Take or die tour

Look into the crowd at the performance on August 13, 2005 at the Open Flair in Eschwege.

The Friss oder Dies Tour was a concert tour by the music group Die Toten Hosen . The tour was named after the song Friss oder dieb , which the band released as a single in spring 2004. The concert tour was organized by the company Kikis Kleiner Tourservice and supported by the music broadcaster MTV Germany .

The tour began in May 2004 with concerts in Sofia , Belgrade and Zagreb . In the summer months the band performed at Rock im Park in Nuremberg and Rock am Ring on the Nürburgring at the Aerodrom Festival in Wiener Neustadt , at the Open Air Gampel and at the Openair Tufertschwil in Lütisburg . The concert tour ended on December 30, 2004 in the Arena Berlin and continued on April 24, 2005 with a free concert at the international spring snow festival in Samnaun , Switzerland on the Alp Trida. The band gave further concerts in the large halls in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The band was not announced at Rock am Ring in 2005, but performed there spontaneously. The organizer Marek Lieberberg therefore presented her as the first group in the history of the festival to receive the “Rock-am-Ring key”, which entitles her to perform there at any time in the future without prior approval. The tour ended on September 10, 2005 in the sold out LTU Arena in Düsseldorf.

Supporting acts and guests

Support bands were atheist rap in Belgrade , color teaching in Warsaw and Rzeszów and the two bands AEFDE and Bilety Do Kontroli (BDK) in Gdansk . In early December 2004 Gluecifer toured with the band and at the end of the month they accompanied The (International) Noise Conspiracy . On December 23, 2004 in Munich, Such a Surge played as opening act and Gerhard Polt and the Biermösl Blosn appeared as guests with three pieces from the Abvent cabaret program . Other supporting acts for the 2005 tour were Donots , Molotov , ZSK , Chencha Berrinches , Anti-Flag and 3 Colors Red . At Rock am Ring 2004 Wolfgang Rohde appeared on drums and Andreas von Holst's son Tim on guitar as guest musicians. At the final concert in Düsseldorf the Beatsteaks , EL * KE and New Model Army played as supporting acts. Arnim Teutoburg-Weiß performed the song Should I Stay or Should I Go as a guest and Freddy Ritchie, father of the band's drummer, sang a cover version of Blitzkrieg Bop by the Ramones .

Musician and process

Die Toten Hosen existed at the time of the concert tour take it or leave from the front man Campino , the guitarist Andreas von Holst and Michael Breitkopf , bassist Andreas Meurer and drummer from Ritchie . The first concerts were introduced by the song The Man With the Harmonica by Ennio Morricone from the film Spiel mir das Lied von Tod , which was played on tape shortly before the musicians took the stage. Starting with the concert in Warsaw on November 25, 2004, the band then chose the Russian folk song Kalinka as the intro.

It was followed by the songs away game , Never one opinion or You only live once . The set lists contained various songs from the single Friss oder dies , which was released shortly before the tour, or from the album Zurück zum Glück , which was released in October 2004.

All concerts also included the music titles Here comes Alex , Wünsch Dir was , Pushed Again and Ten little Jägermeister . In the encore part they often played Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder , All the whole year or Word for Sunday . Occasionally they also played the title Opel-Gang from the debut album of the same name .

The band played various cover versions during the tour. These included Song 2 by Blur , Mad World by Tears for Fears , Should I Stay or Should I Go or The Guns of Brixton by The Clash , Cocane in my Brain by Dillinger , Raise Your Voice by Bad Religion , Hang On Sloopy or Singing in the Rain from The Hollywood Revue of 1929 at Rock im Park .

The shows lasted an average of two and a half hours and the band played up to 33 pieces of music per concert with all encores. The band ended all appearances with a greeting to Liverpool FC and the song You'll Never Walk Alone .

