(Rebekka Bakken photo. Bremme + Hohensee) well in early 1994 gave the then little known Fantastic Four in the Dresden Star Club (now "Beatpol") is a critically acclaimed concert Club and Star Chef "Lotte" Lachotta made among journalists in the run-up advertising. It was the best thing I have to offer the German hip hop, the boys would still be quite large and you would miss an important concert, if you would miss it. Lachottas prophecy came to pass.
Star Club was also in mid-November 1996 Moby concert - a lot earlier than his international breakthrough as a star 1999th The Star Club again had a fine sense of artistic merit and potential, Moby is now long since one of the greats of pop music.
If Dresdner media these days the singer Roger Cicero celebrate it is worth remembering that the young man his first concert here in the region in early March 2006 had been in the "bin".
Also in June 2008, died in an accident world famous pianist Esbjörn Svensson ("est") has played many years ago in the "bin" - incidentally, with Nils Landgren and long before he "discovered" by the Dresden high culture for big stages was.
Even with a concert by saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa end of March 2009, the "barrel" was a good hand, but the Indoamerikaner few weeks later by the world's most influential jazz journalist in the forefront of all polling places in the world selected.
The Norwegian pianist Helge Lien, in September 2008 in the "bin" highbrow, could be a similar case, since the fall of 2008 to increase awareness in the international media and CD sales seriously.
So now is the magnificent Norwegian singer Rebekka Bakken on tour - 27 November 2009 she was presented as a star in Germany's ARD television, 29 November 2009 she sings the old slaughterhouse in Dresden. The Dresden audience was first introduced to it, however, the Jazz Club New tonne - nearly seven years ago at the 22nd February 2003, the tickets at that time for about a third of today's price.
rightly so have Beatpol and "ton" for every The public reputation of being a kind of truffle pig. Those who visit these clubs must always expect musical treasures, at the discovery and recovery, these small facilities great services, while large operators then later can achieve with these artists a great service.
Beatpol and clubs such as the "barrel" - and throughout Germany, there are a number of these species, so this statement can be generalized - just live and the fact that they work about discovery and risky.
And they constantly feel the consequences of their actions. You can rapidly rising salaries of their "discoveries" is no longer pay - the public will often other merits. What is such a small club, is the satisfaction at coming artists helped to step into the world of careers to have. Again and again, a normal process.
a process that refers to the fact that one should judge events by at least two criteria. On the one hand to the artistic achievement of the performance, on the other hand, on the performance of the event - it's no trick to make good with a lot of money on the stage. And make a lot of money on the stage is the usual, even criticism. But present with little money for something special - that keeps the cultural life going!
Mathias Bäumel
