Aka. "Destination Anywhere", "The Boy and Girl from County Bavaria"... After a very intense year in Würzburg (Germany), I'm back in Salamanca. I probably won't have that many experiences to write, but there's always an excuse to post a new entry!

Although not many people know them outside Germany, they are one of the most popular and successful bands in this country nowadays. I have to admit that I didn't know them too well either and the few things I had listened to in You Tube were not particularly my cup of tea - too depressing, too pop... Even so, when my friends told me that there was going to be a concert by Silbermond in Würzburg, I thought I shouldn't miss it, as there's usually not much going on here. And that's why we did yesterday.

Probably the fact that I didn't have too many expectations was the reason why I was positively surprised by this band. The concert took place in the S. Oliver Arena, which is not particularly big (what can you expect from Würzburg, anyways???) We had to stand for the whole concert, which was around three hour long, as our tickets were not for the tribune. But of course, that didn't prevent us from having great fun and even dancing and cheering with the rest of the fans. The only pity, though, is that small as I am, I couldn't see much of the stage.

The concert started at 8 with a supporting band whose name I didn't manage to understand, even though they said it three times. The only thing I got was that they were from Augsburg. Although mainstream, they sounded pretty good and full of energy, very rocky. They sang in English and, of course, the lead singer didn't forget to mention that we were 'the best audience they had ever played for'... a classic...

Silbermond started performing around one hour later. And I must say that they sound much better live than anything else I had heard by them before. At the beginning I was slightly afraid that Stefanie Kloss, the lead singer, would lose her voice in the middle of the concert, since she seemed to like adding a certain 'heavy metal' voice to their songs, if you know what I mean... But hey, she proved to have a great voice, which got even better throughout the concert. Apart from that, something I really liked about her was that she was very friendly and fun to the audience. She asked us a couple of times to clap our hands, do the wave and even sing along. She also talked a lot, unfortunately a bit too fast for us foreigners, and I could see her running and jumping around the stage, with a lot of passion and energy. Together with Thomas, the guitarist, she also sang two songs only with accoustic guitar from the tribune, surrounded by fans trying to take pics of her with their mobile phones.

Probably their most popular song is Symphonie, which was also covered by Sarah Brightman in English. Other hits they sang were Durch die Nacht, Keine Angst, Unendlich and Nicht mein Problem, a duet with another singer, who also performed with them. Apart from that, they also took a very brief break in which some comedian recited two 'poems', one of them consisting entirely of numbers (543212345...) and the other one being simply the alphabet from Z to A. Later, when we all thought it was over, the members of the band went back to the stage and played a very good and inspiring medley of different rock songs (We Will Rock You, Smoke on the Water...) and the singer joined them singing (very well, by the way) a fragment of Joan Jett's I love Rock n Roll. We got some bonus tracks (to my taste, they postponed the ending a bit too long, but I enjoyed it anyways) and she closed with Das Beste, to all couples' delight, which she repeated so that we could sing along.

All in all, it was a great experience and I'm glad I went. I knew very few songs, but that also gave me the chance to discover some really nice ones. Here are two of the most popular ones:

User-made video with different images related to the lyrics to Symphonie.

Keine Angst (photo of the band)