Coming from a place of love folks! As always, the doctors mean well for us.
Farin’s alter ego HP Baxxter is already there: In the first rows, a white-blond cardboard head stretches over the densely packed carpet of people that has already stretched out between the two main stages of the Highfield Festival near Leipzig for Tokio Hotel, Giant Rooks and SDP over the course of Saturday evening and pushed here. Final stop on Saturday: The doctors. At around 11:15 p.m. the set starts with a loud “Hurrah” from above – followed by an “oh, hä” in the moshpit, because after the first, a second curtain has to be cleared out of the way so that the Saxons can sing the most beautiful of all Wendelieder also get something to see.
“Now comes the moment when Bela explains the world”, Farin leads over after the first songs and Bela continues: “The world is a sphere – I know, the Saxons … There are those who doubt that, but you are not lost!”. Anyone who gets excited about this and jokes about the fervor of the audience (“I find it a bit worrying, we’re in Saxony and you’re screaming JAAAA! What they would scream in Thuringia …”) has to provide the transfer service, for once not in the feeling offended by regional pride. So feet up – the evening is long and the spiritual low-flyers come from all directions and hit everyone (including the band). A few Till jokes slip out, as does the vulva-shaming name of Bela’s drum kit. Sorry guys, it wasn’t too late for the press and they co-wrote it, but we won’t tell Tag24.
With ticket prices soaring these days, viewers should consider themselves lucky, say the talkative two-thirds of the band. “After today’s concert you don’t want to go to anyone else!” Findings that make Rod smile, but between “Howling”, “Stupid” and “Wonderful Years” his colleagues feel that the right part of the stage also needs some love: Luckily, an overly erotic “Je t’aime” pulls it out again. After the “Schundersong” there is also the beloved La-Ola – the specialty of Die Ärzte. Today: We just think of them.
The show comes to a halt twice because of problems in the mosh pit – not only do many viewers react in an exemplary manner and immediately call security, the doctors also show that they watch their fans closely and take care of them. “Too tight, I thought the times were over,” is then joked again to give the show back its lightness.
“A nice audience – I will miss them”
Encores are due to incontinence at Die Ärzte. All the better for the audience, who are in a good mood again after proving that they aren’t unhockable. In the last few minutes, a greeting to the Leipzig gothic scene – and Bela dedicates “Der Graf” to the former TV garden character of the same name Farin is satisfied with the evening – and feels in the best of company with Bela: “The nice thing is, me don’t get whimsical alone.”
Die Ärzte at Highfield Festival 2023 – the setlist
Hooray
song of failure
Is this still punk rock?
Your fault
ignorama
howling
Dumb
glorious years
trash song
Noise
let talk
Anastasia
show off
1/2 love song
Dark
anti zombie
Sky blue
me on the beach
My friends
A Song for you
rebel
Unrockable
things from them
Boy
How it goes
The Earl
Lemon ice cream
scream for love
Perm vs Minipli