HOPE // Support: ZALVOX

In the organizer's words:

HOPE

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Marching, violence, slavish discipline, technocracy and techno, that's German. Ironically, whenever a German band is loved outside of Germany, it's precisely for this. This is most obvious with DAF, Kraftwerk and Rammstein. But can German pop music exist?

If Portishead were to be founded in Berlin today and Josef Beuys were to tear the band to pieces with a coarse wire brush in order to exhibit them in a dark, 30 meter high silo for the artificial production of icebergs, this total work of art would probably come closest to Hope.

IDLES, of all people, were the first to fall in love with this bursting emotional monster of a band and took Hope on tour with them. The band went on to play Eurosonic Noorderslaag, Reeperbahn Festival, Liverpool Soundcity, SXSW, toured Europe and England, and were praised and celebrated by the press. ("The invention of what we all needed for a long time - a new German way of singing in English" - Daniel Gerhardt, Zeit Online, "I was absolutely blown away. The album is fantastic"- John Kennedy, RADIO X, "a monumental experience" - NBHAP.com)

With their second album "Navel", the band has matured and become calmer. And at the same time even more intense. With "Navel", the four musicians have created a Zen garden, radical in its minimalism, clarity and vulnerability. It is an album that has fallen out of time and has what it takes to become a timeless classic. Not only the press seems to feel this way - "An impressive hymn to reduction. An album to be celebrated." - ROLLING STONE" - In 2022, the band collaborated and played with dark wave legends Bauhaus, followed by another ennoblement: in the summer of 2023, Hope accompanied Depeche Mode on their "Memento Mori" tour in Europe.