Maybe this is really only here: to the backing tape sounds of “Non, a regrette rien” jumps Jacoténe In the silt in front of the main stage. She wears stage clothing that doesn’t look cheap, but she doesn’t care. “No, I don’t regret anything,” sang Édith Piaf. And that also seems to apply to the Australian pop musician who would be ready to get dirty (yes, watt is good for the body, but still begins to itch and smell). The audience is a little better prepared than people on stage. Many come in rain jackets, rain pants and rubber boots. The northern German weather in Dangast has long been no longer what it was. On that you also stand at the “Watt en Schlick”-Festival a.
Glastonbury relationships on the Jadebusen
Glastonbury relationships only with sea, that is also available in the new edition of the three-day music festival (August 1, 2025) on the Jadebusen. Absolute mega-matsche, which does not allow anyone to swear big. The audience is like a resistance Army.
“Sonly not in the sky, but in the heart” is the order of the day, which also proves Gizmo Varillas, Half Spaniards, half Welsh-and every bet that is either father or mother “Gremlins” fan. He plays the “La Mer” stage, which is actually the most beautiful, but is now covered with a tent. In view of the rain, however, a good planning idea. Varillas maintains a “Hello, I am an Incel on Ibiza!” Look and plays extremely tighted tropical pop in trio cast, as in his best-known piece “No War”. He is already 35, perhaps beyond the chance of popping, but a good guitarist and songwriter, a highlight on Friday.
On the big stage compared to the spectacular sunset panorama, plays in the late afternoon Uche yara. Maybe the best appearance of the festival. The Austrian, who lives in Berlin, actually rare rare sun rays in the face, she refers to her joy of being here in Dangast – as a singer who appeared on the Wes a few years ago as a guitarist by Mavi Phoenix. Yara can be very bluesy, but also masters radio. She has already released several EPS, a much -noticed single “Www She Hot”, and appeared in front of the Rolling Stones. She has what it takes to become a Main Act. When does the debut album come?
Ritter lean & political rhymes
At 8 p.m. as the Secret Act of the Berliner Ritter lean The big stage. He looks like a Jürgen Vogel as Wilmersdorf and packs his political messages into fun, pleasantly macho-free rhymes. He knows the correct requests from today (“to the men: let your shirts”) quote when it was properly understood, the cocaine on the-on-the-work scene from “The Wolf of Wall Street” and leather against radical religious that rush against queer people.
As a rapper (“bee sting”), the Ski-Aggu friend is quite decent when showman (under his real name Adrian Julius Tillmann he works as an actor). “I already know, you think that a rock act should be on stage here, not a rapper!” He calls. Then there are a few bars “Where is my mind?” The pixies including the legendary “Stop!”-Intros. Ritter Lean deserves his 8-o’clock slot.
The golden lemons & their codes
On the La-Mer-stage there is time for the WESS’s big legacy act, at 9 p.m. The golden lemons. Schorsch Cameroon in the Kermit-colored sweater and hung with Miss Marple beads. Cameroon, 63, the Deutsche Mark E. Smith, always has a lot to reveal a lot of text per song, therefore often sings off the sheet on the grading stand and then throws the fully sung strings on the floor. Still looks great.
In an effort to find points of contact with the punk institution that has been active for more than 40 years and to step into the dialogue, a few spectators in the long-term choir call a committed “shit AfD!”. Cameroon laughs. “It’s logical. It’s easy.” It is also true, his texts are smarter. Nevertheless, both sides, he and the choir singers in the audience are right.
Old school, new means
Classics such as “The Chinese wheelbarrow”, announced by Schorsch Kamerun as a contribution to the Beatclub, are as beautiful today as it was then. Precisely because “thrust” sounds like “Shoop Shoop”, saved with the extremely German word “cart”. In 1987 the debut album of the golden lemons, “Porsche, Genscher, Hallo HSV” appeared, they also play the title song here at the festival (with harp accompaniment by Camill O). What was that era, with FRG song titles, which you could only feel so hardwash back then: “Porsche, Genscher, Hello HSV”. When Hamburg presented the most successful association in the country and represented Dumbo our political interests. The Hamburg Schorsch Kameruns, its codes (“We are the Goldies”; Use of the Dieter Thomas Heck term “Title” instead of “Song”; the band “delivers”-a terminology of the civil service, adopted by Heinz Strunk): You cannot learn something like that, you have to carry that.
These are the codes of a generation, a cynicism that no longer exists today. The golden lemons, of which Ted Gaier is also there in addition to Cameroon, use touch pad instruments and sequencer, have released no new album since “More Than A Feeling” (almost as well as their “Who’s Bad”).
