extra tickets for all other dates. Get em quick (if you want to see us that is!!)

We've been announced as one of the acts taking part in Midsummer Mashfest at Fromefield, Frome, UK. 18th, 19th, 20th June. Not sure what date yet but we'll have to see

New American and Canadian Dates announced. Tickets on sale now

Herr Fische USA/Canada Tour February/March 2010

February
10th: The Apollo Theater- New York City, New York
11th: The Apollo Theater- New York City, New York
12th: Avalon- Boston, Massachusetts
13th: The Filmore- Detroit, Michigan
15th: Howl At The Moon- Chicago, Illinois
17th: Conduit Music Club- Newark, New Jersey
18th: Rock And Roll Hotel- Washington D.C
20th: Amway Arena, Orlando- Florida
22nd: Hookah Cafe- New Orleans- Louisiana
23rd: Logan's Rock Bar- San Antonio, Texas
24th: The Launchpad- Albuquerque, New Mexico
25th: The Roxy Theater- Los Angeles, California
27th: House of Blues- Las Vegas, Nevada
28th: Crocodile Cafe- Seattle, Washington

March
1st: The Greedy Pig, Vancouver, British Columbia
2nd: The Marquee Room- Calgary, Alberta
3rd: The Fox and Fiddle- Toronto, Ontario



The Back Catalogue (Albums only)

Here's our back catalogue. It includes albums released in the previous incarnation of TRSG.

Transparent Songs


Freak Out


Rat Race


Transparent Songs 2.0


Contemplation


Dark Night


The Grand Society Presents: On A Pedestal (Featuring Waterlelie and The Theosophical Society)


Social Club


The Sleepy America EP


Behemoth


Zebra



Rogues Gallery

Kii Kii Lii- Lead Guitars, Background Vocals
Chris Fisher- Vocals, Keyboards, Piano

Paul 'Foetus' Fisher- Keyboards, Synthesizers, Theramin, Samples and Thomas 'TomTom' Thompson- Rythym Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Background Vocals
Brenda Hatch- Drums, Drum Machines, Bongos
Helga 'Frau' Borgen- Bass, Acoustic Bass

Mr Unknown- Multi Instrumentalist, Vocals, Dance and Suki Steinberger- Violins, Multi Instrumentalist, Background Vocals

Thank you for your patience. Our IT monkies are very slow in updating.

Many Thanks from all here at Herr Fische

Edited by user 22 February 2010 19:12:17(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

New Single!!!

How Do,

This may come as shock (or not!) but we have managed to record a new single. The single is called Four Crows and we intend to release this in a weeks time. The single is very prog rock (think of The Wall by Pink Floyd and that's the kind of sound it is!)and is based around an epithany I had during the hiatus. I was sat in some random park in Berlin, feeling very isolated and paranoid. I was thinking about my future and what to do with the band when I noticed a flock of crows hovering around overhead. They all landed on the ground nearby and to me it seemed that they were staring right at me. I was self medicating at the time and I thought that they were coming to get me. I managed to get home somehow, scared shitless and bolted myself in my room. After I had calmed down, I suddenly related the crows to the way I was destroying the band and it's reputation with my megalomania and egomania. It seemed that the crows were a warning that if I destroy the band then i've effectively ended my life. This experience really shook me up and eventually managed to clear my mind. It took months but eventually I was reunited with my brother Foetus and Kii Kii Lii. We managed to have some group therapy to get back on track and the rest they say is history. So now we've got a single ready to go. Here's the artwork and track listing. Sorry to babble on about shit but I thought it would be useful to know some background from whence it came. We've included 2 new songs and a remix of one of our older songs. So Enjoy.

Many Thanks
Herr Fische

Track Listing

Track 1- Four Crows
Track 2- Pushed
Track 3- Happy New Face (Megalomaniac Mix)

Wow. Honestly cannot wait! You guys have always been one of my favourite bands and you always put out great music. Touring with you is kinda like a dream come true for me, too haha.

