Roger Cicero on fire in the summer heat

After returning from 2 weeks of continual and relentless rain in Ireland, during which the weather in Germany was equally as bad, Belinda and I attended an outdoor concert in front of the old Opera Building in Frankfurt. We were worried that the concert was going to be rained out, but this turned out to be an awesome summer day with plenty of sunshine to go around for the 1000s of ppl that came along.

The gig was from Roger Cicero and Big Band, who were Germany's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest (but don't hold that against him). This guy does Swing music in Germany, and has a voice that would have lifted the roof off the Opera Building had we been inside.

Roger and Band played the majority of the tracks of his debut album "Männersachen" (guys' things) as well as a few that will be on their new album, due for release in October. They also did a swinging cover of "König von Deutschland" (King of Germany), which is a very well known song here, that has also been used recently in ads for Media Markt (tech store). During this rendition, he got the crowd involved with the guys singing the line "König von Deutschland" followed by the girls replying "oder Königen" (or Queen). It was quite funny, and I gotta say, that as a crowd, we sounded pretty good.


Tschüß,
'Brushy