Schreng Schreng & La La

With their hearts in the right place, guitars slung around their thick necks, and microphones in front of their big mouths, Schreng Schreng & La La may not have a lot of chords, but they have a lot to say. Sometimes with wild noise, sometimes with lyrical finesse. Despite all the genuine emotion, they never take themselves too seriously. Their concerts usually consist of equal parts of somewhat rehearsed music and improvised situational comedy.

Actually, the duo with the funny name isn’t really a band at all, but a friendship. It all started in 2007 in a shared apartment in Düsseldorf. There, they initially shared beer and opinions, then their core competencies: one could play Schreng Schreng on his instrument, the other La La on his voice – and that was enough. Donkey Jörkk and his lawyer Lasse have recorded two EPs, a book published by Ventil Verlag (2nd edition), and four albums, the most recent being released at the end of 2025. “Catch & Release” was very well received by critics. Visions magazine particularly liked Mechenbier’s lyrics: “Only Mechenbier writes so poetically and so directly about the dead end of the present.” Plattentests.de, on the other hand, praised the “high emotionality,” while the online magazine Awayfromlife even calls it a “masterpiece”.

The duo’s songs may seem simple, but they are far too good and clever not to be celebrated. And they are performed by two people who love what they do and with whom they do it. After more than 250 concerts, word is slowly but surely getting around, and rightly so. Anyone who has already shared the stage with the likes of Turbostaat, Donots, Pascow, and Tocotronic, and is regularly invited to boutique festivals like Angst Macht Keinen Lärm, Orange Blossom Special, Burg Herzberg, and Fusion, can’t be doing too much wrong. But they’re doing a lot right. Whether the donkey and the lawyer are given the main stage or the narrow spot right next to the bar: it doesn’t matter – Schreng Schreng & La La are ready for grand emotions and wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. With themselves. With us. With devotion.