When Axel met Sally: music to show the magical side of the U8

Berlin’s public transport is both loved and hated by
residents of the city, and the U8 line pretty much embodies this
public sentiment. The line connects the north to the south,
running through the heart of Berlin, and it connected an American
from San Francisco with a Berliner for a musical homage of
sorts.


Journalist Sally McGrane and musician Axel Scheele both live on
the U8. “The whole song just came to me between Schönleinstraße
and Weinmeisterstraße,” says McGrane. Their band “Lou Electric
and the Gold Kimono Band” just released “U8 U8” as a single, with
more Berlin-inspired songs to come. Scheele says, “I didn’t plan
this but [the song] came out that it’s the exact right tempo that
the train is.”


Produced by Monika Müller-Kroll