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Sofa Salon presents She Makes War

19 Tuesday Sep 2017

Posted by waspsummer in 2017, Berlin, house concert, Monthly Line-Up, news, Sofa Salon, Uncategorized

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Dearhearts, Welcome to Sofa Salon!  Don’t forget to  Like http://www.facebook.com/sofasalon on Facebook us on Facebook.
Meine Lieben, Willkommen zum Sofa Salon! Bitte nicht vergessen bei Facebook „Gefällt dir“ anzuklicken.

The monstrously talented Laura from She Makes War comes to Sofa Salon in two weeks. We’re already half-booked, so if you’d like to come to this Salon, please email me now for reservations. Support comes from one of my favourite Berlin songwriters, Kidaphex1975 (James Trottier from Hunger Streets, The Commonwealth Passage).

Indie Berlin are long-time friends of Sofa Salon and are super-excited to see She Makes War in our intimate living room setting, so they interviewed Laura. You can read the interview here: https://www.indieberlin.de/en/music/makes-war-brilliant-bristol-indie-explosion-comes-calling.html

Die tierisches talentierte Laura von She Makes War ist bei uns am Sept 30. Wir sind zurzeit 50% reserviert, so wenn ihr Lust habt, diese Konzert zu sehen, bitte mich schnell einen E-Mail schicken.

Indie Berlin sind langfristiges Unterstützer von Sofa Salon, und so spannend war, dass sie einen Interview mit Laura gemacht haben. Bitte hier klicken, es zu lesen (auf Englisch): https://www.indieberlin.de/en/music/makes-war-brilliant-bristol-indie-explosion-comes-calling.html

Liebe Grüße,
Sam

Future Sofa Salons – Book Now!
Friday 27. October – Melanie Horsnell (AU) + King Curly (AU)
Saturday 28. October – Sun Tailor (ISR) + Michael Brinkworth (AU)

Kind Regards,
Sam

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Sofa Salon Summer Update

09 Friday Jun 2017

Posted by waspsummer in 2017, Berlin, gig, Monthly Line-Up, Sofa Salon, Uncategorized

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Australia, australian musician, Berlin, Castanet Club, entertainment, host, host a house concert, house concert, Jac Amidy, music, news, Rachel Snow, Sofa Salon, Tim McMillan

1. Become a Sofa Salon apartment host
2. Sofa Salon #72: Tim McMillan + Mimi Gilbert
3. Future Salons

Become a Sofa Salon apartment host
Sofa Salon hosts are the home and heart of the house concert experience. Would you like to host a house concert in your apartment?

I’m looking for hosts for the three remaining Sofa Salons this year including the one on June 24. I host many in my own home, but I enjoy the act of moving Salons from place to place, filling up different corners of the city with music.

Sofa Salon is designed to be a simple hosting experience. Guests arrive from 19:30, music is usually finished by 22:00 and the night is wrapped up by 23:00. If your room is big enough to fit 30-40 people sitting on chairs or on the floor, I can provide acoustic music, drinks and a wonderful relaxed atmosphere with the lovely salonnières that you know from coming to the shows. You’re welcome to invite your own family and friends. I’ll help set up and clean up.

Please email me back if you want to discuss becoming a Sofa Salon host.


Samstag 24. Juni – Sofa Salon #72: Tim McMillan (AU) + Jac Amidy (AU)
Berlin-based Australian Tim McMillan’s been on my radar for years. A phenomenal guitarist, he writes complex and beautiful modern folk songs that remind me of Midlake or Nick Drake and performs with violinist Rachel Snow. When I hosted and he played the Australian Embassy’s Australia Day event a few years ago, I got to watch him up close and offered him a Salon on the spot. Finally, the date has come along!
Video: Spiders (song)

Jac Amidy is a mainstay of the Australian music scene, releasing albums since her big break as singer/bassplayer of legendary cabaret troupe, The Castanet Club. She’s a gifted singer, guitarist and songwriter. We’re in for a very personal, idiosyncratic treat.