-Andy [The Waiting Game]

We have finalised our Greatest Hits Collection and can reveal the details. It will be released on April 1st to coincide with our UK Mini Tour which starts on the same day. The collection will feature a 2 disc collection of our most loved studio recordings and a Live DVD (Our first ever, recorded at The Studio, Hartlepool during the Social Club World Tour!!). As well as our most loved songs being played live in visual format, the DVD will feature performances from our little performing monkies, The Herr Fische Dance Troupe and also features footage of our favourite ever Dance Off Competition. We hope you enjoy this collection. Details Below. We now will procede with The New Era. Artwork will follow once finalised.

Disc 1
Acid Woman
Donna Kebab
Sleepy America
Kick Me
Glorious Buzz
Asking Abraham Part 1
Almost Jesus
Asking Abraham Part 2
The Horrific Song
Boom Box
Acid Woman (Bad Headache Mix)

Disc 2
Happy New Face
Rat Race
The Shape of Things to Come
Waiting For God
What Have You Done?
Fred Elliot
Contemplation
Munchausens(Featuring The Theosophical Society and Waterlelie)
This Black Hole of a Life (Featuring The Theosophical Society)
Four Crows
Funky Shit
Donna Kebab (Elektro Remix)

DVD: Herr Fische Live

The Horrific Song
Almost Jesus
Happy New Face
Donna Kebab
Fred Elliot
Hit'N'Run (Featuring The Herr Fische Dance Troupe)
Asking Abraham Part 1
Waiting For God
Asking Abraham Part 2

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Acid Woman
Munchausens
Kick Me
Micky Fisher Ate My Socks
Funky Shit/Boom Box

Encore
Thriller (Michael Jackson Cover Featuring Herr Fische Dance Troupe)
Heart Of Glass (Featuring Emma Blunt, Kii Kii Lii on Vocals)
Acid Woman (Reprise)


Now Enjoy!!!

How Do,

Sorry we're late in posting an update but as you know we are busy on tour right now. Here is the review/description of our show from Rock N Roll Underground, New Jersey, USA.

The lights went down as the opening bars of Greig's 'Hall of the Mountain King' (aka the Alton Towers theme!!) booms out over the PA. The stage is littered with a whole host of instruments and a huge video screen as the band, dressed in some rather fetching sparkly spandex outfits, take to the stage. This is only the bands second performance since their return and their first full show. "Good Evening New Jersey" booms vocalist Herr Fische in his broad North Eastern accent as he stands in front of one of 3 trees that appear on stage. "We are Herr Fische, it's good to be back. Here's the first song!!" The band launch into a new version of their classic 'Acid Woman' before it morphed into their latest single 'Four Crows'. The band are on top form tonight, drawing mainly from their extensive back catalougue which the band have dubbed the 'Old Era'. The band also brought along their own dance troupe who gave an energetic performance during the songs 'What Have You Done?' and 'The Shape of Things to Come "How about a new song?" asked keyboardist Foetus as he hung monkey style from one of the afformentioned trees. "This is a new song called 'Odds and Evens'. The crowd reacted well to the song, featuring a full size church organ which the band have named 'Olga', co-incidently the name of the next new song that they played. The new songs were quite heavily prog rock influenced with a hint of psychadelia thrown into the mix. Around half way through the show, sexy guitarist Kii Kii Lii took to the mike. "We're getting lonely up here. I think you know what time it is!!!" The band launched their now infamous dance off competition. Over 200 people gave the security a heard time as they rushed to the stage to party. The competition was won by a guy named Jez from New York. After the stage was cleared of people, the band performed their famous cover versions, this time going with a performance of 'Beat It' by Michael Jackson and featured the HF Dance Troupe and a blistering guitar solo from usually rythym guitarist TomTom and Blondie's Call Me before finishing with a stomping drum and bass influenced mashup of their songs Funky Shit and Boombox. "Thank You America, we'll be back soon.!!! An amazing show for an amazing band.

