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Fanklub is on the road at some festivals in the next weeks. Feel free to come by:
 
Fanklub Stage @ Reeperbahn Festival
Thursday, September 22nd
Stage: Spielbude XL
Entrance also without festival ticket!
18:00 – 19:00 / Reception - meet us!
19:00 – 19:40 / Ian Fisher
20:10 – 20:50 / Paula Carolina
21:10 – 21:50 / Annie Chops
22:20 – 23:00 / YATWA
Register for the Reception! Facebook Event

Fanklub Stage @ Norden Festival

Friday, September 9th
Stage: Gartenbühne
The songwriter Lauringer will perform at the Fanklub Stage of this year's Norden Festival in Schleswig!
Visit Lauringer's Fanklub: www.fanklub.com/lauringer

Fanklub Stage @ Waves Vienna

Saturday, September 10th
Stage: Wohnzimmer at Loft
Lineup: Celia May / Olgas Boris / Michael Moravek / YATWA

Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg is one of the most important events for the music industry and Europe's biggest club festival.
Fanklub will be there and so can you:

Four Fanklub bands will perform on an open air stage at Spielbudenplatz on Thursday, September 22, 2022.
Apply until August 10 with an informal mail to festivals@fanklub.com!

Conditions of participation:
You have an active Fanklub profile on www.fanklub.com.

Not registered yet? Then register now for free and in a few minutes to enjoy all the benefits - from direct fan communication to generating a monthly income!
Musicians, DJs and bands from all genres are welcome.

We are looking forward to your applications!

Click here to visit the website of the Reeperbahn Festival

Are you already looking forward to summer? After the last cold farewell greetings of winter, the festival season can finally get off to a good start. Since Wednesday, for example, the c/o pop in Cologne is in full swing, where Fanklub is of course present and, even better, highcoast is also on site. The Hamburgers will release their new EP tomorrow, Friday, April 22nd, then take over the Fanklub instagram account and take you with them when they rock das Werk Haus on Saturday as part of the c/o Ehrenfeld! Reason enough to introduce the guys in a ‘Our best fan moment’ extended.

Live music, sustainability, literature, workshops and northern European culture – the Norden Festival offers all that and more. And you now have the chance to be part of the line-up, because Fanklub has reserved you a slot in the official program for Friday, September 09.

Juri Volta is a small town hero who enjoys life to the fullest. For you and all those who don’t have enough courage or time to do it themselves. And that’s why he plunges head first into crazy adventures.

“Mom, I am a rich man” – Well, who knows who that quote came from? Cher, of course. Her response to her mother’s statement that one day she should settle down and marry a rich man has almost achieved cult status. The quote is also part of the inspiration for the Mina Richman, the stage name of 23-year-old Mina Schelpmeier. And, independence and a critical attitude towards classic gender roles can be found not only in the origin of her name, but also in her music and texts.

Acoustic music, flowing poetry, a single and a place – sodL just released “eine farbe, schlafendes kind”. The young artist from Upper Austria has recently started her Fanklub where you can explore the gap between fantasy and magic that sodL combines in her songs. For you and us she painted a picture as to where the new music will take you:

“Half Americana and half Abbey Road-worthy pop” – This description by the Rolling Stone could sum up the dichotomy of Ian Fisher very well. His move from the US to Europe did not mean he abandoned those American influences, rather he saw and acknowledged the good and the bad from both sides. Why Europe is the place for him nonetheless, how his move influenced him and what you can expect to find in his brand new Fanklub you can find out below:

In just under two months, this year’s c/o pop starts in Cologne, and Highcoast will be there. The surf rock band managed to secure the Fanklub slot and will share the festival line-up with greats like Bilderbuch, Buntspecht or C’est Karma.

A mix of dark, experimental pop and R&B, that’s how you could describe Emma Philine’s “17 2 20”. The newcomer’s first EP, which was released at the beginning of January, was even better received than she could have imagined. Together with her producer Dennis Behrendt aka Zoetrop she made it onto three official playlists straight away and now, just over a month after the release, she already has 15,000 listeners per day on Spotify. You want to know more? So do we. That’s why we decided to introduce you to Emma Philine in a ‘My best fan moment’ extended.

Celia May is still young. She has only released two songs. But “Before I Sleep” and “Enough” already paint such a promising picture that we want to know more about the young artist and are already looking forward to the upcoming EP in the summer. And if that’s not enough, you can already get exclusive background insights in her Fanklub and get acquainted with Celia May’s musical taste in the article below.

You guys want to play live again? Stand on a stage and make people dance with your music? Maybe even share a festival line-up with bands like Bilderbuch?

If so, we have great news for you!

The idea for Fanklub was born almost 1 ½ years ago, at the time of the first lockdown. The manager of the Latvian band Carnival Youth, Guna Zučika, told us about her plan to start an exclusive fan club for the band.
 

"There are so many loyal fans, the concerts were well sold. But now everything is canceled and without this income it will be hard for us."

Guna Zučika

We liked the direct-to-fan approach and started to think bigger about the concept: because Carnival Youth are not the only ones who have numerous fans and yet struggle to practice their art. There were many media reports that drew attention to the precarious situation of musicians in the pandemic and we also know through our years of work in the industry: It is already an effort to recoup the costs of a studio production, record production, PR and marketing, and then we have not even talked about earning a euro. The lack of concert income only pushes the problem to the top and thus many musicians to the edge of their existence.

