Germany's Trailerpark Is Into Some Messed Up Shit

There is nothing like fan love. Most fanatic fans seem satisfied with a little smile from their beloved stars or the scribble of their name on some old paper. When it comes to fans of the Berlin-based band Trailerpark, this is definitely not the case. Fans of Pimpulsiv, DNP, Sudden, and Alligatoah are more into urine, musty food, or menstruation blood, so those with a sensitive stomach should stop reading right now, turn the radio on, and listen to some weak-ass rap or R&B. To be perfectly honest, we didn't dare to go to a Trailerpark gig, but we did have just enough courage to meet the boys in their studio to learn the bitter truth about their…eccentric fanbase and show shenanigans.

Noisey: So, you have your fans drink your pee, puke, and whatnot?
DNP: Yes, that's what we do.

Please give us more details. What have you "served" them so far?
Urine, some cocktails out of diverse beverages…Well, it all started while being on tour and having a lot of leftover food in our tour bus. Everything we didn't eat, we'd throw all over the floor—cheeseburgers, sausages, half a salad with dressing that already started to rot. I mean, it was pretty hot in the tour bus and nobody threw anything away. So one day I said, "Hey, let's mix all that crap together, make a cocktail out of it and give the fan who drinks the concotion a t-shirt." Then, at one of our shows, we asked if there was someone who would do it.

What exactly was in the first cocktail?
Our photographer brought us some eggs that have been standing in the corner for about three or four months and had never seen the inside of a refrigerator. Plus, some moldy fruits…just everything you can find in the back of a student's fridge. Our first cocktail contained 12 sausages, a beer, coke, ash, and some eggs.
Alligatoah: Yeah, we tapped our cigarette's ash in it and the beer was just in it to make it fluid. And a friend of ours was sick, so he added some delicacies from his nose.

How was the response from the crowd?
It was surprisingly good. There were so many people who wanted to do it. We actually only wanted one person to drink it. But then there were suddenly five people standing on the stage and all of them were eager to take a sip. We could have had 50 people to do it. And all of those involved really enjoyed it.
Alligatoah: And they shared.
DNP: It was a very romantic moment.

Are your fans mentally ill?
We have a little bit of everything in our fanbase, from academics to the scum of society. But even if we play a small show, there is always someone who wants to drink our pee. Like, recently, at a show—okay, the guy was a computer scientist, so he's not an idiot. The night before, we supported K.I.Z, one of the biggest hip hop acts we have in Germany, and I pulled an all-nighter with every drug you can imagine. The next day, we showed my drug test on stage. I was positive at all points. I collected my first piss from the next morning after this night, which was chestnut-brown, into a bottle and thought, "I will give this to someone tonight who is hardcore enough to drink all of this chemical garbage." It smelled awful.

Wow, you really spoil your fans.
I just think it's funny. And the guy asked for it.
Alligatoah: What I find fascinating is that you think those guys are completely drunk or on drugs. But then you talk to them after the show at the merch table and they are totally sober and proud of what they did. And they pick up their t-shirt.

And they only get a t-shirt for this. Not even a guest role in your next music video or a meet & greet with you?
No, only a t-shirt. It costs $2.99 to make.

Do you think they do it because they're into that or because they adore you so much?
I think the reason is fanaticism. They want to impress us. We just take advantage of that and make fun of them.

But fans are of the utmost importance for musicians…you'd think you'd want to be nice to them.
We don't force anyone. We just ask. And we like our fans, I mean, we live for them. By now, there are even some guys who send me suggestions about what we can do next. Last time, this computer scientist suggested making a contest with all the people who did something disgusting at our shows. And he proposed to do something with menstruation blood, because he would be up for that. Sometimes, even I'm shocked and outraged.

That is just not normal.
No, it's not. But our music isn't normal either, so we've asked for it.

I see, you're really into this, DNP. How about the rest of the band?
Alligatoah: It's a mix of fascination and shock. You watch the thing and sometimes you have to leave the stage, because it just gets too disgusting. I have to leave most of the time. I just can't take it, like some of the security.
DNP: Once, the security guy had to throw up. That was hilarious. Weeks after that, they still talked about it. Casper played a gig there and he was asked "Do you know Trailerpark?" "Sure, they're friends of mine." Okay, this particular show was Armageddon-like. The whole stage was full of the crowd, even women, and all the snot was running down their cleavage.

What's the Trailerpark pizza?
We were backstage once and nobody could eat a bite, because we were so hungover. There was a kilo of butter standing alone on the table. So I took it, stamped it down with my fist and used it as pizza base. We threw everything we could find on it and in the end we spit on it. Our fans then ate it. It was really hot out, so the butter was kind of creamy. Just touching it was pretty disgusting.

Do your fans want you to join in the festivities sometimes?
Yes. In Hamburg, this one guy tried to give the pee helmet to me. I was like "Fuck off or I'll punch you in the face." Then, he threw it in some corner of the club. It's probably still there.

You even have a pee helmet?
Well, that was a coincidence as well. Sudden got ahold of this pink beer helmet for his show. Of course, I took it and I collected my pee in the backstage area. You can even tell from the color difference at different shows how dehydrated or hydrated I was that night.
Alligatoah: I thought it was beer in one bottle.
DNP: No way, that was my pee. Beer? What's wrong with you? Beer for free?

Of course not. You don't give fans beer for free.
They can pay for it. [Laughs]

You make it sound a little bit like a fetish.
No, it doesn't make me horny at all.

What are your wildest fantasies?
There is this emetic agent called Ipecac. Someone should take that. I had the idea for a Trailerpark vomit bucket and the fan who takes the Ipecac has to carry it around his neck. It takes between three to 15 minutes to work, but once it does, and then you shoot like a fountain. The idea is that the guy who takes it has to stay in the crowd the whole night and party, covered in his own vomit. That's the requirement. Of course, we would give a t-shirt away for that. We do it in style.
Alligatoah: Sometimes, when we're impressed, we even give them a hoodie. On our new record, there will be a song called "All for a Shirt." It's all about what we could imagine someone doing for a t-shirt.
DNP: It will be the anthem for these actions. It will be on the new album, which is almost finished. But the rest of the album is not about drinking pee. It is a mixture of satire and nonsense.

So what happened to the Ipecac idea?
The rest of the band was against it.
Alligatoah: Well, it doesn't make sense at all.

Do you watch I'm a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!?
DNP: Yes! Definitively yes. It's just great.
Alligatoah: I don't.

You can tell…
DNP: The Trailerpark Bushtucker Trial, which will take place on our next tour, is inspired by it. We will have a plexiglass pipe with flaps in it that someone has to go inside. Then, we'll see what we dump on them.
Alligatoah: But you shouldn't to forget that we still make music. Someday, people will only come to see someone throw up.
DNP: As long as they pay for the ticket, I don't give a shit why they are there. They can come to masturbate if they like. I only want to get paid.
Alligatoah: This is where we disagree.

Aren't you afraid that it could be a reason for some fans not to come to the shows?
DNP: Some fans already told us that they won't come for this reason. But they're just not hardcore enough. They can listen to some pussy rap.