At a glance: What is going on in the Kaizers universe right now?
Violeta trilogy: Violeta Violeta consists of three albums that tell one story. Vol. I was released in January 2011. Vol. II came out in Norway November 11, 2011 (it is scheduled for January 20, 2012 outside of Norway), and Vol. III will follow in November 2012. More...
Sonny: Since November 2011, the music theatre play "Sonny" is on stage in Stavanger. The play's content is based on the first three Kaizers records. In February 2012, "Sonny" will be played in Oslo. In March 2012, the Danish adaption "Maestro" will premiere in Århus. More...
Vodka Kaizer: Yes, there is a Kaizers vodka! It's only available in Norway, however.
Concerts: Kaizers Orchestra will be on tour again starting in January 2012! Quite a few tour dates have been officially announced already, and more are being added. You can check out the list of all known live dates here.
Sonny: Since November 2011, the music theatre play "Sonny" is on stage in Stavanger. The play's content is based on the first three Kaizers records. In February 2012, "Sonny" will be played in Oslo. In March 2012, the Danish adaption "Maestro" will premiere in Århus. More...
Vodka Kaizer: Yes, there is a Kaizers vodka! It's only available in Norway, however.
Concerts: Kaizers Orchestra will be on tour again starting in January 2012! Quite a few tour dates have been officially announced already, and more are being added. You can check out the list of all known live dates here.
- 2012/01/24
- Yay! This Thursday, the new tour will start in Copenhagen. To warm up for this, Kaizers already played a couple of shows in Austria and Switzerland. For a couple of days, you can watch a video stream of the concert in Vienna at FM4, and for the Zurich concert, I have a report for you! No photos unfortunately, because... I forgot my camera. Well, everybody screws up sometimes... =;-)
If you plan to see Kaizers on the next tour, it's time to start looking forward now! At the moment, Kaizers are in Denmark doing pre-production, thus preparing for the tour. According to well-informed sources (the one with the beer in the champagne glass *g*), the band will rehearse a total of 50 songs for this tour. Ten of these will be on the setlist every night - and the remaining ten will be changed daily. So if you're going to see several concerts, you'll get totally different concerts this time. Guess this is the moment to regret that Norway is too far away to go there every weekend; but at the same time, let's look forward to the tour! If you want to write a report, you're very welcome.
Also, if you find a review of the new album, let me know! The ones that I stumbled across already are listed here. - 2012/01/18
- Here we gooooo! Violeta Violeta Vol. II has been available for digital purchase for a couple of days already here in Europe, and from Friday, it will also be available in the record stores. And of course Kaizers Orchestra will present it live right away! This Friday, they will play at the youth winter games in Innsbruck, on Saturday they'll play in Vienna at the FM4 birthday party, and on Sunday, it's time for Zurich and the "Sounds nordic, sounds good!" festival.
The event in Zurich will be a "nordic night". Apart from Kaizers Orchestra, you'll get to see Caligola from Sweden (the new project of some band members of Mando Diao!), the Figurines from Denmark, and Mirel Wagner from Finnland. Tickets, the time table, and more information is available here. And if you don't have a ticket yet but would like to come, here you go: You can win 1x2 tickets! To participate, just send an email with your full name to gewinnen@konzertjunkie.com. The deadline is Friday at noon, and the winner will also be notified this Friday. Good luck, and see you in Zurich! - 2012/01/06
- Happy new year! Let's get started right away with a couple of Kaizer news...
The tour dates for Germany are finally out! The statement that Kaizers would "mainly play capitals in Europe this time" wasn't quite true, obviously, since Kaizers will play in Frankfurt (March 9), Düsseldorf (March 11), and Leipzig (March 12) this year! Tickets are available starting today, for example here.
The release of Violeta Violeta Vol. II in Germany (and probably in the rest of Europe as well) was moved out a week to January 20. For the DVD, it isn't clear yet if and when it will be released in Germany (however, it is available at cdon.com). During the next week, there will probably be quite a few articles and reviews about Vol. II; I'll collect an overview of links here. If you find other articles (that differ from the ones that are linked already), let me know!
Apart from that, I worked hard and translated the last four articles from kaizers.no. Read what Kaizers Orchestra wrote about Sonny, the release of Vol. II in Norway, Vol. II in the charts and a summary of the year 2011!
The Quizmas calendar is over now - and the lucky winners of a yellow Vol. I vinyl each are the two players with the highest score, Linda and Jez, and En blomst who was lucky in the draw among all other players. Congratulations!
And now we can look forward to a great Kaizer year 2012!