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The ANKOR summer tour 2026 is over.

The shows were fantastic as always, but there was something different:

For the first time, it had felt for me like we were attending ANKOR concerts as a fan community.

We had chatted a lot on our community channels before, had told each other who‘d come to which show, had met at the entrance and welcomed each other like friends, even the ones whom we had never seen in person before.

During the show, we had jumped and moshed side by side, grinning, laughing, screaming, and hugging amidst dozens of others who will hopefully one day also connect with our group.

Also after the show - even when we couldn’t have expected the band to come out anymore - we had stayed in the venue as long as possible just to have a drink, talk and laugh like we had done before the show. And we had always made new friends there because we struck up conversations with those who were also present but didn't belong to our group yet.

Of course we always come to the shows because of ANKOR.

But this summer for the first time we had also come for our own sake - as their international fan community.

For me - someone who always has to go to ANKOR shows alone - this is like paradise.

It makes me look forward to the upcoming shows in winter even more – much more – than I would have done without you.

So thank you, my friends!

 

And sorry for the rough video quality – but it’s the content that counts.

At the show in Wiesbaden there was a special moment, that didn't only make Jessie and Fito cry, but also more than one of us in the audience: Colorful hearts rose up in the middle of Oblivion with "I'll be okay", "You'll be okay" or "We'll be okay" written on them.

They had been made by our friend Simon, who gave one to everybody of us who wanted with the request to hide them and just hold them up when he did. That worked out great.
The band was completely surprised and overwhelmed by this as simple as beautiful gesture of affection and support.

So thank you, Simon, for masking this fantastic show even more fantastic.

For those new to the front row:
Watch out for your phone!

Otherwise, the singer might just snatch it and use it for her own purposes.

That’s actually what happened last Tuesday in Wiesbaden - to our friend Patrick. In the end, though, he was happy about it -probably because she gave it back to him in one piece. And because he now got a souvenir as unique as it can be.

Never come too close to Fito's guitar.
You might get a souvenir that you wouldn't have expected.
Like this one from the show in Aachen.
But until November it will be gone, then I can go and get a new one.

Musikbunker Aachen in its original colors. Perfect place for an ANKOR show during the I SEE RED tour. Proven once again on 17 June, 2026.

Musikbunker Aachen in its original colors. Perfect place for an ANKOR show during the I SEE RED tour. Proven once again on 17 June, 2026.

Isn't she lovely? And hot? And absolutely fantastic?
Our dear Jessie yesterday at Download Festival.

And aren't they lovely? And hot? And absolutely fantastic?
Eleni and David and Fito rocking somewhere else on this stage. Guaranteed!

Yesterday was the first birthday of our community.

And we couldn't have asked for a better birthday present than celebrating it together with ANKOR themselves at their headline show in Marburg.