once more with feeling

It’s true I knew it from the start
you’ve been my love, I lost my heart. (Diver – Come Home)

Three guys – one from Munich, one from Berlin, one from Vienna. Three different characters, but sharing one passion: music. Acoustic, harmonious, multifaceted. Diver put emotions into words, form sentences, add guitars, keyboard, accordion, rattles and melodica – and there it is, a song that says everything it needs to say, honest and intense. And even if the stories about the first encounter with this girl and falling in love with her, about changes that life brings, about London and heartbreaks aren’t true – who cares. I surely don’t.

Diver are my personal new discovery highlight of 2010. They more than deserve to have played at the big stage of Flex for the first time now, and I’m convinced that we’ll be hearing a lot more from them next year. They do have the potential, that’s for sure.

Yesterday, Diver was supporting Indie-Vienna’s most favorite British musician: Trouble Over Tokyo.
Toph seemed nervous, overwhelmed by the full Flex and his fans that not only knew the lyrics to every song but also confessed their love in between the songs. But as soon as he starts singing, it’s gone, and the nervousness turns into energy. Toph jumps around on stage for his faster, quite electronic songs, and wallows in melancholy for his slower, heartbreaking songs. And he infects the audience. I danced (and that’s something you won’t hear often!), I closed my eyes and drifted away, I nodded my head to the beat, I sang along, I laughed and I had tears in my eyes.

Toph just released his third album, “The Hurricane”. It comes with a self-made book, and you can (and should) get it here.

Have I been lying all this time to keep myself stuck?
I’ve been nowhere, I’ve done nothing
I’ve been talking to myself for so long. (Trouble Over Tokyo – The Liar)