Half a century of the same riff hitting the same spot, and the anniversary gets paid off on a stage in four days. Accept open their fiftieth anniversary tour at the Haus Auensee on 19 November, the first of twenty four headline shows across eleven European countries.
The German leg runs eleven dates. Leipzig on 19 November, the EmslandArena in Lingen on the 20th, the Turbinenhalle in Oberhausen on the 21st and the Volksbankmesse in Balingen on the 24th, then a December stretch: the Uber Eats Music Hall on 8 December, the Inselpark Arena on the 11th, the Stadthalle Offenbach on the 12th, the Kulturwerk in Herford on the 15th, the Ratiopharm Arena in Neu Ulm on the 18th, the Eventhalle in Geiselwind on the 19th and the Zenith on the 20th. France, Spain, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic take the rest.
Two Swedish bands open. Dynazty were on the bill from the start, and their Napalm debut arrives in March off the back of it. Enforcer were added in October, which gives the package a second guitar band rather than a second keyboard one.
Wolf Hoffmann, who has played the riffs for most of those fifty years, called it unbelievable to be celebrating this long and said the support over the decades had been overwhelming. Tickets went up in February, through a presale and then general sale.