The Laughing Man (band)
The Laughing Man is a pop group from Wuppertal, Germany. Founded in 2003, the band plays pop music. Stefan Neumann aka J. Gedsudski, a singer with an audible German accent, says that The Laughing Man tries to "deconstruct the language to get new meanings out of it".[1]
The independent pop music of the Laughing Man, the name inspired by J.D. Salinger's story of the same name, is influenced by The Smiths, The Beatles, The Clash, American Music Club and many other British and U.S. bands of the 1980s and early '90s. The band is well known for a cover version of The Triffids' song Wide_Open_Road. The band's first CD, Beauty Cream Beauty, came out on Secret Silverfish Records in 2003. The album Strawberry Love had been announced for 2009, but was not published before Jan. 27 2011. After many changes in the line-up recordings for a new album started in 2013. The album Midnight Voice was published on June 16 2014 on the band's own label Secret Silverfish Records.
Discography
- Albums
- Beauty Cream Beauty CD Album. Secret Silverfish SSF 10, 2003
- The Blue Boy Didn't Know CD EP. Secret Silverfish SSF M7, 2006
- Strawberry Love CD Album. Secret Silverfish SSF 11, 2011
- Midnight Voice CD Album. Secret Silverfish SSF 12, 2014.
Band members
- 2001
- Achim Groebner - guitar, vocals
- Anne Feustmann - bass, vocals, keyboards
- Stefan "Nafets" J. Gedsudski - vocals, programmes
- 2014
- Ellen Benn
- Jessie Fink
- Angela Kellermann
- Stefan "J. Gedsudski" Neumann
- Michael "Simple" Reichel