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Achim Goettert, interview by Uwe Schillhabel (Sep 09)
Kevin was one of my favourite rock singers since end of the '70s. I met him in Nürnberg in 1993, because I planned a concert for the GOSTENHOFER JAZZTAGE, a jazz-festival in Nürnberg, which I was leading. I asked him to join a project with my music and his lyrics, that we called “Mansion of Dreams”. We had one successful concert in a church, which was recorded.
The line up was:
KEVIN COYNE voc
ACHIM GOETTERT sax, comp
MICHAEL RODACH (Berlin) e-g
MICHEL VAN DER ESCH (Paris) keyb
RUDI ENGEL (Würzburg) e-b
ANDREAS WEISER perc (Berlin) perc
OMAR BELMONTE (Buenos Aires) dm
Find more infos here: http://www.act-art.de/coynegoettert
One year later we performed this music in Berlin in a double concert with the Ute Kannenberg Band. Radio Brandenburg recorded this night.
After that we were invited to the Jazz festival “Leipziger Jazztage” with a new project “Opera for Syd” in 1999 (MDR recording). We repeated the concert at the GOSTENHOFER JAZZTAGE. I released a recording.
Line up as:
Kevin Coyne voc
Achim Goettert sax, komp
from Berlin:
Michael Rodach e-g
Mike Parker e-b
Anton Nissl dm
special guest:
David Moss voc, dm
For the first concert Kevin arrived from Belgium 1 or 2 hours before the show started. So we had a short rehearsal. Nevertheless the music developed magically. In 1999 he refused any rehearsal. But the show in Leipzig was a hit. It was one of my biggest thing. Every musician in my band was prepared best, my music worked out fine and the stars had a lot of fun together on stage. Kevin was centre of the “opera” and told his story about Syd Barrett. David Moss as counterpoint put in the necessary spices to make it a really avantgarde happening between rock and improvised music. Kevin was a genious…
My experiences were all in all great. He was kind and open minded to work with the collegues in most concentrated way. No star allures were disturbing our work. He was very professional and straight. On stage he was immediately exploding and capturing the audience. It was a pleasure and an honour to work with him. It is a pity that we could not repeat our work. An agent tried some things, but the project was too far out and between the seats.
Did you still see him after that?
Sure, we met sometimes in Nürnberg music scene, sometimes I visited him at home and we had some intensive discussions.
Your favorite Coyne album ? Song ?
Millionares and Teddybears