Einlass 19:00. Eintritt 8€. Musik ab 20:15. Reservierungen per E-Mail. Please reply to this email or email berlinsofasalon@googlemail.com to reserve your places. I already have reservations, so don’t wait!
FB Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1886222238321030/


Future Sofa Salons
Saturday Oktober 28 – Sun Tailor (ISR) + Melanie Horsnell (AU)

Kind Regards,
Sam

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Couch magazine features Sofa Salon in Salon-Kultur article

05 Wednesday Feb 2014

Posted by waspsummer in Germany. Deutschland, house concerts, media, Press, Sofa Salon

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Couch, Germany, house concerts, Kate Seabrook, Kini MOD, lifestyle magazine, magazine, Salon-Kultur, Sofa Salon

German glossy lifestyle magazine Couch is doing a feature in its new edition on the trend of Salon-Kultur – home-based entertainment.

www.kateseabrook.com

Kini MOD at Sofa Salon 2013. By Kate Seabrook Photographer.

They got in contact to ask if they could use photos people had taken at Sofa Salon.

There should be at least one, and hopefully three, in the article. The largest image is from our friend Kate Seabrook. I suspect it’s the one of Kini Mod from the November 2013 Sofa Salon at Markus’ house.

The magazine is out on February 10. I’ll post a scan when I have a copy of the magazine.

Cheers,
Sam

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Sofa Salon

24 Friday Jan 2014

Posted by waspsummer in Berlin, blog, Press, Sofa Salon

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Sofa Salon got a lovely profile on Berlin music blog postrwall.
Thanks, Maria!

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Sofa Salon featured in Slow Travel Berlin

13 Friday Dec 2013

Posted by waspsummer in 2013, house concert, media, Sofa Salon, Uncategorized

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Oh, that’s nice news to wake up to. Saloniers, our house concert series has been featured in excellent philosophical travel guide Slow Travel Berlin!

Simon Morrison wrote (and played) about the Sofa Salon concept and interviewed me. Kate Seabrook showed some of the fantastic pictures she’s taken over the last two years of Sofa Salon.

If you’re new to Sofa Salon, you can send me an email below and join the mailing list.

Wasp Summer, Eric Eckhart and Len Tjader perform at Sofa Salon HQ in Moabit

Wasp Summer and Eric Eckhart perform at Sofa Salon HQ in Moabit with Lena Tjader on backup vocals.

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Sofa Salon at Berlin Music Week

08 Thursday Aug 2013

Posted by waspsummer in 2013, Australian Musicians, Berlin Music Week, Europe, Festival, house concert, live music, living room, showcase, singer-songwriter, Sofa Salon, wohnzimmer

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Ben Salter, Berlin, Berlin Music Week, Elyas Khan, festival, First We Take Berlin, house concert, Kreuzberg, MELT!, MELT! Booking, Miranda Gjerstad, private, reservation, Sam Wareing, September 2013, September 4, September 5, showcase, singer-songwriter, Sofa Salon, Sweet Jean

UPDATE: We are nearly booked out. E-mail for the last available places for Sofa Salon/First We Take Berlin/Berlin Music Week.

First We Take Berlin and A Headful of Bees Presents
Sofa Salon for Berlin Music Week

Sofa Salon is again delighted to host two showcases for Berlin Music Week. This year, MELT! Booking is running the First We Take Berlin showcase program and I’ve assembled four of the most interesting and world class singer-songwriter acts from around the world.

Guests need to email berlinsofasalon [aet] googlemail.com to reserve their place and get the address. Guests with a First We Take Berlin pass will have free entry. As usual, Sofa Salon guests pay 8€ for the highest quality live and intimate music experience.

Here’s the lineup. Here’s the Fb event for those of you so inclined.

MITTWOCH 4. SEPTEMBER SWEET JEAN (AU) + MIRANDA GJERSTAD (SE)
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Sweet Jean-3x41-1024x768SWEET JEAN is Sime Nugent and Alice Keath. Since forming in late 2010, Sweet Jean have built a reputation for their evocative songwriting, razor-sharp harmonies, and stirring live performances. The AU Review said Sweet Jean “can break your heart one minute and mend it the next. The duo has a natural ability to transport their audience to the heart of their songs.” Sweet Jean’s debut album Dear Departure was released on July 4 2013.
WEB: http://sweetjeanmusic.com/

MIRANDA GJERSTAD
MirandaGjerstadAt the age of 16, Miranda Gjerstad started to make a name for herself in the Swedish music scene. After moving to Berlin in 2009, she began a long term collaboration with Berliner epic indie rock duo Lonski & Classen and released the single Danger in November 2012. With her pumporgan, a powerful voice, direct songwriting and cabaret-inspired performances she has been seen playing at parties in the dark woods, in rock clubs and theaters, wearing glittering clown costumes and feathers.
WEB: http://mirandamiranda.bandcamp.com/

