"A look in between" - by Torben

I really enjoy the privilege of sharing my own personal view of our band and our experiences on and off stage in ‘A Look in Between’. But for the album release, I had an idea: I remembered the days when many of my favourite bands and musicians released track-by-track audio commentary on their albums. So I asked my Wüstenberg colleagues if they would like to write about a song that means a lot to them. And I am thrilled that Heike Probst (the amazing singer on ‘Hold On To’) an

It was the last concert of the tour. 35 years of Fiddlers Green, the grand finale. Löwensaal in Nuremberg, more than 1,000 people in the audience, song number 6 of our set. ‘Hold On To’. Franz had just brought Heike Probst on stage as a guest musician and was about to start the song when suddenly the Fiddlers Green crew appeared and rolled a mobile bar onto the stage. Visibly irritated, Franz tried to explain to the equally irritated audience that bands traditionally play pra

The rough wooden floorboards thumped beneath my shoes, a group of five or six men at the table to my left clapped slightly out of time, and the smell of Guinness spilled years ago filled the air.  My fellow musicians and I played the tune ‘Whiskey Before Breakfast’ – a little show piece in which the tempo increases with each repetition until it reaches an absurd speed at which no sane person would rush through such a lovely melody. I played the mandolin, the only melody instr

The sun was already low in the sky on this late autumn Monday evening – and I was on my way to the first blind date of my life. A musician had written to me saying he was starting a new band and was still looking for an electric guitarist. ‘Folk rock,’ he had said. Let's see, I thought. I entered the café we had agreed to meet at – a place with the charm of a 1950s bar in downtown Cologne, which even triggers nostalgia in younger people for a time they never experienced thems

‘Mark Knopfler asked me to tell you something,’ said our producer Jörn Schlüter when he returned to the wood-panelled control room of the venerable Studio Nord in Bremen. ‘You should pay more attention to the transitions in the songs.’ Everyone in the studio laughed. It was already our third day in the historic recording room of Studio Nord. Surrounded by legendary vintage equipment, we could feel the history of this special place in every fibre of our being. Since the studio