Slut is a German indie rock band

Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

 from Ingolstadt

Ingolstadt

Ingolstadt is a city in the Free State of Bavaria, in the Federal Republic of Germany. It is located along the banks of the Danube River, in the center of Bavaria. As at 31 March 2011, Ingolstadt had 125.407 residents...

, Bavaria

Bavaria

Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...

, which sings in English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

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History

The band was founded in 1995 by Christian Neuburger (vocals, guitar), Matthias Neuburger (drums), Rainer Schaller (guitar), Gerd Rosenacker (bass guitar)and Phillip Zhang the accompanying keyboard artist. After they recorded their first album, Rene Arbeithuber (keyboard, vocals, guitar) also joined. Retired hot slut Connie Perez was the first front woman.
From 1997 to 1998 they lived and recorded in a castle near Ingolstadt with Rene and Rainer's band, 'Pelzig'.

In February 2005 they took part in the Bundesvision Song Contest

Bundesvision Song Contest

The Bundesvision Song Contest is an annual competition created by German TV entertainer Stefan Raab in 2005. For each of the 16 states of Germany a song is chosen by regional radio stations. The songs are performed on live television in order to find the most popular song in the competition...

, playing their song 'Why Pourquoi?' (pourquoi means why or literally for what in French). They received few votes and finished twelfth out of sixteen competitors.

So far they have yet to appear live in Britain or the USA, despite several extensive European tours to Romania, The Czech Republic, Italy and France.

Albums

• For Exercise And Amusement, 1996
• Sensation (EP), 1997
• Interference, 1998
• Lookbook, 2000
• Teardrops (EP), 2001
• Nothing Will Go Wrong, 2002
• ready, slut, go! (EP / Split with Readymade), 2003
• All We Need Is Silence, 2004
• Songs aus Die Dreigroschenoper (Songs from The Threepenny Opera
  The Threepenny Opera
  The Threepenny Opera is a musical by German dramatist Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill, in collaboration with translator Elisabeth Hauptmann and set designer Caspar Neher. It was adapted from an 18th-century English ballad opera, John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, and offers a Marxist critique...
  
  ), July 14, 2006
• Still No. 1
  Still No. 1
  -Lyrics:Unlike in previous albums, StillNo1 contains lyrics that are addressing a variety of political and sociological topics. Lead singer Chris Neuburger said in an interview that while the band previously had such thoughts, it was the first time they put them into musical form...
  
  , 2008
• Corpus Delicti (collaboration with Juli Zeh
  Juli Zeh
  Juli Zeh is a German novelist.Her first book was Adler und Engel , which won the 2002 Deutscher Bücherpreis for best debut novel. She traveled through Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2001, which became the basis for the book Die Stille ist ein Geräusch...
  
  ), 2009

Singles

• Welcome 2 (taken from Lookbook), 2000
• It Was Easier (taken from Lookbook), 2000
• Andy (taken from Lookbook), 2000

• Easy To Love (taken from Nothing Will Go Wrong), 2002
• Time Is Not A Remedy (taken from Nothing Will Go Wrong), 2002

• Lost Emotion (taken from All We Need Is Silence), 2004
• Why Pourquoi (taken from All We Need Is Silence), 2005

External links

• Official website (German/English/French)