From now on Kraftklub again: That’s how it went at Kummer’s last concert in Berlin

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Word has gotten around that Kraftklub are back: Their fourth album KARGO will be released on September 23, five years after its predecessor KEINE NIGHT FOR NIEMAND. Four singles have already been released, including one together with Tokio Hotel. At the weekend, Kraftklub headline the Lollapalooza Festival, and in November and December they go on a big KARGO tour. To mark this occasion, we dedicated the title story in the current issue of the Musikexpress to the five from Chemnitz.

Who will soon no longer be there – at least under his solo name – is Kraftklub singer Felix Brummer aka Kummer. In the meantime he had released his solo album KIOX under the name Kummer, went on tour with it and then announced that he would end his solo career again because of his main band Kraftklub. And that’s how it happened at the weekend: Kummer gave two sold-out concerts in Berlin’s Wuhlheide, and as expected, they ended in (peaceful) excess. Our photographer Erik Lorenz watched the last spectacle on Saturday and brought pictures with him. In words he summed it up:

“I have rarely experienced such euphoria in Wuhlheide. Numerous wall of deaths and pogos in the opening act. Blond worked great and warmed up the crowd very well on such a cold evening. Shortly thereafter, the often postponed but really final finale started. Felix KUMMER was visibly touched by the audience’s ecstasy and played his entire album. In addition, a couple of fountain pens from Kraftklub. “One song is enough” in the BLVTH remix made the mosh pits get bigger and with Kraftklub’s “Randale” remix it got hotter and hotter, not just because of the many Bengalos.

Short interim video sequences, small clips, apparently from his youth, shown on a glowing cube made from old lamps from the KIOX of the time, also let the audience take a deep breath in between. Special guests, who were also represented on his album, appeared again and again. LGoony and Keke sang their song “But No”. Nura jumped on stage at “36Grad”. Of course, Kummer’s brother Till could not be missing in a golden suit for the “500k” power club. Fred Rabe from Giant Rooks was probably, at least until then, the most important guest for the most important song “The Last Song”.
However, the concert was not over. After an honest and emotional speech that this wasn’t the end of his musical career (and of course the “Band mit K” will soon be releasing an album), the very last song was released. “The rest of my life” as the last song? Clear! If you get Max Raabe himself on stage, then of course for the grand finale of a grandiose last farewell concert of a solo project that was never supposed to be that big, but definitely deserves to be that big and good.”

POWER CLUB ON “KARGO” TOUR 2022:

November 10th, 2022 Kiel, Wunderino Arena
11.11.2022 Rostock, town hall
12.11.2022 Lingen, Emsland Arena
14.11.2022 Hamburg, sports hall
November 15, 2022 Braunschweig, Volkswagen Hall
November 21, 2022 Dusseldorf, Mitsubishi Electric Hall
22.11.2022 Munster, Halle Munsterland
November 25, 2022 Stuttgart, Schleyer Hall
11/26/2022 CH-Zurich, Hall 622
November 29, 2022 Cologne, Palladium
December 1st, 2022 Berlin, Max-Schmeling-Halle
02.12.2022 Leipzig, Quarterback Real Estate Arena
03.12.2022 Frankfurt a. M., festival hall
04.12.2022 Erfurt, exhibition hall



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