Stations

date	Hall or stadium	place	Remarks
May 31, 2004	O'Shipka Club	Sofia
June 1, 2004	Barutana	Belgrade
June 2, 2004	Močvara Club	Zagreb
June 4, 2004	Rock in the park	Nuremberg
June 5, 2004	Rock am Ring parking lot gig	Nürburg	Unannounced concert on the parking lot in front of the Nürburgring
June 6, 2004	Rock on the ring	Nürburgring	Performing in front of more than 60,000 people; Guest musicians were Wolfgang Rohde on drums and Tim von Holst.
June 10, 2004	Aerodrome	Wiener Neustadt
Aug 18, 2004	Abart Music Club	Zurich
Aug 20, 2004	Open Air Gampel	Gampel
Aug 21, 2004	Openair Tufertschwil	Luetisburg
29 Sep 2004	Representation of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia at the federal level	Berlin	Radio concert for EinsLive , tickets were raffled, 350 spectators
Nov 13, 2004	Living room concert in student flat share	Pirmasens	The living room concert was raffled by JKP .
Nov 25, 2004	Club Stodola	Warsaw
Nov 26, 2004	Stocznia Club	Danzig
Nov 28, 2004	Club Akademia	Rzeszów
Dec 5, 2004	Upper Franconia Hall	Bayreuth	Concert in front of around 6,000 people
Dec 6, 2004	Bank Austria Hall	Vienna
Dec 9, 2004	Exhibition hall	Erfurt
Dec 10, 2004	City Hall 5	Bremen
Dec 11, 2004	Festival hall	Frankfurt am Main	Concert in front of around 12,000 people.
Dec 18, 2004	arena	Leipzig	Concert in front of around 12,000 visitors in the sold-out arena.
Dec 20, 2004	Exhibition hall	Friedrichshafen
Dec 22, 2004	Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle	Stuttgart
Dec 23, 2004	Olympia Hall	Munich	Guest musicians were Gerhard Polt and the Biermösl Blosn . Before the concert in front of around 11,000 spectators, the handprints of the band members were taken in the Munich Olympic Walk of Stars on the grounds of the Olympic Park in Munich.
Dec 26, 2004	Koenig-Pilsener-Arena	Oberhausen
Dec. 27, 2004	Color Line Arena	Hamburg
Dec 30, 2004	Arena Berlin	Berlin	Concert for around 7,500 visitors in the sold out arena. The concert was broadcast on the radio station Fritz .
Apr 24, 2005	Alp Trida	Samnaun	Free concert at the international spring snow festival.
May 4, 2005	Ice rink	Kapfenberg
May 5, 2005	City Hall	Villach
May 7, 2005	arena	Vienna
May 8, 2005	arena	Vienna
May 11, 2005	Bördelandhalle	Magdeburg
May 12, 2005	City Hall	Rostock
May 12, 2005	City Hall	Bremerhaven
May 15, 2005	Hall Münsterland	Muenster
May 16, 2005	Seidenstickerhalle	Bielefeld
May 19, 2005	Hessenhalle	Alsfeld
May 20, 2005	Hallenstadion	Chur
May 21, 2005	sport Center	Huttwil
May 23, 2005	Saarlandhalle	Saarbrücken
May 24, 2005	Exhibition hall	trier
May 27, 2005	s.Oliver Arena	Wurzburg
May 28, 2005	Dreiländerhalle	Passau
May 29, 2005	MS August the Strong	Dresden	Concert on an Elbe steamer . The tickets for the approximately 200 visitors were raffled by the radio station MDR Jump .
June 3, 2005	Berlin Waldbühne	Berlin
June 4, 2005	Ostseehalle	Kiel
June 5, 2005	Rock on the ring	Nürburgring
June 7, 2005	Locomotive hall	Goettingen
June 8, 2005	Volkswagen Hall	Braunschweig
June 11, 2005	Europahalle	Karlsruhe
June 12, 2005	Arena Nürnberger Versicherung	Nuremberg
June 15, 2005	Weser-Ems-Halle	Oldenburg
June 17, 2005	arena	Chemnitz
June 18, 2005	Westfalenhallen	Dortmund
June 19, 2005	Westfalenhallen	Dortmund
June 24, 2005	Greenfield Festival	Interlaken
June 26, 2005	Hessentag 2005	Weilburg
July 2, 2005	Live 8	Berlin
July 2, 2005	Cologne Arena	Cologne
July 5, 2005	Rock for People Festival	Prague
July 8, 2005	TUI Arena	Hanover
July 9, 2005	Emsland Stadium	Meppen
Aug 5, 2005	Przystanek Woodstock	Küstrin
Aug 6, 2005	Ferropolis	Graefenhainichen
Aug 12, 2005	Film nights on the banks of the Elbe	Dresden
Aug 13, 2005	Open flair	Eschwege
Aug 18, 2005	Hodokvas	Pezinok
Aug 20, 2005	Frequency Festival	Salzburg
Aug 26, 2005	An evening at the lake	Losheim am See
Aug 27, 2005	Rock by the lake	Constancy	Appearance in front of 24,500 spectators for the 20th anniversary of Rock am See
Sep 10 2005	LTU arena	Dusseldorf	Concert in front of around 50,000 spectators.

