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Roxy Music with Brian Ferry

It’s hard to imagine now, seeing the ‘mature’ gentleman blowing on a saxophone in front of me, but It’s fair to say that Roxy Music are one of  the key influences  in modern Pop music history.  Glam, Punk and New Wave all bear hallmarks of the band’s influence from the days when Brian Eno might appear with a pink feather boa draped... [Read more of this story]

Miao Mio in Klanggarten

The ‘infamous’ Bonner Loch as an Open Air concert venue – inspiration or desperation? Popular local band Miao Mio were likely to be a good test to find out if the fancifully names ‘Klanggarten’ really could prove to see a renaissance of this much maligned piece of prime Bonn Real Estate. When better to test it indeed than on a sunny Summer... [Read more of this story]

Next Folk Club Evening

The next Folk Club show (the seventh!) will be on  Friday, 3rd September at 7pm for 7.30pm.   Guests promised include MIKE AND THE DOCTOR who played a memorable set at the club a while ago (see our earlier Folk Club report) so get there early for a good seat.  ‘There’ in case you didn’t see previous ads for the Club is: Gastätte... [Read more of this story]

3 J’s – 3 Different Blues

The three J’s – maybe that should be the three G’s as three different generations of Rock Blues guitarists took the Museumsplatz stage by storm on Monday.  Jimmy Bowskill, Joe Bonamassa and Jeff Beck.   We sent two J’s to cover the event.  John Harrison provides the words and John Hurd the pictures at this one off musical... [Read more of this story]

The Bonn Players

Those of you who enjoyed the spectacular and very entertaining Last of the Red Hot Lovers will be delighted to know that plans for the autumn production are already under way  for The Importance of Being Earnest.  Auditions took place in June.  Details about this next production, the play reading group,  other forthcoming events, as well as how... [Read more of this story]

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Hurd about Bonn

Picking the Winner

Make sure you aren’t caught in the wrong scarf and blowing the wrong teams Vuvuzela.  Ask ‘Murdoch the Psychic Soft Toy’ or try one of our other suggestions for picking a winner at this years World Cup. Traditionalists might want to go with Paul the Psychic Octopus, the mystic  mollusc  who has, according to Worlwide Press Reports,... [Read more of this story]

Bonn’s Swinging Sixties

I’m a big fan of Bonn’s oldest surviving pop band Sunny Skies, so when founder of the ‘Skies’ Rope Schmitz told me there were other musicians from Bonn’s pop past performing again I was intrigued.  The evening has been organized by Bea Tradt who sung alongside Rope (Rolf-Peter) in the original Sunny Skies and will feature... [Read more of this story]

Federal Republic is 60

This year sees the 60th Anniversary of Germany’s Federal Republic.  The BRD (or Buntes Republic Deutschland as musician Udo Lindenberg famously called it) was born in Bonn so naturally Bonn will be celebrating.   Many of our Seasonal Celebrations such as the Museums Mile and Beethoven Festivals will accordingly have Federal Republic motifs... [Read more of this story]

Mayday!

So, did you wake up this morning and find a tree outside the door with your name on it?  No, I didn’t either, but in case you were wondering, here is a reminder of what it’s all about… The Maibaum and it’s British equivalent the Maypole, probably date from German Paganism so it’s only fair that one of the oldest... [Read more of this story]

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