Club 27 - Songs für die Ewigkeit

In the organizer's words:

When Brian Jones, guitarist and founding member of the Rolling Stones, drowned in his swimming pool on June 3, 1969, he paid with his life the first membership fee for a club that was soon to grow. He was followed by Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and, exactly two years later on June 3, 1971, Jim Morrison - all of whom turned 27. And so the legend was born. Since then, there have been regular knocks on the door of the so-called Club 27, with Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse among those seeking entry. A VIP club in a class of its own.

But the notorious members have more in common than just their age:

Things have never been so swell, I have never failed to fail.

Many of them were among the most influential and talented musicians of their time and made history even before they died. They lived out of themselves and beyond themselves, defined the cultural heritage not only of the Western world, and were the focal point of many desires. They were perforated and excessive, felt every fiber of this world and tried to function - if necessary, often with heroin. Their lives became a political statement and, with their contradiction to the consensus, shaped the counterculture movements and thus entire generations. They were free beyond measure.

I'm all for you, body and soul.

In the short time that all these free radicals had before their admission to Club 27, they squeezed a wildly spectacular, thunderously loud, deeply tragic and, damn it, extremely unique concentrate of life, in which there was probably more going on than any of us mere mortals could imagine for an entire lifetime.

Riders on the storm, Into this house, we're born, Into this world, we're thrown.

Club 27 has invited everyone to a plenary session at Schauspielhaus Bochum. An evening is guaranteed in which no explosive feeling and no good song will be left out.

It's better to burn out, than to fade away.

Director: Guy Clemens

Musical direction: Stefan "Pele" Götzer

VENUE: KAMMERSPIELE

DURATION: 1:30, NO INTERMISSION

PREMIERE: 03.02.2024

LANGUAGE: German