Die wilden Jahre

In the organizer's words:

The Tanz-Bande DJs Mike Pepper and De La Luz are coming to the Puls Club with a party special in May and are fulfilling a long-cherished wish of their own by celebrating an extraordinary party far removed from the usual over-40s and 80s party clichés.

WILDE JAHRE - the party with the soundtrack of our wild years, the club culture from '77 to '97 - we get on the Nightboat to Cairo and visit the Sleeper in Metropolis.

We all know this club in our city, the disco where life pulsated. The place where you spent your wild years.

At 16, you stayed in the disco longer than allowed for the first time and the music and atmosphere were exciting and ...

At the parties we used to have in our parents' cellars at home, all the scenes were together, the poppers, the punks, the wavers, the skins, the mods and above all the normal people like you and me.

And if the town was small enough - and it was for most of us - then there was only one hip club and everyone from every scene had a home there. Everything went side by side. Madness and Anne Clark belonged at the same party and we could do every dance style.

First wild ska ecstasy to Nightboat to Cairo and a few moments later an existentialist two-step-one-step in the best wave style to Sleeper in Metropolis with our heads down.

The parties were colorful and the music exciting, everything was new, times of awakening, off into the future with open minds ... Things were moving forward ... New Wave, Gothic, NDW, Alternative Rock, Rockabilly, Punk, Ska, Electro, in between the fall of the Berlin Wall, Madchester, Britpop, TripHop etc.

And the club in your city was of course the center of the universe. What was going on here was at the forefront, was the future, was cool ...

DJ Mike Pepper and DJ De La Luz danced through their wild years at the Old Daddy in Oberhausen, the Fabrik in Coesfeld and the Odeon in Münster to Alan Vega, Smiths, D.A.F., Martha And the Muffins, Sisters of Mercy, EMF, Clash, Fehlfarben, Talking Heads and later to Primal Scream, Massive Attack and Underworld.

We celebrate our wild years with the original songs. Celebrate with us if you want.

But one detail is completely different from back then.

We start at 20:00 - yes, you read that right: 20:00 - right after/at sunset - but that's the only tribute we pay to our age - the dancing is just as wild and/or expressive as ever. To be honest, we think it's stupid that you're only allowed to go to a club just before midnight. We're not 16 anymore - and it really doesn't impress anyone when you tell them the day after the party how long you were out again yesterday.

We want to have a great party and we'll start when the sun goes down - from 8.00 pm. We look forward to seeing you there!