Zitadelle Spandau, Berlin, Germany
18th June - 19th June 2011
Zita Rock Festival 2011: Eisbrecher, Project Pitchfork, Zeraphine, Mono Inc., ZIN + another band
Zita Folk Festival 2011: Apocalyptica, Schandmaul, Samsas Traum, End of Green, Qntal and Teufel
Cidadel Music Festival (http://www.citadel-music-festival.de/) presents the 5th Zita Rock Festival 2011 on June 18th and 19th at Zitadelle Spandau, Berlin! And the bands, of course, a high class like every year. In 2011, bands like EISBRECHER, PROJECT PITCHFORK, ZERAPHINE, APOCALYPTICA, SCHANDMAUL and SAMSAS TRAUM will ensure 2 great days filled with awesome music! This guarantees a great weekend with both great rock and folk music. So, be there, have fun, party and look forward to this great event in the Zitadelle Spandau, a beautiful little place for dark concerts. And let's just hope, it is not going to be as hot as it was last year!
Additional information
Location
Straße am Juliusturm, 13599 Berlin
U-Bahn U7, Station “Zitadelle” or "Altstadt Spandau"
S-Bahn S75+5, Station “Spandau” - Bus 133 or X33
Time (both days)
Opening: 1:00 pm
Starting: 3:00 pm
Parking
There will be enough room for you to park at the Juliusturm, Zitadellenweg or Falkenseer Platz. Please watch the traffic signs.
Hotels and Camping
There are many of addresses listed on http://www.zita-rock.de/hotels.html.
Tickets
Tickets are available on www.dark-ticket.de, via 01805 - 568200 and of course at all other booking offices. The single-ticket for Saturday is available for 41.50 € (presale), the Sunday-ticket is available for 41.50 € (presale) and the weekend-ticket is available for 54.90 € (presale).
Bands
Eisbrecher
After singer Alex Wesselsky split up with his former band colleagues from MEGAHERZ in 2003 due to artistic differences, he founded EISBRECHER together with another ex-member of MEGAHERZ, Noel Pix. The release of the first and self-titled album in 2004 caused a heavy stir, when the band added to blank CDRs to the release as an incentive to copy the album and as a statement against the criminalization of the end-customer through the music industry. Two years later, in summer 2006, it was finally time for the second album ‘Antikörper’ to satisfy the hunger of the fans for more material. This album even reached position 85 of the German Album Charts. Right now, the band is preparing for their next strike. EISBRECHER is Alexander “Alexx“ Wesselsky (vocals), Jochen “Noel Pix” Seibert (lead guitar), Jürgen Plangger (guitar), René Greil (drums), Maximilian “Maximator” Schauer (keyboard) and Martin Motnik (bass). http://www.eis-brecher.com/
Project Pitchfork
PROJECT PITCHFORK is one of the spearheads in the alternative electronic music, initially consisting only of Peter Spilles and Dirk Scheuber. Later, Jürgen Jansen and live members Achim Färber and Carsten Klatte joined the line-up. The formation wasn’t just known for critically-acclaimed albums, successful tours and appearances on every conceivable festival but also for some prominent support acts like RAMMSTEIN or COVENANT. After some very successful years at the beginning of this millennium, the popularity decreased with the more introverted albums ‘Inferno’ and ‘Kaskade’ but nothing has changed in East Germany and in Russia, where a tribute to PROJECT PITCHFORK sampler has been created in 2005. In 2009, they eventually came back with a new full-length, titled ‘Dream, Tiresias!’, just to let follow the next one, ‘Continuum Ride’, a year later. http://www.pitchfork.de/ / http://www.myspace.com/projectpitchfork
Zeraphine
ZERAPHINE has been formed by Norman Selbig and Sven Friedrich after their former band DREADFUL SHADOWS quit in 2000. Together with producer Tommy Hein, the first album 'Kalte Sonne' was recorded and then released in 2002. It was completely sung in German, contrary to second album 'Traumaworld' comprising of mixed German and English lyrics and a nice cover of the DEPECHE MODE track 'In Your Room'. The third album 'Blind Camera', released in 2005, left confided territory and turned to heavier guitar riffs and harder arrangements, still the dominating factor was Sven's charismatic voice. Their fourth and current album 'Still' was the first album, release by their own label, which the band founded after their previous record deal ended. ‘Whiteout’ is the name of ZERAPHINE’s comeback album, released in June 2010. ZERAPHINE is Sven Friedrich (vocals), Norman Selbig (guitar), Manuel Senger (guitar), Michael Nepp (bass) and Marcellus Puhlemann (drums). http://www.zeraphine.de/ / http://www.myspace.com/zeraphine
Mono Inc.
