Jedes Jahr am vierten Advent: Die Lieblingskonzerte der Gig-Blogger:innen. 2025 war für mich das intensivste Konzertjahr ever. Darunter auch meine.

Die schönsten Konzerte sind natürlich die mit Überraschungen.

Wie z.B. die Entdeckung des Jahres, die junge Straßburger Band #Pales, die das #LaboratoriumStuttgart zum Beben gebracht hat. Der markerschütternd witzige Auftritt von #TimoBlunck in der #KulturwirtschaftHamburgSüd, der vermutlich knuffigsten und skurrilsten Location in der Region.

Ganz besonders schön: Liebhaber-Events wie das #ColognePopfest, bei dem ich meinen Helden #StuartMurdoch treffen durfte, das Jubiläumsfestival des Augsburger Labels #KleineUntergrundSchallplatten, bei dem Menschen ihr ganzes Herz derm Indie-Pop verschrieben haben.

Aber seht selbst:

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Vom #ColognePopfest-Fan zur Festival-Musikerin: Madame Psychosis berichtet vom familiärsten aller Indiepop-Festivals aus ganz neuer Perspektive.

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#ColognePopfest, wir kommen! Gerade Tickets für das familiäre Liebhaber-#Festival gebucht. #IndiePop #Concert #LiveMusic

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This weekend, I went to Köln for the #ColognePopfest (or at least the Saturday night of it).

My highlight was Blueboy. Some 25 years after they last played, and some 17 after Keith died, the two remaining members reunited for what was to be a one-off gig at the launch of a book on Sarah Records, and one thing led to another. (They played before a few years earlier, with a female jazz singer filling in for Keith, but that never led anywhere.) Anyway, they’re now a duo, with Gemma doing both her and Keith’s parts (and the latter seem to push her to the top of her vocal range) and Paul accompanying on acoustic guitar (and he is a superb guitarist, in a jazzy, very much non-janglepop way), and “So Catch Him” is now “So Catch Her”, and it is absolutely sublime. Apparently they have new recordings in the pipeline too (!); let’s hope we hear more from them.

Of other bands there: Jetstream Pony were great, possibly the best I’ve seen them play (big Aislers Set energy there). Hadda Be and Pale Lights were both decent. My Life Story (the headliner, and apparently survivors of Britpop’s Mod-revival era who were somehow huge in Germany) struck me as somewhere between Pulp and The The (though a friend described them as stadium rock and like Coldplay); they were enjoyable. There was also an artist named Andreas Dorau, who seemed to be Germany’s answer to Go-Kart Mozart: an older chap who sang fairly short songs, mostly in German, over sequenced, gleefully cliche electropop backings and live drums.