Crew, merchandise and stage decoration

The tour management was with Kiki Ressler, who initially worked as a roadie for the band since 1982 and has been running the company KKT ("Kiki's small tour service") since the 1990s. The musicians and the 65-strong crew, for whose meals the chefs of the RGF (“ Red Gourmet Fraction ”) were responsible, traveled in four buses. As in previous years, various members of the Black Devils MC under the direction of Manfred Meyer were responsible for security .

The design of the tour posters, tickets and t-shirts that were sold during the tour was done by Dirk Rudolph . It shows silhouettes of the band members in front of a gray background with splashes of white paint and red lettering. The stage decoration, which mainly consisted of vanitas symbols , was designed by Johannes and Georg Breitkopf.

Publications

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One evening before the officially announced appearance at Rock am Ring, the band gave a surprise concert in the parking lot in front of the Nürburgring. Music films were made from both concerts under the direction of Paul Shyvers , which were released on DVD in October 2004 with the title Rock am Ring 2004 - Live .

Excerpts from the Balkan Concerts at the beginning of the tour, the evaluation of the competition for the living room concert on November 13, 2004 in Pirmasens as well as a partial recording of the event were broadcast in the TV series Friss oder dies by MTV Germany and published in autumn 2005 as a triple DVD via JKP .

The concert on September 10, 2005 in the LTU Arena in Düsseldorf was also recorded under the direction of Paul Shyvers and was released on DVD with the title Heimspiel! - Live in Düsseldorf at the end of 2005 on the market.

Web links

• Tour data archive

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hollow Skai : The Dead Pants . Hannibal, A-Höfen 2007, ISBN 978-3-85445-281-2 , p. 73.
2. ↑ Kathrin Buchner: Die Toten Hosen - home game for at home. (No longer available online.) Stern , December 10, 2005, archived from the original on March 17, 2014 ; Retrieved March 7, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Birgit Fuß : Die Toten Hosen - Bayreuth, Oberfrankenhalle . In: Rolling Stone , February 2005, p. 29.
4. ↑ Arne Willander, Birgit Fuß: Die Toten Hosen - Rock am Ring 2004 - Live . In: Rolling Stone , October 2004, p. 109.
5. ↑ Tote Hosen rocked the ring. Rheinische Post , June 7, 2004, accessed on March 11, 2013 . 
6. ↑ No Sleep 'til Pirmasens - The Magical Mystery Gig of the Toten Hosen. (No longer available online.) Die Toten Hosen, December 12, 2004, archived from the original on June 25, 2013 ; accessed on February 9, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Collective chorale of the fans . In: Wiesbadener Kurier , December 13, 2004.
8. ↑ Ingolf Rosendahl: 12,000 visitors celebrate Die Toten Hosen in Leipzig's sold-out arena . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , December 20, 2004.
9. ↑ The Dead Pants. Olympiapark Munich , December 23, 2004, accessed on March 13, 2013 . 
10. ↑ Christiane Rösinger : Pseudopunks concert at the turn of the year - Die Toten Hosen played in the arena . In: Berliner Zeitung , January 3, 2005, features section.
11. ↑ Musical fireworks - 24,500 visitors at the 20th Rock am See. Zollern-Alb-Kurier , September 1, 2005, accessed on March 11, 2013 . 
12. ↑ Home game for at home. (No longer available online.) Stern , December 10, 2005, archived from the original on March 17, 2014 ; Retrieved June 17, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
13. ^ Friends of the house // Christof Matthiesen - I wanted to get out of the provinces. Die Toten Hosen, August 2005, accessed on February 9, 2016 . 
14. ↑ Friends of the House // Shame - We're back on tour. Die Toten Hosen, April 2005, accessed February 9, 2016 . 
15. ↑ Booklet accompanying the DVD Die Toten Hosen - Heimspiel , JKP 2005.