10 — 12 July 2025
Ho99o9, Pražský výběr, Jana Kirschner Komorne, Shortparis, Vec & Škrupo with the band, Dybbuk and Tittingur at the Concert for the attentive

Ho99o9, Pražský výběr, Jana Kirschner Komorne, Shortparis, Vec & Škrupo with the band, Dybbuk and Tittingur at the Concert for the attentive

This year's Concert for the Attentive will return to its former size by the capacity as well as by the stars who will perform. The American hardcore-hip-hop ensemble Ho99o9 that enchanted the 20th and 21st Pohoda will perform at the Refinery Gallery. Pražský výběr (Prague Selection) and Dybbuk - bands banned by the communists, or the Russian band Shortparis (whose performance described the boss of the Talinn Music Week as one of the most memorable concerts of the festival) will also come to Bratislava. Jana Kirschner with a string quartet, Vec with the band or one of the "club" discoveries of Pohoda 2017, Tittingur, playing the so-called maximal techno, will represent the home scene. The concert will be under one roof with the partner White Crows Evening (Večer bielych vrán) this year. It will include the awards ceremony to recognise civic bravery and also musical performances.   Tickets: Concert for the attentive + White crows evening (35 €) www.pohodafestival.sk/en/product/concert-for-the-attentive-white-crows-evening-17-11-2018 Concert for the attentive (25 €) www.pohodafestival.sk/en/product/concert-for-the-attentive-17-11-2018 White crows evening (12 €) www.pohodafestival.sk/en/product/white-crows-evening-17-11-2018 

25. October 2018

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

Pražský výběr
Pražský výběr began as a jazz-rock branch of the Prague Big Band in the second half of the seventies. Based on the influence of young western bands, they switched to new wave at the beginning of the eighties. Juraj Herz made a film Straka v hrsti (The Magpie in the Wist) with them, which starred several figures of Charter 77 as extras. The film and the most popular Czech rock band of that time immediately fell into the disgrace of the regime until the authorities banned their activity completely in 1983-86. After the revolution, Michael Kocáb, the leader of the band, became MP and the chairman of the Parliamentary Commission for the Supervision of the displacement of the Soviet Army from the territory of the former Czechoslovakia. In modern history, the concert with the symphony at the O2 Arena and the opening of the Prague concert for Rolling Stones in July this year are the biggest performances of the band.

Ho99o9
Ho99o9 is one of the bands that only a few people knew about before 2016, but their impressive concert got immediately among the peaks of our festival. TheOGM and Eaddy obviously leave a similar impression wherever they come. When they performed at the New York-based Afropunk Festival in August 2015, Rolling Stone put them in the selection of 10 new artists you should know about. Their concert was described as a 30-minute high-octane show. According to the Guardian they bring hip-hop to people who usually do not like this genre. Their show will rather catch the interest of the audience listening to hard-rock, punk, metal, thrash and other heavier genres.

Jana Kirschner Komorne
Jana Kirschner Komorne offers the selection of the two-decade work of our most successful singer in the beautiful arrangements of the Spectrum Quartett under the baton of Ján Kružliak. Patrik Marflák from Hudba.sk wrote in a review of this concert: "The goal is not to bring music and singing to the fans "as if from the CD" but to give them an authentic and unrepeatable experiences." These words were confirmed by Jana Kirschner at this year's Pohoda and we are sure that the fantastic performance is awaiting the attendees of the Concert for the Attentive.

Shortparis
It is difficult to define the original line-up of St. Petersburg Shortparis by the genre. Their music is somewhere between dark electro, post-punk or noise; in the live version, in addition, combined with performative-theatrical acts. Mary Anne Hobbs, the DJ of BBC 6 played at Ment after them and said that Shortparis totally blew her mind. John Doran of The Quietus says they are the band you still dream of meeting once, but it rarely happens. In the number of superlatives he says that they are ambitious, bombastic, incredibly spectacular, exciting... Gigwise or Louderthanwar journalists have also praised them highly and we believe they will soon impress the Slovaks.

Vec with the band
One of the most prominent figures of the Slovak hip-hop, Vec, will perform together with the band composed of Filip and Jakub Hittrich, Andrej Hruška and Roland Kánik at the Refinery Gallery. In 2016 he released the EP Domáce potreby for which he received the Radio_Head Awards in the Hip-hop / Rap / R'n'B category. He won over people because neither his music nor his lyrics are dominated by the ego, but by the idea and opinion – and all that with a dose of perspective. He has been entertaining people with great music for two decades, but he also responds to more serious topics in society. In 2016, for example, he performed at the Concert for the Attentive, in March he played at the Concert for Ján and Martina and recently he was in a refugee camp in South Sudan where the humanitarian organization Magna helps people.

Dybbuk
In the eighties, when girl bands were the exception, Dybbuk was the most prominent act at the Czech alternative scene. They originated as an exclusively female group in 1981 under the name Plyn (Gas). Subsequently, they found themselves on the black list of the state institutions, so they renamed themselves to Dybbuk. "They are one of my most favourite bands. Exceptional lyrics, exceptional music and arrangements, exceptional voices and singing. If their only album Ale čert to vem (The devil take it) was released now, Pitchfork would give them eleven points and the Slaves would take them on tour," said Michal Kaščák about Dybbuk before this year's Pohoda.

Tittingur
Tittingur is Dominik Suchý and Matus Mordavský: high-tonnage duo established between Bratislava and Copenhagen, between techno and electronica. They describe their music with the term maximal techno, as a sound counterpart to the minimal. With their Lynch-like atmosphere, dusty and sometimes piercing sounds they are not far from the work of Ben Frost, Tim Hecker, The Body or Container

Come to meet the new White Crows
The eleventh year of the White Crows awards, which serves as possibility to look back at the events of this year, will also form part of the Concert for the Attentive. The White Crow is awarded as a thank-you to the outstanding people around us who are willing to defend the truth and justice, who demonstrated their civic bravery by a concrete action, suppressed personal interests in the name of the public benefit, values ​​or principles. In addition to the main evening concert, Jana Kirschner will play with the string quartet during the awards ceremony as well. Martin Staňo of Radio_FM and Juraj Kemka, the actor of Astorka Theatre, will host the evening.

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Aliancia Fair-play, Via Juris and festival Pohoda invite you to the Concert for the Attentive and the White Crows Evening.