Die Ärzte - Bielefeld 2008

Music & Performance
As usual at the current tour, the band entered the stage and began to play the intro still hidden behind the curtain before this one dropped and the stage was revealed during the first song. The set was started with ‘Himmelblau’ followed by ‘Lied vom Scheitern’ and ‘Hurra’ before the band welcomed the audience and did the first jokes about the advertising banners in the venue. The first surprise followed after ‘Geh mit mir’ as Farin detected a sign "I have birthday today and you are my gift" in the first rows; Farin asked the girl for her name and the band played a birthday song for her. After it the show went on and the second surprise followed during ‘Radio brennt’. Usually, during this song they integrate a part of another song, at the current tour normally it was ‘Jag Älskar Sverige’ and Bela played two bongos which were brought to the stage only during the song, but this time they integrated the complete song ‘Zitroneneis’ instead and the bongos were unused.

The song ‘Studentenmädchen’ was played twice, first as a special version like a ballad and than the normal rocking version. After about 100 minutes, Farin announced the last song, but before they played it, they first improvised some nursery rhymes and folk songs and after about two hours, the main set was finished with ‘Rebel’. Of course the crowd didn't want to go home and requested some encores. DIE ÄRZTE came back three times and played one more hour until they played ‘Zu spät’ which was accompanied a special Mexican wave - the "to late wave" - and the really last song ‘Vorbei ist vorbei’ was played from tape and Farin, Bela and Rod left the stage finally.