Pilsner & Cigarette – Listening music with dance elements
Pils & Kippe are more than a band – they are an honest piece of friendship, pressed into music. Handmade, direct, sometimes sarcastic, sometimes quiet – always genuine.
Her texts tell of life between contradiction and warmth, of people, of politics - of seriousness and of laughter about it.
They address topics that concern us all: democracy, responsibility and the everyday madness – and all without tragic packaging. What began in the 1990s as a shared passion of two trainees is now a quartet with a distinctive sound.
They don't provide background music, but rather a foreground feeling. And yes – they also raise their index finger.
Sometimes he bobs and snaps his fingers to the beat, sometimes he delves deep into the wound, and often he's admonishing – but then he paints it in vibrant colors, embellishes it, with a touch of humor and the necessary self-irony. Pils & Kippe mean what they say – but they say it in such a way that you listen, laugh, think, and still bob your feet to the beat.
"If we manage to get people to listen, dance or sing along, and if we create a kind of campfire atmosphere at a concert, then it was a successful evening. Then we go home satisfied."
With that in mind… Enjoy your beer and cigarette!
Marco Holtmann: Guitar, vocals
Achim Schröder: Cajon, Percussion
Stefan Schulz-Lauterbach: Bass
Ralf Tiemann: Piano, accordion