Stories from Eisenach and Ireland
Saturday will be a little more challenged because there is constant rain. In the meantime everything is felt on the site. In contrast, helps Betterov. Three years ago, Manuel Bittorf played on the raft stage, now he has climbed the main stage. Just the thing for the 16 o’clock slot. The Thuringian with the biography of a blue collar figure (training as an industrial mechanic at Bosch in Eisenach) is becoming more and more similar to its idol Bruce Springsteen. At the end of his stormy gig, he holds the guitar as high as the boss, i.e. like a trophy stretched out. His latest publications are the singles “July 17, 1989” and “July 18, 1989”, they describe his father’s flight from the GDR and bridge the waiting time for his second album.
Spring a touch of jumping steen too “Somebody’s Child” From Ireland, who play on the raft, the most challenging stage at the “Watt en Schlick” in the raft because it is in the silt and looks at the spectators of the rain breeze. Singer Cian Godfrey goes along the jetty to the audience before the first bars, moves the lips, may want to count the people who have come. Like Springsteen, they are because they “compete” with three guitars, ie like a “rock formation”. “The next song,” says Godfrey, “is for the organizer of the festival, which also comes from Ireland”. You never learn.
Rap, rain, ruffcats
About the nearby pallet stage, where the three pink masked rappers Pa 69 In the militant, the AfD’s AfD “choice in the militant. The Ruffcats With your collab partner Rah pay homage to the Afrobeat. A kind of party radio with German colorful shirts on stage and a solid-sized carnival-der-culture-like long-term jam, which is based on Fela Kutis “Zombie” classic from 1976.
From Vienna to Sweden
Hotwax On the La-Mer stage, the Kim Gordon slaviature from a deeply hanging bass, pony in front of the eyes and even deeper voice. The British Grungs trio of three women in early 20 has a certain show value, musically more progressive is Wallnera “Viennese family quartet”, with a band and family names, which is perhaps not curious and reminiscent of the ZDF evening program, with a Gothic magic garden pop that offers a blatant contrast to the box-like raft silk stage. The term “gem” usually prohibits itself, here it is exceptionally granted. The most surprising appearance of the festival, possibly sold on the raft.
With Arc de Soleil The concept of the festival makers will be revealed late on Saturday afternoon: the biggest names do not always have to play on the main stage at the most prominent time. In the best case, the WES offers the room for showcases, a “springboard for more”. The Daniel Kadawatha, who lives in Sweden, has to play a shortened set (he came to Dangast with delay), but changes dream-proof in the footsteps of the World Music Psychedelia, as Novelty-acts like Khruangbin currently make it popular. Was a short stay for him on the Jadebusen.
From Amsterdam to Bremen
On Sunday afternoon, the jubilee level in La Mer then might reach its highest rash. Jungle by Night The band from Amsterdam, which merges Funk and World Music, is called a music that works as if from a telescope in which the player has to run and jump very quickly-intellivision vibes like from the 1980s, solve puzzles like Wim Thoelke, game without borders and Dalli click. Many African hand drums are in use, and the Dutch Twentysomethings also intonate one or the other arabesque. Fortunately, in Dangast on the Frisian beach there are no “this is cultural appropriation!”-snippets on site.
Punk, party and politics
With Team Scheisse The penultimate band of the “Wes 2025” is on the big stage at 8 p.m. Timo Warkus, the Vadder Abraham among the punk singers, also gives the slogan issued by Ritter Lean-“Men, let the shirts go”-into the audience, after which there is an exhaustive pogo in the rain that is becoming densely. In fact, a T-shirt flies onto the stage. But only when plastic cups are thrown forward, says bassist Thomas Tegethoff: “Give the cups at Viva Con Agua, then this is a success for everyone”. Warkus adds: “A win-win”. If necessary, these Bremen city musicians also master the language of capitalism. Team Scheisse are an invigorating appearance, strengthen the “We are more” thoughts. They tear “Dreamer” from Ozzy Osbourne and in the end send greetings to Frank, the wanker.
Final party in the rain
As headliners, they decide Donots Sunday evening and thus the mudflats. In the Rolling-Stone interview (shortly on Rollingstone.de), the Ibbenbüren band speaks about Ingo Knollmann about her upcoming unplugged album “Sword of wood”, on the Dangaster stage the quintet is of course fully on electricity. The Donots are a punk band in the best traditional sense. A front man with optionally vitus dances or balancing acts. A bass player who stands on the monitor box. “Tomorrow you can clear!” Calls Knollmann. “You get the yellow glow from me!”. He calls “Hello, grandstand!” And “We are partying, like the sixth hour before the holidays!”. Rain and wind become stronger, and the Donots can be seen that so many spectators have remained despite the storm announcement.
The Sunday evening slot can be tricky. Some spectators have already left, and if the weather is bad, some local card owners may prefer the “crime scene”. Through good band positions on Sunday-in the past Tocotronic, Element of Crime, Nina Chuba and now the Donots-there are good reasons to stay until the end.