Kling Klong Barcelona 2024

Over the course of our long history Kling Klong has played abroad several times, in Italy, England and Austria. In April 2024 we went to Spain for the first time, or more precisely: to Catalonia. The first gig took place in the new club Smart Music Solutions in the city of Vilanova i la Geltrú, where our bassist Sascha Siebenmorgen also lives. The following two concerts took place at the Harlem Jazz Club in the old town of Barcelona.
All gigs were very well attended and the atmosphere was great. It was interesting to try to translate some of our German texts into Spanish. Most of the time it went well. Only with our hit “Kaputt, Kaputt - my record player is broken” did we reach our limits. For some time now, we have been asking our audience in this piece to call out individual passages of text with us. In Germany it works great. However, we realized that we still need to work on the rhythm-appropriate Spanish version. It’ll be better next time.
We will remember one encounter in particular: a forty-year-old Turkish man introduced himself to us as a fan. He said that he had come across our music on the Internet and had been watching us for several years. Now he spent a few days off in Barcelona and was finally able to see us live on this occasion. Who knows, maybe one day we’ll play in Turkey too. The mini tour through Catalonia was a great experience for us as a band, and probably also for our listeners. We plan to play in Barcelona again soon, new gigs are being planned. And then the Spanish version of “Kaputt, Kaputt” will also work.