Katzenjammer Biography
Katzenjammer is a four-piece all-female band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 2005. The members of the band are: Anne Marit Bergheim, Solveig Heilo, Turid Jørgensen Honerud, and Marianne Sveen. Their style is hard to define in just a few words, but their music combines elements of folk, pop, rock, blues, country, and probably a few other genres. They are all Norwegian; however, most of their lyrics are in English. They also play a bunch of unusual instruments that they keep swapping among themselves while performing on stage. They don’t have one lead singer—instead, they simply take turns singing the lead on different songs. The band’s name was inspired by the old American comic strip The Katzenjammer Kids, and it is pronounced [ˈkætsənˌdʒæmər] in English and [ˈkaʦənˈjamɐ] in German.
Katzenjammer are nothing if not distinctive. Formed at an Oslo music school in 2005, the four girls play a diverse blend of country, folk, blues, pop and rock. From Tennessee’s Bonnaroo to Australia’s Woodford Folk Festival, the quartet have enraptured tens-of-thousands with their genre-mixing, instrument-swapping and riotous shows.
Their 2008 debut, Le Pop, showed that they were as fun on record as live and 2011’s A Kiss Before You Go was a symphonic journey through the emotions, full of vigour and vocal harmonies. Throughout this all they have done things their own way.
Their new album Rockland is due for release in early 2015.
Katzenjammer Band Members
Anne Marit Bergheim, Solveig Heilo, Turid Jørgensen Honerud, and Marianne Sveen
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Youtube Channel
Watch and listen to Katzenjammer songs on their Youtube channel.
Tour 2017 | Concerts
Katzenjammer did not have any tour in the year 2017.
Tour 2016
The band did not have any events schedule in the year 2016.
Tour 2015
- Saturday 19 December 2015
Katzenjammer
Jahrhunderthalle, Frankfurt, Germany - Friday 18 December 2015
Katzenjammer and Sivert Høyem
Porsche Arena, Stuttgart, Germany - Thursday 17 December 2015
Katzenjammer and Sivert Høyem
Zenith, Die Kulturhalle, Munich, Germany - Tuesday 15 December 2015
Katzenjammer and Sivert Høyem
Haus Auensee, Leipzig, Germany - Sunday 13 December 2015
Katzenjammer and Sivert Høyem
Emsland Arena, Lingen, Germany - Saturday 12 December 2015
Sivert Høyem live
Tempodrom, Berlin, Germany - Friday 11 December 2015
Katzenjammer
Astra Kulturhaus, Berlin, Germany - Thursday 10 December 2015
Katzenjammer and Sivert Høyem
Pier 2, Bremen, Germany - Tuesday 08 December 2015
Sivert Høyem live
Katzenjammer
Sporthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Live
Le Pop
Le Pop is a debut studio album by a Norwegian band Katzenjammer released on September 29, 2008. Le Pop album received generally favorable reviews and was even nominated for a Spellemannprisen award for Best Debut Album of the Year in the year 2008. The album has 12 song:
- Overture
- A Bar in Amsterdam
- Tea With Cinnamon
- Hey Ho on the Devil’s Back
- Virginia Clemm
- Le Pop
- Der Kapitän
- Wading in Deeper
- Play My Darling, Play
- To the Sea
- Mother Superior
- Ain’t No Thang
To get the songs lyrics click here.
To download the songs click the following link.
A Kiss Before You Go
A Kiss Before You Go is a Studio album by Katzenjammer released on 9 September 2011. The album has 12 songs:
- A Kiss Before You Go
A Kiss Before You Go
- I Will Dance (when I Walk Away)
- Cherry Pie
- Land of Confusion
- Lady Marlene
- Rock-Paper-Scissors
- Cocktails and Ruby Slippers
- Soviet Trumpeter
- Loathsome M
- Shepherd’s Song
- Gypsy Flee
- God’s Great Dust Storm
To get the songs lyrics click here.
To download the songs click the following link.
Album
- Le Pop (2008)
- A Kiss Before You Go (2011)
- Rockland (2015)
Songs
- Lady Grey
- Demon Kitty Rag
- My Own Tune
- My Dear
- To the Sea
- A Bar in Amsterdam
- Bad Girl
- Rockland
- Rock-Paper-Scissors
- Lady Marlene
- Old de Spain
- Mother Superior
- Curvaceous Needs
- Soviet Trumpeter
- Oh My God
- Tea with Cinnamon
- Shepherd’s Song
- God’s Great Dust Storm
- I Will Dance (when I Walk Away)
- Ain’t No Thang
- Le Pop
- Cherry Pie
- Hey Ho on the Devil’s Back
- Wading in Deeper
- Cocktails and Ruby Slippers
- Virginia Clemm
- Flash in the Dark
- Gypsy Flee
- Shine like Neon Rays
- Play My Darling Play
- Loathsome M
- Ouch
- Land of Confusion
- A Kiss Before You Go
- Hurricane
- Der kapitän
- Driving After You
- Marching and Drumming
- Vi tenner våre lykter
- When The Laughter’s Gone
- Overture
- Rock-paper-scissors – live in hamburg
- I will dance (when i walk away) – live in hamburg
I Will Dance
Rock Paper Scissors
Land Of Confusion
My Dear
Music Video
ROCKLAND
“This is the first time we’ve had the opportunity to devote a lot of time to songwriting, giving us a lot of material to choose from”, says Marianne Sveen about Rockland, Katzenjammer´s latest album. “Everyone´s contributed, and seeing as we’re four very different people, we are also fairly different as songwriters. For the first time, I feel we come across as individuals, while at the same time we are definitely a band, and that feels very right”.
Marianne´s summation of Katzenjammer´s third album recording works excellently as a description of the band´s ten year run – four strong personalities who function unusually well as a unit.
This recipe has brought the quartet round the world, from Australia via The United States to ever larger stages in Europe. Katzenjammer in concert is a colourful experience, bursting with energy. Four girls who seamlessly juggle exotic instruments such as domra, balalaika, melodika, ukulele and harpeleik, constantly switching places within the basic setup of bass, drums, guitar and piano from one song to the next, and singing four-piece harmony while they’re at it.
Hundreds of shows around the world have turned Anne Marit, Marianne, Turid and Solveig into a well-oiled steamroller of a live act, coasting through a multitude of instruments, genres and influences, quite often within the same song.
Back to Marianne Sveen and Rockland: “As I hear it, our sound has become clearer and perhaps more to the point, without compromising on the spontaneity and enjoyment that has always been important to us. The ten years we have spent playing together also shine through”.
“In addition, we’ve worked with a new producer this time, and also recorded in a different studio. This contributed to a fresh energy that fits well on a third album. Victor van Vugt was instrumental in letting the four of us shine, keeping the best of the old Katzenjammer, and cheer on the new”.
Not so strange, perhaps, that the affable Melbournian Victor van Vugt and Katzenjammer have found each other in this process. In addition to both parties having a somewhat hard-sounding, central-european name, the producer and the band have a fairly eclectic musical CV in common. But where Katzenjammer have held artists like Nick Cave, Gogol Bordello, Kirsty MacColl, Beth Orton and P.J. Harvey as heroes and sources of inspiration, Victor van Vugt has produced and worked with all of them, and many more.
“He truly is a fantastic producer, and he really knows people, which is a plus when your´re working with a band where everyone´s the front person”, says Marianne.