Well finally- the inside of the Kunst!Palast! Not an oil painting in sight (or maybe it was too dark to see them). When the lights did come on though they alighted on a lady whose stage power could have driven the whole lighting rig. Beth Hart has recently played with high-flying guitar heroes like Slash and Jeff Beck, she’s even made entire CD’s with Mr Joe Bonamassa. Tonight she’s out to prove herself hotter than the weather – and boy does she prove it!
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Kunst!Rasen Rocknacht with Deep Purple
It’s been a busy (expensive) week for fans of Classic Rock with Neil Young bringing in 13000+ in Cologne, Carlos Santana making a rare appearance in Bonn, and in between Deep Purple at Kunst!Rasen… Even for the wealthy Rockfan over fifty it’s still physically hard on tired legs. I made my stand (pardon the pun) at Kunst!Rasens ‘Classic Rock Nacht’ where I got four bands for the price of one including current top Rockers Gov’t Mule and the legendary Deep Purple.
Re-introducing MiaoMio
It’s been a while since we reported on Bonn’s best all-girl band MiaoMio, and things have certainly changed since I last caught them playing opposite Bonn Main Station in 2010. For one thing they are now 50% male. Drummer Sarah is raising a daughter born last October and bassist Eva Marxen is studying hard.
With a new drummer (Jan) and bassman Stephan Kater the ‘new’ Band played a short set at the Rheinau on Friday, with Sarah Brasack on keys and of course vocals and guitar from Anika Auweiler. Dogged by technical problems from the moment that ‘Lauf’ began their set, they still made for an enjoyable evening with a sound that seemed to my ears at least to be rather rockier than previously.
No technical problems though on the video below, where the Band contribute music to Cologne Director Kim Anderson’s film ‘Warum Glühwürmchen Leuchten’:
Dana Fuchs – Bliss Avenue (RUF Records)
If you’re good enough as a female singer then you just MIGHT get compared to the greats. I’m talking about the likes of Joplin and Etta James of course. What though if you were compared to these music Icons three discs ago and now you are a whole lot better than you were back then? Could it possibly reach a point where someone is as good as these legends?
Down on the Popfarm
Musicians get old. It’s a sad fact of life. Good news though is that there are plenty of youngsters wanting to make music and doing it very well too – as the Popfarm event featuring young talent from Bonn Popfarm in Beuel showed on Sunday. For more Popfarm images click HERE
Katie Melua – The search is Over
It’s ten years now since Katie Melua was catapulted to success on the strength of her first album, full of romantic tales, ‘Call off the Search’. Since then, Melua has found the love in her life – Superbike Racer James Toseland, but if her own personal search for love has now been called off you wouldn’t know it in the imploring tones of her magical voice at Kunst!Rasen. Love though is a heavy road as she pointed out before embarking on a rather less romantic ‘love Song’ called ‘I’d Love to Kill You’. A magical night for good songs well sung was guaranteed.
Zaz – Singing in the Rain
Kunst!rasen and a lot of blurred pictures. My fault entirely. This was my third concert by Zaz and I really should know by now that like all exotic and beautiful birds, she’s apt to fly away in an instant. There were certainly warmer and drier places for her to fly to on Wednesday, but what would a Summer season be without her gracing the Bonn Open Air stage?
BAP at home on the Rhine
Sorry Zaz, but on Wednesday you won’t be the first musician on the Kunst!rasen stage to have played at the Rheinau before. Wolfgang Niedecken’s BAP played at the 1979 Bundesgartenschau here as one of the band’s first ‘outings’ away from ‘Kölle” (Cologne) and thirty four years later they were back on the banks of Father Rhine in Bonn.