A chat with keyboardist Carsten Brocker

[ReWe26]

Welcome Carsten!

[Richani]

Thankyou for the great introduction Andrea and Andreas! And a big welcome to Carsten!

[hajak]

Of course we accept him without a keyboardplayer,no more Alphaville Welcome Carsten

[shapeseven]

Hey Andrea,

thank you for posting this, this is great :)
I am currently preparing an introduction of Carsten for Alphavillenow.com, but that requires some time, still. Nevertheless, I think your chat summary would fit perfectly to alphavillenow.com. Would you mind if I publish it there? If yes, it would be great if you could provide me with a larger version of the photo you added.

Best wishes,
Tobias

Originally Posted by Andrea Ruby

After the concert in Wroclaw, we had the opportunity to meet Alphaville’s new keyboardist, Carsten Brocker. A laid-back and happy chap, he kindly made time for a chat with us.

Carsten has listened to Alphaville since a young age. Through the years, he has played the keyboards in several different bands, but this is the first time that he is in a band as big as Alphaville. He finds it easy to learn to play new songs quickly, so he had no problem joining the band on stage at short notice.

Carsten first came into contact with Alphaville through Jakob Kiersch in 2009, when they still played in different bands. Jakob later introduced Carsten to Marian Gold during a flight that all three happened to be on. Marian then contacted Carsten in 2012 when Martin Lister was unable to do a gig in Romania, and asked him to stand in for Martin on stage. Carsten has in fact never met Martin and feels that replacing him as a permanent band member might be quite a hard task. He really hopes that he will be accepted by the fans.

His first Alphaville concert as a permanent member was performed in freezing Alta on the 14th of June this year in the far north of Norway. He had never before been north of the Arctc circle and says that he was surprised by the effect of the midnight sun.

Carsten was born on the 8th of August in 1977. He lives in Kassel, Germany. In November this year, he will be a first time father. We asked him about the upcoming South American tour in October, and he replied that he and his girlfriend do not see a problem with it as long as he is back in time for the birth of his child. Carsten has also been working on a PhD about Kraftwerk for some time and hopes to finish it before November. He has never met any Kraftwerk member in person, and fears that he never will, should they happen to read his PhD! Despite being a huge football fan and a supporter of Bayern München, he used to play handball in his youth. Carsten is also interested in the arts, and his girlfriend is involved professionally with art.

Naturally, we have already accepted Carsten as the new band member, and we did our best to make him feel welcome and comfortable within the fan community. In fact, we’re totally grateful for his participation in the Wroclaw gig and all the upcoming ones. Our hopes are that everybody else feels the same way and we wish him all the best for the future.

Andrea Ruby & Andreas

[Andrea Ruby]

Dear Tobias, of course you can use this chat fo alphavillenow.com. Someone else asked if they could translate it and publish it on other Alphaville fan sites, and Andeas and I both gave them our permission. So I'm sure Andreas wouldn't mind this time either. If you feel uncertain, just ask him. Everyone who is a friend of Alphaville's should be able to read it. About the picture: I'm away on holiday at the mo and cannot access my photo editing programme, so why don't you try to edit the size yourself or pick it off my facebook if that's a different size, I'm not sure, I'm not very hi tech [tonque] Actually, Andreas may be able to fix this for you, I would check with him if I were you. Good luck!

[Krapplund]

He can wait for the real size....you wiil get from Finland sooon hehehe slaute

[shapeseven]

Originally Posted by Andrea Ruby

Dear Tobias, of course you can use this chat fo alphavillenow.com. Someone else asked if they could translate it and publish it on other Alphaville fan sites, and Andeas and I both gave them our permission. So I'm sure Andreas wouldn't mind this time either. If you feel uncertain, just ask him. Everyone who is a friend of Alphaville's should be able to read it. About the picture: I'm away on holiday at the mo and cannot access my photo editing programme, so why don't you try to edit the size yourself or pick it off my facebook if that's a different size, I'm not sure, I'm not very hi tech [tonque] Actually, Andreas may be able to fix this for you, I would check with him if I were you. Good luck!

that's cool!
no need fur hurries though, I won't be publishing anything regarding this this week :-)

[Andreas]

Thanks for all the nice replies concerning our interview!

@Tobi: You have my permission to use it on alphavillenow.com. I have the photos available, so if you tell me where to send it you will have it within some hours.

[Andrea Ruby]

Thanks Andreas. It's all sorted then. Kippis to everyone from Hanko, Finland