Synopsis „The Birth of Doubt“

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ARE YOU SHY?
To be or not to be that is the question!
So, are we alive or does life play tricks on us?
“Like a shy guy at the show” is more than just the lyrical hookline of one the band's songs. Disintegration is
the major topic of songs, lyrics and artwork of the German band shy guy at the show which was founded in
2005 in the town of Karlsruhe. Paul Auster's fictional character Marco Stanley Fogg in his world-famous
novel Moonpalace serves as some kind of role model for the band's search for identity. Whereas the moon is
Fogg's point of reference sgats have discovered music as theirs.
Some might say:
This smells like teen spirit!
For sure!
Is what we'll reply.
But wait!
There's more to it than just a youthful long day's journey out of night. Inspired by the works of modern poets
such as Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams and Robert Frost shy guy at the show mix textual sparseness
with 80s Wave Rock à la Sisters of Mercy, Bauhaus, Joy Division, Camouflage or Kraftwerk.
NO WAVE - INDIEROCK?
Mental nourishment?
Exactly! Our journey's neither comfortable nor a short one; it's meant to be long and painful but still fulfilling.
The band's songs thus offer a whole range of emotions and facets: loud and aggressive, soft and low but
always dark and melancholic. This is what modern Indirock's supposed to sound like
Interested?
ARE YOU SHY?
OF COURSE YOU ARE!
Synopsis „The Birth of Doubt“
„I know nought poorer
Under the sun, than ye gods!
Ye nourish painfully,
With sacrifices
And votive prayers,
Your majesty:
Ye would e'en starve,
If children and beggars
Were not trusting fools“
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Prometheus, 2nd Stanza )
The cold light of mankind. I embrace thee and turn away from the coziness of divine hierarchy. How much does it take to
let me stay? What do you want me to do and say and vow and preach to endlessly drink your sweet ambrosia? Doubt, I
call thee friend whereas they will deem you enemy!
“A race resembling me,
To suffer, to weep,
To enjoy, to be glad,
And thee to scorn,
As I”
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Prometheus, 8. Strophe )
I’m neither man nor woman. I AM A MOTHERFUCKING ANGEL. What is an angel? Who am I? I’m leaving you for
earth, where they call me divine, precious, mighty, immortal. Books have told my life. I’ll read them. I’m not longing to
become human. They are weak and false. But they own and breed doubt. Heaven slumbers. I am awake and roaming the
alleys of knowledge to learn the seven arts of mankind.
One master of the trivium, the threefold path. Three masters of the quadrivium, the fourfold path. I’ll watch them, I’ll
learn from them. One philosopher bound to teach me grammar, rhetorics and logic. An architect who’ll teach me
arithemtics and geometry. The third one a musician will pass along his knowledge of composing. The last master an
astronomer. Art breeds doubt. Art gives birth to doubt. Art gives life to the doubt inside me. It gives life to me...I will
form myself after the image of mankind.
“The Birth of Doubt” is shy guy at the show's ambitious attempt of combining literature, music and visual aspects. The LP
containing 12 songs is joined by a music video and a 40 page Graphic Novel which illustrates the songs' lyrics and
contents. Based on Goethe's reception of the myth of Prometheus, the band has created the story of a nameless angel who
wants to learn mankind's unique ability to doubt.
Shy guy at the show function as a multimedia-based project and thus offer more than a just a musical experience. This
pretension also serves as a guideline for the band's electrifying live shows.