Pohoda 2019 will feature also the British MC/rapper and the grime star, Skepta. He and his brother Jamie (Jme) founded collective and label Boy Better Know. They also collaborated on the latest album, Konnichiwa, for which he was awarded the Mercury Prize (leaving behind Radiohead and David Bowie), and Apple Music editors labelled it the album of the year 2016. In recent years he has collaborated with Dreake and Pharell Williams, and he also features on A$AP Rockyʼs hit “Praise the Lord (Da Shine)”. At the ranker.com portal, Skepta is on the top of The Best British Rappers of All Time and The Best Grime Artists charts. He will show the reason why to the visitors of Pohoda 2019 on Thursday night at the main stage. → read more

Pohoda 2019 will feature also the young MC Gleb from Bratislava, who performs fast rhythms in genres such as glitch hop, grime, trap, and D & B. After several mixtapes and EPs, he debuted with Lavička Pimpin in 2017. Gleb prefers harder, faster, and dirtier background music inspired mostly by the British scene. Recently he released singles “Audiokniha”, “Motorest”, and “Gauč Storytelling”, which will appear also on the upcoming second album. Visitors of our festival will be among the first to hear live the songs of the new album.   → read more

After we sold out the lodging in Trenčín huts and Inovec huts, we are launching the sale of another type of accommodation with higher comfort. 5-person tents PSS Fox Village are available in our e-shop, and so is their equivalent, 5-person tents in Family Park. → read more

Pohoda will feature also rapper Rudolf Danihel, aka Čavalenky, from the Czechia-Slovakia border region. This phenomenon makes you believe every words he says, not pretending anything: everything is based on real grounds. Add an original expression, great flow, and excellent background. The half-Roma artist uses the Záhorie dialect in his work, talking about rough street life, racism, gambling, drugs, indebtedness, and subsequent seizures.  → read more

Fantastic impressions left by our artists in Groningen and experiences that the Eurosonic 2019 left in us are captured in an excellent video by Boris Šmotlák and Sophia Boyd of Roadtrip Studio. Its premiere amused the Aftersonic attenders in Nová Cvernovka, from now on you can also watch it on our facebook. → read more

"Those good Slovaks really do cause the biggest hype in the ESNS 2019 line-up," wrote the editor of the Dutch music website OOR, Koen Poolman, in advance of the biggest European showcase festival. DIY, Vice, Noise, German Rolling Stone and many Dutch and Belgian media also brought celebratory reviews of our artists. Beyond the borders of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, almost 100 articles about our artists and bands regarding Eurosonic have been published across Europe up till now. Odes to several of them prove that they did a fantastic job and they’re also a promise that the Czech and Slovak scene will be heard of abroad more and more often. → read more

Next Monday, on the 28th of January in Nová Cvernovka in Bratislava, we will give you a sense of ESNS 2019 atmosphere with members of the Slovak expedition. On the way from Groningen, questions of an after-party were often repeated in the joint chat of CZ/SK members. After all, we decided to arrange a smaller version of Eurosonic with a documentary, an aftermovie, a conference (Denník N debate) and eight concerts. → read more

Award for excellence and passion was presented to Michal by the last year's winner of this award, Fruzsina Szép. We admit that the director of the Lollapalooza Berlin festival and the former Sziget artistic director is a great Pohoda fan and our team’s friend. It was all the lovelier that Michal could accept this prestigious award from her hands. Before presenting him the award itself, she dedicated him very nice words. Subsequently she sent us the speech, so that you’re now able to read as well… → read more

LONG STORY SHORT "About the garage that turned into a legend right after its casting". We bought an authentic concrete garage weighing seven tons in Topoľčany, put it on a truck, moved it to Groningen through half of Europe, equipped it with sound equipment and acoustic components (meaning egg cartons), built a small stage from pallets, fixed real garage lights, decorated it both on the outside and the inside, eight gigs within the CZSK focus took place in it, it witnessed the first foreign booking of a Slovak band from ESNS 2019, we cleared it out, put it on a truck and moved it home with an accompanying vehicle – back to Trenčín. During the majority of the year it will serve as a warehouse near the airport. However, on July 11th - 13th it will turn into one of Pohoda 2019 stages together with the original Garage.   → read more

Pohoda also won another exceptional award at ESNS 2019 – A Greener Festival Award. Along with other award winning festivals, the members of our production crew accepted the award from the founders of A Greener Festival – Ben Challis, Claire O'Neill and Teresa Moore. Claire said about the award: "This year we noticed unprecedented efforts and awareness of the need for our work and our lives to be more in harmony with nature. Festivals and events, which we had the honour to judge and award, contribute to the formation of this shift, which has positive consequences for the events themselves, and at the same time, they are an example for the world." Eurosonic Noorderslag 2019 was, therefore, undoubtedly the most successful one for Pohoda and Slovakia in history. → read more