even discovered that the kindergarten where Helge Risa taught had a job listing for his position. Following weeks of speculation and teasers, the video Dine gamle dager er nå premiered on the official Kaizers Orchestra YouTube channel on Monday, November 7, at 19:07, the exact time teased previously. Two days later, the band officially confirmed that they had reunited and would be commencing a 24-date Norwegian tour in the fall of 2023, with tickets being made available soon after. After selling out within two hours, sixteen further concerts were added to the schedule later the same day. In the press release confirming their reunion, the band stated that the comeback had been in the works planned for years, after drummer Rune Solheim had posed the question in 2019, at one of the members' annual Christmas dinners, and that the concert venues had been booked two years in advance. Style and lyrical themes Musically, Kaizers Orchestra have explored many different genres of music, the most prominent being fast-paced gypsy rock and "Balkan brass". They are regarded as one of Europe's best live acts, with their 2002 Performance at Roskilde earning them several "Concert of the Year" awards, as well as "Concert of Roskilde 2002". For the most part, lyrics and music is written by Janove Ottesen, although Geir Zahl has also contributed many compositions. By the release of Violeta Violeta Volume 2 Geir has written 18 songs, of which three of them are co-written with Janove. He performs the vocal on seven of his songs on both the albums and live recordings. The lyrics vary from album to album, and many of the songs' storylines are intertwined, with recurring characters being explored during the course of several songs. This led to the musical Sonny in November 2011, which is based on their first three albums. The lyrics of Ompa til du dør consist of stories of a handful of characters involving war, the resistance, and the mafia. Their second album, Evig Pint, consists of fewer characters and more focused, darker themes: life, death, betrayal, drugs, and once again, the mafia. Their third album, Maestro, focuses on things happening in a mental institution and the corruption involved. For their fourth album, Maskineri, they attempted to break their tradition and made none of the songs connected; they also stopped using characters. The songs were still stories, but they had no connection with each