Congés Annulés Opening Night

with GANS + Chris Imler + Sheebaba + DJ So Raw (DJ set)

Hailing from Birmingham, in the heart of UK’s black country, GANS is a post-punk duo “with a sound that’s impossible to pigeonhole” (Rolling Stone). Inspired by dark rum, dark literature and bleak skylines, they write music about love and hate, and bring a riotous energy to each of their live shows. The title of their debut album doesn’t lie: they’re Good for the soul!

Chris Imler is an industry veteran, a jack-of-all-trades, a drum dandy, a beat prophet, and an unmatched player in the Berlin indie scene. He has generated rhythm for The Golden Showers, Peaches, Jens Friebe, and, most recently, Oum Shatt, but most of all, he works for himself. Imler’s live performances always grow out of rhythm. His beats and samples, which are both pre-programmed and played live, form the backbones of his songs. In a cold-sweated style à la DAF or evoking a present-day Cabaret Voltaire, these songs bring together melodies and lyrics that take root somewhere between the gold buyers of Kreuzberg and the concrete techno dungeons of the big city.

Mainz-based duo Sheebaba describe themselves as noise, poetry and drum loops, genre-bending, art rock, dark wave, experimental, goth, industrial, fuzzy and glitchy, conceptual, performative, colours of the rainbow, against hate. But honestly, they’re even much more than that.

Location: Parvis

Programme: 19:00 Doors 19:30 Show

Links: GANS - Instagram Chris Imler - Instagram Sheebaba - Instagram Congés Annulés - Programme complet