How Do Commrades,

We have had our extended summer break and now we're back. We have decided to record a new album for you guys. As a unit we've been taking our time releasing albums and touring. This is to ensure that we don't try to kill each other again. Actually we haven't had a big tour since the Social Club tour last year. We were going to tour and play a few shows in support of our latest album Behemoth but for some reason that plan fell through (Mick Fisher you bastard!!!). Anyhoo, we have returned to the studio and plan to release it soon. It's far easier being together again in the studio this time around and we've got quite a few songs written and some arrangements sorted. The general feel to the album is more akin to our 2nd ever album Freak Out but we have also hired the Northern Symphonia Orchestra who may also tour with us. The orchestra are absolutely mindblowing and have recorded a wonderful version of In The Hall Of The Mountain King by Grieg for us. We may add some of our own magic to it!!!. Kii Kii and and Tom have been working on some amazing guitar riffs and solos and Foetus, Mr Unknown, Hetti and Helga have been keeping busy in the rythym section. We'll keep you updated. Well it's back to work.

See you all soon from all here in Herr Fische

How Do Comrades or anybody who gives a shit nowadays,

It's been a long time coming (again!) but we've finished recording a new album for you to enjoy. The album is called Zebra and features our friends from the Northern Symphonia Orchestra who have been wonderful to work with. We have thoroughly enjoyed making this album and it now seems that we've at last put all the shit from the last couple of years behind us. It's been very therapeutic and a damn sight better than the supposed 'therapy' i'm receiving now from qualified doctors. Anyhoo, the album is currently being mixed and will be released very shortly. However, we aren't sure if we have a record deal. We know we had talks with Midnight/Mythic but can't remember signing or anything. We've got no paperwork either since the great Theosophical Society studio fire (which Kii Kii's cat Ruffles caused!). So anyone out there interested please give us a bell. Back to the main point of this update, Zebra is I think our finest work. The guys in the orchestra are genius' and really got involved in the chaos and lunacy involved in making a Herr Fische record (We had a real Zebra brought to the studio recently which didn't help in the slightest but at least it was a talking point and got ideas flowing strangely!!). This inspired us all to come up with our best work. There are some truly awesome bass riffs from Helga and some fantastic string wankery from Tony Johnson who plays Cello and Double Bass in the Northern Symphonia Orchestra. Their bass duel in the song Little Green Man is bone shaking. Tom and Kii Kii have came up with some beautiful guitar licks which blend well with the Violins and also the full might of the orchestra. It's really powerful stuff. Enough of the gay banter anyway. I'm not a salesman. It's up to you if you want to listen to it. I'd much prefer it if you all did 'cos then it won't be a waste of great musicians and our time (Jesus I sound cocky today!!). Now onto other business. You may remember we played at Hell Night Festival a few weeks back. We have decided to disclose some pictures of the performance. Not all members are featured in the photos but it does feature me in a giant hamster ball!!. See below. Speaking of live, tour business. We have signed a contract to say we will tour this new record before embarking on another musical journey or project. This is legally binding and was witnessed by 2 lawyers and a judge when all 8 of us signed it. We will be bringing our performing monkies the Herr Fische Dance Troupe and we are proud to announce that the Northern Symphonia Orchestra have agreed to join us on tour. You can count on us that you will have a good time. Anyhoo the artwork and tracklisting will be revealed in the ext day or two. So for now enjoy the pictures and we'll see you soon.

Chris Fisher
(1 head of Herr Fische)

Chris in 'The Ball' and crowd

Tom mid riff

Helga slapping Bass

I have to say that the album was stunning. A true beauty. And the first album of yours in a long, long time that we did not work together on! This break from the scene has really been good to me, and I'm glad to see it has brought you some new directions to explore as well. I keep wanting to say that the album isn't really grabbing me as much as some of the older ones, because I don't feel that it is, but I keep listening to it. I imagine that it will unfold in time, as I really just can't convince myself to take it out of my car stereo. I really love how the orchestral work allowed you to write more subtle tunes. It's a beautiful album.

On another note, it would be cool if we were to meet up and jam again. I've been out of the business for a while, taking some much needed time off from constantly writing and recording, and I'm feeling the itch again.

- Langdon

1. Welcome back! (:
2. There are eight of you .... where did the other two legs come from? :P
-Katie.

No idea. I've always been crap at Maths. Sorry!!!

