The Fulltones

Hinter dem Namen The Fulltones stehen insgesamt weit über 100 Jahre Bühnenerfahrung, gemeinsame Konzerte mit Bands wie den Lords, Rattles, Alex Oriental Expierience, Rosenstolz oder Abwärts und Auftritte in ganz Europa. Die Fulltones sind die Wundertüte unter den Sixties-Bands. Spontanität wird groß geschrieben und so kann es auch mal passieren, dass Sänger George einem Zuschauer das Mikro überlässt während er dessen Platz einnimmt. Es wird gecovert aber nicht kopiert. „Die Beatles 1:1 kopieren? Niemals! An das Original kommt man nicht ran und Oldie-Bands die bei diesem Versuch kläglich scheitern, gibt es leider genug. Wir leihen uns die Songs und spielen sie so, wie sie uns und hoffentlich auch dem Publikum gefallen.“ Auf dem Programm stehen die harten Riffs der Kinks, Sonics und Pretty Things gepaart mit einer Prise Punk und Humor. Wer also immer noch glaubt, dass die Sixties hauptsächlich aus „She loves you“, „Satisfaction“ und „Silence is Golden“ musikalisch genährt wurden, wird bei den Fulltones ein echtes Aha-Erlebnis haben.

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The Sixties were loud, stormy, fast, eccentric. Hysterical, electrifying, offensive and ecstatic… The Sixties provided a sound that was UNHEARD OF until then – it fascinated as much as it seemed like a provocation, it inspired and gave birth! Countless memories remain, its spirit and its compositions are preserved.

40 years later: what can five musicians do about having taken the whole caboodle from the BEATLES to THE WHO to heart?

Well, in the East-Westfalian city of Bielefeld, the faithful gathered. They called themselves the Fulltones in the process and proceeded to provide the 60s with a contemporary Sunday dress!

The Fulltones breathe the quality necessary to inject new life into numbers of a bygone era – with humour, the joys of improvisation, tons of charm, passion as well as musical sensitivity – simply put with all convincing dynamism and, yeah... ROCK'N'ROLL!

The Fulltones can do without detailed, slave-to-the-vinyl replicas of the originals – they present THEIR version of the Sixties live on stage: full of lust and full of concentration.

During their concert tours up and down the Federal Republic, the Fulltones leave their spectators stunned and screaming: On the one hand, there are those in the audience who experienced the Sixties, on the other hand the youngsters who tend to ask, quite rightly: “Damn, you mean to say my (grand)parents were capable of creating such great music?!”

The Sixties were unique, and soon they've been gone four times as long as they've lasted. Some of its protagonists surely hoped to die before they got old, some others “survived”, so The Sixties are not dead – they just smell funny. OK, ladies and gentlemen, shut your nose and open your ears: THE FULLTONES! ONE, TWO, THREE, GO!

(English translation: Uli Twelker)

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