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Sportfreunde Stiller
22.05.2026 - 23.05.2026
Volkshaus Basel, basel
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Sportfreunde Stiller - 30 wonderful years in 2026
RÜDE
How do you look back on thirty years of band history? From a distance, the view seems like the prospect of a vast jungle of deep life. For us Sportfreunde, it is less inhabited by poisonous snakes and dangerous multi-legged creatures, but by friendly jungle creatures. Dedicated to life, looking for stories and discoveries. Behind almost every tour day are funny experiences, joyful hugs, the best celebrations and ever-growing stories that become more deeply rooted over the years. Records and tours become high plateaus of memory, celebrations sometimes decades later become mammoth growths of "Do you remember back then?" stories. Fraternizations, friendships, tender plants or simply large-pored potatoes. In every corner, every branch, hangs the scent and beauty of solemn life. Sometimes a painful search and often a happy resolution.
What is one man's hubris becomes normality with the band. Standing on stage and tens of thousands singing a song that tumbled out of our fingers in the grindy rehearsal room: no problem, it's normal. One of them goes home on a scooter, we're in the rolling house, no problem, it's normal. The music becomes a backstage pass into the hearts of strangers, who somehow become friends as a result, it happens again and again. It stays beautiful and you can never get used to it. I can recommend being in a band to anyone. With or without music, it doesn't matter; the main thing is that you're in it together and not alone!
FLO
It all started with the "Wonderful Years". With the time in which the search for oneself in rebellion, rebellion, coolness, mod shuffle and in the Rumstromern broke ground. And with the idea of putting three not quite similar musical preferences into one band context. Before the first count-in in the spartan rehearsal room in 1996, Jack Kerouac, Big Muff distortion, some kind of school in Germering and definitely the idea of enormous volume were running through our heads. 27 minutes later, the "Wunderbare Jahre" were born and the knowledge that no matter what else might come musically, this is a brash manifesto of our adolescent existence. It will remain forever. It became the motto of our lives. And on top of that, there was still a lot to come.
From gigs in dark basement rooms in front of three curious people to halls filled with ten thousand soulful people. From special peculiarities like World Cup hits, MTV unpluggeds, horizon-expanding video shoots, records made of wood/gold/and platinum, reading tours in opera houses to the "completely normal" madness of a band including unforgettable tours in the arms of the best crew of the universe. From being the opening act for Foo Fighters, Green Day and Grönemeyer to supporting bands like Ash, Nada Surf, Franz Ferdinand and Kaiser Chiefs. It's all there. From the always supportive and driving management to the social commitment that can always be integrated. Against the creative hole, against the enviers, against the mood-makers, but always in the knowledge that what we do can logically not please everyone. Who can do that except Florian Wirtz?
With the tools and the background of a radio play, two EPs, ten albums, millions of concerts (for example Eggenfelden, Neustrelitz, Hamburg, Tashkent, Madrid, London, New York etc.) and the privilege of being able to combine profession and vocation, we bow down to the tips of our toes to our listeners. Mucho gracias grande for dancing, singing and feeling along! We just want to tell you that you are the greatest thing for us. And that for 30 wonderful years! Let's Go!
PETER
It's 1996... a guy with a Britpop haircut asks a guy with a grunge raincoat, hey, you make music too, don't you? Let's do something together! Fancy it? So indie, alternative in German, I've got a song...1 year later, after the first bass player had gone missing... hey, there's a guy who studied jazz or politics or something, wears a cap backwards and a mat underneath, should we try him out as the new bass player?
This or something like this is how the story of the 3 Sportfreunde began.
In the 29 years that followed, there was just about everything you can experience as a band:
- meteoric non-rise
- slightly tense failure
- pop-like chart entries
- magical encounters
- rock moments for eternity
- world-champion choruses of millions
- gigantic crisis defeats
- unforgotten adoration
And songs as friends and friends as eternal companions of our songs.
Always and always...
It's 2026....so now we Sportfreunde are celebrating our 30th anniversary. You have to let that sink in! As a person, 30 means goodbye youth, real life oh dear! As a band, 30 means: Hooray, we're still alive! (Loosely based on Milva) And we want to celebrate with you the fact that this band has accompanied our lives for so long, indeed, has shaped and inspired us in the most significant and positive way!
That's why everything that comes on top now will be celebrated so much that our hearts will vibrate and our plugs will bounce!
