Helge Schneider presents his "The Last Torero" tour in Munich
Created: 2022-12-09 10:51 am
By: Michael Schleicher
Helge Schneider in Munich: In 2023 he will go on his "The Last Torero" tour.
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Helge Schneider presented his plans for 2023 in Munich.
The musician and comedian goes on "The Last Torero" tour.
He is also working on a new book and studio album.
Press conferences with Helge Schneider are like surprise eggs that you can enter.
Nobody knows what will happen, not even the organizers.
"Let's see what awaits us," is the greeting on Thursday afternoon (December 8, 2022) at the Bayerischer Hof Night Club.
Sure, Schneider wants to advertise his new tour, which will also take him to Munich on February 20 and 21, 2023.
But this lesson is only about that in passing.
So the most important things in quick succession: The Isarphilharmonie?
"I've been there a few times." The acoustics in the interim venue?
"It sounds philharmonic." That means?
"You have to have a natural sound without big amplifiers, which suits me very well.
Although sometimes I also like loud music.
But then I do it quietly.” The audience in Munich is the best anyway,
Helge Schneider will play in Munich on February 20th and 21st, 2023
But before it comes to all these facts, the musician, comedian, entertainer and multi-instrumentalist first quarrels with the photographers ("You are exhausting"), but ultimately fulfills - almost - every wish.
Then it's about the music of other artists and bands that Schneider is currently listening to (like Milli Vanilli, Paul McCartney, Haddaway, Alfred Brendel, Iron Butterfly, Ekseption) and the way he listens to music: "If I actively listen to music, I put on a record.
CD is too complicated for me - I never know where the CD goes.
I have a CD player in the car.
But I'm listening to the radio in the car - but turn off the sound.
Otherwise you become stupid.
Because they always tell the same thing.”
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The title that the 67-year-old gave his new tour now fits to listening to records: "The last torero" has less to do with bullfighting or Spain and more to do with a torero specialist shop in Berlin, where he dressed accordingly ("I saw the costume and bought it. And I was hoping it would fit.").
Above all, however, the “last torero” is a metaphor “for old times, for things that have been forgotten, for tradition,” reports Schneider, while he chooses to play a few notes on the grand piano or sip his tea.
He then also tells that he is working on another studio album;
most recently, he had presented “The Reaction – The Last Jazz, Vol. II” last year.
It is not yet clear when the sequel will be released.
This also applies to the novel he is currently working on.
"After 20 years, Commissioner Schneider is back on duty," he announces another volume of his wildly bloody crime series, which caused a sensation in the nineties: "I can't say more.
I haven't written a page yet."
At the end of this very entertaining hour in the night club, the man on the stage really starts to philosophize.
"Most of my work is a lie," says Helge Schneider.
"I tell stories that aren't true.
But they could be right.” Great fun.