DONNERSTAG 5. SEPTEMBER BEN SALTER (AU) + ELYAS KHAN (UK)
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Ben_SalterBEN SALTER rose to acclaim as an incredibly prolific songwriter and collaborator in two very different Brisbane bands, the punk rock Giants of Science and Country Rock supergroup The Gin Club. His clever lyrics span history, human frailty and good times sung in an honest and authentic Australian urban voice. His debut solo album The Cat was co-produced with another great Australian songewriter, Gareth Liddiard of The Drones. This is his second long tour of Europe.
WEB: http://www.bensalter.com.au/

0001-MG_4282ELYAS KHAN is a creative powerhouse who mixes the gorgeous Quuali-inspired singing of his Pakistani-British heritage with the acid guitar and art-synth processing of his NYC years.
Now based in Berlin with his fourth album to be released in France and Germany in 2013, his incredible musical freedom makes for an intense, ecstatic live experience.
WEB: www.elyaskhan.com

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Do: host your own house concert

23 Saturday Mar 2013

Posted by waspsummer in artists, concert, earning a living, Europe, house concert, live music, music, singer-songwriter, Sofa Salon

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Berlin, community, community-building, Couchsurfing, Croxton Records, DIT, DIY, DO, earning a living, Europe, food, friends, GOOD, house concert, How Do?, intimacy, Konzert, live music, Mick Thomas, musician, new ideas, potluck, sharing, Sofa Salon, Suzanna Espie, touring, wine, Wohnzimmer

Around 2007, legendary Australian songwriter Mick Thomas told me a story about one of the artists on his Croxton Records label, the great soul-country singer Suzannah Espie. She had booked two gigs a week apart in Perth, some 3,400km away from her home in Melbourne. The cost of two return airfares was prohibitively high, some AUD$600. Suzannah rang the venues and anyone she knew in South-West Australia and asked if they could help her find some fill-in gigs to get her through the week. What she found was a handful of willing hosts who offered to put her up, feed her and invite their friends around and pass the hat if she’d play a concert.

Copyright Kate Seabrook 2012

Copyright Kate Seabrook 2012

After permanently relocating to Berlin in 2009, and remembering Suzannah’s story, I started my own monthly Berlin house concert series called Sofa Salon and started touring Europe as a solo musician under the name Wasp Summer. Over two years, my planning preferenced house concerts, filling in with some club gigs rather than using house shows as convenient, short-lead-time fill-ins for a club show tour.

Most of my touring is organised through the various Couchsurfing.org forums devoted to house concerts. Most of the Sofa Salon artists come from personal recommendations, email requests and acts that I see or hear of personally.

Copyright Jordane Chaillou 2012

Copyright Jordane Chaillou 2012

I love hosting, watching and playing house concerts for the same reasons that I like dinner parties more than nightclubs – intimacy, connection, attention. It’s one of the great pleasures of my life in Berlin to sit in front of great singer-songwriters and hear them in company but with few distractions. The audience necessarily offers a higher level of attention which encourages the performer to offer greater intimacy and honesty no matter their style. It can be confronting for first-time guests and performers alike but most participants come away beaming. A large part of the audience for Sofa Salon comes from repeat visitors and word-of-mouth guests.

Copyright Orange 'Ear

Copyright Orange ‘Ear

As hostess, guest and performer, I’ve discovered there are as many different ways to host a house concert as people to host them. I’ve played house shows in France, Germany, Australia and Spain – all with different policies on inviting guests, raising money for the artist, food, drink.

There are some general underlying principles to hosting a house concert.

1. Your musician should be paid.
Some hosts will never charge an entry fee on principle, but will pass the hat for the musician. The risk is that your guests won’t be generous. One night, I made 20€ after travelling 6 hours and playing for 1 1/2 hours. O the next your, I made 240€ from the hat and CD sales. Some, like myself, set an entry fee to guarantee a base level of income. I aim for 100€ per artist but I can guarantee at least 30 people at every Sofa Salon. Some hosts set a ‘suggested donation’ of 5-20€. Some artists with a bigger profile ask for a set fee and ask the host to arrange to cover it. As you like.

