Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

In the organizer's words:

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club celebrate the 20th anniversary of their key album "HOWL" with a tour

Support: Night Beats

It's not often that a new album by an established band causes collective gasps. In August 2005, it was "HOWL", the third album by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, that was given this honor. At the time, the trio from San Francisco was regarded as one of the most exciting and loudest guitar bands in America. The debut album "B.R.M.C" and the follow-up "Take Them On, On Your Own" were celebrated for driving, noisy rock songs such as "Whatever Happened To My Rock'n'Roll (Punk Song)" or "Stop", in which the B.R.M.C. sounded (and looked) as if the early The Jesus And Mary Chain had joined an American motorcycle gang.

Well, and then came "HOWL" - and Peter Hayes, Robert Levon Been and then Nick Jago (who was replaced by Leah Shapiro on drums in 2008) discovered the music that had always been in their DNA, but just wasn't so obvious. "HOWL" is, as the title borrowed from Allen Ginsberg suggests, a declaration of love to the lyricism of the beatniks (which had also and above all produced their home town), to gospel, folk and blues. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club goes Great American Songbook, so to speak - albeit with strong original compositions such as the bluesy "Ain't No Easy Way", the country-folk ballad "Fault Line", or the opener "Shuffle Your Feet", which features a gospel intro.

VISIONS magazine wrote in its review at the time: "Once the fan has got over the fact that it's better to get off the bike to listen, and that even a broad knowledge of the Jesus And Mary Chain references is no longer good for a better understanding, the time comes for the faint suspicion that this could be BRMC's greatest album." The suspicion has been confirmed for many over the years - and that's why it makes more than sense that the three will go on a nice anniversary tour in the fall, during which they will devote themselves primarily to the strong "HOWL" songs.