40 years of Optimal – Munich Kammerspiele sold out
Created: 12/13/2022, 2:20 p.m
Bright show!
The Munich supergroup "What are people for?" made the audience in the Munich Kammerspiele dance.
© Bodo-Klaus Eidmann
In the course of 40 years now, the Munich Optimal music and record shop has gained importance far beyond the borders of the Bavarian capital and celebrated the occasion with a grandiose concert evening in the Munich Kammerspiele and DJ performances in the Rote Sonne.
Munich – "Thank you, thank you, thank you," said Christos Davidopoulos, head of Munich's Optimal record business, on the occasion of the big birthday in the completely sold-out Kammerspiele in Munich.
"40 years of optimal - without you it would not have been possible," he said to the audience.
"Culture is nourishment," emphasized Optimal co-founder Peter Wacha (DJ Upstart) and added a criticism of the situation in the creative and music scene in Munich.
Space is getting scarcer and rents are getting higher.
"If our rent were to be increased, we wouldn't know where to go!" But nobody wanted to think about that on this beautiful evening, because the 40 years of Optimal concert celebration developed into the big "family reunion" of the music scene.
Atmospheric!
The Munich Kammerspiele presented the performance with great lighting effects;
the sound was great too.
© Bodo-Klaus Eidmann
A surprise to start with!
The London folk singer Naima Bloch and her three musicians are a "staff pick" (recommended by the Optimal crew) who brought atmosphere to the premises of the Munich Kammerspiele with their tender, dark folk songs.
Melancholic folk from time to time with saxophone!
She thanked the auditorium with the words "A great place to be" (English, a great place to be here), although the audience talked audibly in the stalls, which had been cleared of chairs, during the concert.
Admittedly, at such a “family reunion” of the creative scene after the corona restrictions, there was certainly a lot to exchange.
The second recommendation from the music team is the band "What are people for?".
This Munich super band around the performance artists Anna McCarthy (sister of the former Franz Ferdinand member Nick McCarthy) and Paulina Nolte had banging Electro-Pop songs like "Bring back the dirt" and "I got a gun and don't know how to use it” will silence all conversation.
"What are people for?" has already achieved a certain level of awareness, she has already performed at the PUCH Music Festival 2022 (organized by Peter Wacha).
The two artists are supported musically by drummer Tom Wu and multi-instrumentalist Manuela Rzytki, who left her keyboard on one of the songs and put hot dance steps on stage to cheer on the enthusiastic audience even more.
Well filled!
The concert evening was completely sold out, so that not only the floor but also the stands were well filled.
© Bodo-Klaus Eidmann
Closely associated with 40 Years of Optimal is the Munich band Volunteer Self-Control (FSK) with frontman Michael Meinecke.
The musician and writer once bought hard-to-find independent vinyl singles from Peter Wacha's "vendor shop" (when Optimal didn't even exist yet).
Peter Wacha used to go from club to club with a small suitcase full of singles to bring his favorite music to the public.
From these beginnings, the idea of founding a music business developed to give so-called niche music a platform.
"We wanted to do something to counter the majors," says Wacha.
The Munich avant-garde band FSK played as the third band on this evening not only "classics" like "apples, beers",
but also unreleased music material" such as "Armorbach Revisted" (based on Theodor W. Adorno's favorite place).
The mixture of New Wave and NDW, which sounds more up-to-date than ever, ensured that the dancing continued. Sebastian Reier, responsible for the music program of the Munich Kammerspiele, was completely happy with the course of the music evening.
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