The name of the Hamburg based band round front man Martin Engler derives from the word Monomania. This term is a medical term from the early 1900s and means partially insane. After the scene hit ‘Get some Sleep’ from the last Long-player ‘Pain, Love & Poetry’ every last dark soul knows the music of the three gentlemen and the lady at the drums. So of course in 2008 and 2009 MONO INC. could not be overheard at all important festivals and could infect many more hearts on their vast tours with SUBWAY TO SALLY and ASP as well as recently UNHEILIG. On 25th September 2009 the fourth Album ‘Voices of Doom’ is released including the hit single of the same name followed by ‘Viva Hades’ in March 2011. http://www.mono-inc.com/ / http://www.myspace.com/monoincmusic
Zin
The band ZIN was founded in 2005 by the singer Iven Cole. At first, they were playing as a duo with Markus Estbourg, but soon it became a 4-member band with Vincent Oley and Mika. In 2007, they released their first album ‘Tourists to this world’, following many concerts and festivals. After working for 3 years on the new album, they finally released their 2nd output in 2010 called ‘The Definition’. http://zin-music.de/ / http://www.myspace.com/zinworld
Apocalyptica
The four classically-trained cellists have rose to a major force in today’s popular music. They attempted to fuse together the seemingly disparate worlds of classical music & hard rock and they were lucky. They created a style, blasting out every genre borders and which is commonly referred to as Cello Rock. The 1996 release of the debut ‘Apocalyptica plays Metallica by four cellos’ made a quick rise in the scene and the band became well-known over night so to speak. Some years - and also some line-up changes - later that band has toured half the world, received several major music awards, worked together with artists such as German “punk godmother” Nina Hagen or Corey Taylor (SLIPKNOT) on the prior single to their album ‘Worlds Collide’, released in September 2007. APOCALYPTICA’s seventh full-length release is titled ‘7th Symphony’ and has been put out in August. APOCALYPTICA is Eicca Toppinen (cello), Perttu Kivilaakso (cello), Paavo Lötjönen (cello), guest singer Tipe Johnson (vocals) and Mikko Sirén (drums). http://www.apocalyptica.com/ / http://www.myspace.com/apocalyptica
Schandmaul
SCHANDMAUL is a German medieval folk rock band from the vicinity of Munich. As well as using modern instruments like the bass or electric guitar, the band utilizes instruments typically used in Medieval folk songs, such as the bagpipes, hurdy-gurdy or shawm, to produce their trademark folk rock sound. In November 2008, SCHANDMAUL celebrated their 10th anniversary with a widely promoted anniversary concert in Munich that was filmed and recorded for the live CD and DVD ‘Sinnfonie’. In early 2009, SCHANDMAUL were nominated for the German music award ECHO. A club tour that was originally planned for 2010 was cancelled and no concert was played in that year. Instead, the band announced a break to take some time for writing a new album. This album ‘Traumtänzer’ was released on 28th January 2011 and is followed by a tour. http://www.schandmaul.de/ / http://www.myspace.com/schandmaulmusic
Samsas Traum
For 13 years now, SAMSAS TRAUM has enriched the Gothic community with its unique music as well as with their controversial lyrics and attitude, promoting a vegan lifestyle and misanthropy. Their recent album ‘Vernunft Ist Nichts - Gefühl Ist Alles’ was released on 26th March 2010 and proves that SAMSAS TRAUM is not yet ready to stop re-inventing themselves. The only constant member and mastermind behind SAMSAS TRAUM is Alexander Kaschte. And his is yet back again to entertain the gothic crowd at the Zita Folk Festival 2011! http://samsas-traum.com/ / http://www.myspace.com/samsastraum
End of Green
END OF GREEN is a German band formed in Stuttgart in 1992. According to singer Michael Huber, the band name means by the end of the colour green symbolized hope. This fits with the type of music the band produces. The band describes its style as “Depressed Subcore”. The lyrics are about loneliness, depression, pain and death. The group released the debut album ‘Infinity’ in 1996. The album, ‘The Sick's Sense’ is their most successful with ‘Dead End Dreaming’ as the first album to enter the charts. With their current album ‘High Hopes in Low Places’, they will be appearing at the 5th Zita Folk Festival! http://www.endofgreen.de/ / http://www.myspace.com/endofgreen
Qntal
The initial line-up of QNTAL, formed in 1991, comprised Ernst Horn & Michael Popp who still was working as a live musician with Horn’s main project DEINE LAKAIEN back then and is a founding member of ESTAMPIE. Just like Sigrid ‘Syrah’ Hausen, later complementing QNTAL with her vocal abilities. Impressed and inspired by the strictly positive reception from the press to the debut ‘Qntal I’ (1992), the project continued its work with the result being ‘Qntal II’, that was released in 1995 and supported by a tour as support of DEINE LAKAIEN. In 1999, Ernst Horn and Michael Popp fell out with each other which led to Popp’s departure from DEINE LAKAIEN and Horn leaving QNTAL. With Philipp Groth handling the keys from there on, they recorded and released ‘Qntal 3 - Tristan und Isolde’ in 2003. Meanwhile, the QNTAL saga has reached its sixth chapter with ‘Translucida’ being released in February 2008. With ‘Purpurea’, the band offers a Best-Of collection since October of the same year. QNTAL is Michael Popp (medieval instruments, composition), Sigrid “Syrah” Hausen (vocals), Philip Groth (keys), Mariko (live violin, backing vocals) Markus Köstner (live drums). http://www.qntal.de/ / http://www.myspace.com/qntal
Teufel
In over 20 years TEUFEL has been out and about as minstrel, musician and entertainer in different formations. As singer and bagpiper of the medieval-industrial-rock band TANZWUT and the medieval band CORVUX CORAX he had travelled the entire world and attracted a huge fan base over the years. Now he appears with his new project TEUFEL and the album ‘Absinth’. Between jester and devil there is always music. In medieval times, the jester was said to be remote of god and allied to the devil. On this album you can meet both in one person. With wit and a deeper meaning, ecstasy, inebriation and lunacy, passion and in view of the evanescence of us all, jester and devil together invite us to dance. http://www.teufel-music.de/ / http://www.myspace.com/teufeltv
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