Cologne -
Pogo in the car park: the pop band "Beat! Beat! Beat! "Played spontaneously and without warning at a concert for the shopping addict Hohenzollernring. Within minutes ... formed a huge audience. The X-Scouts were live.
It is Tuesday evening, 20 clock. The shops close, the last to make passers-by with shopping bags on the way home. Since Tuesday is not exactly notorious for its night life, is expected in Cologne now relatively quiet streets.
But near the Hohenzollern ring sound for a few minutes after eight lovely melodies, elegantly mixed with danceable riffs. Slightly irritated some people follow the siren call of the music gene Brussels square, where they have an impressive pack of young big-city kids to face, which gathers in front of a parking garage. Curious stretches the passerby to guess at, what's the source of the acoustic evening.
I give the desired answer his questioning face: "Beat! Beat! Beat "(BBB) is called the dance band, which airs here. Four guys in Cologne early 20s grew up in Viersen. On the Lower Rhine, then, where mature in the lee of the influential "Haldern pop" festivals are so many great pop bands (example: "Kilian").
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"We were impressed at the amount of total Fans!"
BBB also regarded as one of the most sparsely sown indie-pop hopes in Germany. Their single "Fireworks" for rotation currently violently on the deck plate of the radio station is, in all ears. And now the song sounds from the speakers in the window of the Cologne parking gallery.
The passers-by standing there with a troubled look. 500 young people go to dance, scream, celebrating the band. Since degenerate, the fact that tomorrow is a very ordinary school and university days, to unimportant side effect. Their object is precisely what has well-made music, "finds the band. "It takes you through the week and provides the soundtrack to the city."
