Kasalla • Live 2025

In the organizer's words:

The ideas that two guys have around a kitchen table at 2 a.m. after a long party are not always really good. But what ex-"Peilomat" guitarist and songwriter Flo Peil and singer Bastian Campmann were planning turned into something: Kasalla.

Together with old and new companions Ena Schwiers, Sebi Wagner and Nils Plum, they jumped into the rehearsal room with the plan to combine the music they love with lyrics in their native language. Now, 10 years later, the crazy idea has really grown up.

Not least thanks to the chart success of their 2017 album "Mer sin eins". The band's fourth studio album went straight from 0 to number 5 in the German album charts, giving the band not only the first top ten ranking of their career, but also the highest chart entry for a Cologne band since BAP in 1981. The Cologne band's success story was crowned with another mega-highlight in 2018, as they were nominated for the German music award ECHO.

A story that seems even more surreal and fast-paced in a city like Cologne. Because the music scene there by the river and the cathedral is very intense, diverse and concentrated. Like the entire German pop landscape - compressed onto a beer mat.

"There are dozens of bands in Cologne that play dialect and can make a living from it, nobody believes you elsewhere when you tell them that," says singer Bastian Campmann. Such a lively, active dialect scene bordering on rock and pop is hard to imagine in other German conurbations. A phenomenon that would not be possible without carnival. What it actually means to be a member of a band whose music is an integral part of the repertoire of the fifth season is hard to imagine elsewhere. "During the carnival season, you play two hundred (!) times in just six weeks, that's around ten gigs a day," says drummer Nils Plum, outlining the workload between the beginning of January and mid-February, "but that also means you reach an incredible number of people.

Price information:

Standing room, admission 19:00, start 20:00.