Wolfgang Flür (former member of Kraftwerk) at Studio 18
Sat, 05 Oct
|Brimscombe
tickets available at www.tinyurl.com/wolfgangat18
Time & Location
05 Oct 2024, 20:00 – 06 Oct 2024, 01:00
Brimscombe, Hope Mills Business Centre, Brimscombe, Stroud GL5 2SE, UK
About the event
A member of Kraftwerk during the group’s golden era, Wolfgang Flür was the band’s electronic percussionist from 1973 to 1987.
Born in Frankfurt, Germany, Flür became the third member of the band in 1973, replacing a drum machine. He was a member of the group from their international breakthrough with the album Autobahn (1974) and remained as they experimented with proto techno on albums such as Trans-Europe Express (1977) and Computer World (1981).
Frustrated with the half-a-decade it took to produce Electric Cafe (1986), he left the band after the LP’s release — it wouldn’t be until a 2009 reissue that Flür received an artist credit on the album. He has pursued a solo career under the name Yamo, published his memoir I Was a Robot.
His most recent full-length album Magazine 1 dropped in 2022, and saw him collaborate with huge names including Carl Cox, Peter Hook, Midge Ure…