With huge port cranes and containers in the background, a flying giant seagull and the cutter “Yasmin” on stage, the hip-hop trio set out from Rostock on their farewell tour. On board: Dokter Renz (Martin Vandreier, 48), King Boris (Boris Lauterbach, 48) and Björn Beton (Björn Warns, 49). Or also: Fat bread.
Even 30 years after their founding, the musicians in the Rostock town hall carried the fans away when they finally shouted their North German “Moin” around 8:55 p.m. and ignited the evening with the hit “Jein”. The audience was not only sure of the lyrics during the refrains and celebrated the singing “Breads” dancing and with La Ola waves. “You’ve got it with the wave,” praised Doc Renz.
In August 2022, after three decades, the three legends of German rap announced the band’s dissolution at the end of this year. “So before we can soon inaugurate our own wax figures at Madame T, we eternal teenagers with “almost 50″ prefer to dig our own grave,” they justified the step. Somehow the common story seems to have been told. “But of course: it’s a matter of honor that our epoch together has to end with a bang finale.”
20 concerts in three countries
This finale is the “Fettes Brot … is history” farewell tour, which started in Rostock in front of around 6000 fans and a sold-out house with the usual fluffy rhythms and interspersed trumpet sounds. The dancing crowd heard two dozen songs, including top classics and hits like “Bettina”, “Nordisch by Nature”, “Emanuela”, “Gay Girls” and “On Days Like These”.
The actual farewell song “Brot weint nicht” couldn’t be missing either. “Yes, papa and papa and papa separate. Fans say: “Please don’t”, haters say: “Finally”” – all three sang. Some loyal fans in the town hall had tears in their eyes. The end announced for the end of 2023 also triggered slight shock waves on the Internet. “Grown up with you and grown up (at least on paper). Thank you 3 legends for so many years of emotion and love,” wrote a Brote fan.
The band, which released their best-of album “Hitstory” in February, is celebrating its departure “full of fat”. The tour includes a total of 20 concerts in Germany, Austria and Switzerland until mid-July. The Westfalenhalle in Dortmund is on the tour schedule on Thursday.
“I don’t even know how it will feel when we visit a city together for the last time and play concerts, but I know that I’m not alone in this,” Björn Beton recently told the dpa. On September 1st and 2nd there are two extra concerts at the band’s “birthplace” in Hamburg. Then Fettes Brot is really “history”.
