Van Urst / Fluten

In the organizer's words:

Van Urst: from quiet shoegaze moments to excited blastbeat blasts, everything is here. This colorful bunch is held together by a love of song, 90s alternative and all the post-something from the American East Coast.

Floods: With roots in post-hardcore and feelers outstretched towards new territory, FLUTEN combine what at first seems like a contradiction in terms: Electro and guitar, five-eighths and melody, dissonance and pop.

Admission 20:00

Start 21:00

VAN URST come from a place where many things are no longer quite so clear: why, wherefore, why - questions always remain unanswered. And yet they have to go somewhere: the euphoria, the madness, the love, the frustration and the happiness.

Four musicians with plenty of band and stage experience deal with the daily balancing act between self-exploitation and self-realization, between aspiration and fortune. For them, music is less about staging than helping people to help themselves, coping with everyday life - and the pure joy of playing.

The songs are correspondingly varied, ranging from calm shoegaze moments to excited blastbeat blasts. This colorful bunch is held together by a love of songs, 90s alternative and all the post-something from the American East Coast.

And instead of going on about references and names, just go to a VAN URST concert and see for yourself! Because the most apt description is provided by the band themselves on stage - that's what it's all about, and for this one moment, that's all that matters.

With their new album "Oligarchy and Everyday Life", VAN URST capture the struggle with a world that has fallen apart at the seams. In the eight songs, perspectives are shifted, expectations are attacked and tensions are made tangible. It seems unclear at first whether it is just a recording of everyday problems or an attempt to give the chaos a new direction. Questions such as "Where do we stand? What else is possible?" run through the album and reflect the difficulty of finding real change - be it in a social, political or private context.

Even if the band seems almost laconic here and there compared to earlier days when a lot of shouting prevailed, "Oligarchie und Alltag" is an incessant search for a way out of the stuck. With German lyrics that address misunderstandings and communication problems and a sound that oscillates between post-punk, noise rock and 90s indie, VAN URST remain true to themselves and weave these influences into a clearly recognizable overall picture. Even if the questions remain unresolved, they find their clearest voice where they belong: live on stage.

FLUTEN: Rooted in post-hardcore, with feelers stretched out towards new territory, FLUTEN combine what at first seems like a contradiction in terms: Electro and guitar, five-eighths and melody, dissonance and pop. Between noise and sensitivity, FLUTEN create danceability with breaks and edges. Without the eternal focus on the chorus, without nodding off and it-will-be-done attitude. Also: punk. But without slogans, and certainly without pointing fingers.

FOR ARCHIVISTS. Fluten were founded in Hamburg in 2007. A new album will be released in fall 2025 and was once again produced by Hauke Albrecht (Turbostaat, Captain Planet, Tocotronic). Fluten don't sound like: Kante, Engine Down, Fugazi, Blumfeld. But like Fluten.

"When you consider what a musical plank the five gentlemen from Hamburg are presenting here, despite all the adversities, you start to wonder why they don't actually record and release records all day long. (...) They don't make politics with boring slogans, but solely with their own horniness." (8/10 points) VICE

"A record that almost rabidly snatches various codes and symbols from the alternative sound of three decades, as if it were a matter of burying the past in a quarry. A record that, despite all the anger, often sounds heartbreakingly soulful and musically quite mature." ZEIT ONLINE

"As versatile as The Robocop Kraus in their most daring phases. (...) Some fans may be overwhelmed by the lack of stylistic awareness, but Fluten prove that they can actually do everything they show. And it is probably precisely their path that can lead postcore vital and fresh into the future. Fluten are pioneers in this, and that alone is a quality that should be emphasized. " INTRO

VVK: 15€ B.O.: 18€

Price information:

VVK: 15€ (plus fees) B.O.: 18€