Ulrich Tukur & Die Rhythmus Boys

In the organizer's words:

Advance ticket sales for this event start on Friday, May 30 at Capitol Vorverkauf on 0621- 40 17 14 20 or karten@capitol-mannheim.de and, of course, online and at all known advance booking offices.

What a chaos, what a fantastic mess it was when the Rhythmus Boys took to the concert stage for the first time thirty years ago and unleashed a hurricane of enthusiasm and total confusion!

None of the four could play their instruments, but wit, cultivated indiscipline and excellent looks compensated for any musical deficits.

That has changed over the years. The gentlemen now sing and play far better than they look; indiscipline has turned into madness and cheerful disorder, and so an evening with the Rhythm Boys is like the last, tumultuous concert in a dilapidated variety theater that has been cleared for demolition.

"Tohuwabohu!" is emblematic of the long, successful road that Ulrich Tukur and the Rhythmus Boys have traveled and which makes them unique in the history of popular music. What would life be without the weightless music of this quartet, which for almost an age has known how to turn darkness into light, hardship into confidence and sadness into high spirits?

Come with us on a walk in the dance steps of cheerful rhythms, experience a firework display of enchanting melodies that dissolve the paralyzing contradictions of our lives into grace and melodiousness in colourful explosions. Don't miss out on something that could change your life forever: distinguished dance music, refined chorus singing, first-class instruments, elegant clothing and good manners. German and international repertoire. In addition to world-class Italian and French hits, spectacular new arrangements will take your breath away, and you will say to yourself: until now I have only existed, but now I am alive!

If you want to escape from the chaos of the world, join the fantastic hullabaloo that Europe's most beautiful dance band has created especially for you.

Ulrich Tukur (vocals, piano, accordion), Ulrich Mayer (guitar, ukulele, vocals), Günter Märtens (double bass, vocals, dance) and Kalle Mews (drums, vocals, noises) await their audience, always well coiffed and elegantly dressed. Their promise goes far beyond the graceful stringing together of melodious notes.

In Tukur's original words: "The decorative physical appearance of us four sound and vibration generators enhances an acoustic experience that represents a paradigm shift in the world of sophisticated light music that has not been experienced since the double bass replaced the bombardon."

"If you're not in a good mood after a concert like this, you're probably not in a good mood at all."
Süddeutsche Zeitung Online

"Tukur loves the absurd, that's his profession, that's where he's at home. The quartet, which plays in an artificially dilettantish manner and sings famously, is musically in the best of moods. Tukur and the boys present themselves as figures of fun. This mixture of nonsense, nonsense and slapstick fits the audience's pent-up entertainment deficit like a glove."
Rheinische Post

"Tukur's formidable dance band can simply do everything, swing, jazz and even rock. In original arrangements, they reinterpret classics or present cheeky original compositions. With a mischievous smile, Tukur tells alleged anecdotes from his life. These become fantastic little arabesques full of poetry and subtlety, always very close to Baron Münchhausen. There are standing ovations at the end."
Münchner Merkur

"Wonderfully old-fashioned and high-spirited. Ulrich Tukur has a heart for the dance music of the 1920s to 1940s. Add to that a few beautifully spun ideas and the Rhythm Boys, and the evening becomes a grandiose pleasure."
Bonner Generalanzeiger

"In addition to the laid-back music, which Tukur skillfully garnished with champagne-spritzy melody arcs, it is his humorous introductions between debauched nonsense and thoroughly interesting information. A musical menu that surprises with rousing freshness."
WAZ

"The confusion is the program here, because Tukur celebrates etudes of intelligent nonsense with his three congenial musical companions, the Rhythmus Boys. The four of them play their way through the history of dance music with swing, foxtrot and rock'n'roll sounds. High and low meet in a calculated and artful way, poems and flat jokes alternate rapidly. Tukur is amused, his conference oscillates between exalted and eccentric."
Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung

Organizer: Capitol Betriebs GmbH

*VRN combination ticket valid for this event:
Period of validity
2 journeys, one there and one back, for one person on the day of the event until 3 a.m. on the following day (please note the information on the combined ticket)

Area of validity
valid in the entire VRN network area in all buses and trains (DB: RE, RB and S-Bahn) in 2nd class and in the transition areas to the neighboring KVV and HNV networks