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Türküler through a fuzz pedal: 3Yoldaş and the long Frankfurt apprenticeship
A Frankfurt three-piece who rebuild Turkish folk songs and pop standards as heavy rock, sung entirely in Turkish. On 31 October 2026 they headline the Ponyhof Club in their home city — the only date currently on sale, and the top of a bill they were third on 21 months earlier.
Three companions on the Frankfurt circuit
The name is the arithmetic of the band. A yoldaş in Turkish is a companion on a road, and there are three of them: Tunç Yomolcay on guitar and vocals, Alessandro Capasso on bass, Jens Eichler on drums and vocals. All three play out of Frankfurt am Main, and the group's profile on the German musicians' network Backstage PRO dates the founding to 2016, putting friendship rather than any scene calculation behind the line-up.
One document complicates that start. A German festival archive logs a single past appearance for the band — the Museumsuferfest, the festival that fills Frankfurt's museum embankment each summer, across the weekend of 28 to 30 August 2015, a year before the founding date the band's own profile gives. Nothing in the public record reconciles the two, and the group has published no origin story of its own to settle it.
What is documented either way is a long stretch of work inside one region rather than a push outwards. Venue copy describes the band as a fixture of the local scene for several years, playing clubs, bars and festivals across Rhine-Main — the corridor running from Frankfurt through Offenbach, Mainz and Wiesbaden — alongside a stated ambition to carry the music beyond Germany. No dates abroad appear in the record so far.
Covers as the way in
The route to their own writing ran through other people's songs. By the band's own account on Bandcamp, 3Yoldaş started out making rock versions of well-known Turkish traditionals and pop numbers: not arrangements that gesture at the source material, but re-recordings carrying the tempo, weight and distortion of heavy rock. The lyrics stay in Turkish throughout, and the melodic material is often lifted straight from the folk repertoire rather than quoted around the edges.
The mechanics of the trio explain a lot of the sound. Two of the three sing — Yomolcay and Eichler — which gives a three-piece more vocal lines than it has spare hands, and the multi-part singing described in venue copy sits on top of a single guitar, a bass and a drum kit with nothing hidden behind it. The band's own Bandcamp tags name the register plainly: stoner rock, Turkish rock, Frankfurt.
The audience that produces is split by design. Promoters describe material pitched at rock listeners who want the riffs and at people who already know the songs from the folk and pop canon, and frame the result as something that crosses generations in the same room. That dual pull is the band's practical argument for existing: nobody else on the Rhine-Main club circuit is doing this particular translation.
ILHAM PERISI, and the seven years since
The debut album, ILHAM PERISI, was released on 5 July 2019 and remains the band's only full record in the public domain. It runs to eight tracks and 38 minutes 24 seconds: Muhabbet (4:36), Leylim Ley (5:36), Haydi Söyle (3:44), Güneş (5:25), Belalım (3:40), Sorma (6:21), Yar Yar (4:02) and Beni Yak (5:00). Sorma is the longest piece on it, Belalım the shortest, and the sequencing keeps the heaviest and loosest material in the middle rather than up front.
The album is described by the band as the record of those early rock rewrites, with one departure that matters: Güneş, listed as their first recording of an original composition. It sits fourth, in the middle of borrowed material, which is a fair picture of where the group was in 2019 — a covers band beginning to write.
The production credits are local and specific. The album was recorded by Diego Iriarte, mixed by Claus-Alexander Fuss and given its cover by Manuel Tiranno. It is self-released on Bandcamp, sold at a floor of one euro per track, with no label involvement anywhere in the credits. Seven years on there is no follow-up album, EP or single in the record, which makes the live circuit, not the discography, the place where the band has actually been developing.
Where they stand in October 2026
The clearest dated marker of progress comes from one venue. On Friday 24 January 2025, 3Yoldaş played the Ponyhof Club in Frankfurt third on a three-band bill, below Temple Flies and Peoples Temper, a Frankfurt guitar-and-drums trio running since 2008. Tickets for that night were 14 euros in advance and 18 on the door.
On Saturday 31 October 2026 the band returns to the same stage at the top of the bill, with Temple Flies now supporting and The Electric Lefthand Experience opening. Advance tickets are 15 euros plus fees, 20 euros on the door, with doors at 18:30; the show is also listed through the Universe ticketing platform at 17.50 euros. Moving from third to first on the same club's stage inside 21 months is the most concrete thing that can be said about the band's current standing.
It is also worth saying what is not there. No album, EP or single has appeared since July 2019. No concert review, interview or press feature about the band turns up in the searchable record, in German or in Turkish — what exists is promoter copy, the band's own Bandcamp page and a handful of listing-site entries. This is a working regional act with one record and a growing claim on one room, not a group with a critical paper trail, and it should be read that way.
The bill at the Ponyhof
The room is small and in Alt-Sachsenhausen: the Ponyhof Club sits at Klappergasse 16, on the south bank of the Main, among the narrow drinking streets rather than out on the Offenbach ring where Frankfurt's bigger rock venues are. A Halloween-night date there with three bands and doors at 18:30 points to an early, tightly run evening rather than a late one.
The supports come from the same self-releasing end of the scene. The Electric Lefthand Experience are a duo split between Kassel and Frankfurt, both left-handed players, working to a self-imposed discipline of writing and releasing one song a week, and describing their own sound as heavy, with swing and a 1970s cast. Temple Flies are two musicians divided between Frankfurt and Hamburg, now reunited in Frankfurt, who built their records across that north-south axis and put them out themselves; live they expand with a hired rhythm section, drummer Simon Schröder from Hannover and bassist Jens Cappel from Frankfurt.
Taken together it is a riff-led, independently financed bill of three acts with no label behind any of them, which is a reasonable description of the circuit 3Yoldaş has spent a decade in — and the context in which a headline slot in a club like this counts as a real step.
The show, now
The one date on sale is Saturday 31 October 2026 at the Ponyhof Club, Klappergasse 16, Frankfurt am Main, with 3Yoldaş headlining, Temple Flies supporting and the Kassel-and-Frankfurt duo The Electric Lefthand Experience opening; doors are at 18:30, tickets 15 euros in advance plus fees or 20 euros on the door, and the same show is listed via Universe at 17.50 euros. Three bands and a 18:30 start in a small Sachsenhausen club means a compact evening rather than a late one, and the band's own slot comes last of the three. The set draws on the eight tracks of ILHAM PERISI — rock rebuilds of Turkish traditionals and pop songs plus the original Güneş — performed as a bare power trio with two of the three members singing, so the multi-part vocals promoters emphasise are carried live rather than layered in. No published setlist, running time or stage-production detail exists for the date, and no concert reviews or quoted fan reaction for recent 3Yoldaş shows appear anywhere in the searchable record; the band's own January 2025 appearance at the same venue, then third on the bill below Temple Flies and Peoples Temper, is the nearest documented comparison.
Researched from ponyhof-club.de · ponyhof-club.de · 3yoldas.bandcamp.com · 3yoldas.bandcamp.com · universe.com · festivalhopper.de · backstagepro.de · ponyhof-club.de
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