“Absolute Joy”; “Most ambitious and pleasurably weird”; “The band have proved their longevity and ability to reinvent, retool and still maintain their love and ability to pen stellar pop songs”, was how DIY, The Independent, and NME described album Metronomy Forever in September this year. After a decade, the British electro-pop band Metronomy is returning to Pohoda. → read more

The Wilderness – real evidence that punk at its best is not dead – will perform at Concert for the Attentive in Fuga. Brilliant lyrics, excellent music and uncompromising attitudes are the reasons why The Wilderness rank among the principal bands on the Slovakian music scene. Their video for the song "Čo s tým hnevom" (also created at Pohoda 2018), was described as the Video of the Year by Slovak music portal Hudba.sk. → read more

The Concert for the Attentive will also feature the world premiere of the Slovak-Hungarian project Drť. The band will play at Fuga twice (at 10:35 and 00:30), as the concert will also serve as a public recording of their debut album called Puntičkár. It's dedicated to the victims of persecution, repression and murders of the communist regime. he author of the project is Miro Tóth, a music composer well-known also thanks to his collab with The Kronos Quartet. Apart from him, other well-known musicians form part of the project as well: Lucia Chuťková, Marek Buranovský (Vojdi), Márton Csernovszky (The Best Bad Trip), Áron Porteleki (Thisnis) and Michal Kaščák (Bez ladu a skladu). Their songs represent a poeticized musicalized version of a conversation with the former head of State Security, Alojz Lorenc. Marek Kundlák took care of song stylization. → read more

Another name of Pohoda is the British alternative rock band Shame. They debuted at the beginning of 2018 with the appropriately titled album “Songs of Praise”, as straight after the release, the British media launched a praise race for this recording. NME called the album the debut of 2018 in their yearly selection, and gave it the highest possible rating (five stars out of five). They also described it as loveably sarky and sordid work and concluded that Shame is a band with a real sense of showmanship, as those who have witnessed their sweat-slicked live shows will know. Songs of Praise topped the UK vinyl record charts and made it among the top ten albums of the year by the Rough Trade radio (1st), DIY (2nd), and The Independent (10th). Shame will come to confirm the great reputation also at the Trenčín airport. → read more

The event at Fuga will start with a gig by the underground band Chór vážskych muzikantov (a.k.a. CHVM). Thanks to the band, Trenčín became the center of Slovakian alternative scene. They helped many bands, including Bez ladu a skladu. Ľuboš Dzúrik with his Fukkavica Records was distributing underground recordings across Slovakia. → read more

Ještě jsme se nedohodli will open the Concert for the Attentive at Umelka. Representatives of the so-called Brno new wave started out in the 1980s as a one-time thing put together just for fun, but they soon became a sensation on the alternative scene. Not only because they were ignoring bureaucratic obstacles whose purpose was for the regime to control who says what, how and to whom, but, most of all, because of their ability to make quirky music with unusual lyrics. “Nedohodli were original to such an extent that they were regarded as a deviation even in the context of the deviating world of the Czechoslovakian alternative scene. Karel David is a genius lyrics writer, Petr Liška dances and sings those lyrics fantastically. On top of that we have music, which would make some hipsters on the math-rock scene a discovery worldwide if recorded today. This is one of the perfectly hidden music gems,” says Michal Kaščák.   → read more

Earlier this year, Black Midi released their last new single 7-eleven. They went to Eurosonic 2019 as the band into which perhaps the greatest expectations were put. With combining (almost) sold-out concerts with an ambiguous output on social networks, they have created a huge hype around them. This was fully confirmed even at the Europe's largest showcase, ESNS. After the festival they became the second most booked band of Eurosonic → read more

The installation by Stano Masár called Fragment K will also form part of the Concert for the Attentive, November 11 / Umelka and Fuga. It’s a series of 16 postcards that together form a photograph of a demolished sculpture of Klement Gottwald on today's Námestie Slobody (Freedom Square). The attenders themselves also take part in the project since they are allowed to take freely from the series of postcards displayed on the wall. This way they will take home a certain fragment of the situation that happened 30 years ago and can keep it or pass it on, since the medium is a real postcard. The image on the wall is being fragmented, it’s slowly decreasing and some parts are disappearing, they’re being taken apart by visitors. → read more

London band Archive is another name of Pohoda 2020 line-up. During a quarter of a century of their existence they’ve recorded dozen albums that spoke to guitar enthusiasts, trip-hop fans and electronic music fans alike. A retrospective collection of their best work called “25” was released in May of this year. You'll find 43 songs on six vinyls – the greatest hits and eight new releases (including their collaborations with Band of Skulls and Steve Mason). The extraordinarily prolific band Archive will introduce a selection of their work complemented by impressive visuals at the Trenčín airport as well. → read more

Bez ladu a skladu are coming back to Bratislava after four years to play Concert for the Attentive in Umelka. Before 1989, they mostly played in Czech alternative clubs. They couldn’t release their albums officially until after 1989. In 2009, The New York Times named them one of the bands that “poked at the Iron Curtain”. → read more