Why a concept????

One day I suddenly found myself on stage in a hardrock band, headbanging to the rhythms and I thought to myself: "Is this what I want to do for the rest of my life?" 

I felt it was too "easy" to write a good rock riff including some lyrics that didn't mean anything and people (the band + audience) didn't care about. I've got a heart and a brain and wanted something more! 

I wanted to turn music into art....but how?

Subject: Change

I was playing with some ideas in my head and it was the word "change" I was stuck with and I figured out that there is 3 different kind of changes where doors are being closed and some others are being opened:

1) One you decide yourself (ex.: I want to quit my job!)

2) One you don't decide yourself (ex.: You're fired!)

3) A change you can't control, but is of no influence of outer affections (ex.: Psychological crises)

...and that  (no. 3) is what the concept is about. It is NOT a certain change, but the change in itself.

A short description:

1) The change has not started. It doesn't matter if you're running around in complete darkness or just standing still. You're not getting further.

2) Awareness. Where/who  am I?

3) Do I dare to change. What's on the other side?

4) Hopes and belief of the future

5) Change = Relief = Death of the past = Born to the future

6) Evaluation 

To make individuals understand:

Some people say they understand Pink Floyd's "The Wall" - some don't (among them David Gilmour). Some people think Bowie's Ziggy Stardust was too wired - some don't, but the thing is, that they gave everybody a different experience and THAT IS ART.

We are going to do it differently for many reasons: 

We haven't got the financial resources and and it's not so certain that you give the audience a better experience if you invest fortunes in different effects, to make it clear to yourself, but you actually digging your own grave by confusing them. A brilliant example of that is Bowie's Glass Spider.

We have done it quiet simple:

The music and what is sung, sometimes follows, sometimes "separates" (sweet words, hard music & opposite). There's used Bertol Brecht´s "Verfremdungstecnic" to make people THINK instead of eating it all raw, as they we're watching Ally Mcbeal, and it has been very funny to create art like this including videos to be shown on stage and a lot, lot more.