Arnim Teutoburg-Weiß - Vocals and Guitar
Peter Baumann - Guitars, Vocals
Torsten Scholz - Bass
Bernd Kurtzke - Guitars
Thomas Götz- Drums
Sounds Like
48/49 (1997 XNO)
"Unminded, Fragen, Why you not, Different ways, 48/49, Fool, Schlecht, Me against the world, Indifferent, Barfrau, You walk, Disillusion"
Launched (1999 Epitaph)
"Panic, We Have To Figure it out tonight, Shut Up Stand Up, Shiny Shoes, 2 O'clock, Happy Now?, Mietzi's Song, Excited, ... And Wait, Filter, Fake, Go, Kings Of Metal, Schluss Mit Rock'n'Roll"
Living Targets (2002 Epitaph)
"Not Ready To Rock, God Knows, Let Me In, Soothe Me, Above Us, This One, Disconnected, A-Way, Run Run, Mirrored, To Be Strong, Summer"
Smack Smash (2004 WEA)
"Big Attack, Vision, Ain't Complaining, Hello Joe, Hand In Hand, Monster, Everything, I don't care as long as you sing, Atomic Love, Loyal To None, What's Coming Over you, My Revelation"
B-Seite Double DVD (2005 WEA)
"DVD1 (Videos+Doku):Panic, Shiny Shoes, Summer, Let Me In, Hand In Hand, I Don't Care, As Long As You Sing, Hello Joe, Frieda und die Bomben DVD2 (Live Berlin - Live Hannover - Live Taubertal):Summer, Ain't Complaining, Atomic Love, Unminded, Frieda und die Bomben, Not Ready To Rock, Badfish, I Don't Care As Long As You Sing, Schlecht, To Be Strong, Hello Joe, Monster, Hey Du, Shiny Shoes, Loyal To None, Hand In Hand, Kings Of Metal, Let Me In"
.limbo messiah (2007 Warner)
"As I Please, Jane Became Insane, Sharp Cool And Collected, Meantime, Demons Galore, Cut Off The Top, Bad Brain, She Was Great, Soljanka, Hail To The Freaks, E-G-O"
Demons Galore EP (2007 Warner)
"Demons Galore (EP Version), She's Lost Control (Joy Division Cover), Wer A sagt muss auch B zahlen Feat. Dendemann, Sabotage (Beastie Boys Cover - Live), Kaputt, Die Roys - Pretty Fucked Up (Supersuckers Cover), Marmelade und Himbeereis (Grauzone Cover), Demons Galore (Director's Cut) (Video)"
Kanonen Auf Spatzen - Double Live CD+DVD (2008 Warner)
"CD1: As I Please, Monster, Atomic Love, Big Attack(laut), Cut Off The Top, Hail To The Freaks, I Don't Care As Long As You Sing, Jane Became Insane, E-G-O, Loyal To None, Hey du, Frieda und die Bomben, Summer, Let Me In CD2: Panic, Not Ready To Rock, Demons Galore, Sharp, Cool & Collected, Meantime, Hello There, To Be Strong, What's Coming Over You, Hello Joe, Shiny Shoes, Soljanka, Soothe Me, Big Attack (leise), Hand In Hand DVD (Wuhlheide Show 2007): As I Please, Demons Galore, Monster, What's Coming Over You, Ain't Complaining, To Be Strong, Loyal To None, I Don't Care As Long As You Sing, Hail To The Freaks, Jane Became Insane, Summer, Panic, Big Attack, Hello Joe, Atomic Love, Hey du, Frieda und die Bomben, Hand In Hand, Soothe Me, Cut Off The Top, Let Me In"
HISTORYSummer 1995: Beatsteaks see the light of day and bring out their first demo, which sells over 1000 copies.
July 6, 1996: 10th gig opening for the Sex Pistols at the Berlin Arena.
January/February 1997: Beatsteaks record their debut album "48/49" for the Berlin label, XNO, in 11 days. Tours with Lagwagon and Thumb, among others. Shows with Faith No More, Bloodhound Gang, followed by the Monsters of Hauptstadt tour.
