The Screws | ar

The Screws are perhaps the punkest of all the Mick Collins projects (The Gories, The Dirtbombs, Blacktop etc.). While retaining the blues/garage/soul/R&B influences he's known for, the Screws have a harsher and more aggressive sound. Epitaph recording artists the Red Aunts went to Detroit in 1997 to record their swan song album, "Ghetto Blaster", at Ghetto Recorders studio with Mick Collins as their chosen producer. The Red Aunts had long been fans of Mick's work and Mick was a fan of the Red Aunts. During a moment of inspiration, the Aunts decided to have Mick record a duet with RA...

Inefficient Screws are a Berlin based conglomerate of musicians around the songwriter Markus Steidl. The small lofi-orchestra performs on stage with up to 12 people playing guitars, ukulele, melodica, violin, cello, organ and drums. Members include Markus Steidl (vocals and acoustic guitar), Daniel Kroneberg (electric guitar, a.o. Likeartoise), Dirk Lücken (bass) and Benjamin Arntz (ukulele and mandolin, a.o. Orchestre Miniature in the Park). The multi-instrumentalists Julia Kotowski (entertainment for the braindead) and Sebastian Arnold (mad scientist drummer) are also immensely involved in the band's live concerts and recording process (Box Fort, 2009 and Advertitis, 2011). .