Mick Harvey performs at Volksbühne with Andrea Schroeder singing controversial hit

Mick Harvey in Volksbühne

… He also dares to tackle the mega-hit “Je t’aime… moi non plus” in it. Nearly 50 years after its release, you can see on Sunday evening on the stage of the Volksbühne why radio stations boycotted the duet with Jane Birkin in 1969. Because Mick Harvey has translated this song into German and sings it together with Andrea Schroeder, a singer who in her other life in Berlin delivers melancholic songs with a cheerful demeanor. “You come and go inside me, And then we are one,” she moans with ironic seriousness, and in the rows of the Volksbühne, adolescent mirth arises…

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