About

Style Meaning History

Eliza’s Blackout (sophisticated rock/pop) is an ambitious, newly formed live band from Hanau, Germany, characterized by high musical quality, a unique style, and an intense stage presence. Our approximately 60-90-minute live set, featuring original compositions and a few covers, appeals to a broad audience of music lovers. 

What does the Name mean and who is ELIZA?

In an era where commercial music is increasingly AI-generated and algorithm-driven, sounding more alike with every passing day, we are the defiant counterpoint. Eliza’s Blackout is a commitment to connection: we make relentlessly self-made music, crafted from human experience.

We chose Eliza—the first computer chatbot—as the original metaphor for machine-made, fake conversation. She is the great-grandmother of all LLMs, representing machine thought. We are the opposite. The Blackout is the moment of truth.  When the machines fail, the lights go out, and the power goes down, we will still be here, performing raw, honest rock music. This is our call for human connection in a digital noise-chamber. We deliver songs with true substance and emotion. We want to say something, person to person, without algorithms, without fakes. We are Eliza’s Blackout.

eliza conversation
A conversation with the original ELIZA from 1966

History

In July 2022 my old band had split and I was looking for musicians to form a new band. I invited a singer, a bassist and a drummer to my studio. It turned out, that the bassist was a far better singer than the guy who was up to operate the microphone. The bassist was Laura. And she never played much bass in this band after that day.

We called our band Nut Factor, an ambiguous name fpr either a mechanical engieering term or a tongue in cheek metapher for our degree of crazyness. We played a few small gigs as a four piece band. 

 

After a substantial crisis within the band we moved on with other musicians as „Sonic Red“, but had difficulties to find a bass player and a keyboarder. André the drummer joind us  in September 2024 and now in June of 2025 we got lucky and found Dave, our bassist. Guanqiao joined in October.

With our ideal set of musicians we see this as a new band and now the five of us are ELIZA’S BLACKOUT.

Contact

contact@elizasblackout.com