ELECTRO PIONEERS KRAFTWERK TO HEAD TO CARDIFF IN 2027
ELECTRO PIONEERS KRAFTWERK TO HEAD TO CARDIFF IN 2027
Cardiff Castle – Wednesday June 23
After their hugely successful worldwide concert tours, Electro pioneers Kraftwerk announce they will be heading to Cardiff next summer.
The multi-media project will bring their visionary live show to Depot Live at Cardiff Castle on Wednesday June 23.
Pre-sale tickets are available at 10am Thursday via www.depotlive.co.uk/kraftwerk
and all tickets go on general sale at 10am Friday via depotlive.co.uk and ticketmaster.co.uk
This summer, Kraftwerk were invited to play a special open air concert for the 100-year anniversary of the legendary BAUHAUS in Germany.
Bringing together electronic music, computer animations and performance art, Kraftwerk concerts are a true "Gesamtkunstwerk – a total work of art.”
Kraftwerk was started in 1970 by Ralf Huetter and Florian Schneider. They set up their electronic Kling Klang Studio in Düsseldorf, Germany, where they conceived and produced all Kraftwerk albums.
By the mid 1970s Kraftwerk had achieved international recognition for their revolutionary electronic‚ soundscapes’ and their musical experimentation with robotics and other technical innovations. With their visions of the future, Kraftwerk created the soundtrack for the digital age of the 21st Century.
Their compositions, using innovative techniques, synthetic voices and computerised rhythms, have had a major international influence across an entire range of music genres: from Electro to Hip Hop, from Techno to SynthPop.
In their live performances, Kraftwerk founder Ralf Huetter and his team illustrate the belief in the respective contributions of both man and machine.
Starting with the retrospective of their catalogue at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 2012, in recent years Kraftwerk have returned full circle back to their origins within the Düsseldorf art scene of the late Sixties.
The 3-D concert series at MoMA was followed by further presentations at Tate Modern Turbine Hall (London), Akasaka Blitz (Tokyo) Opera House (Sydney), Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles), Fondation Louis Vuitton (Paris), Neue National Galerie (Berlin) and Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao).
In 2014 electro pioneer Ralf Huetter and his former partner were honoured with the GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award. And in 2021 Kraftwerk were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.
Kraftwerk, Sonny Fodera, Bananarama, Ronan Keating, Jack Savoretti and James Morrison are among the first headline announcements for DEPOT Live at Cardiff Castle 2027 which is presented by promoters DEPOT Live and Cuffe and Taylor.
DEPOT Live founder Nick Saunders said: “Kraftwerk really are true pioneers of electronic music so we are thrilled to be welcoming them to Cardiff Castle. To have secured one of just two UK dates will make this a truly memorable occasion and one which will attract both our loyal audience as well as people who will want to travel to be part of this moment.”
To find out more and to secure tickets head to depotlive.co.uk
DEPOT LIVE AT CARDIFF CASTLE 2027*
JUN 4 SONNY FODERA
JUN 23 KRAFTWERK
JUN 24 JACK SAVORETTI & JAMES MORRISON
JUN 30 SLASH ft MYLES KENNEDY & THE CONSPIRATORS
JUL 9 RONAN KEATING + BLUE + GERMEIN SISTER
JUL 10 BANANARAMA + TONY HADLEY + ALTERED IMAGES
*More dates and artists to be confirmed
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