X-Mal Deutschland - Mondlicht/Orient (Live in Munich, Alabamahalle)

[@soarornor]

Manuela Rickers was one of the most amazing guitarists of the eighties. Everyone in this band was superb. So great to see this.

[@vodaploda]

My favourite thing about the band was Manuela's guitar.

[@soarornor]

Vaughanie Yeah, That was such a great era of coolness. Music, costume and hair. And labels like 4AD. And I’m amazed I wrote my comment eight years ago. Time is jetting. Thanks for pulling me back to look at the clip again. I would have guessed I saw it originally a few months ago. 👁

[@velileon101]

Manuela was the goat

[@MunterPunter]

Brilliant band, I say!

[@Magicklubee]

Anja is so amazing! Totally recommend her newest work.

[@morkthehat]

Thanks for the reminder, I've still to buy her new album.

[@Helm1982]

I would give soooooo much to see this band originally in the 80´s... where is my time machine???

[@luckyinlondon451]

Saw them support sisters of mercy lyceum London ...blew them off

[@chloemazzoli4383]

If you found your machine, take me with you

[@morkthehat]

saw them twice in the early 80s and they were outstanding

[@psd5655]

I love the 5 people giving their best in the mini moshpit

[@claudimi6610]

XmalDeutschland 💞

[@edeneverly2573]

God she's so beautiful, cool, and I love her voice. She's a wonderful artist.

[@MomentjeZen]

love her deep voice too

[@hopeofdarkness]

Absolutely talented and Darkness introduced voice

[@СергейСтепанюк-я3т]

Какой драйв, всё-таки. Круто. Лихо.

[@Brotherhoodoflizards79]

All the squares not moshing hahahaaaaaaaaaa Just those 3 dudes going hard

[@Angelqueue]

Xmal forever!

[@julosx]

Manuel Rockers was a female J. Mc Geoch ! Yay ! And XMD one of the finest new-wave band ever.

[@BladeRunerUnit99S]

this is the story and history of xmal: badly received in its country, but a hit outside. a shame !!!!!!

[@christelle8572]

Mouahahahah, the guy dancing his arse off.... Hilarious !!!

[@poupidamour2846]

Je suis vraiment pas née à la bonne période .. C'est quand il existait des groupes comme ça que j'aurai dû naître !!!

[@julosx]

Moi j'étais né mais j'étais encore un peu vert et ne connaissais de toute façon pas encore le groupe. Du coup j'ai raté leur concert parisien.

[@frankveloso770]

Uauuuuu!!! Essa banda é demais!

[@claudiojuniorferreiraguima690]

Sem duvida

[@faeriefayee]

demais

[@wiebkegatjen2003]

I saw them twice in the Markthalle/Hamburg and I can tell ya there was a helluvalot more action and dancing going on. Also we in the audience were mostly wearing black and the whole atmosphere was much darker and the lightshow was really great. Munich is just the wrong city for punk, postpunk, emo, new wave, gothic. They are too conservative and happy go lucky there.

[@kingwithoutacrown1]

+Wiebke Gätjen Und die Moral der Story: Die Schluchtenscheisser in der Dorfmetropole sind in puncto Kunst von Hamburg auf galaktischer Ebene etwa 100.000 Lichtjahre entfernt ;-)

[@mitchipunk]

ich war auch dabei und ich stimme absolut zu Markthalle 80 iger wie geil war das !

[@alado21]

este concierto es de lo más alucinante, esa performance tan obsesiva de Anja y esos muchachos que disfrutan plenamente bailando

[@annygz5180]

Es como una sacerdotisa en un antiguo ritual bailando a la luna. Schön.....

[@Senator107]

I love how this performance is so on point with no special effects, in front of a tepid audience.

[@keithbate9405]

Edison Vieira John Peel was very trend setting in the UK and pretty much any band "he championed " would become popular. Xmal were excellent live and on record. Clearly S and the Banshees were a huge influence. The 1980's were a golden age in some ways 4AD label had some truly great bands like Dead can dance and Throwing muses and some good ones like X Mal.

