22.02.2020 The Station, Cannock: Rammlied & Sulpher

My beautiful girlfriend Penny and Rammlied

We have had many a perfect night out at the Station BUT this was the best.




It was my third time seeing Sulpher at the Station and tonight they didn’t have a drummer and played as a duo aided by a drum machine and yet they were better than they’d ever been. The band was in good spirits, played their hearts out, interacted well with their audience and were simply a blast to watch.

The main act Rammlied simply blew me away as they’re show also has dramatically improved since I saw them last. Maybe it was because they had a keyboarder tonight as I felt that at the last show, they were a bit limited while playing along to synthesizer sounds coming from a tape.

Also, since Rammstein’s Keyboarder Christian ‘Flake’ Florenz is a bit of a character and his on-stage persona is flamboyant and funny, it was awesome to see Rammlied’s Flake being just that on stage.












The show started off with ‘Sehnsucht’ and featured many Rammstein anthems including ‘Du hast’ ‘Bang Bang Feuer frei’ and it also included ‘Radio’ and ‘Auslaender’ from Rammstein’s latest untitled/self-titled Album.

Rammlied’s mannerisms and energy as well as their driving way of performing the songs and to a large degree the show of Rammstein was mesmerizing to watch and very, very enjoyable.

I was very fortunate as I got the chance to sing along with Rammlied on stage to ‘Engel’, Rammstein’s first massive hit from way back when and Rammlied were very nice to me and made me feel at ease.








 What a great experience and night out that was.


Photo credit: Penny Minnis

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