Milky Chance

Clemens Rehbein and Philipp Dausch, collectively known as Milky Chance, are well over a year on the road as part of their second record cycle, touring Blossom throughout North America into October.  The duo did actually take a break once, but it was a long time ago – a needed respite from the hectic times of 2014 when they saw their lives change. 

John Davisson – Milky Chance

About a year earlier, Rehbein and Dausch were winding down their time as high school students in Kassel, North Hessen, Germany. The friends played together in bands and busked with friends, driving across Europe in a bus they bought. Meanwhile, they accidentally wrote a global hit album.

They had pooled together some money from their friends, created their own record label, and released Sadnecessary in 2013.  One track in particular, the last one on the album – “Stolen Dance” – got the most attention.  Make that the kind of response that changes a career: the song currently has 327 million views on YouTube and took the duo out of Germany and into Red Rocks Amphitheatre and on to “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”

“They occupy a really unique space in the music landscape,” their agent Jbeau Lewis from UTA told Pollstar. “It’s sort of a hybrid of alternative, electronic, and jam, all of which are popular genres but when put together I think really creates something unique. I think it’s a very danceable, musical show that has big songs that people know. I think it fits into a bunch of diverse places in live music.” 

Blossom dropped in March with the first single, “Cocoon,” already certified Platinum in Australia. Meanwhile, the band, which includes Antonio Greger and Sebastian Schmidt live, has been on the road nearly constantly since last June.

“If you look at the band’s tour schedule for 2017, it’s been building some new headline markets for them in clusters around the dozen festivals they’re playing in North America,” Lewis said. “And it will be back in January / February to play a bunch of the major markets in the continent where they didn’t play festivals this year.”