But perhaps this lowest point holds the chance for change: many music fans have been sensitized in recent months to the fact that bands can't live on air and love. It is not a given to produce a new album and come on tour every two years. Most fans also know that streaming revenue has so far failed to compensate for the loss of recorded music sales.

That's why we believe that now is the right time for Fanklub. It is needed because musicians get back more than just a like. The social networks require a lot of financial investment from the bands to really reach all the followers. At Fanklub, the bands receive the well-deserved appreciation, also for the time consuming work they do besides the music. Every post that bands share on their profiles reaches every fan. And through Fanklub the bands earn money. 90% of the proceeds from fan contributions go directly to the bands. Every month. No matter if there's a pandemic that messes up the tour or not.

When the three of us finally get to see bands on stage again these days and cheer for them – even if at a distance - we wish that Fanklub would give them hope.
We wish that young musicians feel encouraged by Fanklub to live out their creativity without worry of not being able to make a living from it. Also, established bands should be given an ideal fanbase management tool.
If the three of us may issue an invitation, then it goes to all of you: All bands, DJs, musicians, starting with absolute newcomers up to the really big acts. You are all welcome at Fanklub! Genre, age and origin do not matter. Fanklub stands for openness, diversity and tolerance. Accordingly, sexist, racist, national socialist or homophobic content will not be tolerated.

We look forward to walking this path with you!
Sebastian, Arne and Andreas

About us:
The three founders of Fanklub - Andreas Jantsch, Arne Thamer and Sebastian Król - have been firmly anchored in the independent music scene for many years. Andreas founded the Viennese indie label LasVegas Records in 2005, which also rents out tour buses and rehearsal rooms. Arne and Sebastian currently run the music company Backseat in Hamburg, a PR agency and indie label. Backseat is also responsible for the music booking of the NORDEN Festival in Schleswig and for the activities of the Czech music export agency SoundCzech in Germany. Besides Andreas, Arne and Sebastian are more or less professionally active as musicians themselves.

For a great start in the weekend, we have decided to tell you about live music, parties and dancing. Perhaps due to the current situation not so easy to actually implement and therefore, not really fair on our part. But whether you plan to head out into the world this weekend, or make yourself comfortable at home, with our next fan moment you can live vicariously through the eyes of Frollein Smilla.

Happy, sweaty and out of breath – that’s how we all want to leave a concert evening, right? Which of his songs ROUDE would recommend for this, he tells you in our first ‘Say it with music’ 2022! You can now get to know the young musician from Essenbach better with the help of his taste in music:

Have you ever had such a formative music experience, whether as an artist or as a fan, that you still rave about it years later? Moments that still make your heart beat faster and put a smile on your face? These moments are exactly what we want to report on in ‘My best fan moment’.

Do you know what December 24th is? This year we at Fanklub celebrate not only Christmas, but also the first 100 days of Fanklub!

The dear boys of You and the Whose Armies released their first album two weeks ago, last week they rocked the B72 with it and they still found time to create a playlist for Say it with music. So, a lot to celebrate. You can listen to the album here, for more insides into the band head here and for a glimpse into the personal musical taste of the four just keep on reading:

A lot of wit, but also serious themes, DIY attitude and dedication – that’s how you could describe mehrYEAH, consisting of Andreas Hagemann and Armin Koch. The two musicians work as sound engineers, come from the film industry, and met during a shoot. There they discovered their shared interest in music and it was agreed that Armin would send some beats to see if the chemistry really matched. And while the mail itself took a bit longer than anticipated, it was Love at first beat.

Fancy some new music? We have got you covered. In the coming weeks, our Fanklub musicians will release loads of first class music. So get out your headphones, new singles, EPs and LPs are waiting for you! This time with You and the Whose Armies, Danny Bianchi, Karwendel, mehrYeah and Frollein Smilla.

“Swedes making music without any rules” – that’s how They Owe Us describe themselves. Their “No rules” philosophy can also be seen by the way they answered the questions for their “Say it with music” feature: sometimes no songs, sometimes several, as it fits the given situation. However, this strategy worked very well and has created a unique playlist that will give you a deeper understanding of the duo from Sweden.

BRTHR, pronounced like Brother, usually provide you with peaceful, understated Americana folk straight from Stuttgart. On Fanklub the band around Philipp Eissler and guitarist Joscha Brettschneider decided to give you a little insight into their personal taste in music.

Last week the Reeperbahn Festival took place for the 16th time in Hamburg from 22 to 25 September. With 300 concerts on about 35 stages, the festival was once again able to inspire with big and small artists. Even strict Covid-19 restrictions with very limited numbers of visitors, fixedly marked standing places and the invitation to enjoy the music “without dancing and excessively moving” could not dampen the joy of the festival. Of course, we from Fanklub couldn’t miss it.

Do you know what’s starting today? The 16th edition of the Reeperbahn Festival. With the severe lack in festivals last year we wouldn’t miss it for the world, so not only will we be present, Fanklub is hosting two showcases at this years Reeperbahn Festival.

After last year’s simpler streaming festival, this year the Waves Vienna took place again at WUK from September 9^th to 11^th, focusing on the Danube region, both during the daytime conference and in the evening program. With around 100 acts, the Vienna Waves once again offered a successful potpourri of different genres, with something for every taste. And so, in 2021 you could let yourself drift from location to location once more and get to know new, different, and extraordinary musicians at Waves Vienna.

Roosmarijn is an experimental folk-pop musician from the Netherlands. We are happy to have her give us some very personal insights for our series "say it with music"! Click here to go directly to the Roosmarijn Fanklub.