It is and remains a hit: scandal in the restricted area takes the audience back to the 1980s.
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Travel through time with “Scandal in the Restricted Area”
Enthusiastic audience
“It was actually a lot of zeitgeist, you have to say, it often arose from the situations and scandal in the restricted area just comes from a time when it was really difficult to live exactly this openly and I just think it’s great that they conveyed it with so much humor and just made fun of it a bit, that’s just good for me,” says Marin Lipski from St. Pölten.
“This is exactly a band that in my youth, in my teenage years, the Schickeria, Sperrgebiet, they were hits from my teenage years and I’ve seen them live before and that’s a really cool band, and I’m really happy that they are in Austria,” says cabaret artist Viktor Gernot.
Love for music was stronger
Front singer Günther Sigl is actually a qualified bank clerk – but his love for music was stronger. “My father said I should learn a clever job and then I went to commercial school and did an apprenticeship at a bank. But that wasn’t mine. At the same time as I was completing my bank apprenticeship, I got a guitar, which my father bought for me for 40 Deutschmarks and I was enthusiastic regarding the music,” says Sigl.
75 years and still not a bit quiet
At 75, Sigl is far from thinking regarding taking off his rock’n’roll shoes. “The enthusiasm is still there, yes – you’re not so excited anymore or anything, but there’s a certain tension, when you go on stage, it’s always a different audience. Being on the road is our life, that’s what we wanted, up on stages, we’re privileged, we have a great job, when we go out you see happy faces. They come to have fun, then you think, have you made a few people happy once more, hopefully they’ll go home and say ‘hey, that was a great evening.’ That’s why we do it,” said the artist in the ORF Burgenland interview
