TURBOSTAAT

In the organizer's words:

TURBOSTAAT "25 Years of Turbostaat" Seven re-releases - a new, eighth studio album and an ambitious tour concept in which all albums will be performed once again. Turbostaat are 25 years old.

The band Turbostaat has achieved what punk bands often don't: Lasting twenty-five years. As part of the band's anniversary, the band will go on tour in late fall 2024 - and celebrate eight album release parties. At the same time, all Turbostaat studio albums will be released in freshly pressed vinyl editions. They are also announcing their eighth studio album for January 2025. Turbostaat are not necessarily known for celebrating themselves - or anything else. There was always more understatement than charm offensive, always more North Frisian sobriety than popping corks, always more longing than comfort, always more grumpy face than good-humored humbug. Turbostaat music is punk rock with Wadden Sea fog hanging in its lungs - ever since the band formed in the Schleswig-Holstein province in 1999 and a quarter of a century later. That's exactly the problem: the fall of 2024 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Turbostaat's founding - an occasion that even the most lazy and modest band in the world can't celebrate. Twenty-five years of Turbostaat means twenty-five years of pretending not to be a fixed, remarkably constant force in the German music landscape; as if they hadn't fundamentally shaped the local subculture; as if they weren't a role model for an entire generation of German-language post-punk bands. Twenty-five years of Turbostaat, that means twenty-five years of pleasantly confused intellectuality, fairy-tale gloom, cryptic metaphors and subtle statements; it means a clear edge without posturing, slogans and calculation. Twenty-five years of Turbostaat, that means twenty-five years of contrapuntal minor-key music, which, between wrenching guitars and rumbling drums, doesn't give a damn about classic song structures; which is made for the stage and has never lost its D.I.Y. smell. Twenty-five years of Turbostaat, that means twenty-three years of "Flamingo", seventeen years of "Vormann Leiss" and a marriage with regular producer Moses Schneider; it also means eight years of "Abalonia" - and, above all, a quarter of a century of deep friendship. Turbostaat are a five-piece consisting of Marten, Jan, Roland, Tobert and Peter; that was the case, that is the case, that will never be any different - just like the fact that guitarist Marten writes most of the lyrics that singer Jan then sings. The band environment? An equally close-knit, surprisingly manageable circle of people who are seen as an integral part of the family. Anyone who understands the Turbostaat structure will be able to imagine how difficult the blows of fate were that the band family had to cope with in the midst of the corona crisis. It is - and this also needs to be mentioned, although the band itself would never put it this way - anything but a matter of course that Turbostaat is still alive. Not only that: there is a spirit of optimism in Turbostaat - a spirit of optimism that, for once, even allows for a little nostalgia. As part of the band's twenty-fifth anniversary, all seven studio albums that Turbostaat have released since their formation are being re-released on vinyl. As if that wasn't enough, Jan, Roland, Marten, Peter and Tobert are embarking on a highly ambitious concept tour in October and November 2024 - eight concerts with eight completely different setlists will be played in eight German cities. The idea: to bring all Turbostaat records - i.e. seven studio LPs - to the stage in their entirety on one evening each. As part of the "25 Years of Turbostaat" tour, all the songs that the Turbostaat discography has to offer - and that's a whopping eighty-one - will be celebrated at eight album release parties. Turbostaat also make it clear that the journey is far from over by announcing another release show for January 16 and their eighth album "Alter Zorn".