We want to write new stuff, then hit the road with Best Of and kick ass! Will you join us for 30 wonderful years?
RÜDE
How do you look back on thirty years of band history? From a distance, the view seems like the prospect of a vast jungle of deep life. For us Sportfreunde, it is less inhabited by poisonous snakes and dangerous multi-legged creatures, but by friendly jungle creatures. Dedicated to life, looking for stories and discoveries. Behind almost every tour day are funny experiences, joyful hugs, the best celebrations and ever-growing stories that become more deeply rooted over the years. Records and tours become high plateaus of memory, celebrations sometimes decades later become mammoth growths of "Do you remember back then?" stories. Fraternizations, friendships, tender plants or simply large-pored potatoes. In every corner, every branch, hangs the scent and beauty of solemn life. Sometimes a painful search and often a happy resolution.
What is one man's hubris becomes normality with the band. Standing on stage and tens of thousands singing a song that tumbled out of our fingers in the grindy rehearsal room: no problem, it's normal. One of them goes home on a scooter, we're in the rolling house, no problem, it's normal. The music becomes a backstage pass into the hearts of strangers, who somehow become friends as a result, it happens again and again. It stays beautiful and you can never get used to it. I can recommend being in a band to anyone. With or without music, it doesn't matter; the main thing is that you're in it together and not alone!
FLO
It all started with the "Wonderful Years". With the time in which the search for oneself in rebellion, rebellion, coolness, mod shuffle and in the Rumstromern broke ground. And with the idea of putting three not quite similar musical preferences into one band context. Before the first count-in in the spartan rehearsal room in 1996, Jack Kerouac, Big Muff distortion, some kind of school in Germering and definitely the idea of enormous volume were running through our heads. 27 minutes later, the "Wunderbare Jahre" were born and the knowledge that no matter what else might come musically, this is a brash manifesto of our adolescent existence. It will remain forever. It became the motto of our lives. And on top of that, there was still a lot to come.
From gigs in dark basement rooms in front of three curious people to halls filled with ten thousand soulful people. From special peculiarities like World Cup hits, MTV unpluggeds, horizon-expanding video shoots, records made of wood/gold/and platinum, reading tours in opera houses to the "completely normal" madness of a band including unforgettable tours in the arms of the best crew of the universe. From being the opening act for Foo Fighters, Green Day and Grönemeyer to supporting bands like Ash, Nada Surf, Franz Ferdinand and Kaiser Chiefs. It's all there. From the always supportive and driving management to the social commitment that can always be integrated. Against the creative hole, against the enviers, against the mood-makers, but always in the knowledge that what we do can logically not please everyone. Who can do that except Florian Wirtz?
With the tools and the background of a radio play, two EPs, ten albums, millions of concerts (for example Eggenfelden, Neustrelitz, Hamburg, Tashkent, Madrid, London, New York etc.) and the privilege of being able to combine profession and vocation, we bow down to the tips of our toes to our listeners. Mucho gracias grande for dancing, singing and feeling along! We just want to tell you that you are the greatest thing for us. And that for 30 wonderful years! Let's Go!
PETER
It's 1996... a guy with a Britpop haircut asks a guy with a grunge raincoat, hey, you make music too, don't you? Let's do something together! Fancy it? So indie, alternative in German, I've got a song...1 year later, after the first bass player had gone missing... hey, there's a guy who studied jazz or politics or something, wears a cap backwards and a mat underneath, should we try him out as the new bass player?
This or something like this is how the story of the 3 Sportfreunde began.
In the 29 years that followed, there was just about everything you can experience as a band:
- meteoric non-rise
- slightly tense failure
- pop-like chart entries
- magical encounters
- rock moments for eternity
- world-champion choruses of millions
- gigantic crisis defeats
- unforgotten adoration
And songs as friends and friends as eternal companions of our songs.
Always and always...
It's 2026....so now we Sportfreunde are celebrating our 30th anniversary. You have to let that sink in! As a person, 30 means goodbye youth, real life oh dear! As a band, 30 means: Hooray, we're still alive! (Loosely based on Milva) And we want to celebrate with you the fact that this band has accompanied our lives for so long, indeed, has shaped and inspired us in the most significant and positive way!
That's why everything that comes on top now will be celebrated so much that our hearts will vibrate and our plugs will bounce!
We want to write new stuff, then hit the road with Best Of and kick ass! Will you join us for 30 wonderful years?