The Screenshots

Two million sales with a simple idea - that was the plan when Cologne-based rock band The Screenshots made their debut three years ago. The result? Chart position 45, a pandemic and a plus-minus zero. Time for a new chapter that is not about sales, but about people. With a lot of playfulness, lightness and a new directness: welcome to the wonder of mankind!
The Screenshots' new album no longer sounds like a mindless success mindset. This has to do with the fact that the band had to learn with their last album "2 Million Turnover with a Simple Idea" that turnover alone is not profit. And so the latent permanent irony of the early years makes way for a different form of truthfulness.
"Wunderwerk Mensch" is characterized by the courage to experiment and a range that can also be attributed to the album's production method. With the creative input of producer Nicolas Epe, the music was created over a period of two years in various studios, basements and private homes. And now finds its way onto recycled vinyl. The random color mixing in the recycling process makes each record unique.
Lyrically, Chat GPT's year also revolves around the essential questions of human existence: What is happiness? Who loves whom and how much? And: Wasn't every grandpa a baby once? So after the pandemic, canceled tours and the big, overarching question of how to exist as a small indie band in the long term, it continues. In October 2023 on the "Wunderwerk Mensch" tour through NRW and the rest of the world.

The Screenshots met online in 2018. From their first rehearsal room in Krefeld, their path quickly led them to television (Neo Magazin Royale, Late Night Berlin), festivals (Immergut, Highfield, Appletree Garden, etc.) and band internships with Von wegen Lisbeth, Madsen and Sportfreunde Stiller. The Süddeutsche Zeitung saw the debut album as: "A humorous inventory of our banal present", Spiegel Online found: "If this is a joke, it's getting better and better." Twitter no longer really plays a role in the band: singer Dax Werner has donated his account with 60,000 followers to Mission Lifeline. The other two Shooters have also expanded their work in the meantime: Kurt Prödel, for example, with the podcast Friendly Reminder with Carla Kaspari, his two solo EPs or as a sidekick in Studio Schmitt (ZDFneo) while Susi Bumms published a fantastic weekly calendar with her drawings.