CMI have been criss-crossing central Europe for a month now and already played in support for Slapshot at the Knust (a show i choose to let go, for various reasons). They had a couple of days free prior to a little festival and a final show, i believe that one was moved to Düsseldorf.
Sam offered a matching evening at the Indra and CMI took it, within that managing to grace Hamburg 4 times between October 23 and July 25 at 4 different places:
First Monkeys (surprising everyone), then Hafenklang (bringing the danger back into Punk), followed by the Knust (conquering a larger stage) and finally now at the Indra.
For a peaceful and quiet Thursday evening.
And peaceful it was, ask Oliver fucking Kahn:
Bäm! All the ingredients i was looking for, hard, heavy and offensive. And whilst the twin guitar, bass and drums almost remained fixed and in the backdrop it was Adam who roamed back and forth and engaged (as opposed to confronted) the lot.
CMI (Indra, Hamburg, 10.07.2025)
(c) gehkacken.de 2025
From the start they had people dancing and it was without the big male macho style (though lacking the female contingent) – just absorbing the energy down from the stage and transforming it.
A mate noted: “I love when they play love songs“. And right he was!
The delivery and the sound was near perfect and their almost unique style has sharped over the last two years. And for whats it worth, they are a peoples band, interacting with the lot, loving to the feedback and act as one.
CMI (Indra, Hamburg, 10.07.2025)
(c) gehkacken.de 2025
Bonus: Adam offered non-nonsense advisory between the songs and definitely was not talking cloudy bullshit but with street credibility.
At the end Adam was all sweaty (as much as the lot) and lifted his lovely Blueberry shirt and they finished the set off with this banger:
Summing it up i guess for me this was the tightest (and longest) CMI set i saw in Hamburg so far. A wee bit of salt in it was that only ~120 folks attended and thus it was not a full house.
Somewhat understandable, as they just had a much bigger audience at the Knust weeks before. But audience reception was positive, the pit was present and pit movements where violently peaceful.
At the merch there was no sign of fresh vinyl, if you are still lacking CMI records remember that you can score some from our local trusted dealer Sounds Of Subterrania!
On top of that we got to learn that the drummer on this tour also plays in Skinhead and that they aim to come to Europe next year – that’ll be a class one.
Check Skinhead out yerself – i am desperately waiting for that LP to physically appear:
Beautiful guitar and same onslaught like CMI. And same great style of non-nonsense lyrics.
Perfect evening, perfect show in a cozy setting. Surrounded by friendly folks. This can be repeated anytime soon, though i would believe i got to wait for next summer.
I’ll be waiting in awe now to learn what location in Hamburg CMI will grace next year.
Most likely i’ll be there. Will you? Will a local band be brave enough to play support?
Will the burn bridges with another club?
Spread yer bets!
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