The “perhaps last important rock’n’roll band of our generation” (Musikexpress) is back on tour. “If German-language rock’n’roll was dead, then Wanda have revived it,” says detektor.fm about the early days of this band, who catapulted themselves into the radio playlists and the hearts of fans at the same time in 2014. After Amore, Bussi, Niente and Ciao!, a total of well over 300 weeks in the charts, 14 platinum awards and countless sold-out concerts and festivals in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, the Viennese band released their fifth studio album at the end of September 2022. “Wanda” entered the official German album charts at number 3 – the band’s best result to date.
“There was never a plan B, there was only life as a problem, music and success or not,” says singer Marco Wanda, expressing a hint of the band’s philosophy in one of the hundreds of interviews. You can also feel this uncompromising attitude. The years between stage, tour bus and studio merge into a long tightrope act without a safety net. And the energy at every concert – each time the band plays as if it were the last time – sweeps the audience away without exception.