The Three Sisters are a musical phenomenon. They have been around for forty years and Saturday’s concert was a celebration of that. Although this band would have the right to sound a bit tired after all these years, the opposite is true. With the opening song Loss of Immunity, she started a carefree party where people sang, danced and drank.
Not only Lou Fanánek Hagen, who is in charge of it, sang, but also the other members of the band and the audience in the hall. During the unrehearsed choreography, not only the musicians danced, but also many of those who arrived at the concert, whether they bought tickets for standing or sitting.
And there was drinking on stage, that belongs to the Three Sisters, as well as in the audience, and especially beer. At the same time, it was not a self-destructive enjoyment, but an intoxicating one, because the basis of the party that was born in the hall was music.
The three sisters today belong to the bands that have a repertoire full of popular songs, one would like to write cheaply – hits. In the concert set, for most fans, she wasn’t the only one they didn’t know more or even more. They greeted each one with joy, accompanied her with choir singing and then said goodbye to her with a smile, because they knew that the situation would be repeated with the next one.
Photo: Tomáš Martinek, CTK
Accordionist Supice and guitarist Ronald Seitl
The group sounds confident after all these years on stage. The punk attitude that she has kept from her early days creates a delightful “dirt” in her sound, an age-old togetherness and the fact that the musicians have the songs in their arms, so to speak, give it a lightness.
Fanánek sings as always, i.e. on the edge of intonation certainty, and at the same time so distinctively that he is completely believable. In addition, as a master of sentences, he is behind great and funny song lyrics, he accompanied the performance with a word that was comprehensible and welcoming, even if some vulgarism got involved in it.
The concert was refreshed by various guests who do not enjoy star fame or mannerisms, but are bound to the band by friendship or history. The sound was pure hall, that is, praiseworthy with small reservations, and if someone said that music heals, it was also a demonstration of it.
A decent load
The whole thing started off nicely with the Trautenberk band from Klato, which has grown nicely in recent months. Although the themes of her lyrics are not as colorful as in the case of the hosts, and the humor in them is more heavy-handed, she has achieved a mature rock sound that gives her the mandate to declare herself among the strong in the genre.
The singers Luboš Valeček and Miroslav Císler, respectively their aggressive and healthy “hamsters”, ride with clarity on a guitar base that most evokes the punch of German Rammstein.
Together with the favorable melody, it makes a decent charge, especially since the band, after five released albums, can easily put together a set so that it is free of dull musical places.
At the end of a damn good indoor party, you didn’t want to go home.
| Three Sisters, Trautenberg |
| O2 arena, Prague, December 20 |
| Rating: 85% |
