2. Einstürzende NeubautenEnde Neu

At high school, you had to choose French or German for GCSE, but five of us did both, so we often stayed behind for catch up lessons. It gave me this appreciation of French and German from a really early age, where it wasn’t an exotic other. 

We’d also go on holiday to the middle of nowhere in Spain where I’d have to learn some Spanish, because my mum and dad knew I liked languages. In Valencia we had this small villa with a TV that only picked up satellite channels. Almost all of the channels were German and they had two music channels: Viva and Viva Zwei, the equivalent of MTV and MTV2. I’d stay up late watching them. Once I caught the end of ‘The Garden’ by Einstürzende Neubauten, but missed the name. Later, I started investigating Neubauten. First Collapse, then chronologically… I get to Ende Neu, and there’s ‘The Garden’. It was the track I remembered from German TV!