An evening full of surprises with Leonidin

Kiel's band Leoniden played a surprise concert on FM4 in Graz. It was an evening full of surprises, both on stage and in front of the audience. We will remember this for a long time!

Written by Renee Froschmeyer

FM4 surprise parties are a big mystery. A veil of fog surrounds the events. place? unknown! Match day? Also unknown! Only who is on stage is clear. The day before the concert, the big question mark was put in the call sign: the North German band Leoniden is playing at Postgarage Graz! Entry to FM4 surprise parties is always free. Arriving early and lining up pays off: when the place is full, the show begins!

“I hope we can arrive at this time,” many visitors were hoping Thursday evening. Since last year's FM4 surprise concert with Von Wegen Lisbeth (also in Graz), fans have become aware of the need to be on time. The mail garage was filled to the roof. The first fans were already standing in the rain for an hour and a half before the gates kicked off.

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The queue grew quickly and we braved the bad weather, as they say in northern Germany. “Today we are celebrating our friend’s master’s degree,” a group of friends said. Everyone in line had a reason to celebrate: everyone was in the mail garage and the party could begin!

Sophisticated mesh drilling at FM4 surprise concert

Anyone who knows the Leonids knows: this is a band that played through togetherness. Many visitors entered Postgarage hoping to get into the muddled pits. Your expectations have been met, perhaps even sooner than expected. The first song made several circles among the audience. Leonidas does indie, but not only. Indie pop, rock and punk collide – every now and then the band sounds like an emo band from the 2000s.

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Mosh pits are closely related to the band from Kiel. It does not matter whether it is at a festival show in front of thousands of visitors or at club shows as in the case of Graz Postgarage. What does Leonid Mosh's crater look like? “You're wild enough to drive yourself crazy, but people care about each other,” says singer Leonidin Jacob in an interview with FM4. “This is my favorite moment on stage: seeing how people help each other in this pit,” adds synth player Djamin. If society were a Leonid hole, it would be a better, more conscious society.

A few months ago, Keel released their third album. The band also had “sophisticated sad songs” i.e. uplifting but sad songs with them for the FM4 surprise concert. The songs are conveyed to the audience. Sometimes expansion is a way to cope. Concerts are a little escape from everyday life. For a few hours you can forget everything around you. Then the focus is just on the music, the band and all the lights.

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Breakup? Moshing away! Problems with parents? Moshing away! University taxes? Moshing away! Maybe not permanently, but at least for a few hours the pressure leaves your head. After Leonid's concert, the spiral of thought may never return at all. The brain can be rewired, that's how surprising Kiel's performances are.

When the piano goes to the crowd

Leonid loves surprises, and Leonid lives for surprises! Since their first song that night, mosh pits have opened and closed. Almost as if the entire crowd was a single organism, and the tattooed pits were as essential to survival, almost as much as breathing. The fan radar went off again and the crowd dispersed. But there was no big hole, not this time, because suddenly a white piano appeared among the visitors.

amazing! Before Jacob could press the keys, he jumped onto the painted wood, setting the crowd on fire and was surrounded by golden ribbons. Seemingly endless bright lines passed through the audience and linked them together into a greater whole. The signs also dusted off the disco ball in the post garage. When Leonidz comes to the club, there is a lot of excitement.

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Leonid's show is a highly immersive musical experience. Suddenly the party was held in the crowd. Everyone sat on the floor and sang a version of Kelly Clarkson's “Since U Been Gone” around Jacob on the piano. One of the many goosebumps moments that night! The next moment, the audience jumped and the party returned to the front of the stage.

It was a winding back and forth experience. Leonidze studied teamwork. This is a concert in front of the audience, in the crowd and in the crowd. Anyone who was there that evening will care about him for weeks to come. Or have you ever shaped a circular hole around a solo cowbell for a band singer before? Me too!

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“I knew it was going to be great, but the fact that they created such an atmosphere, that was amazing,” said one visitor in awe following the display in front of the Post Garage. Everyone who attended Leonid's FM4 surprise concert had big eyes. It was an evening full of surprises, with satisfaction guaranteed. Such is the case with FM4 surprise parties!