{"id":160782,"date":"2026-09-07T00:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T00:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/160782\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T00:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T00:29:12","slug":"video-blondie-bring-punk-disco-and-pollinator-into-one-intimate-berlin-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/160782\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Blondie Bring Punk, Disco And ‘Pollinator’ Into One Intimate Berlin Set"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Blondie\u2019s 2017 Berlin set feels wonderfully close-up: a legendary band with decades of history packed into SchwuZ, a club setting small enough to make every guitar stab, drum hit and Debbie Harry vocal feel immediate.<\/p>\n

Recorded on April 28, 2017, the performance arrived just as Blondie were introducing material from \u2018Pollinator\u2019, their 11th studio album, into a catalogue already overflowing with songs that helped reshape punk, new wave, pop and disco.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne Way Or Another\u201d opens the show and sets the tone immediately.<\/p>\n

From there, \u201cHanging On The Telephone\u201d gives way to \u201cFun,\u201d one of the then-new songs, before \u201cCall Me\u201d reminds you how naturally Blondie could move from punk clubs to huge pop hooks without losing their identity. The set keeps bouncing between eras, and that movement is part of its charm.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy Monster\u201d and \u201cLong Time\u201d sit comfortably beside \u201cAtomic\u201d and \u201cHeart Of Glass.\u201d<\/p>\n

That says plenty about Blondie\u2019s durability. The newer material never feels like an interruption to the older songs. It shares the same appetite for sharp melodies, rhythm and stylistic collision.<\/p>\n

Harry remains the focal point, of course, but the band around her is doing serious work. Chris Stein, Clem Burke, Tommy Kessler, Matt Katz-Bohen and Leigh Foxx give the songs their bite, with Burke\u2019s drumming especially important to the way the set keeps pushing forward.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also a playful detour into Beastie Boys territory with \u201cFight For Your Right,\u201d which makes perfect sense for a band that has spent its entire career ignoring the idea that genres should stay in their own lanes.<\/p>\n

Then comes \u201cFragments,\u201d one of the most atmospheric moments in the set.<\/p>\n

By the time Blondie hit \u201cAtomic\u201d and \u201cHeart Of Glass,\u201d the performance has turned into a compact tour through nearly 40 years of musical reinvention. Disco pulses sit beside punk guitar, pop instincts rub against artier textures, and nothing feels forced.<\/p>\n

\u201cDreaming\u201d closes the show with exactly the kind of melodic lift the song has always carried.<\/p>\n

The recording later aired on Sky Arts HD and eventually made its way online, preserving a night when Blondie could stand in a relatively intimate Berlin club, play brand-new songs beside some of the most recognizable records of their career and make the whole thing feel like one continuous conversation.<\/p>\n

That is what makes this performance such a good snapshot of Blondie in 2017. They were carrying their history with them, but they were still adding to it.<\/p>\n

SETLIST:<\/p>\n

One Way Or Another
Hanging On The Telephone
Fun
Call Me
My Monster
Fight For Your Right
Fragments
Long Time
Atomic
Heart Of Glass
Too Much
Dreaming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blondie\u2019s 2017 Berlin set feels wonderfully close-up: a legendary band with decades of history packed into SchwuZ, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[99],"tags":[6483,112,75405,75406,75407,75408,75409,75410,75411,5830,190,75412,75413,75414,75415,75416,75417,75418,75419,75420,75421],"class_list":["post-160782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-atomic","tag-berlin","tag-blondie","tag-call-me","tag-chris-stein","tag-clem-burke","tag-debbie-harry","tag-dreaming","tag-fragments","tag-fun","tag-germany","tag-hanging-on-the-telephone","tag-heart-of-glass","tag-leigh-foxx","tag-long-time","tag-matt-katz-bohen","tag-my-monster","tag-one-way-or-another","tag-pollinator","tag-schwuz","tag-tommy-kessler"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117226934786641010","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}