Die Unbekannten (The Unknown) - Don't Tell Me Stories

A few months following an unconventional performance as the impromptu formation Le Sang Froid, together with Kristof Hahn (The Swans) Mark Reeder was asked if he would like to perform at the upcoming Konzert zur Einheit der Nation on the 17 June 1981 in SO36. In a stupor, he said he would. The next day, he realised he had no band, no songs and no idea why he had actually agreed. He called his friend Alistair Gray, another Brit washed up on the shores of the island of West-Berlin and asked him if he could sing. Al gave Mark a bathroom rendition of Strangers in the Night and Mark said, that's great, come round to my flat and I will show you how to play bass, we have a gig next Wednesday! At this point, the twosome had no band name and no intention of taking this folly any further than the one-off appearance.