[@julosx]

Anja said in a interview that they never knew or listened to the Banshees. They were pretty much into Joy Division instead. And XMal sound formula was quite different from the Banshees's since they had a full time keyboard player.

[@keithbate9405]

Having seen Joy Division live ditto the Banshees and X Mal I am surprised by this comment . Maybe true but I see little similarity between X Mal and Joy D. The former were to more punk noise whilst Joy D had both noise and on tracks like "love will tear us part " great subtlety Liked all three bands and still do but Joy D made music that "is immortal" the other two did not..

[@julosx]

Allow me to disagree. Good music is immortal, therefore the Banshees (in their best moments that is) and XMD certainly are just as much as Joy D. And to be honest, I'm still much more into XMD than into Joy D. because I find XMD's sound a lot more modern and richer, more *evolved* as the band moved away from its early minimalism. The difference between _Fetish_ and _Viva_ is striking in this aspect.

[@keithbate9405]

"all music is immortal " that might be your opinion but I strongly disagree ! . Most of the music from the past is not played by people alive today . Once music passes out of living memory it is pretty much forgotten. unless it has merit that enables it to passed down to forthcoming generations eg Beethoven, Mozart pass this test as do the Beatles your comments re ABC are irrelevant to me as I did not rate them much at the time and do not know. They were better than some of the pop stuff around in the 1980's eg The Thompson twins that's all

[@marcioroberto4847]

ESSA VOCALISTA E LINDA .

[@adrianadallonder6996]

Treasure

[@shayrlcpa]

One of the greatest of the dark 80s but why only two people dance ???

[@UltraUser007]

i guess that was a tv recording exclusively with invited guests - the fans had to dance outside

[@tricosteryl]

May be at that time this music was not considered as dance music... And, at a concert you have 2 types of behaviour : people who come to see & hear the band perfomance - those dont dance - and people who come for the "atmosphere" who often dance.

[@Idontwantahandle6669]

The only people who danced were the posers in the clubs. You didn't dance when you saw the bands live, that was "lame". Notice how nobody in the crowd is playing dress up and they all have normal hair? That's because that look was only meant to be a stage look, and the people who tried too hard didn't get that, so they dressed like that too. What you see here is the real deal. All of those club videos you've seen we're just gatherings of the lame asses.

[@thelivingend]

@@tricosteryl this is so completely wrong, a lot of the audience doesn’t seem very invested at all - I’d say the people who dance here are the biggest enjoyers

[@johannesjuanes]

She s extremely hot, and the music is amazing. Amazing band

[@blackcloudsovereurope]

new wave at his best

[@XellKamikaze]

Yay for unseen Xmal Deutschland footage! Thank you! :)

[@meslayer11]

she's gorgeous, I was in love too

[@elsieb66]

Pure goth joy.

[@annelaurechampenois2648]

The best the very best

[@nelohagen]

so fascinating OMG >♡

[@jackiejackiesmith8507]

Anja.. Lo máximo...

[@thesecretpolyglot7652]

Divine ... 🌙

[@stephanvenner7218]

Das Publikum ist ja richtig wild.Nur 3Tänzer in einer Horde von Poppern? Ich war damals nie bei XMal Deutschland,wäre aber sich schnell bei den Pogotänzern gewesen.

[@vincentpeckeu859]

Anja 😍😍😍

[@juliuscajilog9371]

I was in love anja huwe when i was young 😁😁😁

[@sandalwhich]

That's some serious eyeshadow skills.

[@AnklepantsSkateZine]

I think that's Ian Curtis.

[@cherylchaison5085]

She's good. Siouxsie is otherworldly.

[@rayssavictoria5329]

muito bom

[@DocSommer]

we also have a columbiahalle (and many many more halls)^^

[@K.Monster]

01:14 This is what I called: EYES IN ACID!

