99 Luftballoons Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont

From Nena 2010

I only knew one track from Nena - 99 Red Balloons, but that is one of the songs from 80’s Top of the Pops that I clearly recall – looking back the staging of the song with a singer in the middle of I presume 99 balloons of the colour red wasn’t exactly creative! This is the first time I’ve been to a gig where none of the lyrics where in English – most of the audience was German. But despite not understanding any of the lyrics – other than the German for 99 red balloons, it was a great evening of rock! The only disappointment was, apparently at the instruction of Nena herself, a fairly rigorously enforced ban on photography – stealth had to be used to avoid a flash light being pointed towards you by the bouncers who where eagerly enforcing the policy! At least the policy didn’t discriminate – even use of camera phones induced a wave of the flash lights!