OTTOLIEN - BLEIB LIEB TOUR 2025

In the organizer's words:

"I know where it came from, but I don't know how to get it back."

OTTOLIEN stand in the wind with their cracked hearts as shields and shout "STAY LOVE". One can only hope that the world will hear them. The four live shows in April 2025 will give them the chance to do just that, announcing their second tour.

'WIR TUN UNS SO GUT WEH' (2023) was the name of the debut album with which the brothers firmly established themselves in the German-speaking indie scene last year. Numerous festival shows at the Southside Festival, Blaumachen, Reeperbahn Festival, c/o pop Festival, Nürnberg Pop or KiezKultur Festival, support shows for soffie, Michél von Wussow, error or Trille and several home shows at the always packed Musikzentrum Hannover: OTTOLIEN are stronger on the map than ever and want more. More attitude, more feeling, away from genre boundaries.

Just one year after the release of their debut album, the brothers announce their second tour "BLEIB LIEB". The tour title is almost emblematic of the brothers in its typeface and content. No matter what happens - stay sweet. This mantra-like sentence also runs through the new songs and OTTOLIEN celebrate radical tenderness. But who can afford to stay sweet - no matter what? The two brothers explore this question in their latest releases.

OTTOLIEN are the brothers Leo and Jonas. One is a producer, rapper and beat-maker and the other is a cerebral lyricist and guitarist. In their lyrics, double rhyme structures meet a visual language that does not shy away from any pop cultural reference. OTTOLIEN fly inland by hanging from a windmill, manage to use the word "Jack Wolfskin jacket" lyrically and are always wonderfully self-deprecating. They almost casually write their Easter Eggs lyrics on great melodies that you never want to get rid of. OTTOLIEN take the listener into their family, whose musical family tree should consist of DIE TOTEN HOSEN, WIR SIND HELDEN and MAECKES.

Songs like "Schwerelosigkeit", which clings to the feeling of carefreeness with The Cure's shredding guitars, stand alongside the song "BIRNENBAUM", which is divided into two parts and in which OTTOLIEN describe a visit to a cemetery. One line, which in its ambivalence is emblematic of the two songwriters, reads: "I'm glad I still have to experience this." The two brothers have inadvertently written a hymn to life and death. OTTOLIEN stand in the wind with their cracked hearts as shields and shout "BLEIB LIEB".