Buzzcocks and Spleen

"Spleen" is a compelling puppet theater performance from Germany by Figurentheater Wilde & Vogel. Inspired by Charles Baudelaire's "Le Spleen de Paris", it blends puppetry with live music, including violin and electric guitar. The show is renowned for its surreal and sensually subversive style, exploring themes of modernity, life, eroticism, and death through imaginative figures and spoken texts.

Buzzcocks, formed in Manchester by Pete Shelley and Howard Devoto, helped shape British punk with energetic pop-punk tunes. Known for songs like "Orgasm Addict" and "What Do I Get?", they released influential albums such as Another Music in a Different Kitchen and Love Bites. Disbanded in 1981, they re-formed in 1989, continuing to tour and release music, including 1993's Trade Test Transmissions. Their punk-pop sound inspired bands like Nirvana. After Shelley's 2018 death, Steve Diggle led the band, releasing Sonics in the Soul in 2022.