Kii Kii Lii

How do,

An update for you all. We have managed to reschedule our tour quicker than expected. The tour will now take place in March. As we mentioned in previous posts, all tickets for the original tour are valid or a full refund plus 10% of ticket fee will be given. We really cannot wait to get back on the road. It's been a while. The rescheduled dates are below and in main Tour Dates section on Page 1 of the site. As you would expect from us, we will be bringing our own brand of madness to various places around the UK. We are bringing along our friends from the Northern Symphonia Orchestra and our little performing Monkies, the Herr Fische Dance Troupe will be on hand to perform something that'll no doubt be weird even by our standards. We cannot wait to let the craziness begin again. We will be performing songs from our latest work 'Zebra' as well as some refined versions of our old era stuff. We have invited our friends in Enoch to join us on tour. Hopefully they will join us as it's been a while. There's talk of working with Enoch/Sudan and The Theosophical Society again in the near future on Mk II of The Grand Society. We really hope that this does take place as we've been itching to work with our old friends Daniel and Langdon for ages. It felt really strange recording 'Zebra' with little or no input from at least one of the guys. Anyhoo i'm rambling on now. If anyone would like to to join us on tour in support, then please feel free to pm us or reply on this site. The rescheduled dates and venues are below. We hope to get back over to the U.S.A and tour soon.

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: Trent Arena, Nottingham
25th: De Montfort Hall, Leicester
26th: The Academy, Brixton, London

Thank you

Chris Fisher

Jason: Really excited to be touring with you guys. It's gonna rock!

Update

How do

We've been pretty busy these last few days catching up with our old friends in the Theosophical Society and starting work on our next musical adventure. We've got quite a lot done these last few days on which we can work our magic. Just need to write and tweak a fare bit more for the project. We'll announce our next project soon. Anyhoo to the current.

We're gonna play a few shows in the USA and Canada!! That's right we're returning to the good old USA at long last for a whistlestop tour starting 10th February. Then we'll head to Canada for a couple of shows here and there then it's back to work before the U.K tour begins in March. The dates and venues are below. If anyone would like to support the USA/Canada message us here or PM us. Just realised we should have announced the American dates first but fuck it we're weird!

We've also been added to the bill for Midsummer Mashfest. Joining us so far are some brilliant bands such as Moronic Changeling, Transferium Project, Jakey Comatose, The Nimrods and Quarantine. As was pointed out to us by Katie Kairiri we're one of only 3 bands who have played at every Mashfest. That's quite an achievement and it would be weird if we didn't play.

Here are the tour dates:

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

Anyhoo back to work now

Mr Unknown
(The unknown one from Herr Fische)

TOUR UPDATE

How Do,

Well we're finally on the road once again. It's taken a while but we can honestly say we are glad to be back. Anyhoo our tour got off to a flying start in New York on 10th and last night at The Apollo in New York City. The crowds were fucking amazing as always and we hope we gave em all a good time. We had a few issues before the show. Apparently we aren't allowed to bring live animals onstage anymore. We originally wanted to bring a couple of Zebra's on tour with us to fit with the title of our current album. However, we had to make a couple of stuffed Zebras instead. We took to the stage on both nights to the tune of Grieg's In The Hall Of The Mountain King which was performed by our friends in the Northern Symphonia Orchestra. We actually arrived on the backs of the stuffed Zebras much to the bemusement of our fans. We started the tour with 'Zebra'. I actually remained on the back of one of the afforementioned Zebras for the song. I must say the crowd have never been so enthusiastic for our shows (hopefully that didn't sound too arrogant!). During the show we played songs from our latest album such as our latest single River Song and Little Green Man. During Little Green Man, our little performing monkies the Herr Fische Dance Troupe performed a trapeze act wearing alien masks and dressed in zebra print outfits. We also performed songs from our last album Behemoth featuring the Northern Symphonia Orchestra as well as some Herr Fische old era stuff. As a treat to the fans, I decided to give the hamster ball an airing during a really old favourite of ours Where The Wild Things Are and kind of rolled over the crowd. It's bloody hard trying to walk on hundreds of pairs of hands but its good fun! While I was still being passed around the crowd like a giant beach ball, the rest of the guys held our dance off competition. The security were for once happy to allow a few people onstage rather than attempting to stop everyone and from what I could see it looked like good fun!! The winners were a lucky young lady named Jennifer on Wednesday evening and Lenny on Thursdaay evening who received $300 and backstage passes for themselves and their mates. Kii Kii finished off the evening with her version of Call Me by Blondie by climbing one of the stuffed Zebras and riding around the stage (Foetus rode around the stage all night whilst playing keyboards). We had a fucking amazing time onstage and had a wild aftershow party with Jennifer and her mates Timmy and Maria on Wednesday night and Lenny and Laura on Thursday night. We hope the rest of the tour is like this. We are in Boston this evening and cannot wait to give the Massachusetts fans a good show. We'll see you there.

