“A song like good literature,” said the writer Juli Zeh once about Kettcar’s “Summer ’89 (He cut holes in the fence)”, an angry, touching and immensely important song about an escape helper who left a Saxon family shortly before reunification from the GDR across the border into the Federal Republic. Rightly so! The epic number penned by singer Marcus Wiebusch was one of the many highlights of the Hamburg guitar pop band’s celebrated performance on Friday at the Linzer Posthof’s “Frischluft” open-air series.
For an hour and a half or 19 songs, the quintet – with a crystal-clear sound – played their way through a carefully balanced best-of-set that hardly left any fan wishes unfulfilled. From the start “Money Left To Burn” to the final encore “Deiche”, Wiebusch and his comrades-in-arms were not only in a good mood, but also well attuned to each other after the long Corona break.
Cleverly observed and hands-on
The most beautiful moments? Of course, the two wonderfully weird love songs “Rettung” and “Balu”, “Palo Alto”, dedicated to all digitization losers, the self-deprecating “Note to myself”, which negotiates art and morality, as well as the cleverly observed and emotionally gripping cracker “The day will come”. about the homophobia that is unfortunately still rampant in football.
No wonder that even the weather gods showed mercy with so much excellent music and didn’t open the rainwater locks.
Source: Nachrichten
