The Berlin band Pankow will be ringing in their farewell next year with a final tour of eastern Germany. An initial 15 concerts are planned for 2025, including in Cottbus, Dresden, Rostock, Potsdam and Berlin. The band announced on Tuesday that open-air gigs are also planned for the summer. The musicians around singer André Herzberg left it open whether friends or other guests will perform on the tour. "We want to celebrate the separation (...) and consciously be there with spirit at the end," said the late sixty-year-old about the farewell tour.
Guitarist Jürgen Ehle, singer André Herzberg, drummer Stefan Dohanetz and keyboardist Andreas Dziuk will bid farewell to their fans on the "Bis zuletzt" tour next year. In advance, the band will release a single next fall - as a final declaration of love to the "we-feeling", as "Pankow" revealed.
The announcement of the farewell tour took place at a memorable location, the Berlin Prater. Pankow announced their first farewell there back in 1998. At the time, they thought they would no longer be able to hold out economically, said guitarist Jürgen Ehle. The 90s had been difficult and the public's appetite for East German rock had waned. However, the adrenaline that was still present made them return to the stage in 2004.
