Die Roten Punkte
@ The Gaiety Grande
12:00pm, Mon 13 Mar 2006
Ha ha haaaaa, ahaaa ha haaaa.
Fantastic, just fantastic.
Yes, it’s a short show, weighing in at a tiny 40 minutes. Yes, they only really had five songs (what with the first three songs being… um… identical). But, dear God, they were fantastic.
“Die Roten Punkte” is German, of course, for “The Red Dots”. They are (or rather, claim to be) a brother/sister duo – Otto Rot on guitar, Astrid Rot on drums. And for siblings, they certainly do appear to be… ummm… close.
Hmmmm. That couldn’t be a piss-take of The White Stripes, could it?
Naaaaaaaaaaaah.
Anyhoo, their songs – The First/Second/Third Song, “Die Roten Punkte”, The Explanation Song (and a delightful cover of The Carpenters’ “Close To You”) – are performed with all the subtlety of the aforementioned Stripes, but there’s a wonderful changeup in Otto’s industrial-tinged german electro-pop.
“Close To You” is, of course, used as a dedication to an audience member – and for this performance, the target of the dedication was none other than Pluck’s Jon Regan. Pluck, in general, really seemed appreciative of Die Roten Punkte. Me? I loved it. Loved it. More music references than you can poke a stick at, more gut-laughs than you can imagine.
The set-list:
- Song 1
- Song 2
- Song 3
- Dedication
- Song 4
- Song 5
- Song 6
Yes, really.
And, for the record, I went back and watched their 3:00pm show, too. Brilliant.