Tanzwut at TANZT! 2025
Time flies, so it was actually three weeks ago, when I went to TANZT! Festival 2025. This time, sadly without Livehörnchen – she sends her best regards! Back to business: On Saturday, November 15th, Backstage opened its doors early to let Medieval Rock and Folk fans in. Highlights were the last festival show of Letzte Instanz, the Vroudenspil home gig of course, and a very special appearance that no-one had expected.
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Different forms of Folk
Right after lunch time, TANZT! started out with Remember Twilight – a quite unique folk metal experience, since the band’s sound profits from two violins. They began slowly, with some ballads, later their show got more and more rocky. For the fourth song, a special guest, the singer of Tales Of Nebelheym, was recruited to perform a “Hallelujah”.
Vogelsang, as second act of the day, went straight to the other end of the folk span. Whilst the band is in the renaming process from “Sören Vogelsang” to just Vogelsang, their jolly songwriter folk just stays the same. They played a cover version of the old Metusa song “Tanz!”, which fits quite well to the festival, don’t you think?
Vogelsang at TANZT! 2025
Adding more “Tanz!” to TANZT!
Another cover of “Tanz!” was just a bit later performed by Vermaledeyt. I guess, they haven’t cartelised about their setlists, so it might just have been a known song which is more than adequate for TANZT! Festival. Vermaledeyt, however, are celebrating the comeback after about ten years. I think, the last time when I saw them was at TANZT! anyway, about eleven years ago or something like that.
An act I have been missing so far, were The Trouble Notes for sure. They got to TANZT! Festival pretty spontaneously, after Coppelius had to cut their gig. Coppelius has just lost one of their singers and now one of the cellists got injured in an accident. Get well soon, Mr. Voss!
The Trouble Notes played a wild concert, given the fact that there were only three musicians on stage made that only more impressive. It was only paused once for a short video message to Coppelius as a thank you for their encouragement to get to Munich as their replacement act.
The Trouble Notes at TANZT! 2025
Tanzwut returned to TANZT! after three years, this time with a new set and even some brand new songs from their upcoming album, which they are currently working on. Der Zwilling was missing on this Saturday, gladly Mirko was able to jump in at the bass guitar.
The headliners of TANZT! 2025
There is no true edition of TANZT! without Vroudenspil! This band belongs to the festival more than ever, now that they are co-hosting the whole event. The Vroudenspil gig of this year’s festival had to get along with just one singer: Ratz. What can I say, they have managed the show perfectly! Only the lights were a bit too dim, but that couldn’t stop the enthusiasm of the crowd.
Vroudenspil at TANZT! 2025
Last but surely not least, there was the last festival gig of Letzte Instanz. While the Instanz was truly rocking the Backstage, they also wished their fans in the south of Germany farewell. LI also had a replacement at TANZT!, this time at the electric guitar: Ingo Hampf of Subway To Sally helped out at this point. The setlist showed quite some fan service, but when the concert finally came to its end, some were holding back their tears. Goodbye, Letzte Instanz! It was an honour!
Letzte Instanz at TANZT! 2025
Looking forward to 2026
There is no goodbye without a tiny peek into the future… TANZT! 2026 was confirmed by the organisers for the 14th of November, 2026. They didn’t spoiler the line-up yet, but I’m quite sure, Vroudenspil will be there to play again!
See you in 2026,
Zouberi
Holly Loose of Letzte Instanz and their fans at TANZT! 2025