Set List
Acid Woman (Bad Headache Mix)
Four Crows
Hit 'N' Run
Donna Kebab
Asking Abraham Part 1
Almost Jesus
Asking Abraham Part 2
What Have You Done? (Ft HF Dance Troupe)
The Shape of Things to Come (Ft HF Dance Troupe)
Odds and Evens (New Song)
Olga (New Song)

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Dance Of Competition

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Beat It (Cover Version- Ft HF Dance Troupe, TomTom Guitar Solo)
Call Me (Cover Version- Kii Kii Lii on Vocals)
Funky Shit/Boombox


As you know we are on tour in the UK at the moment and to say I am knackered is an understatement. I should have booked at least a days break between Rock N Roll Underground in New Jersey and the start of our Mini Tour back home in the UK. Anyhoo, here's the show in hour hometown of Hartlepool from yesterday (1/4/09)

The lights went down as the opening bars of Greig's 'Hall of the Mountain King' (aka the Alton Towers theme!!) booms out over the PA as it did yesterday in New Jersey. The stage is again littered with the usual instruments and stage props that you would expect at a Herr Fische gig. "Hartlepool, we're baaaaaaack!!!" boomed the usually silent multi instrumentalist Mr Unknown as the band open with a stomping version of Acid Woman which get's the small intimate crowd of 500 moving. After playing another 2 songs, vocalist Herr Fische speaks to the crowd. "How are you all doing? (*crowd cheers). It's been a long time since we played here I tell ye. It feels weird being back onstage in our hometown (*crowd cheers). Anyways enough of the sentiments and on with the show. We're gonna play a song now which was o the contemplation album. We liked this song and no doubt you guys did. However, we did feel it needed that little bit extra. So we called our friends in the Theosophical Society (*crowd cheers again) who created this version. Here it is. This is 'Waiting For God'". After the song the lights went down as vocalist Herr Fische thanked the crowd stating "Good Night". The lights came back up and the crowd looked baffled. After about two minutes of angry chatter among the fans, a message flashed up on screen stating 'April Fool'. The band returned to the stage with a frantic version of The Horrific song from their last album Social Club. The band continued with the show, showcasing new songs Odds and Evens, Serving Suggestions and Olga, performances from the Herr Fische Dance Troupe and of course having one of their infamous dance offs and playing their cover versions. During the encore, guitarist Kii Kii Lii took to the mike. "I'd like to welcome onstage a good fiend of mine who recorded our version of this song a few years back. Please welcome the wonderful Miss Emma Blunt (* Crowd cheers). This is our version of Blondie's 'Heart of Glass'". The band then finished the night with the wonderfully excentric 'Sleepy America' and their famous mashup of Funky Shit/Boombox. "Thank you for believing in us Hartlepool. We'll be back soon we promise!!"

Set List
Acid Woman
Happy New Face
Contemplation
Wating For God (Theosophical Society Version)

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April Fool Message

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The Horrific Song
Four Crows (Featuring HF Dance Troupe)
Munchausens
Fred Elliot
Kick Me
Donna Kebab (Elecktro Remix)
Odds and Evens (New Song)
Serving Suggestions (New Song)

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Dance Off Competition

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Thriller (Cover Version Ft HF Dance Troupe)
Asking Abraham Part 1
Olga (New Song)
Asking Abraham Pt2

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Encore

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Heart Of Glass (Cover Version Ft Emma Blunt, Kii Kii Lii on Vocals)
Sleepy America
Funky Shit/Boombox
Acid Woman (Reprise)

Update

How Do,

TomTom, our rythym guitar god has been taken into hospital after contracting a mystery illness recently. Unfortunately we haven't the slightest idea what has happened and doctors won't tell us as we're 'not immediate family'. However, TomTom's brother did hint to us last night that there may be another problem with his heart. TomTom has had issues in the past and missed a substantial part of our last word tour in September last year, suffering a heart attack after a show in Berlin. As a result of this unfortunate turn of events, we have ceased recording any new material until he is better and has been given the all clear by doctors. We wish him a speedy recovery.

We again would like to apologise for the seemingly endless delays in the recording of the album. It has been an uphill struggle since day one with my own mental health issues, getting us lot to talk to each other again and now TomTom's health.Things have not been easy and we are still not even remotely how we used to be no matter how we've tried to gloss it over in recent updates and on tour. However, we are working on it. Well most of us are. Foetus and I are still locking horns over certain aspects and I am not happy at the amount of time he has devoted to his side project 'Little Bastard' recently. Instead of working with the rest of us, he has been choosing to put more effort and creativity into his own music, thus further delaying the completion of the next Herr Fische album. Who knows? Maybe the album will never be released. It must be cursed. Shit happens. So in the mean time, Foetus will probably abandon us with the whole side project thing but hopefully the rest of us will keep working and practicing.

