10 — 12 July 2025
Ho99o9 at Koncert pre všímavých

Ho99o9 at Koncert pre všímavých

American hip-hop group Ho99o9 will also perform at the Concert for the Attentive at Refinery Gallery. Their concerts offer a crazy selection of the "noisy" genres over the past 30 years and they belonged among the highlights of the 20th and 21st year of Pohoda. The Guardian or Rolling Stone journalists have also sung praises about the New Jersey duo and called their performance a high-octane show. Drowned in Sound went even further in using superlatives when they described their 2016 Pohoda concert with the following words: "But Band of the Festival, and authors of one the most enthralling, confrontational sets you’re ever like to see, are Ho99o9. They don’t just blow everyone else away; they unleash a hurricane of noise and madness that scoops up everyone in earshot and dumps them down, later, battered, bruised, but manically grinning from ear to ear." You can come and see with your own eyes this Saturday in Bratislava.  

13. November 2018

TheOGM and Eaddy started performing already in 2012 within JerseyKLAN collective. Their main influences were the so-called gangsta hip-hop and Brooklyn’s underground punk shows. In 2014, they relocated to Los Angeles and started performing under the name Ho99o9. In August that year, they played at New York’s Afropunk Festival. Rolling Stone named them one of “10 New Artists You Need to Know” and described their 30-minute slot as a high-octane show. The Guardian says they “are hip-hop for people who don’t normally listen to much hip-hop.” They’re designed more for an audience listening to hard-rock, punk, metal and similar genres. The Guardian recommended their London concerts in “New band of the week” selection. Daily Denník N ranked them among the aces of Pohoda 2015. Milk chief Martin Jenča produced his own “directors cut” spot for their song. Great response to their performance confirms that Ho99o9 overcame all expectations. Last year they released a great album, United States of Horror, which was praised by DIY and The Line of Best Fit.

Derek Robertson concluded his review for Drowned in Sound with the description of Ho99o9's uncompromising show. "Their snarling, screaming punk-rap / hardcore industrial hip-hop hybrid is part theatre, part rock opera; angry music for angry times. It seeks to take on the world on its own terms, each blistering song a chaos of aggression and venom that violently carves out a place for itself, whether anyone wants it or not. This is music not just for the downtrodden and disenfranchised, it’s a breath of fresh air for anyone dissatisfied with the mess we currently find ourselves in. “You can't sugar-coat the world we live in today, it's all around us whether you acknowledge it or not…It’s real life punching you in the fucking face,” said Eaddy about their fascination with gore and violence in a recent interview, and it’s hard to argue; they take the treatment meted out to them – to everyone – and flip it around in their art. Kudos to Pohoda then, in giving something as uncompromising as this just as much prominence and respect as those who very obviously “play the game”, and for trusting their audience to follow suit."

Tickets:

Programme:

  • 17.11 Biele vrany
  • 19.00 Jana Kirschner komorne
  • 19.50 Dybbuk
  • 20.40 Vec & +Skrupo s kapelou
  • 21.30 Shortparis
  • 22.20 Pražský výběr
  • 23.30 Noisecut
  • 00.20 Ho99o9
  • 01.30 Tittingur