"A kind of accolade": Young band from Upper Bavaria is looking forward to the Oktoberfest premiere

Created: 09/12/2022, 05:10

By: Peter Loder

Playing as "Saustoi" at the Wiesn (from left): Fabian Eckmann, Flo Reimer, Chris Rind, Kleo Leike and Sascha Pakai.

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Oktoberfest starts in Munich in a week.

A band from Fürstenfeldbruck will be there for the first time.

"Saustoi" plays 17 evenings in the Ammer beer tent at the Wiesn.

Fürstenfeldbruck – It's a meteoric rise for the group.

Just a few years ago, the musicians were just a school band.

Actually, the Ammer beer tent at the Oktoberfest has stood for freshly cleaned organic poultry since 1885.

But this year, the oldest chicken roastery in the world is letting the pig out.

And that on all 17 evenings, when the "Saustoi" band, born at Bruck's Ferdinand von Miller secondary school and raised in Aich, rocks the tent with their party sound every day from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.

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For the group of five, which was founded seven years ago, this is "a kind of accolade", as bandleader Florian Reimer describes the rapid ascent.

The 23-year-old IT technician is the mouthpiece of the group, which was founded in 2015 as a school band and performed so well at the closing ceremony in the Brucker event forum that even the ministerial representative was knocked off his feet.

"You have to keep going," Ernst Fischer encouraged the quintet at the time.

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With which he not only electrified Reimer, the son of a master electrician from Aich, but also his musical buddy Christoph Rind (24), who also lives in the rural district.

Since then, singer Kleo Leichl (20), who lives in Bruck, Fabian Eichmann (21) and drummer Sascha Pakai, who is the only band member who is also a music professional, have been on board.

The 21-year-old is the owner of the "Enter-our-Age" recording studio based in Bruck.

The crew also includes technicians Tobias Reimer, Ralf Vonhausen, Jakob Ludwig and Maxi Kuhn.

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The five made their first appearance outside of school at the Weinfest home game in Aich, where they will be there again on October 8th.

At that time, the group was still rehearsing in the basement of Reimer's multi-generational parents' house on Ebnerweg.

That's where the band's name was born: "Grandpa always came down and grumbled, what a mess we left behind." The name has stayed the same and "Saustoi" has become a household name in the party scene.

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The breakthrough for "Saustoi" came in 2017 at the Brucker Altstadtfest.

Kaltenberg's brewery manager Oliver Lenz, who has excellent contacts with the Oktoberfest scene, paved the way to the Hendl tent of Ammer festival host Josef Schmidbauer, even though Bruck's Königlich-Bavarian beer house has been denied Oktoberfest presence for decades.

During a performance in the local Marthabräuhalle, "Saustoi" was examined live by Schmidbauer's crew and immediately engaged.

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The musicians have to open the evenings with the Bavarian anthem according to the old Ammer tradition.

But after that you can rock what the 80-song band repertoire has to offer.

"Initially even more civilized as the accompanying music for the chicken feast," explains Reimer, but from 9 p.m. the full crowd is supposed to be standing on the benches in the 450-person tent, which is small by Oktoberfest standards.

Whether it's a scandal or not, there's no getting around a song at the Wiesn: "Of course we play 'Layla' every evening," announces Reimer.

The final bouncer is also a fixed part of the set list: Robbie Williams' catchy tune "Angels".

Saustoi: The great springboard?

In order to stay fit, the following applies: "No beer in large quantities, but cyclists in moderation." The five "Saustoi" interpreters still call themselves music amateurs, but were already business-savvy enough to register as a GbR (civil law partnership).

Reimer does not want to completely rule out a career as a music professional.

“The next two years will tell.

But the step there is big.”

The big dream is that after the accolade under Bavaria there will be a television coronation in front of an audience of millions.

Which is why Florian Silbereisen or Stefan Mross should perhaps stop by the Ammer tent, because young Aicher sees the TV shows of the two Schlager greats as the big springboard.

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