Jupiter Jones - „Ich trag den Sarg, Du trägst was Buntes“ - Tour 2026
JUPITER JONES - I CARRY THE COFFIN, YOU WEAR SOMETHING COLORFUL MAYBE THIS IS MEANT AS COMFORT?!
In 2019, Sascha Eigner and Nicholas Müller sat at an oak table in Hamburg Eimsbüttel, dreaming big, setting high goals, and having wild expectations. Actually, everything one could have when thinking about the freshly agreed reunion of their band Jupiter Jones the following year. New album, first show at the Reeperbahn Festival, then a tour, perhaps a Rock Olymp...
By 2020, everyone had masks on, a bad mood, and a bit of fear. The awkwardness of the world weighed heavy on the spirit and the office. Writing songs felt like an arms race against the end of the industry and a bit also the end of the world. It was exhausting! Beautiful and meaningful, but so incredibly tiring and fragmented. Marked by constant breaks, overloaded Zoom sessions, and repeatedly postponed schedules. And all this during a time when the two should have had tears of joy in their eyes permanently. In the end, it was that way, but for reasons of fear and exhaustion. “THE SUN IS A DWARF STAR” - Their 2022 second debut still turned out great and worth loving. A sigh of relief and a new beginning with plenty of very good time within and around it. But it was also clear: The next album had to be different!
SAME SAME, BUT DIFFERENT.
So, different in the sense that: The world still doesn’t work today, probably even less so, and there are reasons for despair from open eyes to closed ones, but music can’t be blamed for that! So let’s pay attention to each other and ourselves, let’s harness the energy, no matter where it comes from or where it wants to go, and at the same time, let’s also realize that we’ve been doing this long enough to have a very clear opinion and a very clear stance: Towards music and the world! Let’s call friend and colleague Andi Weizel (producer & songwriter, among others, Frida Gold) and ask him if he’s up for co-producing and all ten fingers in the game. And let’s also ask Michi Ludes of former Mikroboy glory, Liser, Jean Michelle Tourette, and a few other superfriends if they want to join in on songwriting. But also Ali Zuckowski, who’s into all those pop songs and so. Just all good people, humanly as well as professionally. Because one always does best what one does best, JJ continues from where they never stopped. It might annoy whoever it will, but the arc continues to stretch from the punk of the early years to the pop of the early years as well. They’ve really always done that! It only hurts if you voluntarily bump into it. The only question is always with what kind of self-evidence one approaches such a project. And so an album was written - a bit with the good awareness that calculation has never really worked with this band - that is heartfelt, human, political, danceable, tearful, and everything possible in pop and punk. (Just no pop-punk. No half measures.) For the first time in the band's history, significantly more songs were written than an album actually needs. Once because it simply worked. Well, it didn’t work easily; that was a lot of work... But the ideas were there, the urge, the necessity, the enthusiasm!
I CARRY THE COFFIN, YOU WEAR SOMETHING COLORFUL
That’s now the title of the work. A thing full of life joy that defies circumstances, wanting to entertain, but not at all costs. As rounded and edgy at the same time as the title promises. It is probably the most consistent JJ album since the very first one. Not because it wants to sound that way; there were just too many years in between. But because it does what it wants. Because it comes from somewhere deep inside, where one likes to declutter the spirit. It is a collection of everything that has always defined Jupiter Jones, and it had to be this way.
For Sascha and Nicholas, it is a good reason to go to bed satisfied. At least satisfied with the music. The issue with the world will be resolved another time.
Doors open: 7:00 PM
Hallo, ich bin Maya.
