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Schools In – London Grammar at Kunstrasen

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Whether the music this week at Kunstrasen has been hot must remain a matter of taste.  There’s no disputing that the weather has been hot though.  Tuesday’s visit by UK Indie-Pop band London Grammar was no exception.  If would have been nice if mighty oaks were around the stage to provide shade – as it was, the Berlin based trio named Mighty Oaks were onstage as support act.  Some 5000 people, with procentually more women than I’ve seen at a concert for some time, were there to hear the music.

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Billy Idol – Nice day for a concert in Bonn

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It was on this very day (29 June) in 2012 that Lou Reed stepped onto the Kunstrasen stage as the first main act on the new festival grounds down by the Rhine. No one knew if the concerts would continue, and indeed, there have been plenty of changes and comprimises made to keep the music going. But keep going it most definitely has, and 13 years later it’s ’70’s punk/pop legend Billy Idol who brings in the crowds. Astoundingly, there were barely 2000 people here to see Lou Reed, whereas tonight there are c.6000 for Billy Idol and support band New Model Army. Indeed, by the time that the doors opened there was a queue going far back down the pathway, well past the ticket offices.

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Blind Feat – Jazz meets Rock in Kurpark

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The band’s website asks a very simple question: “What happens when you mix a drummer and bass player with metal/heavy rock background, a saxophone/flute player who studied jazz in Kiev, a guitarist/lead vocalist who started with punk rock and later learned to love the blues/jazz, and a percussionist/drummer who hates blues with a passion?” The answer is Blind Feat. How would their mix of self-penned rock, ballads and Jazz arrangements come across to a Kurpark audience more used to hearing familiar rock, blues and jazz standards?

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Back to Bonn with CYNTHIA Nickschas & gÖTZ Widmann

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Up until now anyway, there has only ever been one musical superstar from Bonn. Outside of Ludwig von B though there have been a few stars of a more local folk-pop variety, and two of them were shining at Konrad Beircher’s home, Katharinenhof, this week. Cynthia Nickschas re-located away from here not so long ago whilst Götz Widmann headed for Berlin in 2008. Both have their musical roots here though, and it was a pleasure to hear them, both individually and collectively, in what really is a unique setting.

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Reliving 70’s Rock Hits with The Bad Keys

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Listening to ‘Smoke on the Water’, ‘Whatever You Want’ or ‘Schools Out’ live would have cost you a good few Euros at Kunstrasen in recent years. Okay, there was no Deep Purple, Quo or Alice Cooper at Kurpark this week, but you would have got all the hits without any misses all well played and sung. Thank you Cologne/Bad Hennef Rock coverband The Bad Keys!

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Big Band Jazz starts Musik im Park 2025

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It’s that time of year once again. Both the sun and musicians are making appearances in Bonn’s great outdoors again. Rain? Will it? won’t it? This evening it was the organizers for ‘Burger Bad Godesberg Events’ who had to watch the skies all evening. On the steps of the Trinkpavillion in Bad Godesberg Kurpark there were a couple of dozen musicians trying not to look up every minute and just concentrating on playing Big Band Jazz.

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