FAQ
Our current album is called Clowns & Angels. It’s available on all streaming platforms, as well as on CD and vinyl. You’ll find all our merch in our SHOP.
After the Clowns & Angels encore tour 2026, we’ll be teaming up once again in early summer with the prison theatre of Justizvollzugsanstalt Berlin Tegel — performing live music for Caligula by Albert Camus.We’ll also be playing a few lovely summer shows, doing some recording sessions, and we still have a couple of surprises up our sleeves until the end of September…
Toward the end of the year, our traditional Hippie House Dance nights in Rietberg and Berlin will be back as well — and once again they’re going to be wild, joyful, and the perfect way to dance this year away together.
You’ll find all dates HERE.
At times, we’ve been 5, and at other times over 23 band members! Currently, there are 10 musicians on stage with us. Very loosely put, the band name means: many people doing something together – with a free spirit and free will – and in any number!
Max Manila is a fictional character, representing us as a group with collecting societies such as GEMA, ASCAP, PRS, etc. We pool the income, and distribute it among everybody involved, using a system of community system of “points”. To confuse everybody even more, we also publish the individual writers.
We started in 1995 to hang out on Mondays, casually playing together. Then one thing led to another …
Over what now are almost 30 years, we’ve played about 3000 gigs in 27 countries, including: Algeria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Greece, Hungaria, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Mexico, New Zealand, The Netherlands, Russia, Spain, the US and Wales.
21 albums, including those special versions, that were released in France.
We wanted to try and find out, if we could expand the boundaries of how we listen. So we invented a special music app, that is an imersive way to experience music. The easiest way to explain is to check it out!
For a free download, go HERE.
German, English, French and Hessian.
A little from all over. Check HERE to find out more about the band.
We listen, we do a lot of research, we write, try things, experiment, and stay commited… some songs are inspired by traditional music, most we write ourselves. We have a very broad background ranging from groovy rock, classical music, anglo-american pop, traditional folk, jazz, and French Chanson.