I want that too! "Alexander Bartsch still remembers that moment about ten years ago when he got addicted to the stage:" An acquaintance was playing with his band in the Frankfurt Club Nightlife, and I was in the audience and suddenly knew that I too want to sing in a band.

And I would have done anything for that, including Death Metal if necessary;

The main thing is that I can sing, ”says Bartsch today, as his wish has come true.

He doesn't have to grunt Death Metal for this, but in a figurative sense he does, pull the group whose front man he is, their energy from Bartsch's exaltation on stage.

There the bearded family man regularly transforms himself into a tireless lead dancer with the first note, true to the motto “dance hard”.

Christian Riethmüller

Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

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This is also the title of the recently released second album by the Frankfurt band Revolte Tanzbein, the group with which Bartsch's dream as a singer found its fulfillment, which he in turn owes in large part to his old friend Henning Lindner. The guitarist was involved in the nightlife at the time and was already about to put together a band with whom you could play a little for fun. Which style to pursue was just as uncertain as a name for the project. "At some point we thought of the name 'Hackstaat' and would only have made songs about minced meat," giggle Bartsch and Lindner about early fantasies. But this did not happen because the musicians involved agreed on a preferred style. “We all liked ska, so we wanted to play ska; Music to dance to.And one day our bassist Oli Hasenpflug with the name 'Revolte Tanzbein' came around the corner, which at first seemed a bit strange to us, but ultimately outlines exactly what we want to do: We are the revolt, and the audience is shaking the dance floor ", Bartsch and Lindner remember the beginnings.

Sweaty, wet and happy concerts despite the family

The wild mix, which the band, which soon grew to eight musicians, calls itself Ska-Balkan-Reggae-Rock, quickly catches on with the audience.

“We were a little lucky because we were allowed to play on big stages early on, for example at the Museum Embankment Festival,” says Bartsch, although the band was never too good to perform at small events such as weddings or street parties.

“If someone said he thinks we are awesome, but can hardly give us any money, we performed anyway.

We want to play ”, say the musicians who meet once a week in their rehearsal room in Fechenheim.

With the concerts and the growing popularity of titles such as “Frankfurt”, “Panama” or “Werbeaffenarsch” inevitably came the question of a sound carrier, which the band finally presented in 2015 with their debut “Once the one with offbeats, please!”. Recorded by Diego Iriarte, who is traveling with his band Mate Power in a similar musical terrain as Revolte Tanzbein, the album was a much sought-after souvenir from the concerts, which actually would have required a sequel, but it never came to that. Bartsch, Lindner, Hasenpflug, drummer Timm Knodel, saxophonist Andi Wolff, trumpeter Bastian Eppler and trombonist Samuel Ernst are all not professional musicians, but pursue other professions, have families and play sweaty, humid concerts at least every two weeks,which left no more time for studio recordings.

Sometimes silly, sometimes serious, that arouses the desire for the stage

Work on the second album stalled, and the years went by until one day Tobias Dietermann started talking to the band after a concert, gently pulling them for their chaos, but at the same time praising their special potential, which lies above all in their overwhelming live presence .

Capturing this power and energy should be the goal of a new album, said Dietermann, who not only works for a major Frankfurt concert organizer, but also knows the music business as a former guitarist of the Frankfurt indie rock hopes The Monochords and The Dalles.

Dietermann not only joined the Revolte as a guitarist, but also made contact with Oliver Rüger, who runs the legendary Bieber recording studio in Offenbach and last year, between the lockdowns, he recorded the crowdfunded Revolte Tanzbein album “Tanz hart “Took off.

This was a challenge, especially with the brass sections, due to the hygiene and distance rules, but also a task in general to capture the raw power of the band as unadulterated as possible.

The result is good to hear, the band presents sometimes silly, sometimes serious and above all arouses the enthusiasm for the stage: you want to see them live.

On July 31st the band will play at Das Bett-Open-Air, on August 28th on the summer meadow next to the Jahrhunderthalle and on September 18th at the Open Doors Festival in Neu-Isenburg.