Marlene Kuntz

Marlene Kuntz plays Il Vile on Thursday, 19 March 2026 at the Estragon Club.

After the success of their tour celebrating the 30th anniversary of their debut album, which became a veritable collective birthday party, Marlene Kuntz will meet their fans again in 2026 with the tour “Marlene Kuntz plays Il Vile”, in which the band will bring back to life, city after city, all the power of an album that marked an entire generation.

With ‘Marlene Kuntz plays Il Vile’, the band embarks on a celebratory journey that transcends the simple nature of live performance: a return to their roots and, at the same time, a once-in-a-lifetime event, a collective ritual that, thirty years after its release, restores to the public the incandescent impact of an album that has left a deep mark on the cultural memory of our country.

When it saw the light of day on 26 April 1996, Il Vile was like a sudden gash in the Italian musical sky: guitars scratching the air with sharp distortions, melodic lines moving between shadow and light, words falling like stones and at the same time rising like poetic visions. Included by Rolling Stone Italia in its ranking of the 100 most beautiful Italian albums of all time, with this album Marlene Kuntz were able to transform restlessness and fragility into a new language, where pain became beauty, anger became lyricism, and anguish became choral song. Their writing opened a rift in the collective imagination, transforming intimate torment into a shared experience.