[@pateris]

Still now, as I've witnessed, German audiences are not the most expansive. Which is great, you can always sneak to the front row ! (I like Germany a lot, but even my Germans mates admit it's a fact !)

[@gutonx]

X-Mal Spain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@JOOODYJOOODY]

SO beautifu;l

[@kakolicht]

OHHHH MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! O.O

[@Brotherhoodoflizards79]

Hahaha demon possession at 1:15

[@MrDravenLee]

Anja ❤❤❤

[@eduardomontesdeocatrejo9230]

😍

[@selwyngreenfrith9768]

Ever been an Orient Football Club chant?

[@robinandthedog]

I'm like the guy in the middle jumping and getting submerged into the music.

[@majortom2688]

Anja i love you ou ou ou ouh

[@slugface322]

03:30 *HAH* !!!

[@ROBKAT74]

WOW

[@harryflash5202]

Mein Gott! Soiuxsie und der Banshees mit der Yoko Ono und mit der yodelling!

[@tricosteryl]

XD

[@uberalles2]

X-Mal Deutschland uber alles likes

[@TheOnlyOneStanding8079]

Call Security there's a man dancing by himself..🤨😡🧐

[@iiimusika]

oohhh

[@superspocko]

The kids in the audience look as though they don't have a clue who they are watching???

[@jhandel]

na, die Münchner gehen ja ab wie Schmitz' Katze! Yeah!

[@UsoundsGermany]

Strange audience :)=

[@knitkicker]

That was what the 80's looked like ,unless you were into underground music. You were creative in dress not like today you can buy everything @the mall.

[@UsoundsGermany]

knitkicker I grow up in the 80ties, still the audience is strange :)

[@knitkicker]

ha ha I agree :)

[@inuterooo]

3.31 she is just like a roaring tigeri leopard. sooo wild so enchanting. sends me shivers. siouxsie is older but anja is 1000000000 times more original and cool. xmal songs are much better tho smaller in number

[@0utlaw13]

Way too much video exposure of the drummer. I wanted to see Manuela more... and Anja, of course.

[@clydebroflovsky7905]

oh hell yeah.. i have the biggest thing for manuela!! anja is gorgeous too though

[@PAULLONDEN]

Funny to see just once...but thisis "Goth" by numbers....I feel for the band,over exposed by the unsensitive bright lighting;this kind of music benefits with some imaginative atmospheric darker stage setting.

[@IvanIvanov-me6od]

Пионеры панк-рока

[@rhiannish]

x mal, siouxie and cranb have something in common and i do not know what it is.. hahaha

[@xmal100]

loooool

[@goldcrushband]

xoxo

[@ram29jackson]

Alabamahalle..? so this means Alabama was originally settled by Germans ?

[@claudimi6610]

Deutschland Jedem sei lan

[@peiter7732]

Xmal deutshland viva

[@wanneske1969]

Siouxsie outdates this band by 10 years... But I love them still !!!

[@godessflo]

Yep. Orient, and the whole of the "Fetisch" album, could easily fit in the first two Banshees albums (The Scream; 1978 and Join Hands; 1979). So it's good to see that at least somebody in Germany thought this particular Goth niche was worth the trouble of bringing to life their. Anja Howe, Fiona Sangster, Manuela Rickers, Manuela Swingman and Wolfgang Ellerbrock were more understated, and kept the original early (late 70's) Goth movement alive. Thanks Anja

[@stevehardman4686]

10 years, what kind of math is that? 4 years

[@filipematias5127]

steve hardman : Actually it's 5 years! The Scream by Siouxsie and the Banshees was released in 1978 and Fetisch by Xmal Deutschland was released in 1983! (1983 - 1978 = 5)

[@Holret]

Uh no! shoulder dance! f*ck!

[@formulacub9953]

You're right. She's a pale imitation of the real thing, Siouxie.

[@daverobinson2299]

But better looking.

[@juliuscajilog9371]

​@@daverobinson2299 100% correct