England, here we come!

Yep, the cat is out of the bag! Read on to find out more about our upcoming adventures and things we’d love to share with you.

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April…a month that just can’t take itself seriously. 

It starts with April fools and continues by throwing all four seasons at us in the space of thirty days. Who knows – you could be reading this right now in summer sunshine or in the middle of a snow storm 🤷‍♂️

Whatever the case may be, please wear weather-appropriate clothing and enjoy this month’s ERNST newsletter.

Here’s the good stuff we have in store for you this time round:

1. ERNST unplugs

2. ERNST discovers their favourite drink

3. ERNST on a bus

4. ERNST abroad

ERNST unplugs

What a pleasure it was to play our first acoustic gig, exclusively for newsletter subscribers! 

Big thanks to Holy Garbage x Kanopi for making the space so cozy and to everyone who came along. For those of you who couldn’t make it, here’s a highlight reel for you to enjoy:

We had so much fun, and we would love to do this again this year. If you have any suggestions for where you’d love to see us play, reply to this message and let us know 😀

ERNST discovers their favourite drink

… and it might not be what you think.

“Beer!” I hear you (and Ralf) cry. Nope. 

“Berliner Luft!” I hear you (and Philipp) cry. Sorry, wrong again. 

“Tea with milk and little sandwiches filled with cucumber and some scones with cream!” I hear Dan (and no-one else) cry. Close, but not quite.

The answer is in fact: Raspberry Soda! 

Coincidentally, this is also the name of our new label and management agency! 

We are so excited to work with such an awesome independent label and can’t wait to take our next steps in the music world together. You can take a look for yourself here: Raspberry Soda Agency (S'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)

Step 1 of our collaboration was a band trip together to Weyer in Upper Austria to plan out the next year and we gotta say – we got big plans for y’all!

Which leads us on to…

ERNST on a bus

Last month, we introduced you to our “tour bus” Joe. He has quickly become the 6th member of the band, so it was only fair that he also played a starring role in the music video for our next single, “Don’t Buy It”. 

We don’t want to give away too much, but it is fair to say we put our lives in danger multiple times to record the best music video we possibly could, helped by the wonderful Matak Studios. 

And just for you, we wanted to share some of our behind-the-scenes video planning. We asked chatGPT for some help with the video, of course, and it is fair to say that it wasn’t too impressed…

And big news!

We can exclusively reveal to you all that “Don’t Buy It” will be released on 17 May! Don’t worry – we will send you a special newsletter edition just before so you don’t forget 😉 

ERNST abroad

As if all of that wasn’t enough, we now also have to practice our queueing, politeness, tea-drinking and weather small-talk skills (see, we even tried it at the start of this newsletter) because …

WE’RE HEADING TO ENGLAND!

More specifically, we’re off to Brighton to play a set at the Alternative Escape, part of The Great Escape showcase festival (S'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre) on 17 May (yep, the same day as we release Don’t Buy It).

The dream team from Raspberry Soda are coming with us and we fully intend on showing the Brits the best of Austria! We’re also curious if they let Dan back in the country. Stay tuned for our messages from across the pond!

A goodbye, but not for long...

Thanks so much for reading and for your interest in us as a band and our music. We really appreciate you took the time and hope you had fun with the extra content!

Lots of love,

ERNST 💗💛💜