ANDREAS DORAU CONCERT „WIEN“ / SUPPORT: OLA & LARS Pop

On his 14th studio album “Wien”, Andreas Dorau trades Vienna’s clichés for quirky poetry. He sings melancholic synth-pop odes to things like the emotional support hotline “431 42” or the Viennese computer that switches on the streetlights to exactly “45 lux” each night. At the end of the day, Dorau remains in Vienna what he’s always been: a tourist whom no one misses, lying awake in his hotel room. Since his 1981 cult hit “Fred vom Jupiter,” the Hamburg-based musician has mastered the art of describing the façades of people, cities, and things in simple, poetic language wrapped in catchy melodies. He allows the uncanny to shimmer through, like the fear of heights on the Giant Ferris Wheel in the Prater. His “Wien” becomes a pop-literary glimpse behind the shutters of a city that has birthed seminal Summer Festival artists like Nesterval and Florentina Holzinger – and now, thanks to Dorau, has 13 new eccentric songs (plus a bonus album) to its name. Support comes from a Viennese duo performing live for the first time ever.