Tears for Beers now already exists for almost eighteen years! In the start time it was called “Ten Beers After” and made themselves as a disgrace of the north German folks scene. After one year the name was changed in Tears for Beers, because of a same named band from Bremen and actually the speech of disgrace could never be. Tears for Beers hadn’t already been beginners at that time; all four initial members could already look back on experience and success in other regional bands. Already under the initial name “Ten Beers After” it started well: after few concerts the band was well-known as one of the best regional (bands) – the concept came up: Traditional Irish and Scottish items were provided with modern influences and brought with it up to date. Also the name change was born without any problems. Tears For Beers constantly won fans from most diverse musical stocks in addition. The first CD Tears For Beers was taken up 1992 in the Kieler supersonic recording studio with Andreas Linnemann. The first edition of 1.000 pieces, financed by the trade union “ÖTV”, was sold in wind hurry and had already to be pressed twice again until today . The ascent of the band from a local secret tip to an international active “branded article” carried out itself in partly breath-robbing speed: Beside innumerable gigs in all clubs of northern Germany all large festivals in northern Germany were afflicted. The various musical preferences of the musicians add themselves in Tears For Beers to an overall view that permits loans from country music, bluegrass, hillbilly or reggae apart from traditional Irish and Scottish folk and also grooving rock music. That developes an individual non-standard music style that Tears For Beers self-conscious call “Folk’n’Roll”. With this own mixture they inspire young as well as old people, folk-fans as well as party-girls, rocker, pop-fans and also the world wide Internet-participations: Since 1999 Tears For Beers are represented in mp3.com. In this time it went rapidly upward. As so far first and only German band Tears For Beers reached several number 1 quotations into the mp3- charts for folk, for celtic in the column world/folk. Numerous quotations of further titles in the top 20 of that category were added. The title “Jacobites” was the number 1 hit for 14 days and even went into the top 40 of the complete charts of mp3. (place 36, before the Eagles!!) International concert inquiries, label supplies and fan-mails were the result. Tears For Beers are today: Lars Jensen vocals, citer, banjo, pipes + flutes. Roland Schneider vocals, guitars. Dimitar Bonev bass. Stefan Baumann violin. Bert Ritscher accordeon. Christian Belau drums.
