Elena Rud - Jahresabschluss Konzert

In the organizer's words:

The year was long. Drinks were often neglected. But on 12.12. everything will be done right.

Elena Rud invites you to the Milla for the end of the year. One night of pack cuddling, one night of screaming out everything that's been left lying around: anger, love, sweat, lipstick.

No tour. No release. Just an evening that sounds like a farewell letter to the old year.

A Christmas special that smells like an ashtray and still tastes like home.

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Elena Rud lives between outburst, despair and self-irony.

In their songs, the Munich indie band deals with topics such as mental health, body positivity and queerness. The five musicians around the eponymous front woman package these serious topics in a danceable sound of new wave indie with a punky 80s flair. The charm of Elena's distinctive, raspy voice is at the heart of innovative pop music à la the latest German wave.

In her poetic lyrics, Elena addresses body dysmorphia, anxiety, experiences of sexism and toxic relationships. She calls this removal of taboos "Melancholic Love Shit" and expresses the world-weariness of her generation - between hatred of others and self-hatred, body image problems and anxiety.

The four boys not only support their front woman, but also defend themselves against the toxic ideals by which they themselves are measured - for more weakness, insecurity and glitter make-up instead of dominance, suppression and aggression.

As depressing as this may sound at first-Elena Rud is not hopeless. On the contrary. Her appearance is self-confident, her message empowering: "We all have these problems, let's finally talk about them. As in therapy, she seeks an open and honest confrontation with problems that can be unpleasant, perhaps even have to be unpleasant. Elena Rud takes a seat on the imaginary couch and reveals herself.