“Like the power puff girls only cooler” – That’s the one direct quote we got from Gehörsturz when we interviewed them a bit back. While sitting in their practice room in some cellar in Vienna we talked about their beginnings, their inspirations, and inability to stick to only one genre.
To begin with we’re gonna tell you some facts about their beginnings in music and how they all came to play their instrument. The funniest reason why someone might start playing an instrument is because of some love interest and exactly that is how Oli came to first start guitar lessons but soon it turned out to not be the best decision and it took some years, until the pandemic for him to try again and that’s when he found his passion. Bassist Georgie started out on the piano before switching to guitar and when he joined his first band, he was the only one willing to play the bass, that’s how he ended up with his instrument. Josef, the drummer, started taking lessons from a very young age on and even played in a marching band before quitting all together until three years ago when he started out on the drums again.
Their band formation switched around a bit before landing on their current line-up. At first Oli wanted to rent a room to jam with some friends, it never was supposed to be a band project in any way. After one of them left and there were only three of them, they kept on playing until there was a break-up with the former bassist, over musical differences, and that’s when Georgie joined the band as Oli and Josef wanted to start playing gigs as well. Their name, which isn’t even a word as they later found out, was not the first one, they started out as Jacket for Toothbrush before Josef’s dad came up with the name Gehörsturz.
At first Oli wrote all the songs on his own but since Georgie joined the band he comes up with the riff and the lyrics and then the three of them jam together, overhaul some things, sort through what they have and then end up with a finished song. Everybody has inspirations and naturally so do they, for Oli it’s always changing but recently he has been into Nick Caves and his early work with the Birthday Party, as well as The Cure, or downright, un-melodic, punk as well as post-punk. Georgie has a big love for metal like Slipknot but also has an appreciation for more modern post-punk, had an indie rock phase and like funky stuff as well. For Josef it’s punk that’s inspired his drumming style although recently he has been trying to get more influences from Ringo Starr.
If you are interested in them now and wanna see them live, there is a gig coming up on the 9th of August together with Killing Milfs and Smörebröht in Kramladen.