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Alex Mofa Gang - Berlin, Lido
Event by: Gastspielreisen
Location: Lido, Cuvrystraße 7, Berlin - Bezirk Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
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Alex Mofa Gang
La Boum! 2026
Entry: 7:00 p.m. | Start: 8:00 p.m.
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The Alex Mofa Gang is one of those rare groups that never had to artificially inflate their own myth. Their story begins in Berlin in 2012, somewhere between stuffy rehearsal rooms and poorly paid technical jobs that separated the later band members from each other at the time. The first demos by singer and lyricist Sascha Hörold resulted in a debut album that promised more than its self-ironic title “The Journey to the Mediocrity of the Earth” suggested. Today, twelve years later, the band is still on the road - only the direction has changed. Where youthful exuberance once dominated, a fine veil of seriousness, reflection and social doubt now lies over the music.
Your new album “Euphorie am Abgrund” acts like a magnifying glass into a time that makes even hardened optimists ponder. The band speaks openly about powerlessness, about political shifts, about internalized patterns that you only recognize when you painfully confront them. Songs like “I don’t sing anymore” or “Man from Yesterday” seem like self-questioning that goes further than any daily commentary. They are songs that don't claim to know the answers - but have the courage to endure questions. And this is exactly where the maturity of a band shows that it has learned that progress is impossible without self-criticism.
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Read more >>> gastspielreisen.com/artists/detail/alex-mofa-gang/
La Boum! 2026
Entry: 7:00 p.m. | Start: 8:00 p.m.
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The Alex Mofa Gang is one of those rare groups that never had to artificially inflate their own myth. Their story begins in Berlin in 2012, somewhere between stuffy rehearsal rooms and poorly paid technical jobs that separated the later band members from each other at the time. The first demos by singer and lyricist Sascha Hörold resulted in a debut album that promised more than its self-ironic title “The Journey to the Mediocrity of the Earth” suggested. Today, twelve years later, the band is still on the road - only the direction has changed. Where youthful exuberance once dominated, a fine veil of seriousness, reflection and social doubt now lies over the music.
Your new album “Euphorie am Abgrund” acts like a magnifying glass into a time that makes even hardened optimists ponder. The band speaks openly about powerlessness, about political shifts, about internalized patterns that you only recognize when you painfully confront them. Songs like “I don’t sing anymore” or “Man from Yesterday” seem like self-questioning that goes further than any daily commentary. They are songs that don't claim to know the answers - but have the courage to endure questions. And this is exactly where the maturity of a band shows that it has learned that progress is impossible without self-criticism.
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Read more >>> gastspielreisen.com/artists/detail/alex-mofa-gang/