Segment # 16 | Konzerte in der Kongresshalle
Mittwoch, 15. Oktober 2025
Zusammen mit KNRD Fest e.V.
Faintest Idea (UK), K-Man and the 45s (CAN) + lokaler Support

KNRD im Segment#16.
Zusammen mit der Musikzentrale Nürnberg bringt der gemeinnützige Non-Profit-Verein KNRD Fest e.V. das Ska-Punk-Powerhouse Faintest Idea in die wohl ungewöhnlichste Venue seiner Bandgeschichte - die Kongresshalle Nürnberg. Faintest Idea tourte in mehr als 10 Jahren ausgiebig durch Großbritannien, Europa, Russland, Kanada, Japan und die USA. Die Band spielten überall, von besetzten Häusern über klassische Clubs bis hin zur Festival-Hauptbühne. Das KNRD Fest besuchte die sympathische Kombo aus dem Osten Englands bereits drei Mal und auch die Musikzentrale wurde schon Zeuge der politisch motivierten Mischung aus stampfenden UK-Punk-Beats und der womöglich eindrucksvollsten Bläser-Sektion der Underground-Szene. Einflüsse von Bands wie The Specials, The Filaments und Operation Ivy sind kaum zu überhören.

Lineup Mittwoch – 15. Oktober
Faintest Idea (UK)
Faintest Idea sind eine Ska-Punk-Band mit den tiefen, kräftigen Stimmen zweier Vokalisten und fesselndem Brass-Sound. Wegen ihrer energiegeladenen Live-Performance ist es keine Überraschung, dass sie eine ständig wachsende crowd loyaler Fans haben. Indem sie Elemente ihrer einflussreichen Bands wie The Filaments, Rancid, Inner Terrestrials, The Specials, Toots & the Maytals, etc. mixen, entwickeln „Faintest Idea“ einen eigenen, speziellen Sonic-Blast-Punk-Sound, der für sich allein unbegreiflich ist.
https://faintestidea.bandcamp.com/

K-Man & the 45s (CAN)
K-Man & The 45s verbinden Ska mit Rock’n’Roll und zählen zu Kanadas bekanntesten Ska-Bands.
Seit ihrem gefeierten, selbstbetiteltem Album von 2016 tourten sie unermüdlich durch Kanada, die USA und Europa. Songs wie I Don’t Mind und Space Thriller machten sie zu Festival-Lieblingen.
Nach dem Album Stand With The Youth stiegen sie international in der Ska- und Punk-Szene auf.
Die Pandemie stoppte alles – K-Man zog sich zurück und schrieb das Album Primed To Go.
Es mischt Spaß mit Nachdenklichkeit – von Daytime Drinking bis zur Ballade Silhouette.
Mit neuem Sound, viel Energie und Tourplänen weltweit geht’s jetzt weiter vorwärts!
https://k-manthe45s.bandcamp.com/


Lokaler Support wird noch angekündigt!

Mittwoch, 15. Oktober 2025
Segment #16 der Kongresshalle Nürnberg
Einlass: 20 Uhr
Eintritt: 12,- € (VVK zzgl. Gebühren)
Haltestelle Dokuzentrum – ab hier ausgeschildert.
http://www.musikzentrale.com

Einlass: 20:00 Uhr

THE SUBWAYS remain one of the most exciting live bands on the current touring circuit, thrilling crowds with their explosive rock sound and wild stage performances.
Back in 2005, with an average age of just 18, Billy, Charlotte and Josh crashed onto the international music scene with their debut album ‘YOUNG FOR ETERNITY’, and their rock-club floor-filling single ‘ROCK & ROLL QUEEN’. The NME proclaimed them “The sexiest thing to sweep rock n roll off its feet in years!”. An appearance on American smash teen drama THE OC and in Guy Ritchie’s London Gangster flick ‘RocknRolla’ has helped make the track a Spotify Rock Playlist mainstay. https://open.spotify.com/artist/4BntNFyiN3VGG4hhRRZt9d
The band have released four albums to date. Their sophomore, ‘ALL OR NOTHING’ (2008), was recorded in LA with heavyweight producer Butch Vig and, is “Buoyed with emotional heft and supernova guitar riffs, wired around a maturing song craft” (MOJO). The tracks were written at a time when Billy was battling to save his voice following surgery to remove nodules from his vocal cords. ‘MONEY AND CELEBRITY’ followed in 2011, filled with “brilliantly anarchic punk-pop vignettes; each being a big musical finger that sticks it to financial greed, the mediocre mainstream and the fame fetishists” (ROCKSOUND) and included the Radio 1 A-listed single ‘WE DON’T NEED MONEY TO HAVE A GOOD TIME’. Their self-titled 4th album saw the emergence of singer and songwriter Billy Lunn as a producer, as he took control of engineering and mixing duties and is "On Par with the best things they have ever written... and finds the band energized, focused and battle-ready" Q Magazine.
The global pandemic, though cutting short their 40+ date international ‘Young For Eternity Anniversary Tour’, has kept Billy busy in his newly-established Hertfordshire studio, with Charlotte and Josh in their respective homes focused on remotely recording Album 5. Makeshift under-stair vocal booths were constructed, and the album is now ready for an early 2023 release.
In April 2021 the band signed to ‘Alcopop’ and released the politically-charged, Black-Lives-Matter-inspired single “Fight”, which they describe as “a letter in two parts: a gesture of solidarity with the Black community and communities of colour as they face their daily oppression at the hands of systemic racism, and a wake-up-call to the white community that such oppressions do in fact exist, and that we must acknowledge these oppressions and fight alongside marginalized communities as allies.”
Sadly, in October 2020, after completing drum contributions for the upcoming 5th album, drummer and founding band member Josh Morgan left the band. (Full story here: https://www.thesubways.net/single-post/josh-leaves-the-subways). The Subways quickly added drummer Camille Phillips (previously of The Ramonas [http://www.ramonas.co.uk]) to the band lineup for the rescheduled 2021 ‘Young For Eternity’ Anniversary tour dates, on which she was very warmly welcomed and received by the band’s devoted fanbase. In January 2022, she was happily announced as The Subways’ new permanent drummer.
It is indeed live where the band hit another level. Firm summer festival favorites, they have graced the stages of over 100 international festivals (including, notably, Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage, the main stages at Reading & Leeds, Rock Im Park, Rock Am Ring, Hurricane, Southside, and Rock En Seine) but whether in front of 100 people or 250,000, the band always deliver a high octane, thoroughly entertaining set…
“We will rock till we drop, as there is nothing more exciting for us than being on tour. The greatest drug in the world is seeing people screaming the words and dancing to the songs you’ve written. To get up onstage and to play rock and roll every day, to visit new towns, new cities, new countries, new continents and to make new friends along the way, it’s the most amazing experience we’ve ever felt!”
The Subways are Billy Lunn, Charlotte Cooper, and Camille Phillips

Einlass 19:00