Reviews

Alright! Time for another fanboy review! Let’s head over to East London where Chubby and his gang hail from. They arrived in the scene sometime in 2019, released their debut album in 2020 and took the (punk rock) world by storm; fierce riffs, played at top speed, combined with tongue-in-cheek lyrics and an attitude that oozes classic Rock’n’Roll swagger. Fast …

An early evening in Hamburg and the doors opened to a very special event. For most people lining up in front of Strandkorb Open Air this was for sure their first concert in a very long time and a somewhat unusual one. The audience at the Cruise Center Finkenwerder was allowed to sit in pairs in beach chairs, overviewing a …

Weedy-thin gambolling guitar lines pitched against hi-hat-spanking splashy indie pop beats – few movements in music were built on narrower tropes than late-noughties indie. To hear Giant Rooks launch into “Wild Stare“, one of their stock-in-trade breakout singles, and watch a fairly crowded Cruise Inn venue go bananas for it, is to appreciate how thoroughly music has changed in the …

“Dear party animals, we won’t dance together in 2020”. That’s how thousands of festivals and venues across the world announced the cancellation of the festival season and all live shows to come, and the whole industry was forced into hiatus. Or putting it simply: The pandemic obliterated the 2020 festival season and almost shattered the live music scene. Now, five …

A typical cold Hamburg March evening, Sam Fender played the best concert I’ve ever been to at a sold-out DOCKS. It‘s already the highlight of my 2020, and since there will be no more concerts in the next months, it will probably stay that way. To say that I’m a bit of a fangirl when it comes to Sam Fender …

Feuerengel tour across Europe and made a stopover in Hamburg for yet another show. Just after 7 PM a chilly mid-February night it was finally time to head down to Docks at Reeperbahn, completely packed with a 1 500-audience, and with no support act opening up the evening we got an early start. Watching curiously at a massive dark curtain covering …