11.08.2024 Das Ich

M'era Luna

Hildesheim (Germany)

(Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark II)

After the folk sounds of dArtagnan it went across towards the Club stage to attend a real contrast to the band before. Das Ich was put on my schedule, a primary rock of the dark alternative scene which was founded originally already in 1989 and since then was formed unchanged by basically Stefan Ackermann and Bruno Kramm. Live these guys are supported by two further keyboarders. Very funny I found the idea of putting the synthesizer onto small rollable tables with which the musicians were hoofing around the stage and dancing again and again around singer Ackermann. This was lively taking part in it himself by his snatchy dances, grimacing and smirking with the audience. Also the announcements in-between had something amusing when he had to admit that he had lied during his song “Engel” as there would be so many nice angels in the audience.
The long career was also characterized by the long sickness related time-outs Akkermanns so that the overall number of albums is not that high at all. Nevertheless, there was a wide cross-section presented starting with the first album “Satanische Verse” which had already been released back in 1990 and of which there was e.g. “Kain Und Abel” up to the completely new song “Dantes Hölle” (I am not fully sure whether the song was called like that). Very sympathetic the saying of Ackermann that they finished that song only three days before the festival and then still had to start practicing it. But here I can tell you: That was something that you could not realize that you did not have played the song so often before. Also here it was again very crowded in front of the stage and the atmosphere was excellent. All band members were painted and dressed very nice and perfectly matching to the music. Loudly the lyrics thrown towards the crowd were replied and there where it was possible they also started dancing.
For me it had been the first time of watching Das Ich but the presence of the band as well as the thrilling performance really spelled a cast on me. That was something completely different for me personally, but I have to admit that I really liked it and it was live even by far more impressive than the songs that I heard some day before shortly in order to get a little more to know about the bands that were playing the M’era Luna. Although I am not really able to classify them musically one should really get oneself in for their mixture of hard electronic music with very gloomy barked lyrics.

Setlist:

• Lazarus
• Kannibale
• Uterus
• Schwarzer Stern
• Reanimat
• Engel
• Dantes Hölle
• Kain und Abel
• Destillat
• Gottes Tod

Weblinks:

	Das Ich Homepage of the German band Das Ich.
	M'era Luna Homepage of the German festival M'era Luna at Hildesheim.

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