Next week, Thursday, September 17 through Sunday, September 20, Schokoladen makes a persuasive case for staying close to Ackerstraße. Its three candidate nights trace a tight but varied line through independent guitar music: 1000 Rabbits and Lande Hekt bring art-pop and jangle-pop on Thursday; Melbourne’s Lothario takes Saturday into garage-punk territory; Belako closes the run with an early Sunday post-punk and new-wave bill. The useful thread is scale. Each booking comes with a clearly defined musical vocabulary and a support act or context that gives the room a different shape across the weekend.[1][2][3]

Thursday begins at 20:00 with 1000 Rabbits, joined by Lande Hekt. Schokoladen describes the London five-piece through a working palette of violin, synthesiser, guitar, drums and expressive vocals, an arrangement that places the group’s art-pop designation in tangible instrumental terms. That makes the pairing with Hekt especially well judged: her 2026 album Lucky Now is presented by her label as jangle-pop built around chiming guitar lines, with an upcoming EP, Threadbare, due on September 25. The Berlin date lands during her German tour, so the opening slot carries the feeling of a current chapter in an already active month.[1][2]

There is a practical pleasure in this first night’s contrast of texture. 1000 Rabbits arrives with an ensemble format whose violin-and-synth detail suggests a more colouristic take on indie pop, while Hekt’s work is rooted in direct songwriting and guitar shimmer. Schokoladen lists doors at 19:00 and the concert at 20:00, leaving an unhurried entry point before the music begins. For listeners drawn to concise songs, bright guitar figures and a bill where the opener has a full artistic identity of her own, this is the most finely calibrated starting point of the run.[1][2]

Saturday’s garage-punk charge

Saturday, September 19 shifts the temperature. Lothario plays Schokoladen at 20:00, with Berlin’s Magazino on the bill and DJs Cherie L.A. and Crizia following after 22:00. The venue frames Lothario as garage-punk from Australia; the group’s own Bandcamp page identifies Melbourne as its base and lists the Schokoladen stop among its current European dates. It also shows an August 2026 release, IOU EP, alongside the 2025 single The Animal and the 2024 album Hogtied. That compact discography gives Saturday an immediate, present-tense focus: a touring project with fresh material and a set-up geared toward a late continuation in the room.[1][3]

The appeal here is the bill’s deliberately rougher grain. Magazino is billed by Schokoladen as egg-punk and garage, placing a Berlin group beside a Melbourne act whose catalogue sits in punk’s short-form, hard-edged tradition. The evening begins with doors at 19:00, then moves into the concert at 20:00 before the DJ programme. It suits readers looking for a full night in one venue, with the live set treated as the centre of the evening and the post-show selection extending the punk, power-pop, garage and psych axis.[1][3]

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A Sunday matinee with Belako

Sunday, September 20 is the cleanest change of frame: Belako and Hamburg’s Matrone play a Sunday matinee, with doors at 17:30 and the show at 18:15. Schokoladen identifies Belako as a post-punk and new-wave band from Mungia in the Basque Country and presents this as the group’s Berlin debut. Belako’s official tour page also lists the Schokoladen date amid September German appearances. An early start alters the ritual completely, inviting a concert-first evening that can finish while the rest of the city is still deciding how to spend Sunday night.[1][4]

Belako gives the weekend a strong final contour. The venue’s description points to driving guitars and electronic elements, which places the band at a productive junction between rock-band force and post-punk’s cooler edges; Matrone is billed as rock-and-roll metal-punk from Hamburg. After Thursday’s layered art-pop and Saturday’s garage urgency, the matinee becomes a route toward tauter, darker lines and an earlier room. Arrive with time for the 17:30 doors, check the official Schokoladen pages for any changes to schedules, support acts or entry details, and plan the weekend around the local start times: 20:00 Thursday, 20:00 Saturday, and 18:15 Sunday.[1][4]

Practical route through the weekend

All three shows take place at Schokoladen: 1000 Rabbits with Lande Hekt on Thursday, September 17 at 20:00; Lothario with Magazino on Saturday, September 19 at 20:00; and Belako with Matrone on Sunday, September 20 at 18:15. Thursday and Saturday list 19:00 doors, while Sunday lists 17:30. Recheck Schokoladen’s official calendar and each artist’s official page before heading out, since door times, lineups and ticket availability can change.[1][2][3][4]

These concerts happened on 17–20 September 2026

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Sources

  1. Schokoladen Events — Schokoladen
  2. Lande Hekt — Tapete Records
  3. Merch | Lothario — Lothario
  4. Belako official site — Belako