MOVIE STAR JUNKIES started as an organ and drum duo in Torino in 2006.
They played Suicide-like music. The duo involved a quintet.
Since then their music has been showing influences of
the music of Birthday Party and Gun Club, and standing
under strong literary impressions.
Their first album was dedicated to Melville, the second one to William Blake.
Those were released on Voodoo Rhythm Records.
Their name was inspired by a John Waters’ photo.

MOVIE STAR JUNKIES in Budapest at RNR666 Party in 2008

They have involved in many other projects

– Occult, psych, folk outfits: Gianni Giublena Rosacroce,  La Piramide di Sange,  Mai Mai Mai,  Futeisha

– Alternative rock bands: Vernon Sélavy,  Vermillion Sands,  The Me’s (= the bassist Nene Barato with Austro-Hungarian jazz singer Réka Csiszér, French-Vietnamese burlesque performer La-la Morte and Simon from the Swiss Pussywarmers)

– oAxAcA free jazz ensemble

After 10 years long unsuccessful musical tries Stephan Remmler (vocals and a little Casio) and Gert Krawinkel (guitar)  founded the Trio in a small German town, Großenkneten in 1980. They looked for drummer through a newspaper ad, and found Peter Behrens, a clown and pantomime artist. They played very minimal but amazing music with humorous scenes. Their world famous schlager is Da-Da-Da. They disbanded in 1985.

Trio live in Bramsche 1981

„minimal, radical, catastrophal, phenomenal, anal, global, ideal, irreal”

Tracklist
Ein Scherz – Lady-O-Lady – Der Höhepunkt – Sunday You Need love, Monday Be Alone – Country Boy – Ya Ya – Carmen – Halt mich fest ich werd verrückt – Nur ein Traum – Ja Ja Ja – Kummer – Nirgendwohin – Guitarsolo (Purple Haze) – Energie – Etwas Folklore – Viertelstunde Bier holen – 3DDD Brille – Danger Is – Oder doch-wird so schlimm nicht sein – Los Paul – Du ich wär so gern bei dir – Da Da Da ich lieb dich nicht du liebst mich? nicht aha aha aha – Tallahassie Lassie – Candy Bar – Broken Hearts For You And Me – Nasty – Ja Ja, wo gehts lank Peter Pank schönen Dank – A Little Love – Zugabe / Trio Bommerlunder

Post Trio careers
Behrens: alcoholics then social street worker then actor and musician.
Krawinkel: in 1998 he got an entry in the Guinness Book of Records by riding the longest distance from Seville to Hamburg by horse. He lives in Spain and run a studio.
Remmler: continued his musical career as solo artist until 1996. After a 10 years break he released a double album in 2006. He lives in Schwitzerland.

The band will be performing their forthcoming new album ‘…Like Clockwork’ in full in Los Angeles at 8 pm on 23 May (PT). The concert will be streaming here at 5 am on 24 May (CET). Like Clockwork promo video: