Rainbirds
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Haage, Franck, Lorenz
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Berlin, Germany |
| Genres | Pop rock |
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| Labels | Mercury |
| Website | www.rainbirds.com |
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The Rainbirds are a German Pop rock band established in 1986 around the singer Katharina Franck. Their greatest hit is "Blueprint".
The band formed in 1986 and named themselves after an instrumental track by Tom Waits. When they won the Rock competition of the Senate of Berlin, they were contracted by Mercury Records. Their first album Rainbirds was produced in the Audio Studios of Berlin and became a success, the single "Blueprint" enjoyed attention across Europe in 1988. The band's first line-up included Katharina Franck (guitar, vocals), Michael Beckmann (bass), and Wolfgang Glum (drums). Due to a concert tour, guitarist Rodrigo González became a member of the Rainbirds. Later he joined Die Ärzte and Abwärts.
In the spring of 1989 the second album Call Me Easy, Say I’m Strong, Love Me My Way, It Ain’t Wrong was released, with a video clip by director and photographer Anton Corbijn. Corbijn who was known for his photographs of bands like Depeche Mode and U2 became the Rainbird's favourite photographer in the following years.
After this album, the band separated and Katharina Franck reformed the Rainbirds as a duo with piano player Ulrike Haage. They released two albums in this line-up: Two Faces (1991) and In a different light (1993). Drummer Tim Lorenz joined them in 1994 as a third member. In the following years the band published two studio albums, Making memory (1996) and Forever (1997) as well as a live album 3000.live (1999), their last release.
Katharina Franck continued a solo career that had already begun in 1997 with a Spoken word album Hunger and published a second solo album Zeitlupenkino (lit.: slow motion cinema) on Mute Records in 2002.
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