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Juliette Lewis (Juliette and the Licks), Schüür, Lucerne, April 7, 2005 Matthias Willi/Olivier Joliat

Left: Joey Castillo, Josh Homme (Queens Of The Stone Age), Greenfield Festival Interlaken, June 16, 2007. Right.: Sarah Blackwood, Kate Holmes (Client), Erlkönig Nt-Areal, Basel, April 18, 2005 Matthias Willi/Olivier Joliat

Left: Endo Anaconda (Stiller Has), MundArt Festival, Brütten, April 29, 2005. Right: Adam Stephens (Two Gallants), Montreux Jazz Festival, July 2, 2006 Matthias Willi/Olivier Joliat

Odin von Nazareth (Sludge), Coq d'Or, Olten, November 12, 2011 Matthias Willi/Olivier Joliat

Left: Pascal Sandrin (The Lombego Surfers), Irrsinn Bar, Basel, November 3, 2011. Right: Samantha Maloney (Peaches), Rote Fabrik, Zurich, October 4, 2006 Matthias Willi/Olivier Joliat

Left: Josh Todd (Buckcherry), Sonisphere Festival, Basel, June 23, 2011. Right: Bernd Kurtzke (Beatsteaks), Volkshaus, Zurich, March 7, 2011 Matthias Willi/Olivier Joliat

Els Pynoo (Vive la Fête), Das Schiff, Basel, November 12, 2005 Matthias Willi/Olivier Joliat

Left: Paul Van Bruystegem (Triggerfinger), Rote Fabrik, Zurich, August 1, 2010. Right: Kurt Ebelhäuser (Blackmail), Biomill, Laufen, May 14, 2011 Matthias Willi/Olivier Joliat

Jean-Michel Tourette, Judith Holofernes (Wir sind Helden), Kaserne Basel, August 13, 2011 Matthias Willi/Olivier Joliat

Iggy Pop (The Stooges), X-tra, Zurich, May 10, 2006 Matthias Willi/Olivier Joliat

Left: Kathryn "Mad Kate" Fischer (Kamikaze Queens), Sudhaus, Basel, November 24 2011. Right: Jesse Hughes (Eagles of Death Metal), Montreux Jazz Festival, July 2, 2005 Matthias Willi/Olivier Joliat

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With the spotlights off, concert over, sweaty, breathless rock musicians hide behind the stage. Photographer Matthias Willi has captured all this in his new book "The Moment After the Show".

With the help of the journalist Olivier Joliat, Willi took pictures of more than 100 musicians during those first few minutes after a concert ends. It doesn’t matter if they are huge stars or local heroes, in the end, the differences vanish. Singer and actress Juliette Lewis of Juliette and the Licks sums it up: “That’s the only way to show how we really are.”