The East German cult band Silly struck a chord with the audience at the premiere of their "Elektroakustik" tour in Dresden's Kulturpalast. After more than two hours, the musicians around keyboarder Ritchie Barton added five encores and got the concert hall boiling with hits such as "Die wilde Mathilde", "Wo fang ich an" and "Bye Bye". Silly had also previously served up great numbers from more than 40 years of band history, including "Mont Klamott", "Bataillon d'Amour" and "Asyl im Paradies".
The three Silly musicians Barton, Uwe Hassbecker (guitar) and Hans-Jürgen "Jäcki" Reznicek (bass) were joined on stage by singer Julia Neigel and City frontman Toni Krahl. The band had also been joined by drummer Ronny Dehn and Hassbecker's son Daniel, who also mixed new tones into the Silly sound with his accordion and cello. Krahl admitted that he was envious of his Silly colleagues - not because of their long hair, but because, as a Berliner, he would actually have liked to have written the song "Mont Klamott".
