Stefan Dettl von Labrassbanda: That’s why the band goes back on a beer tent tour

Labrass banda invites you to the “Polka Party” from March 21st. The Bavarian Brass band from Chiemgau publishes its ninth work and seventh studio album. “The most important thing at a polka party is passion and coexistence,” explains front man Stefan Dettl (43) in an interview with Spot on News. “Whether in music, dancing or sitting together.”

The polka has an “insanely beautiful story, comes from Eastern European and also influenced folk music in Bavaria,” continues the singer and trumpeter and explains that when traveling to Kazakhstan or Estonia, the band has repeatedly remembered by humans that the group’s music reminded of “Polka-Punk”. “In the meantime, the polka is also being paked at festivals. With tuba, trombone and trumpet, it is simply a lot of fun bringing them onto the stage.”

The album with songs such as “Almaty”, “Balkan wedding second day” or “Teufelstanz” will be available on cassette. “If we do merch articles today, it should be things that people like to have in their hands and have fun with it,” Dettl explains the nostalgic choice. “We are happy to make ourselves trouble, including with the layout and everything. Otherwise everything is streamed anyway and a CD actually does nothing. When we grew up in 2007, the already on the descending branch was. After that, however, we were allowed to do a few records. This is great and is totally happy to be accepted by our fans.”

With texts in Bavarian dialect and a mixture of brass, pop, techno and ska, which they bring on stage in energetic live shows, the musicians have been inspiring since 2007. The current developments and the use of artificial intelligence in the music business do not cause any concerns. “She can’t Bavarian,” explains Dettl with a laugh. “And it is far too much fun if you do the texts yourself. It is what our profession is, we have studied music and the passion is to write songs ourselves, we don’t let the computer take us.” In addition, Dettl clearly relies on the live factor of the nine-piece band.

“We are a live band, we are further requested and people like to go on concerts,” says the singer. “You appreciate, seeing and hearing a band without a computer and the whole roar.” In addition, the band can “go into the audience, the moment and the emotions. Sometimes people need it a little faster, sometimes they need it a little louder or quieter. That is what is the most fun at the concerts to simply design such a concert with the audience. And thank you very much. Dettl adds: “As long as we can make music and play concerts and there are people who really value what happens at the concert, we are happy.”

From April to September, LABRASSBANDA is therefore back across Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The “Polka Party” tour leads you back into small places and beer tents. “If you play in halls or at festivals in Bavaria, you are mostly only in the cities and large towns. But there is also the marquee tradition in which an event location is set up for a week, in which there are space for 1,000 to 2,000 people, but there is never an event where there is no tavern or ballroom,” says Dettl enthusiastically. “We have always found this funny and exciting to do this with a fat system. We have been doing this for over ten years and it’s so much fun. It is totally varied and we can discover Bavaria. There are often 200 inhabitants that we have never heard of before (laughs). And then you go there and all greet you immediately.”

Dettl also appreciates the cross -generational audience in the tents. “The most beautiful thing is when the grandfather rocks with its chopping plug and the grandson is totally next to it. The young and old people also take a lot more considerate. With the whole clubs, with the village communities that we experience, people are totally nice and polite with each other and Bavaria is totally open, varied and colorful and beautiful.” The concerts are particularly important for people in the current time. “The common experience, dancing together and have a good time and that you don’t feel left alone is a very important feeling.”

Outside of Bavaria, the tour also leads the band to Hamburg or Salzgitter, Labrassbanda still encounters a wide variety of reactions. “We have already played 30 concerts in Hamburg, there is a solid trunk that know exactly what’s going on,” says Dettl. “But there are still places where we get there and people stand there with an open mouth and ask: ‘What do you do there and what language is that?’ (laughs) “Funnily enough, the astonishment in Germany is always much larger than outside of Europe, says the musician, who is on stage with the band in lederhosen and mostly barefoot. “The music landscape is so diverse somewhere else that we are not so noticeable. In New Zealand, we were asked which part of New Zealand we come from. People are simply enthusiastic about the music and pay less attention to the kudanian that we sing for it. It is about dancing and swaying.”

So that the musicians can still master the energetic appearances these days, “we have to train a little more,” reveals Dettl. “We have already noticed in the last rehearsals, okay, we have to pull ourselves together a bit.” Each band member has its own sports program, “especially the brass – you just see that you get fit.” He himself had to lose a few kilos “that I can hug more easily on stage”. He goes for a walk and work on his agricultural court. “Then that happens by itself when you are active all day and falls completely done in the evening, this is the best training for me. At the moment I don’t drink beer, I want to have a clear head.”

Dettl appreciates that the band has been there for 18 years and, despite some re -occupations, and explains: “It’s a bit like a drug. The fact that you can bring your own composed songs on stage, dance, dance and the people were able to hug you after the concert and let everything out. Grinning through the area. “