The second band that I was strongly waiting for. Unfortunately, bass player Peter “West” Haag died in 2023 after a short and severe sickness. The band remembered him initially with the West Fest and in 2024 they announced that the name West as well as his instrument bass will not be filled anymore. Instead, a new guitarist Annika “Rose” Jaschke was presented as backstop of the band. But before the gig could be started several things went wrong.
It has been three years meanwhile since Oomph! and Dero Goi went separate ways. After Andreas Crap and Robert Flux initially continued to compose on their own, after some time Der Schulz joined them as new singer. 2023 the first album “Richter Und Henker” with the new constellation was released. From that the opener “Soll Das Liebe Sein?” was played and the band entered the stage dressed in fur coats. Quite brave as the sun was burning and it was oppressively hot.
During the performance of Schwarzer Engel Alexx Wesselsky was standing next to me and watched the show. At that it was good to see, that he had recovered from his surgery after an intestinal perforation that happened beginning of June. Die Herren Wesselsky normally play old or rarely played songs of Megaherz and Eisbrecher paired with cover versions. Today there should be old Megaherz classics on tap.
Friday noon as one of the first artists of the 2024 edition of the M’era Luna festival Dave Jason also known as Schwarzer Engel was allowed to enthuse the not very small audience in front of the Main Stage. I was following this project already for some years now and also some of his albums. So it was the time now to finally convince myself of the live skills of the singer.