Paul Kalkbrener tickets

Paul Kalkbrenner Tour Schedule

Since the early 1990s Paul Kalkbrenner has been a fixture on the electronic music scene and has supplied the EDM world with some of its biggest hits. His live shows are known for their energy as well as the fact that Paul Kalkbrenner creates music which, especially when heard in a live setting, never fails to get people on their feet and dancing. Paul Kalkbrenner is on EDM artist that you do not want to miss when he comes to your town.

Fortunately for lovers of electronic music Pual Kalkbrenner has a string of dates in the U.S. and Canada lined up starting at Webster Hall on December 5th before heading north for a show Theatre Telus in Montreal on the 6th and then at Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto on the following night. December 8th will see Paul Kalkbrenner return to the U.S. when he performs at the Metro in Chicago.

After a few days off for traveling Paul Kalkbrenner will wrap up his North American tour with two shows in California. His first show in the state will be at the Fonda Theater in Los Angeles on December 13th. Finally Paul will play the final night of the tour in San Francisco at the Mezzanine on December 15th.

About the Artist

Paul Kalkbrenner has performed under several names including PK, Paul dB+, Kalkito, and Grenade but whatever moniker he is using you can expect to hear some of the most compelling electronic music on the planet. He hails from Leipzig, Germany and got his start playing at some of the hottest nightclubs in the area including Whale, Planet, and E-Werk. He was never the type of DJ that wanted to just spin other people's music so from early on Paul Kalkbrenner made his own music. In 1999 he released Friedrichshain EP on BPitch Control, a Berlin based label, and began a partnership with the label that would erase two full lengths, a live album, and several singles over the next few years. In 2011 Paul Kalkbrenner released the album Icke Wieder on his own label and would release another album, Guten Tag, on the label again the following year.

Breakthrough

Kalkbrenner's third album, Self, was released in 2004 just as things were beginning to pick up steam at BPitch and the narrative quality of the album gained a lot of attention. A filmmaker, Hannes Stohr, was impressed by Self and sought out Kalkbrenner to make the soundtrack for a movie he was making about an electronic music artist in Berlin. The two met and discussed the direction of the film and before long Stohr decided that Kalkbrenner would be the perfect star for the picture. Soon after the script was set and the star was in place Kalkbrenner began creating the soundtrack with his BPitch colleague Sacha Funke. Upon release of the film the new actor as well as the film received excellent reviews and became an instant cult classic due to its accurate portrayal of the electronic music scene as well as the drug culture in Germany. The soundtrack which featured the hit song Sky and Sand became a best seller and broke several sales records and Paul Kalkbrenner had become a household name in central Europe.

The Experience

EDM shows provide for some of the most exciting concert going experiences anyone could ask for, and performances by Paul Kalkbrenner are definitely no exception. You've been dancing and partying most of the night and then suddenly the music picks up and the whole venue seems to surge with energy. Paul Kalkbrenner has taken the stage and started belting out his incomparable sound that has everyone in the club going wild. The party has really just started in earnest and you are hoping that this night never ends. Just when you think it can't get any better, Paul Kalkbrenner raises the energy level even higher as the audience starts to go even crazier. Dancing and sweating the night away with a crowd full of enthusiastic Paul Kalkbrenner fans is something you will never forget and by the time the duo ends their set you will be anxiously awaiting the next time they come to town.

Trivia

The song Sky and Sand is what Paul Kalkbrenner is best known for and was part of the hit soundtrack of Berlin Calling. The song features vocals by Paul's brother Fritz and became even more popular throughout the world after the film was released on DVD in 2009. Sky and Sand went gold in Belgium and remained in the Top Ten there for ten weeks. After the success of the single and the soundtrack Paul Kalkbrenner decided to separate from BPitch and venture out on his own for the next part of his career and completed a European tour which sold over 50,000 tickets in a matter of weeks.