2. Offer dinner, drinks, accommodation
I always offer a bottle of wine and dinner for my artists as part of the deal. On tour, I am nearly always offered accommodation as part of the deal. Frequently, I am picked up from the train station. This makes touring much more cost efficient for the musician and is greatly appreciated.

3. Bring an audience.
There are various ways to arrange this. Some hosts like to make their events open to the public. Some only invite personal friends. Some find guests through facebook or couchsurfing events. With Sofa Salon, I have created a Berlin-wide network of hosts and, to protect their security, I only accept reservations by email and only send the address a day prior to the show to people who have reserved. It also gives me new names for my Sofa Salon email list which runs to over 1000 people after 2 1/2 years of shows.

Other variations on the hospitality theme include running a cash bar with cheap drinks or allowing the guests to BYO, making food to share or asking guests to bring food for a potluck dinner and hosting outdoors in the Summertime.

Why should you DO a house concert? If you love music, you can have it as a living intimate part of you life, witnessing excellent performance up close. You can gather your friends and community together for a heart-opening experience of sharing. You can offer practical and material support to touring musicians. There’s no reason why this could not be extended to film, dance, activist talks, educational nights, slide nights with visual artists. It’s an open-source, open-ended, community-building activity and it’s the best thing I ever created.

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Sofa Salon #33 Wrap Up August 2012

19 Sunday Aug 2012

Posted by waspsummer in Australian Musicians, Ben Salter, Berlin, house concerts, live music, Mark Geary, Monthly Line-Up, Ned Collette, review, Schöneberg, singer-songwriter, Sofa Salon, Summary, Wrap Up

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Dearhearts,

I write to you with the melting head of the profoundly hungover, but what an amazing night last night was.

Ned Collette, Mark Geary and Ben Salter offered three very different but complimentary approaches to the solo singer-songwriter format, three different lyrical takes on the world and three compelling performances in the glorious surrounds of Ned, Amy and Paul’s Schöneberg apartment. Thanks to them, and neighbours Sascha and Mirjam for the Pommes Frites, children and positivity.

It was a warm evening and around 65 people spread out across the living room and the Peter Falk Memorial Bar and Smoking Balcony. As always at Sofa Salon, guests end up making new connections or often find that people they know have also turned up to enjoy the vibe, the cold Schultheiss and the great music. It was a large Salon and also a longish one, but people were relaxed, offered their attention and left happy.

Quote of the night went to Mark Geary, explaining to James Cruickshank how the general public sees musicians, “Is that a real song or something you wrote?”

Highlights included German actor and Pommes Frites mogul Sascha Gersak recreating his vocal on Ned’s excellent ‘Long You Lie’, Mark Geary instigating an audience singalong in the dark and Ben Salter’s rich, emotional singing and self-deprecating stories. Also, the look of joy on Ben’s face after his set knowing that he’d just won the entire audience. This, my friends, is what Sofa Salon is made of.

Afterwards, an amenable posse went to that excellent Schöneberg kneipe Resonanz to sustain the mood and have chat with Berlin’s best barkeep. Several friends dropped in late to say hi. The Big Friendly Giant and I left around 4:00 and finished off the night with an early swim at an almost-deserted Plötzensee.

Cheers,

Sam

Please view these videos from Sofa Salon’s three August musicians:

Ben Salter – The Coward

Ned Collette – Long You Lie

Mark Geary – Volunteer

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Migration

19 Sunday Aug 2012

Posted by waspsummer in Australian Musicians, Berlin, Sofa Salon, touring, Welcome

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alt.country, Berlin, curated, Deutschland, Dichter, electronica, folk, folk rock, Germany, house concert, Konzert, live music, monthly, poet, poetry, pop, rock, Serie, singer-songwriter, Sofa Salon, spoken word, Wohnzimmer

Hello Dearhearts. I’m migrating the website for Berlin Sofa Salon house concerts from blogger to wordpress, in order to make my life and blogging easier.

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Sofa Salon July and Berlin Music Week

18 Monday Jun 2012

Posted by waspsummer in 2012, Ben Salter, Berlin, Berlin Music Week, Emperor X, house concert, Il Tempo Gigante, Lapingra, Mark Geary, Mute Swimmer, Ned Collette, Phia, Sofa Salon, Town of Saints

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Dearhearts, Sofa Salon is back after the Sommerpause and I have some amazing lineups, collaborations and festival news for you for the rest of 2012. Feast your eyes and ears.
Dearhearts, Danach die Sommerpause, ‘Sofa Salon’ kommt wieder mit großartig Künstler and Festival Nachricht! Fest Ihre Augen und Ohren!

