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Girls Under Glass were founded in Hamburg in 1986 — in a time of profound socio-political change, but beyond clearly defined musical scenes.

While Gothic and Dark Wave increasingly developed stylistic conventions at the end of the 1980s, the band followed an independent approach from the start: dark, experimental, emotional — but without genre clichés.

Founded by singer Tom Lücke, keyboardist Hauke Harms and guitarist Volker Zacharias, Girls Under Glass developed an unmistakable musical language early on, drawing more from influences such as 80s wave, early post-punk and experimental dark electronics than from the classic Gothic canon. Even the early releases — including the albums Humus (1988) and Flowers (1989) — made it clear that simple attributions would not apply here.

After Tom Lücke left in 1990, Volker Zacharias took over vocals and songwriting and had a lasting impact on the band's sound. With the album Positive (1991) produced by Rodney Orpheus (The Cassandra Complex), Girls Under Glass established their central strength to this day: exceptional songwriting that combines atmospheric depth, melody and stylistic openness. The following albums (Darius, Christus, Crystals & Stones) consistently continued this development without repeating themselves.

Stylistic outbursts — such as the more guitar-heavy Firewalker (1997) — were also always part of an artistic process that saw change not as a risk but as a necessity. With Equilibrium (1999), Minddiver (2001) and Zyklus (2004), the band once again found their way back to a focused, multi-layered sound that also allowed early influences. After a long creative break and further personnel changes, Girls Under Glass finally returned impressively with the album Backdraft (2023) — a work that shows that creative relevance has no expiration date.

After the anniversary year 2026, Girls Under Glass 2027 is opening another chapter: club tour to the new album!

In the last 20 years, Girls Under Glass played only a handful of club concerts. It is precisely this immediate closeness between band and audience that they now want to consciously revive.

The 2027 club tour offers one of the few opportunities to experience Girls Under Glass in an intimate setting — approachable, intensive and beyond big stage routines.

For long-time fans as well as for new listeners, this tour is more than nostalgia: It is an invitation to a joint, immediate and intimate live experience with a band that has reinvented itself over 40 years — without ever losing its own core. In addition to the well-known classics and live highlights, songs from the new album, which will be released in spring 2027 via Dependent Records, will also be presented.