Herr Fische

P.S Below is the set list from the New York Shows.

Set List 10/11th Feb 2010 Apollo Theater, New York

Intro- In the Hall of the Mountain King- Performed by the Northern Symphonia Orchestra

Zebra
Four Crows
Running With Scissors
Acid Woman (Bad Headache Mix)
Donna Kebab (Elektro Remix)
Little Green Man (Featuring Trapeze Act by Herr Fische Dance Troupe)
Happy New Face
Olga (Featuring 10 minute organ solo from Mr Unknown)
Blessed Art Thou
Almost Jesus
River Song
Making Bridges (Featuring Herr Fische Dance Troupe)
Waiting For God
Kick Me
Where The Wild Things Are (Featuring Chris' Hamster Ball Crowd Roll)

-----Dance Off Competition--------

Call Me (Blondie Cover, Kii Kii Lii on Vocals)
The Horrific Song
Arbez


The Northern Symphonia Orchestra played throughout the show because we're cultured!! We are glad to have them on tour with us!!

How do again,

So here we are again, another delayed update. Anyhoo we are still trekking around the USA with The Theosophical Society but we have reached the final port of call in the USA. Tonight we play at the Crocodile Club in the grunge capital Seattle, Washington and cannot wait. We've got a great sound planned for tonight. We are going to make our sound more heavy and grungy just because we can. We aren't sure that the fans would like this or not but we hope that they do!!. When we played at the Hookah Cafe in New Orleans 6 days ago, we decided to play in a bluesy style which we really enjoyed and the crowd seemed to enjoy it also. It's been a pretty busy couple of days. I've been helping out Langdon with riffs for a new album either with Sudan, Enoch or The Theosophical Society and Kii Kii has been spending like it was going out of fashion!!! I swear she has an addiction!! Foetus has been spending too. However, he has bough some new laptops and synthesizers which he plans to have set up asap. They weren't cheap though. We've been working on some new ideas for a new project which we hope to start working on once the tours are out of the way. Tom has come up with some awesome riffs and Mr Unknown has been tweaking things here and there to create some weird atmospheric sounds on Olga our organ. We've also had input from Daniel and Langdon from the Theosophical Society with piecing random snippits together. Thank you again guys. Anyhoo in terms of the tour, we've had a blast. We all got totally wrecked when we played in LA and Las Vegas. I forgot how fucking amazing it is in Hollywood. Can't remember what happened after about 2am but it must have been a good night. I woke up with the biggest hangover. As for Vegas, well lets just say a lot of money was squandered and not a lot was won. It was awesome though!! We've had a blast doing the shows too and as usual we've had our little dance offs and I crossed the crowds in my hamster ball!!! I'm thingking of weariing padding next time though cos i'm black and blue where i've been falling over inside the ball. Bloody hurts sometimes!! Anyhoo, tomorrow we will enter Canada for 3 shows before heading back to the U.K to prepare to tour with Mind from 10th March. Anyhoo, below is the set list which remained has remained unchanged since the New Orleans show. However, we have changed the set list for tonight and the canadian shows.

Bye for now

Chris
(1/8th of Herr Fische)


Set List 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 27th February 2010

Intro- In the Hall of the Mountain King by Northern Sinfonia Orchestra

Zebra
Acid Woman
Donna Kebab (Elektro Remix)
River Song
Four Crows
Asking Abraham Part 1 (Featuring Herr Fische Dance Troupe)
Little Green Man
Asking Abraham Part2 (Featuring Herr Fische Dance Troupe)
The Heroin(e)
Blessed Art Thou
Waiting For God (Featuring Daniel from the Theosophical Society)

--------Musical Interlude by Northern Sinfonia Orchestra and performance by HF Dance Troupe---------

Kick Me
Odds and Evens
Sleepy America Part 1
Munchausen's (Featuring Langdon and Daniel from The Theosophical Society
Sleepy America Parts 2-4

------ Dance off Competition----------

Where the Wild Things Are (Featuring Chris' Hamster Ball Crowd Roll)
House of Fun (Madness Cover, Mr Unknown on Vocals)
Ashes to Ashes (David Bowie Cover, Foetus on Vocals)
Arbez