Atomic Picnic Project / Members
Peter Swoboda
Guitarist VocalistBorn in 69, was forced to blow into a wooden stick at a very early age. Domsingknabe until his voice broke . Instruments are zither and guitar. Inoculated with rock by Def Leppard in Canada in 1987 and has been immune to jazz ever since. Current bands: Atomic Picnic Project and Monkey King (hard rock)
Uwe Schrödersecker
Guitarist VocalistBorn in 1966 in a small town in the south of Germany called Nördlingen, Uwe enjoyed a carefree childhood and got his first guitar for Xmas at the age of 10. After a short phase of learning violin, he started playing the guitar more seriously at the age of 13-14 and finally got classical vocal- and guitar-lessons during his time at the university. After 20 months of civilian pubic service in Munich he moved to “Bavarian Liverpool” Augsburg. There he started a band called Zaphod, playing Rock/Blues/Psychedelic originals. The 4-piece band was pretty successful locally, but quit after 3 or so years, mainly because Uwe’s priorities changed towards his wife and founding a family. But music never really left him and he proceeded playing in his home studio and collaborating online with various musicians in the entire world. In the meantime, Uwe is back on stage with various groups: a Rock-cover formation called Sunday in Jail, the in 2018 re-founded band Zaphod, which in 2021 finally will be launching their first CD and last but not least as part of the pretty successful acoustic version of Helmuth Treichel’s Atomic Picnic Project. Uwe now lives near Augsburg with his wife Petra, works fulltime in a company and is trying to split his free time between family, his musical projects and the house and garden.
Helmuth Treichel
Composer Lyricist VocalistHelmuth Treichel became after Gift’s split a member of various bands (Route 66, Cor, Mephisto, Walrus) and paused his active career as musician in 1997. Since then he lived as successful scientist (microelectronics and photovoltaics) in California, USA. and now resides back in his hometown Augsburg, Germany.
Amanda Dieck
Vocal Teacher Vocalist Lyricist SongwriterAmanda is a talented, opera singer reborn as rock singer, currently singing, too, for the T.Clemente band and Gundacker. Amanda grew up singing and performing all over the United States but spent the most time of her younger years in Memphis, TN (USA) taking in all the music she could. Since then, Amanda has happily made her home in California and has performed internationally with different styles ranging from musicals, hard rock, opera, country, jazz, original music and pop. In her spare time, she helps others as a vocal coach and music therapist.