December 1998: The second album, LAUNCHED, is recorded for Epitaph. Beatsteaks are the first German band signed by the renowned punk rock label. Our good friend Hardcore departs, making room for friend Rock. Tours: Deconstruction Tour, Warped Tour in Europe and the US. Various festival appearances, European tour with Pennywise, German tour with Donots.
December 2000: Beatsteaks start recording their third album, LIVING TARGETS, produced by Uwe Sabirowsky. More tours, with Die Ärzte, among others, follow, and the recordings are finalised with producer Billy Gould (Faith No More). Friend Rock takes up even more room on the new tracks. Incredible as it may be - various festival appearances follow, plus lots of shows, again with Die Ärzte, as well as with Die Toten Hosen, All, and many others. There are euro-pallets everywhere in this world, ready to be abused as stages. The famous five even find themselves shooting two videos (Let Me In/Summer), which both go down extremely well with the audience. In the meantime: Epitaph and WEA come to an agreement: the next release will be taken care of by WEA in Germany, while things will remain unchanged in the rest of the world.
December 2002: Beatsteaks play their Wohnzimmer (living-room) show at the totally sold-out Columbiahalle in Berlin in front of almost 4000 fans. They're joined on stage by Rod and Farin of Die Ärzte, Demba of Seeed and the Butlers' wind section. To go with the show, the "Wohnzimmer" EP arrives at the stores, featuring seven cover songs, produced by Moses Schneider.
October 2003: Together with their producer, Moses Schneider, Beatsteaks embark on their studio tour of Berlin. The material is played and recorded live - for a full two and a half weeks. The grand finale is a live session at Berlin's Knaack Club in front of friends. 12 of the 3786 songs are considered worthy to be mixed by Peter Schmidt at the Maschinenraum/Berlin. At last there's a name to the game: SMACK SMASH!
March 2004: The first video "Hand in Hand" for "Smack Smash" get..s a MTV "European Network Priority" - this means 5 weeks on the highest rotations on all european mtv-stations
September 2004: The album "Smack Smash" sold more than 100.000 units; Gold-Status in Germany; peak-position in german-album-charts: .. 11
November 2004: Beatsteaks win the award "Best German Act" at the MTV "European Music Awards" in Roma
December 2004: Totally sold-out german-tour in venues with 4.000 - 8.000 fans.
January 2005: Live-Performance at the Eurosonic-Festival in Groningen, NL
Summer 2005: Beatsteaks played the big European Festivals like Roskilde, Hurricane, Woodstock (Poland) etc.
November 2005: The first Beatsteaks DVD "Die B-Seite" will be released
March 2006: Working on a new record and therefore there is no new tour planned yet. We'll keep you informed about new dates and shows! Stay tuned and thanks for all your support!
July 2006: We're still working on new songs for you. The heat is killing every inch of our brains, but we stay positive! Hopefully next year around this time you can listen to the new songs and we come to rock you all again! Enjoy summer and we hope we'll catch up live on stage with all of you! Keep your head cool!
October 2006: Studiotime is no live time. We miss hanging around on stage, but we're also very excited about the new stuff. We hope you'll love it like our past albums. We'll keep you informed about release and new dates as soon as we know something. Keep on supporting us around the world. It means a lot to all of us. We'll see us all next year again!
March 2007: Release of our latest record ".limbo messiah"!
July 2007: The already legendary Wuhlheide show in our hometown Berlin were attended by almost 18000 people. Breathtaking!
May 2008: "Kanonen auf Spatzen" is the title of our 2nd DVD and first Live CD. It contains a double Live-CD with songs from all shows of the .limbo messiah-Tour plus the whole show of the Wuhlheide Concert on an extra DVD! We can't wait!
September 2008: We're taking a break now, but we'll be back. Thank you all for your love and support. We wouldn't be who we are without you. Hail to you freaks! Thank you.