JULI
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Sofa Salon 2nd Birthday Celebration!
Emperor X (US) + Remarkable Shipwrecks (AU)

In collaboration with Berlin Booking Agency Paper and Iron, I’m proud to present an intimate concert from US underground electro-acoustic noise wunderkind Emperor X (Bar/None Records). Chad Matheny’s gleeful shows in tunnels, festivals, houses and bus stations are part fierce acoustic indie-rock and part sampled/looped noise heaven.  Making his Berlin debut at Sofa Salon, Remarkable Shipwrecks is Melburnian Simon Morrison’s new project, all low-fi folk rock stripped and resonating with raw intensity.

JULI
6

Lapingra (IT) + Big Strong Brute (AU)

Italian toycore band Lapingra is a collaboration between two quirky musicians with shared passion for Barbie, bake-a-cakes, Björk, Disney soundtracks and Bauhaus. Their album uses toy instruments to bake oven-fresh and original songs.
Big Strong Brute is the vehicle for Brisbane songwriter Paul Donoughue’s intelligent and sensitive folk-pop. He plays songs from new album, Avalanche Of Truth.

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Ned Collette (AU), Ben Salter (AU) + Mark Geary (IE)

Three great songwriters grace us with music from their critically-acclaimed new albums. Ben Salter is from Brisbane bands Giants Of Science and alt.country collective The Gin Club and co-produced his intelligent, complex debut solo album The Cat with members of The Drones. Ned Collette is a past host and performer at Sofa Salon. He brings us literate musings from his sixth album, 2. Mark Geary is an Irish singer-songwriter whose time in NYC saw him share stages with acts like Jeff Buckley and Glen Hansard (The Swell Season, The Frames) as well as releasing four albums including the haunting melancholia of this year’s songs about love, songs about leaving.
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Berlin Music Week Showcases

Sofa Salon and A Headful of Bees host three official showcases for Berlin Music Week.

Mi 5. Sep – Sofa Salon presents Phia (AU) + Town of Saints (NL)
Australian songwriter Phia has made kalimba (African thumb piano) and loops the centre of her indie pop sound, constructing energetic, layered songs with soaring vocals reminiscent of Björk’s Vespertine album. She will play songs from her new album recorded in Poland. She is supported by Dutch/Finnish acoustic folk-punk act Town of Saints who are renowned for their joyous live shows and will be playing songs from their new EP The Silent Sea.

Do 6. Sep –
A Headful of Bees Music presents Eric Eckhart (US), Ken Burke (IE), Wasp Summer (AU), Miss Kenichi (DE) and Nina Hynes (IE) at Lovelite, F’hainMy label-collective A Headful of Bees showcases new music from five of Berlin’s finest folk/roots singer-songwriters at Friedrichshain venue Lovelite for Berlin Music Week: the classic guitar pop of Eric Eckhart, Ken Burke’s Irish acoustic-pop storytelling, Wasp Summer‘s soulful alt.country folk, the delicate East German Americana of Miss Kenichi and the experimental pop of well-known Irish indie chanteuse Nina Hynes.

Fr 7. Sep – Sofa Salon presents Mute Swimmer (UK) + Il Tempo Gigante (DK)

Over solid and ingenious melodies, Mute Swimmer commits darkly funny and metaphysical sabotage on the art of performance. Il Tempo Gigante is Danish musician Rolf Hansen whose distinctive guitar-style and layered folk-pop recalls a one-man Beirut or Radiohead.

OCT
6

Roller One (AU) + Justin Cusack (AU)

Both acts are previous Sofa Salon performers. I’m happy to welcome back Melburnians Roller One and Justin Cusack with their distinctive takes on dusty, spacious Australian Folk.

NOV
16

Matt Walker (AU) + Lucie Thorne (AU)

Matt Walker is a well-loved figure on the Australian roots music scene, known for his astonishing white-boy blues voice and mastery of dobro, lap steel and guitar. His tourmate, Lucie Thorne is an itinerant troubadour armed with a deadly red Guild electric guitar and a seductive, womanly voice.

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