Again, apologies and a speedy recovery to Comrade TomTom
Herr Fische

Wow. I know it's hard to go through - original owner Kirsty Cruz-Bishop, former K.I.C.K.A.R.S.E. girl Kaeli van Mouschi, Nick of Lunatica and myself have been sectioned so many times that DBM has a contract with a mental health unit in London. (I'm not joking. Dark Blue is like, madness management.)
All the best and hope that both Herr Fische the lead and Herr Fische the band manage to pull together.
See you on the Madcore Tour Kii Kii!
-Rayne Berry.

Edited by user 01 June 2009 01:48:51(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Thank You very much for the support guys. Apologies for his behaviour when you were last in the studio with us. We had no idea what was going on either!!!

Chris (he has insisted that we call him Chris now instead of Herr Fische!!) is doing fine at the moment. He's been sectioned for a 6 month period after which there will be a review and if he's ok he'll be released. In the mean time, we will complete our album and get touring again. We are all feeling relieved that Chris is finally getting help and we are now not in the dark as to what was happening. Our new album is kind of a labour of love for Chris. It's been a hell of a journey to say the least. Chris may perform at some of our upcoming gigs but it all depends on the doctors and his careworker allowing it and also his behaviour. Foetus will take the vocals on concerts where he is unable to perform.

We hope to see you all again soon. GET WELL SOON CHRIS!!!

How Do Fans (If we have any left)

Two pieces of good news from the Herr Fische camp. First off, we have finally completed the recording of our new album. This has been the most difficult album we have ever had to work on and the toll and strain that it has taken on us all has been inmense. When the 'behemoth' as we have christened it is released to say we will be ecstatic is an understatement. We are toying with the idea of actually calling the album Behemoth. We think it's pretty apt. We would like to thank The Theosophical Society collective for their continued support. Langdon and Daniel are geniuses. Without their help, I think we all would have ended up in The Priory with Chris.

Anyhoo, the album has a general Progressive feel with a hint of classical. We wanted the album to sound bleak and desolate and make the listener feel isolated during the first half of the album. We wanted the listener to imagine as though they were miles away from civilisation. We used quite a lot of ambient sounds and a string quartet. For the last half of the album we decided to transport the listener back into our busy and wild civilisation with full orchestras and heavy guitars courtesy of Kii Kii and TomTom. We also used our trusty Olga the Organ to full effect. We wanted the listener to convey they feeling that they have returned to civilisation after being away in the wilderness for years and years. We hope you enjoy the album. We really do thank you guys for the support, patience and endurance in waiting for this album.

The 2nd Piece of good news is that Chris is being released from The Priory next week (28/07/09). We are glad that he has managed to beat his demons and will be rejoining us again. We are so happy for him. So much so that we are going to play a gig to celebrate his recovery. We will let you know the details as we may make it a charity gig. We haven't done one of those in a while now.

More details will follow during the week as to the album artwork/tracklisting.

We hope to tour soon. There are plans afoot to tour with The Theosophical Society but this is in it's infancy and may not happen yet!!!
If that doesn't happen then we will tour on our own as normal.

Thank You Again for your patience and support Commrades. We really appreciate it.

Paul 'Foetus' Fisher and Kii Kii Lii
(4 legs of Herr Fische)

Edited by user 02 August 2009 23:19:48(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

The Priory Clinic? Don't they have enough money as it is? If "Lord" Chai Patel can afford a peerage, surely his good-for-nothing "clinics" don't need donations? Rayne, Nick and I have all been in there and know that the money would go straight into starting up more places, not improving the current ones. If you start up a benefit concert to shut the Priory down, you've got the whole of DBM (Moronic Changeling, Madbirds, Rayne, Raven, Bikki, Chris, Firecracker 47, and In The Cold You Look So Fierce) in on it!
-Bikki

OOC : I've been in two Priory clinics. I hate the company with all my being - they employ ANYONE (the staff don't know what they're doing, they might as well work at Maccy D's) and most end up worse off when they get out than when they go in. I did, and a lot of my friends there did. And yes, the owner of the company did buy a peerage.

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