Icelandic industrial-techno-punk-rock formation Hatari is another confirmed name of Pohoda 2020. The band got the attention due to their impressive performance at Iceland Airwaves and Eurosonic. Shortly thereafter, they won the national competition Söngvakeppnin 2019 which enabled them to qualify for the final of Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv. Their participation at Eurovision was a big surprise and they fitted into the kitsch freak show perhaps only with their eccentric costumes. The name of the band translates as "haters", which characterizes the basic paradigm of the band – they respond to the dystopic tendencies of the consumer world with harsh criticism of capitalism while wearing sadomasochistic outfits.   → read more

Since their premiere at Pohoda 2014, the Israeli band Lola Marsh has come to Slovakia every year, and 2020 will be no different. The favourites of our festival-goers are releasing the expected second album at the beginning of next year. At the beginning of March, they’ll also introduce it to their fans in Tabačka in Košice, Mestské divado in Žilina, Piano Club in Trenčín and Refinery Gallery in Bratislava. All of the concerts will be supported by young talented singer from Trenčín, Nina Kohoutová. → read more

The eleventh edition of the Concert for the Attentive is moving to two exceptional venues: Umelka Gallery will host Bez ladu a skladu and Ještě jsme se nedohodli, and the club Fuga will host Chór vážskych muzikantov, The Wilderness and a world premiere of the Slovakian-Hungarian project titled Drť (Fragments). Admission fee to Umelka is 15€, to Fuga 9€ and a combo ticket to both venues, Umelka and Fuga, is priced at 19€. → read more

Alyona Savranenko, an unknown Ukrainian nursery teacher, became the biggest hip-hop sensation in the country in less than a year. In October 2018, she uploaded her first song on YouTube under the pseudonym of Alyona Alyona and today she has 167,000 subscribers on her channel and almost the same number of Instagram followers. In July, she stole our hearts away as well – on and off stage. In addition to her great performance on Sporka stage, she also performed within Pohoda acoustic session series. https://youtu.be/xx5cJ35M-r4 → read more

Big things coming up... We are proud to be a part of this prestigious group of festivals that are pioneers in the field of sustainable development. Their "green" innovations inspire other European events too.  → read more

Karpatskí pastieri got the band together after many years, released and launched eponymous debut album at Pohoda. In addition to their concert at Café Kušnierik, they also played for us within Pohoda Acoustic Session. → read more

After a fantastic concert with Atoms for Peace, Thom Yorke will return to Pohoda in 2020, this time with the Thom Yorke Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes project. Performing works spanning his solo career Thom Yorke will be joined by legendary producer Nigel Godrich, and visual artist Tarik Barri. This is the earliest confirmed big name in the history of our festival. In early August he released his third solo album Anima. According to Denník N, "he was looking for a soul and found a new beginning" on it. The newspaper further states: "Anima by Radiohead’s frontman belongs to the best you can listen to this summer." British The Telegraph rated the album with a 10/10 score and described it a bleak dystopian rhapsody that you can actually dance to. You can see for yourself in nine months at Pohoda 2020. → read more

After winning in the sustainable category of the Festileaks Nederland award, Pohoda is nominated again for the UK Festival Award in the category of “Best Overseas Festival” You can support your favorite festivals by noon on the 25th of October. The final shortlist will be decided by a combination of fans and board of professionals votes. The winners of the UK Festival Awards will be announced on December 5th at the gala in London. You can vote for Pohoda on the following link: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/ukfa2019 (“Best Overseas Festival” category → read more

Pohoda 2019 also featured the Grammy Award winners Morgan Heritage. The band was founded in 1994 by five children of the famous Jamaican reggae artist Denroy Morgan. They won a Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album for their records Strictly Roots (2015) and Avrakedabra (2018). You can watch the footage of their show on our YouTube channel. https://youtu.be/ef-c2xn5yLA → read more

The photographer from .týždeň, Boris Németh received the price for Slovak Press Photo 2019. We are also very pleased that he won the category of “World of Arts and Culture” thanks to an excellent series of photos at Pohoda festival named “Magic of Pohoda”. In the same category, but with a separate photograph, the first place was taken by our festival photographer Michal Babinčák for a photo from his Vogue series. Among the finalists was another of our in-house photographers Michal Augustini for his picture “Are you sure?” from The Prodigy concert at the Alexandra Palace, London. The main prize went to photographer Jozef Jakubčo for the series entitled “Night with the President”. You can view the best press photos here: https://archiv.slovak-press-photo.sk/search/year_2019 Congratulations to Boris Németh, Michal Babincak, Michal Augustini, Jozef Jakubco as well as other winners and finalists. → read more