Tomorrow
DOTA
- Saarburg
- 14.06.2026Dates overview
- 19:00
Fountain Tour 2026
Dota is back, with new songs, a new chapter that fits perfectly into the series of their previous albums, but it feels new, as if an previously unknown ingredient has appeared in the song lab.
What's nice is: It could just as well be the first DOTA record ever. You miss nothing that you love about Dota, but the music is even more minimalistic, bouncier – adults would say: more contrasting. The lyrics go even more directly to the heart of darkness, are even more devotedly searching, and even in ambiguity, clearer. Perhaps it is also a product of their engagement with the poetry of Mascha Kaléko, to whose musical interpretation they have dedicated two albums in the last three years. DOTA – not without reason in capital letters, because the name represents more than just the lyrical self of Dota Kehr, but also the community around her, within which the music has been created for several years: guitarist Jan Rohrbach, drummer Janis Görlich, keyboardist Patrick Reising, and bassist Alexander Binder. Together with this band, Dota Kehr arranges the songs and records them.
Together they write the DOTA formula on the board: Every word also means at least its opposite, everywhere question marks, hardly exclamation marks. The first single Simply Too Distracted plays the DOTA game to perfection. The guitar sits by the lake in summer, the synth shimmers. The drums dance Stop-and-Go, Dota sings as if she has to leave at any moment – about how she can't commit and neither can anyone else. So ADHD as a societal diagnosis. In Carousel of Chains, one of those songs that only DOTA can achieve – relaxed and tense at the same time, like a thoughtful bouncy ball – she sings: “Time to turn to something else / That's okay, I can't stand everyday life.” And to that, the band grooves, pushing the singer, as if to say: “One more round.” Question: What should songwriters sing about in these times? Next question: What are “these times” anyway? Dota has also posed these questions in preparation for her new album. The answers lie on her path like signs on the road, as soon as she begins to work seriously. It has always taken awake eyes, a voice that is one's own, and a heart that holds more than just one's retirement savings.
Dota knows who she is and sees the things that connect her with the world she lives in and also separate her from it. Things that give her hope and things that repel her – to which she responds in her songs with honesty (The Rolling Sea) or biting irony (Billionaires).
Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Show starts at 7:00 p.m.
Tickets are available for €39.50 (seated or standing) and €26.30 (students) at the tourist information centers in Konz and Saarburg.
What's nice is: It could just as well be the first DOTA record ever. You miss nothing that you love about Dota, but the music is even more minimalistic, bouncier – adults would say: more contrasting. The lyrics go even more directly to the heart of darkness, are even more devotedly searching, and even in ambiguity, clearer. Perhaps it is also a product of their engagement with the poetry of Mascha Kaléko, to whose musical interpretation they have dedicated two albums in the last three years. DOTA – not without reason in capital letters, because the name represents more than just the lyrical self of Dota Kehr, but also the community around her, within which the music has been created for several years: guitarist Jan Rohrbach, drummer Janis Görlich, keyboardist Patrick Reising, and bassist Alexander Binder. Together with this band, Dota Kehr arranges the songs and records them.
Together they write the DOTA formula on the board: Every word also means at least its opposite, everywhere question marks, hardly exclamation marks. The first single Simply Too Distracted plays the DOTA game to perfection. The guitar sits by the lake in summer, the synth shimmers. The drums dance Stop-and-Go, Dota sings as if she has to leave at any moment – about how she can't commit and neither can anyone else. So ADHD as a societal diagnosis. In Carousel of Chains, one of those songs that only DOTA can achieve – relaxed and tense at the same time, like a thoughtful bouncy ball – she sings: “Time to turn to something else / That's okay, I can't stand everyday life.” And to that, the band grooves, pushing the singer, as if to say: “One more round.” Question: What should songwriters sing about in these times? Next question: What are “these times” anyway? Dota has also posed these questions in preparation for her new album. The answers lie on her path like signs on the road, as soon as she begins to work seriously. It has always taken awake eyes, a voice that is one's own, and a heart that holds more than just one's retirement savings.
Dota knows who she is and sees the things that connect her with the world she lives in and also separate her from it. Things that give her hope and things that repel her – to which she responds in her songs with honesty (The Rolling Sea) or biting irony (Billionaires).
Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Show starts at 7:00 p.m.
Tickets are available for €39.50 (seated or standing) and €26.30 (students) at the tourist information centers in Konz and Saarburg.
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