Southern Wire Ends (Official site: www.southernwireends.com) are an indie rock band from Munich and Stuttgart, Germany.

Southern Wire Ends were formed in 2003 as “The Screens” by Frank Eisensehr (a.k.a. Vrankey ; all guitars, keyboards, drum programming, sound effects, mixing and producing) and Benjamin Lippert (vocals and backing vocals).

They met in 2001 in an Oasis-Forum on the web and began recording songs for fun under another name back then.

The problem was and is that Frank resides in Munich and Benjamin in Stuttgart. All the released material up to now was recorded separately by the band members at their respective homes. All decisions that had to be made were made in chat sessions on the internet. All the music and the vocals were sent back and forth through the internet to discuss the stages the production has taken so far and to speak about the direction, the record should take. In the end of this process all the final parts of the songs were combined and given the final mixing by Frank in Munich. So they face a very difficult process in order to record and release their music.

The band members have seen each other only very few times since the group was founded in 2003, but only a single song was recorded in these meetings. So you can say that the entire song catalogue was and is (and will be in the future) produced without any meetings of the band.

The band's first release was the single "Hurricane Energy” (released on June 1, 2003), followed by their debut album “The Screenplay Of Our Lives” which was released on July 13, 2003.

The musical style in the early days of the band was heavily influenced by Oasis, but in the following years they widened the range of the influences within their music. Up to now there are David Bowie, Pink Floyd and The Beatles, The Stone Roses, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Cooper Temple Clause, The Killers, Depeche Mode and the Pet Shop Boys, or even Radiohead, Portishead and the Nine Inch Nails to be mentioned as influences, for example.

By 2008 they could look back on 11 studio albums, 24 singles, 3 compilation albums, an EP and a (unreleased) live-album.

The studio albums so far are as follows:

- The Screenplay Of Our Lives (re-released as a special edition) (2003)
- Weekend Story (2003)
- Impeccable Credentials Volume I (2004)
- Impeccable Credentials Volume II (2004)
- Minutes Mean Miles (2005)
- Suburbian Poetry (2005)
- I’m Just Someone Who Looks A Bit Like Me (2007)
- It’s Not The Screens (2007)
- Second-Hand Days (2008)
- Piranha (2008)
- The Black Heart Sessions (2008)

By January 1, 2010 The Screens were forced to change their band name, due to another Band called The Screens, to “Southern Wire Ends”.

In the course of renaming the group they re-released all their later works beginning with the 2007 effort “I’m Just Someone Who Looks A Bit Like Me” under their new name in January 2010.

During the same month Southern Wire Ends released their new track "The Sign" as a single release, including a long remix (done by Vrankey) as a b-side. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.