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CHRISTHER SCHÜTZ The Unofficial Yellow Pages The Humanitarian In Christher's heart there has always been plenty of room for solidarity and compassion, in songs for and about homeless, outcasts, famishing, prostitutes and alcoholics. Humanitarian/animalitarian punk It all began with the punk band Uncle Feasttick, for which he wrote several songs of solidarity, for instance Misery [Misär] about an alcohol addict spending his days on a bench in the park; Aid [Bistånd] about/against the popular Swedish racistic political party New Democrazy and their animosity to send economical aid to the third world; and the much-liked Summer Cat [Sommarkatt] - which shows that he is also a big lover of animals - about the family that is leaving their summer cottage for the year, and the little kitten that they bought in the beginning of the summer is left to die. The protest singer Leaving the punkrock for an acoustic guitar was the natural continuation for Christher the protest singer. Early acoustic songs like The Wires In His Head, Mute Song, For The Oppressed, A Soldier's Conscience and Take My Hand, the song that became a local hit for Christher & the Peaceflowers in 1995 in a reaggae arrangement, helped profilling Christher. These early songs, though good and compassionate, are coloured by a green pointer moral which could be quite tiring. That is probably why Christher completely left them behind when Peaceflowers lay down their arms. Reborn critic After doing blues for a couple of years with ironical mannish lyrics, and innovative pop/rock with Punch And Judy Show he returned to the acoustic guitar once and for all. Perhaps he needed to do something completely different for those years, because the reborn critic Christher Schütz is not to be trifled with! He has matured and is in some weird way always succeeding to stay objective, perhaps due to his ironical touch. His songs are always of current interest, or how about the following lines from Best Transmission Wins about TV's news channels: Because the best transmission wins We're on needles and on pins And when the butchery begins We're gonna broadcast live We had our dark eyes on Kuwait We're serving warfare on a plate Everything comes to those who wait We're gonna broadcast live Or the song Cherry In The Shade, a great song against capital punishment; Black Cab And Coffee that tells about a nighttime meeting with a black cab driver, prostitutes and homeless outside McDonalds. We'll finish off this page with a few lines from the brilliant Wonder What She's Thinking about going to a peepshow to jerk off in a small booth while watching a girl strip live, and suddenly starting to wonder what the girl could be thinking about: Her room is three decades, her body is possibly two She moves to the music, her distant look pales into blue Then our eyes meet through the glass, it fills me with shame She strips, does her thing, I do mine and wipe myself sane But I wonder what she's thinking Wonder what she's thinking Unofficial | the Songwriter | the Artist - Musician | the Writer | the Film Maker | the Humanitarian | the Early Interviews/Press | the Complete List of Bands/Constellations | the Official Website |