Die Toten Hosen: Made for the Olympic Stadium

Created: 06/19/2022, 15:32

By: Catherine Brack

Around 35,000 visitors can vote, among other things, whether "Bayern" or the "Jägermeister" will be played.

© Florian Vit/ Martin Hangen

Goosebumps, fan chants and memories of holidays in Bavaria: Die Toten Hosen celebrated 40 years of band history in the Olympic Stadium on Saturday.

Our criticism:

They wanted it that way.

What can Campino do for it if the audience has made the supposedly wrong decision?

“Ten little Jägermeister” or “Bayern”, they would only play one song, said the Toten Hosen frontman with mock severity and had around 35,000 concertgoers in the Olympic Stadium vote by shouting loudly.

The “Jägermeister” were just ahead.

And now there's booing because they still want to hear "Bayern"?

"It doesn't work like that," says Campino.

Legendary 40 years of band history are to be worked through and of course to be celebrated on this Saturday evening in Munich under the tent roof.

Campino recently told our newspaper that he believes the trousers are more craftsmen than artists.

But even the beginning of the evening is art with goosebumps factor: Laid out like the trailer for an old western, the performance of the band members flickers across the huge screens of the brightly painted stage.

40 years of Die Toten Hosen: Campino tells memories of Bavaria

"Nice that you are here!

We're glad we're still somewhere," Campino says in greeting and seems a little surprised himself that he and his bandmates Andreas "Kuddel" von Holst, Michael "Breiti" Breitkopf, Andreas "Andi" Meurer and Stephen "Vom Ritchie are still on stage together.

The Düsseldorf punk rockers are in Munich for the 32nd time, he will tell you later in the evening.

Whereby he generously slams a youth club in Munich, from which the band had to abseil with bed sheets after the very first concert in 1983.

Frontman Campino, who celebrates his 60th birthday this Wednesday, doesn't seem to have aged much either.

© Florian Vit/ Martin Hangen

It feels like they have hardly aged in these 40 years, even though Campino is celebrating his 60th birthday this Wednesday.

There's still plenty of movement, they sprint across the stage only to snap back into place for the choruses.

While drummer “Vom” bangs on his instrument with a broad grin.

And Campino whirls like a dervish from one side of the stage to the other, the microphone stand always on his man and his green shirt wet with sweat after two songs.

They play from "All say that" from the recently released anniversary album "Alles aus Liebe" to "Bonny & Clyde", "Paradies" and "Wannsee" to numbers like "Outside the Door", which Campino dedicated to his father.

In between, he talks about vacations in Bavaria, which he liked, although he didn't like having to wear his brother's lederhosen.

The Toten Hosen in the Olympic Stadium: Made for this stadium

But you also have wishes for the audience.

The singer explains that they want to edit a video for this year's Christmas party for "Get up when you're on the ground".

And keeps the camcorder on as the entire stadium sits down, only to jump up again at the chorus accompanied by red Bengalo fire.

The audience delivers, of course.

The fans are doing well on this hot June evening.

The Toten Hosen's songs are also made for the stadium, for shouting along, for a bit of a horror show.

They are absolutely rousing, even after so many years on stage.

And "Bavaria"?

Campino flirted a little, then of course they played it after all.

In Munich, in the venerable stadium, "that almost has to be".

Not only the songs are made for this stadium.

The Toten Hosen simply belong here, too.

Catherine Brack

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