Line Up: Punk, Elektronika & Absurdes auf zwei Etagen
Saal:
Spucke
Spucke ist eine in Hamburg ansässige Deutsch - Post-Punk- und Rock'n'Roll-Band, deren Mitglieder zuvor in Projekten wie Night Punch, Swutscher, Melting Palms und Thee MVP’s aktiv waren und/ oder sind. Ihr Stil ist geprägt von Fuzz-Gitarren, ungeschliffenem Garagen-Sound und deutschen Texten.
Zeugen Jevers
Unwilling to be swayed from their beliefs, the band Zeugen Jevers have always devoted themselves musically to a mishmash of various ingredients – some borrowed, some found, mostly home-made – moulded into a porridge-like lump, with a dash of spirits – et voilà!
KEM TRAIL
Ist es ein Vogel? Ist es ein Flugzeug? Nein, es ist KEM TRAIL! Pöbeliger 8-Bit Punk vom Feinsten. Wer NES- und Gameboy Sounds, die frühen Sachen von Egotronic und liebevoll verkürzte Kapitalismuskritik mag, ist hier gut aufgehoben. 10/10 Kondensstreifen!
Sharizza
Goldener Salon:
Who is Mr Vast?
“.. like a Muppet version of a Philip K. Dick novel.” *
Mr Vast – aka Henry Sargeant – trained as an actor and ‘dark clown’ before veering off into music as a vocalist and frontman for the legendary Wevie Stonder, once dubbed by the BBC as “the Monty Python of electronic music”.
Working with Wevie’s Al Boorman to create the sound of Vast – Sargeant the lyrics & vocals, Boorman the music & production – a similar world of anarchic comedy and wild fusion of musical influences is explored, but in a more traditional ‘song’ format (which they enjoy getting spectacularly wrong).
While the recorded side is a two man boat, the Vast live experience is a one-man festival of madness with Sargeant in the spotlight: a slapstick cabaret, a surrealist happening, an avant-garde concert, a tragicomic carnival, an ecstatic ritual. It’s all of this and much more..
Carrying the torch of the Great English Eccentric and music hall variety performance into the post-Brexit 21st century, Mr Vast also draws on the Theatre of the Absurd, the archetype of the fool and international folk traditions in his weird & wonderful characters, costumes, masks and props. A metamorphic presence and shamanic compère, Vast takes audiences on journeys into fantastic new worlds, summoning the deepest desires and fears from our collective unconscious.
Equally at home on stage at festivals, comedy venues or nightclubs, Mr Vast has a diverse global fanbase devoted to a unique style of off-kilter electronica and inspired lyricism, showcased in unpredictable live sets where barriers between performer and audience are always broken down. Behind the multiple personalities of Mr Vast lies a deeply human, vulnerable artist seeking connection and catharsis, one who aims to triumph over adversity with shared fun and laughter.
The new album, “Upping The Ante” will be released in March ‘26.
Felix Kubin
Felix Kubin is one of the most versatile performers and composers in contemporary electronic music. In the pioneering days of the home recording era, he began recording his first sound experiments on a 4-track recorder at the age of 12. Since then, his creative universe has continued to expand and now encompasses futuristic pop, experimental radio plays, electroacoustic music, lecture performances and orchestral compositions. He runs the record label ‘Gagarin Records’ and is one of the founders and curators of the interdisciplinary Papiripar Festival in Hamburg.
In 2010, the British music magazine THE WIRE dedicated a cover story to him. Since 1998, he has released numerous concept albums and performed concerts worldwide (including at MoMA PS1, Sonar, Transmediale and CTM, Unsound, Wien Modern, Märzmusik, MIT Theatre Arts, Présences électroniques and Ars Electronica). He moves between high and underground culture, clubs and concert halls, as his main interest lies in the shifting of contexts and expectations.
The French film artist Marie Losier made a phantasmagorical portrait film about him, which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival in 2019.
Nika Son
For over a decade Nika Son hosts regular art and music events at the Golden Pudel Club in Hamburg with various international guests. Her DJ-sets throb between flicker, weaving waywardly from early concrète to synth wave, oscillating from polyrhythms through industrial fields and breaking downtempo into slope techno. Since 2019, she co-curates the music-art festival Papiripar together with Felix Kubin and Floria Bräunlich.
