Silbermond - Münster 2009

SILBERMOND (German for “silver moon”) are brothers Johannes Stolle (bass) and Thomas Stolle (guitar), Andreas Nowak (drums) and front woman Stefanie Kloß, who came together in 1998 in East-German small town Bautzen under their first band name JAST, which is simply derived from the first letters of the band members' names. After they started with Rock music with English lyrics, the band decided to use German lyrics exclusively and changed their band’s name to SILBERMOND in 2001. SILBERMOND made their breakthrough as the opening act for German Pop starlet Jeanette Biedermann, and they became increasingly popular in Germany and Austria last but not least by constant touring as well as by massive airplay on German radio and German music television.



Their debut album ‘Verschwende deine Zeit’ (Waste your time) (2004) spent unbelievable 69 weeks in the German Media Control charts. When in April 2006 the second album ‘Laut gedacht’ was released it continued their victory march and bestowed them even more fans than before. After being away for a while the third album ‘Nichts passiert’ hit the streets on 20th March 2009 and directly entered #1 of the album charts in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. http://www.silbermond.de/ / http://www.myspace.com/silbermond



Music & Performance
Before anything happened it was time for a little waiting. 30 minutes to be precise which for some was too much. But eventually the intro sounded and everything seemed forgotten at once. At the end of this little instrumental the band would walk - under frenetic applause - down the catwalk to the little front stage and perform ‘Alles Gute’ the opener of their recent hit album ‘Nichts passiert’ that impressed with massive drum power. The song had barely faded when the band made their way back to the main stage where the curtain finally fell and revealed the stage design with some sort of tubes hanging down from the ceiling colourfully illuminated. The backdrop comprised huge LED blocks either just sending out plain-coloured lights or showing various patterns according to the respective song. To top it all off a big video screen was hung up optionally displaying the action on stage or in the crowd recorded by cameras. The show went on with ‘Bist du dabei’ and ‘Meer sein’ frenetically celebrated by the crowd but nothing against the mental temper that took hold when the first chords of ‘Durch die Nacht’ started floating around.