The fantastic last yearʼs edition and the record number of nominations for the European Festival Awards have particularly highlighted Pohoda abroad. The Guardian praised it as a well-equipped venue, and The Telegraph highlighted the artistic and eco-friendly approach. Other reputable media mentioned the uncompromising line-up, top-notch services, great organization and atmosphere. Our partners have a great merit in this success, which is also demostrated by the nomination of ZSE in the Brand Activation Award category. Every year, our partners come to the airport with what they do best and, in cooperation with Pohoda, they bring the festival experience to a higher level. Also this year, they have prepared a huge amount of activities and services to make our visitors pampered. Above all the efforts of our partners this year there is responsibility towards the environment. However, managing to meet the ecological goals will ultimately depend on the approach of all visitors of Pohoda. This article will tell you what the 22nd edition of our most famous festival will have to offer in only two weeks. → read more

We published the line-up of Pohoda 2018 on our website. Also this year, you can use the line-up feature to select and print the list of your preferred shows. → read more

Due to the increasing interest and limited room available for camping in the Family Park, we have introduced a mandatory reservation of tent lots in this zone. It aims to improve the comfort of placing tents even for the families with children who arrive later on the site. Three weeks before the start of the festival, we sold out the capacity of this tent camp. As a response to the great interest of many people who were not able to get a tent lot in this part of the grounds, we are coming up with another solution, which is creating a special Family & Silent Camp between the Caravan parking and Silent Disco.  → read more

Band TALKSHOW who are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their formation this year will be playing Pohoda 2018 as well. Band’s front man Andreas Imrich is also the Production Manager at our festival. While making sure that everything goes smoothly at the biggest bands’ concerts, he manages to catch the attention of foreign journalists with his own music and show. He achieved this in 2016 at Garage, for example, when gentlemen from Virtual Festivals saw them play. Talkshow are the only local indie band that played SXSW showcase in the US and you could hear their single “Hurricane” on Austrian radio FM4. Right now, their first single in Slovak, “More času”, is in rotation and they will play it live for the first time at our festival. → read more

DJ Ramzy Al Spinoza is a special person from Israel who runs the Monolingua project, the Jerusalem's most tolerant electro haflas (cultural get-togethers). He is the voice of a spectrum of people who do not need conflict: they understand each other through music, regardless of race, nationality, or religion. In the club, you can find dancing side by side the Jews, the Arabs, the Palestinians, the Muslims, the Christians, the Jordanians, the Syrians, and anyone whose humanity and peace in their hearts can uplift the person above the hate. The performance of Ramzy will feature MC Safaa Hathot, a member of the Arapeyat crew and one of the first rapper women in her society. Since 2001, she has been participating in workshops, festivals, and concerts around the world. She also hosts a hip-hop show called Beatna, where she interviews various rappers of her area. You will hear the best of Arabic music, contemporary world-music, exotic bass lines and a selection of underground music from the area of the Mediterranean Sea. → read more

Bratislava-based Petra Drexler, known in techno community as Leia Drex, and her “more than a blood brother” Daniel Stöger, alias FNX, of Kittsee, Austria, have known each other “almost their entire lives” and have been building their DJ reputation successfully for years, each on their own. One day in 2016, though, they started to think of forming a project together, which was a great idea! This is how a wild combination of Djing and live improvisation full of analogue synths, drum machines and other boxes named Disordered Kind came into being. The duo will be closing Friday program at Slovenská sporiteľňa Arena. → read more

Do you know which band invented their name for Pohoda? It was Gypsy Band Lomnické Čháve! First, they gave a concert here as musicians from the film All My Children; they returned a year later while filming a document about themselves—and as they were included in the official programme, they needed a name. Already named Gypsy Band Lomnické Čháve, they filled up and made sweat the NAY dance house at Pohoda 2017. This year, they are coming with a finished documentary by Ladislav Kaboš named Kapela (the Band), and we will screen the film in the world premiere on Saturday night in Optimistan. Later, on Sunday morning, the band will perform the traditional welcoming the sun on the main stage. “Guys have prepared songs that characterize their emotions and love for music and dance. The concert will begin with a violin improvisation and after the sunrise, they will launch the genuine energetic dance to say goodbye to Pohoda 2018 and its visitors,” said the bandʼs manager Tomáš Slebodník about the upcoming concert. In the case of this Gypsy band, some things just cannot be described by words, they must be experienced. This will be a great concert closure of Pohoda 2018. → read more

B-Complex is a Slovak producer and a DJ who has become popular outside Slovakia especially with her compositions released under the label Hospital Records. She has played millions of streams of tracks and has given countless performances in Europe and beyond. In addition to making great music, Matia is also a Pohoda counsellor: we discuss the dance scene together. Last year, she enriched her show with a dragon dance performance, and we can start looking forward to it also this year... and it will be bigger, better, and wilder! Matia is joining forces with a Czech hip-hop legend, a member of PSH, the founder of the BigBoss label, a graffitist, a set designer, and a producer, Vladimír 518. They will showcase his rap and repertoire, as well as new tracks and remixes, in this unusual formation on Saturday night. They wrote in the description of the show: “Together, against hatred and in all colours of the rainbow.” → read more

A theatrical adaptation of correspondence between a man who was born in a concentration camp and a young “national socialist”. The centenary of the end of WWI captured in a play where notes of our great-great-great-grandparents from 1914 alternate with diary excerpts from the city of Rakka occupied in 2017. A monodrama about a boxer champion who was murdered in a concentration camp because of his gypsy origin and awarded the title 70 years after he won it. An unforgettable performance TISO we will dedicate to its original protagonist, the actor and legend Marián Labuda. The exceptionally powerful performances within Pohoda 2018 theatrical program will be complemented by kilometers of dance at the Trenčín airport site performed by the figures of the contemporary dance scene. → read more

Saturday is a promise of another busy schedule at the Club. You’ll get to see the up-and-coming artists of the European club scene Ross From Friends, KillASon, coucou chloe, Hungarian Gosheven, Slovak-Italian collab Unprofessional + Palmovka, Londoner living in Bratislava BZGRL, dark 0n0 as well as an amazing local producer Ink Midget. → read more