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== Live performances ==
Knorkator's wild stage shows and appearance are chaotic: half of Stumpen's body is tattooed black, and he usually performs in his goofy underpants; Buzz Dee's appearance is often cited as being a clone of [[Jim Martin (musician)|Big Jim Martin]].

Knorkator are (in)famous for their wild stage shows. Alf Ator has been known to hit the audience with a large foam club, throw toast slices and wet autumn foliage at the crowd. Sometimes a modified shredder was used to distribute shredded vegetables and fruit over the crowd, which was announced as "vegetarian airway-catering". Their live performances are also well known for extensive acts of [[instrument destruction]] where especially keyboarder Alf Ator used to deconstruct one or more [[electronic organ]]s that he had been playing on with a toilet brush or similar before. Singer Stumpen is known for the frequent smashing of [[TV set]]s on stage, from which he suffered a glass splinter getting stuck in his thigh that had to be removed by surgery some years later and was then auctioned on the internet. In earlier shows, a lot of furniture pieces were placed on the stage which were then destroyed during the show by Alf or Stumpen, mostly with an axe or a baseball bat. Stumpen is also known for wearing almost nothing on stage except for a woman's bathing suit or underpants.

[[Crowd surfing]] is another important element of Knorkator's shows, not only performed by the musicians themselves, but also directing the crowd to perform exceptional exercises, such as racing duels between spectators over the hands of the crowd, piggyback [[moshing]], woman-throwing competitions, instructing the crowd to separate and then run into each other (known as the ''[[Wall of death (moshing)|Wall of Death]]''), or lifting and surfing the heavily overweight sound engineer from the mixing desk to the stage and back.