The Sins of My Youth + James’ Mum: “Life’s Tough, But Not Tonight”

Sins of my Youth

A constantly varying collective uniting the philosophy and freedoms of punk rock with influences from indie and folk, founded in 2015 by Tim Jonathan von Holst in and around the Cologne-Düsseldorf area.

Sins of My Youth create somnambulistic dramolettes full of unagitated poetry and decelerated beauty, exploring the territories around their own genre and appropriating them as if there were no borders, no walls. At times it's as if New Order were playing a Grateful Dead song; at others, as if Jeff Buckley were covering The Beatles.

Von Holst's lyrics are about personal relationships and their disintegration, but he is not afraid to bring out the good in them: "And while my dark days really have no bearing on me [...] I won't try to forget to keep the best of me" (Good Night, I'm Alive) - like this and like a red thread running as an eternal mantra through all the other songs, the Sins stand for the discovery of hope in hopelessness, of fruit in the desert, of resurrection in death.

For the other members, most of whom already play in other bands (Argies, Kids In a Toy Store, Die Toten Hosen, etc.), the Sins are an opportunity to experiment and reinvent themselves again and again. Thus, the 10-member collective played the first 50 concerts in nearly 25 different lineups, and it was sometimes left to chance whether the band was expanded to include a third guitarist, a keyboardist or a sitar drone.

James' Mum

James' M um from Düsseldorf, which was the winner of the Citybeats finals in 2019 and has been rocking Germany's stages since their teenage years!

The newcomer rock band convinces with their unique sound, which mixes alternative, modern rock with a little pinch of punk. After their debut album "Nothing" the 4 released last year their new EP "101" with which they will go on European tour.

Full of passion they can't wait to heat you up on our stage!