LIVE: Tocotronic

In the organizer's words:

With their 14th studio album "Golden Years" in their luggage, the Godfathers of Hamburger Schule are coming back to Augsburg. The Kantine presents: Tocotronic at the Spectrum

Tocotronic (Hamburg) >>> Indie Rock I Hamburger Schule

Tocotronic are one of the most successful and influential German-language rock bands of the last decades.

of the last decades. They were founded in 1993 in Hamburg by Dirk von Lowtzow (guitar and vocals)

vocals), Jan Müller (bass) and Arne Zank (drums). Their debut album "Digital ist besser" was released in 1995 and combined powerful and simple guitar rock with lyrics full of slogans that immediately became catchphrases, such as "I want to be part of a youth movement".

be". With the following albums "Nach der verlorenen Zeit" (1995) and "Wir kommen um uns zu

beschweren" (1996), Tocotronic made the leap from the small clubs to the big halls.

fourth album "Es ist egal, aber" (1997), they enrich their boisterous guitar rock with harmonica and strings for the first time.

with harmonica and strings for the first time.

In the years that followed, their music became increasingly opulent. On "K.O.O.K." (1999) they play a

dark, metal-influenced rock; the "white album" from 2002 is a richly orchestrated, colorful and enigmatic record,

colorful, enigmatic record in which realism and fantasy are reconciled. Since "Pure

Reason Must Never Win" (2005), Rick McPhail has been a permanent member of the band as second guitarist.

his playing, interspersed with flowery feedback, will shape the sound of Tocotronic in the future. In the

the next phase of their work, the musical and lyrical focus became more and more refined.

self-contradictions of our existence, the indissoluble dialectic of having to and wanting to.

"Kapitulation" (2007) is without doubt a major work of German-language pop music in the new millennium.

millennium; like no other band of their generation, Tocotronic are now able to combine political

statements and philosophical reflections, the exploration of the self and the world around it, and musically they have also found their very own language.

language. "Kapitulation" opens a work phase that will later be referred to as the Berlin trilogy.

trilogy, which also includes the albums "Schall und Wahn" from 2010 and "Wie

we want to live" from 2013.

With the "red album" (2015), the band went through a new skin, their music became simpler and more direct again, and on "Die Unendlichkeit" (2018) autofictional motifs were added.

motifs are added. In April 2020, the piece "Hoffnung" (Hope) was released, which deals with the experiences of

experiences of loneliness and isolation during the coronavirus crisis - and of the hope that "a

little piece of lyrics and music / helps against isolation". "Hope" can also be found on

Tocotronic's thirteenth album, "Nie Wieder Krieg", which will be released in September 2021,

all the songs on it are about the longing for hope and healing; about the desire to no longer be hurt and misjudged and isolated. The autofictional aspect that defined "Die Unendlichkeit" is once again combined with the typical Tocotronic art of elevating everyday life to the transcendental.

An art that is refined even further on their fourteenth album "Golden Years" from 2025. It is about the journeys that lie behind you and the journeys that lie ahead; at the same time, the songs tell of the longing for homecoming and security, of the passing of time and of trust in the future.

the passing of time and the trust in the future that only love can create. "Golden Years" is both intimate and political; anyone who knows Tocotronic will find it both familiar and completely new at the same time.

Because like no other German band, they have created a body of work over decades - a body of work in the whole and good sense of the word.

a body of work in the full and good sense of the word: a body of work characterized by an artistic

a work characterized by an artistic development and a lived life, a work of music and songs that emerge from each other, that respond to each other and cast doubt on each other; a work in which leitmotifs remain recognizable, that are constantly varied and renewed and that are constantly

and are constantly questioned anew as to how they fit in with the changing present.

"Golden Years" is about ageing, the happiness of maturity and the fear of death, but above all it is about the incessant restarting out of the spirit of self-reflection, about the utopias of resurrection and endless becoming. It shows a band that

to renew itself again and again and at the same time to remain true to itself: recognizable in

change. Perhaps this can explain why, after all this time and especially in our uncomfortable present, Tocotronic's music still and repeatedly offers so much happiness and comfort.

happiness and so much comfort.

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Admission 19.00 | start 20.00

Location: SPECTRUM | Ulmer Str. 234a | 86156 Augsburg

Advance booking: 40,- Euro plus fees - from 22.05. 17:00 at the BANDSHOP

Box Office: tba,- Euro

Presented by: MUSIKEXPRESS | ROLLING STONE | PRO ASYL | KKT | KANTINE AUGBURG

Organizer: MUSIKKANTINE GMBH & CO.KG