Kulturarena Jena | Babylon Circus

In the organizer's words:

The last dance

A love story is entering its final act. Many people probably share this feeling: there's that one band that takes your heart by storm in the blooming days of your youth. You listen to it up and down, through good and bad days, heartache, stress with your parents and great evenings with friends. The band sweater is always at the top of the wardrobe or doesn't even find its way there because it is torn off the line and put on again straight after washing. Over time, the hot love fades, you get older and isolate yourself. And yet it remains THE childhood love, whose music still flows through your body decades later with that familiar, warming and energetic feeling as soon as you hear it again.

When Babylon Circus played for the first and so far last time at the sold-out Arenarund in 2007, the irrepressible energy of this band must have sparked a love affair in some of the Jena audience. What's more, the whirling mélange of ska, reggae, jazz, punk and chanson, performed by a wonderfully crazy collective of artists from France, has been thrilling fans all over the world for an incredible 30 years! Some have never lost sight of this love.

Now Babylon Circus is treating itself to a tour - and the last one: "For everyone, everywhere, all the time ... until the end." Of course, it's okay to shed a tear or two, but apart from that it's time to rave and celebrate from the bottom of our hearts to this furious musical work of art!

Here, too, we experience a musical love story that began in their youth: When band founders and singers David and Manu met at grammar school in Roanne in the early 90s, the chemistry was right straight away. The two shared an irrepressible passion for music and spent hours discussing how they could reshape the world. They were dreamers and poets, perhaps also hearty anarchists. After the two friends went to Lyon to study, they founded Babylon Circus with other musicians in 1995. Over the years, some joined the colorful collective, others left - but the core remained unchanged. Today, the wickedly good formation of seven musicians invites the whole world to a big reunion of family and friends, to a stylish farewell of love and joy, to the very last tour with a big bang and finally: to this incredibly good feeling that flows through the body with their music.

Price information:

Advance booking: € 15.00 Box Office: € 20.00 Children's tickets required