Band of the Week | KIP KASPER & Lestrange

In the organizer's words:

A project of the Filmakademie Siegersbusch:
"Young bands, creative filmmakers and lively stage moments: We show how much creative power there is in the scene - in this unique music video and concert project, new live sessions and video clips are created every week at venues all over NRW. Produced by students from the Siegersbusch Film Academy and local acts, presented on YouTube & social media - authentic, local and full of energy."

KIP KASPER are four musicians from Aachen who meet once a week in the rehearsal room. From this rehearsal room comes alternative rock and punk rock in German, with songs about what's going on - somewhere between Kraftklub, Van Holzen and team Scheiße. Their lyrics come from their own everyday lives: what's annoying, what's wrong, what's still going to be good. Live, it's energy, heat and the feeling of having shared an evening. Whoever stays the longest after the gig is usually the band. Anti-Ego, because it makes no sense otherwise. They take their music seriously. Not themselves. The debut album "No future under this number" was released in February 2025. EP in production. New album in preparation. Line-up: Andy Kouchen (drums, drum teacher), Sören Dieden (bass, engineer), Rafael Gebhardt (guitar, student), Andreas Gaida (vocals & guitar, designer).

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Lestrange can no more be assigned to a specific genre than this world can only be described as dark or light. And even if their music can be categorized as hard-edged, Lestrange present their own way in a relentlessly honest way, creating a memorable melange of a contrasting soundscape: they demonstrate the flawed in perfection, show fragile and strong, brute and melodious, personal and mystical. The mirror of a strangely absurd reality that draws the listener into the spell of its 'in-between world' with hard, raw riffs to silky sounds, with an almost cathartic listening experience. Where there is darkness, there is also light.
"...there is a crack in everything, that's where the light get's in."
(Leonard Cohen)

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Price information:

Discounts are available for pupils, students, trainees, etc.