BRINGS

As your biggest hit says, they are real "Kölsche Jungs"  

The band, founded by brothers Peter and Stephan Brings, has experienced just about every high and low a musician can go through over the past two decades. By the late 1990s, with their famous fathers (alongside Rolly Brings, these include singing legend Tommy Engel and politician Norbert Blüm), the band seemed to have already left its best years behind. Then, in 2000, they scored what you might well call a jackpot with “Superjeilezick.” This rousing power polka has grown in popularity with each passing year and is now one of the most popular songs in the Cologne dialect, even far beyond the carnival season. Thanks to “Superjeilezick,” doors flew wide open for Brings in Cologne, the carnival stronghold. A new era began for the band, complete with a thoroughly successful image makeover.

Then things really took off one after another. Hardly a Carnival season in recent years has gone by without a new party hit from Brings. “Poppe, Kaate, Danze” (initially treated as a scandalous song, but now one of the band’s biggest crowd-pleasers), “Su lang mer noch am Lääve sin,” “Halleluja,” “Dat is Geil,” “Polka, Polka,” or even the ever-touching, crowd-rousing “Mama, wir danken dir”—are all clear evidence of just how well Brings understand the sensibilities and emotional states of their fellow citizens. They’ve also developed an absolutely keen instinct for original cover versions: “Man müsste noch mal 20 sein” (their adaptation of the 1950s hit by Cologne veteran Gerhard Jussenhoven) and the Zarah Leander evergreen “Nur nicht aus Liebe weinen”—they’ve breathed new life into these songs with real verve. At the same time, they excel at seamlessly weaving Gypsy melodies, polkas, and other folk-inspired elements into their own songs and amplifying them with the power of rock music. “In a Carnival set, we try to capture the essence of a concert in half an hour. We want to get people excited about come check out a real concert,” says Peter Brings, who, along with his bandmates, throws himself heart and soul into every performance—whether on nationwide tours, at festivals, or during Carnival—with high-energy stage performances and tireless live presence: No one sweats harder, no one gives it their all more visibly, and no band in the German-speaking world lets concertgoers experience their music in a more tangible and immediate way.

Brings have never minced words. The fact that they’ve occasionally ruffled feathers with their songs has ultimately only made them even more popular. Their concerts across Germany are attended by thousands of fans every year—and have been for over 30 years.

As their biggest hit says, they’re true “Kölsche Jungs”

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Organizer: Brings Produktions GbR