Photo : Kamil Milewski

Left- Mrs Fiend - The Boneshaker Babeeeee! Photo : Batmarc

A big thank you to promoter Krzysztof & all of our loyal fans in Poland, it was great to FINALLY get to play a show there after so many years.... Nik and Mrs Fiend

Gazeta Wyborcza (the biggest local newspaper) - a review.
For non-Polish speakers - the reviewer wrote a lot about the great atmosphere, the image of Nik Fiend & the throwing of skulls and bones into the audience. Also the design of the stage, and that fans had been waiting for so long to see their favourite band. ASF played all their well known songs from the past.

Teraz Rock - January 2008 - a review.
Machina - January 2008 issue - an interview with Alien Sex Fiend by Michal Polanski.

Oooooh that feels SO good!

After Poland it was onto Berlin, met up with a host of old f(r)iends, thanks to Wolfie for looking after us, what a show - sold out, the audience singing along to "Now I'm Feeling Zombiefied" (in tune AND in time! Well done you lot!) was amazing, we were about to hit the curfew but just had time for one more song, so we launched into "Boneshaker Baby" with duelling guitars, which we hadn't played since 1991... Thank you to all of the fans who travelled to the shows to see us... it's a trip we will never forget! .... Nik and Mrs Fiend

5-4-3-2-1-FIRE!!! Photo : Mike Menzel

Photo : Florian Reischauer

Alien Sex Fiend, the legendary band that established the word "Batcave" gave a magnificent show after a ten year break since their last visit to Berlin. In comparison to the relics of the post punk era that have recently emerged from their graves, such as Bauhaus, Alien Sex Fiend did not deliver a boring "oldies" show. In fact, such a thing would be impossible with Alien Sex Fiend, almost no other band is as inspired as The Fiends for experimental avantgardism. ASF have always been ahead of their time, and all these years later even their older songs, such as those from the 1984 period, still remain experimental, artistic, psychedelic and weird. Furthermore, they do not play the songs exactly as we know them from the albums, but instead they create a new blend or mix, so that at every Alien Sex Fiend concert, every time, each song is made over anew. How far and psychotic their songs can become can be gauged by listening to their live CD "Flashbacks" and when also seen in the flesh in concert, ASF songs are given an additional theatrical touch courtesy of their highly entertaining stage show.

Nik Fiend spins bones, skulls and sex dolls around in a spooky batcave stage set. He sings (in EAST Berlin) �Cos everybody wants what everybody's got , And everybody's got what everybody wants� and throws a giant inflatable banana into the audience (Andy 456 remarks: I now remember that bananas were very rare in the east of Germany in former times....so this has added poignance in Berlin.). Hits like "I Walk The Line" are played differently, the band deal with the topic and recreate it again and again, via hand made electronic music with a sawing guitar. Nik is like an alien voodoo priest who you totally believe in when he sings the words 'Now I'm feeling zombiefied' - and he also zombiefies the attentive audience, pulling them into an alternative world of psychotic madness. For sure, only Alien Sex Fiend could cover a song like "Hurricane Fighter Plane" in its true spirit. The original song was recorded by The Red Crayola along with the Familiar Ugly during a wild studio session on LSD for the album "The Parable Of Arable Land". Familiar Ugly was a 50 man freak gang & by making sounds with whatever was available including the striking of matches & cranking motorcycles, they underpinned the coolest psychedelic soundtrack ever, complete with apocalyptic, sawing acid guitar. The tracks were strikingly listed as 'A Free Form Freak-Out' on that album and it is one of the holy grails of the Acid Hippie Weirdo Culture - it is exactly this spirit that Alien Sex Fiend used to have and showed that they still do have on the 24th of November in Berlin's Postbahnhof - a Free Form, Freak-Out - just as completely mad and no less vivid as the last time I experienced them back in the 1980s.