Second Hanover concert by Udo Lindenberg in the ZAG Arena is a success
Panic rocker Udo Lindenberg gave his second concert in the ZAG Arena in Hanover on Friday evening. And that evening, too, the fans experienced an artist who still hasn’t had enough.
Hanover. The performance by Udo Lindenberg and his panic orchestra is great cinema: an astronaut in space is touched by a plane that is falling to the ground. Many Lindenbergs with hats from the canvas climb down the stairs from the plane door. Then the “real” and real Udo Lindenberg floats onto the stage in a glass case. And the chaotic show begins, with A Miniature of the Colorful Republic of Germany, as Lindenberg keeps evoking it, populates the stage, which is just about big enough.
At his second Hanover concert of the “Udopium” tour, everything was there again on Friday evening: a children’s choir, brass players, dancers, singers and right in the middle Udo Lindenberg, who feels very comfortable on stage even after 50 years. First of all, it’s the relatively current hits that Lindenberg fills the ZAG Arena with. “I’ll do my thing” he sings and proves his words with his very idiosyncratic, knee-shaking dance style. With “Cello”, the booming rock sounds give way to a loud western guitar accompaniment, to which Lindenberg, with his deep, slurring voice, intones the sweet and melancholic lines that the audience sings along with.