The great festival band Billy Barman
Billy Barman is one of our current most favourite bands. One can tell so, because the footage of their last year's concert is one of the most watched on our YouTube channel. Billy Barman are about to release their third album this autumn, they will play at Pohoda in July, and you can listen to them in the studio no. 5 of the Slovak Radio at Pohoda Deň_FM in a couple of days.
10. May 2016
Juraj Podmanický, Jozef Vrabel, Juraj Labaj, Kubo Tvrdík, and Matej Ruman play rock 'n' roll. Due to the year of production and their tendency towards blending genres, we call it indie-rock with elements of electronic music and traditional art (to which was devoted one of the band members). It is a band of two frontmen and two ways of approach to music and lyrics; therefore, their ballads are interwoven with the poetics of nightclubs and motifs of gables and lonely settlements. Billy Barman is literally a festival band, not just because of their live playing, but also outside the stage, as Juraj co-organises Grape, a partner festival of ours. Their debut album Noční jazdci (Night Riders) was released in the autumn of 2010. The second album, Modrý jazyk (Blue tongue), went public exactly three years later, in the autumn of 2013. Since three year period has worked fine so far, they are preparing their third studio album for this yearʼs autumn.
Last year, they filled the time before their next album with successful songs Kolesá (Wheels) and Mladým chýba vojna (The Young Miss War), and were awarded the Single of the Year 2015 at the Radio_Head Awards for the latter one. At Pohoda Deň_FM, you will hear for the first time another new song of the forthcoming album. The “Barmen” have prepared this year a rich musical shake and will offer it to the visitors of the twentieth Pohoda this July. Those eager to see and hear them live before that can come and do so as early as next Wednesday at Pohoda Deň_FM in the Slovak Radio building.
Foto: Lousy Auber