After a fantastic concert with Atoms for Peace, Thom Yorke will return to Pohoda in 2020, this time with the Thom Yorke Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes project. Performing works spanning his solo career Thom Yorke will be joined by legendary producer Nigel Godrich, and visual artist Tarik Barri. This is the earliest confirmed big name in the history of our festival. In early August he released his third solo album Anima. According to Denník N, "he was looking for a soul and found a new beginning" on it. The newspaper further states: "Anima by Radiohead’s frontman belongs to the best you can listen to this summer." British The Telegraph rated the album with a 10/10 score and described it a bleak dystopian rhapsody that you can actually dance to. You can see for yourself in nine months at Pohoda 2020. → read more

After winning in the sustainable category of the Festileaks Nederland award, Pohoda is nominated again for the UK Festival Award in the category of “Best Overseas Festival” You can support your favorite festivals by noon on the 25th of October. The final shortlist will be decided by a combination of fans and board of professionals votes. The winners of the UK Festival Awards will be announced on December 5th at the gala in London. You can vote for Pohoda on the following link: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/ukfa2019 (“Best Overseas Festival” category → read more

Pohoda 2019 also featured the Grammy Award winners Morgan Heritage. The band was founded in 1994 by five children of the famous Jamaican reggae artist Denroy Morgan. They won a Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album for their records Strictly Roots (2015) and Avrakedabra (2018). You can watch the footage of their show on our YouTube channel. https://youtu.be/ef-c2xn5yLA → read more

The photographer from .týždeň, Boris Németh received the price for Slovak Press Photo 2019. We are also very pleased that he won the category of “World of Arts and Culture” thanks to an excellent series of photos at Pohoda festival named “Magic of Pohoda”. In the same category, but with a separate photograph, the first place was taken by our festival photographer Michal Babinčák for a photo from his Vogue series. Among the finalists was another of our in-house photographers Michal Augustini for his picture “Are you sure?” from The Prodigy concert at the Alexandra Palace, London. The main prize went to photographer Jozef Jakubčo for the series entitled “Night with the President”. You can view the best press photos here: https://archiv.slovak-press-photo.sk/search/year_2019 Congratulations to Boris Németh, Michal Babincak, Michal Augustini, Jozef Jakubco as well as other winners and finalists. → read more

In her music, Andrea Bučko mixes several genres ranging from jazz, indie, Slovak folklore, classical music to the French chanson influences. In addition to her concert at Café Kušnierik, she also played for us within Pohoda Acoustic Session. https://youtu.be/b1Vlq_hhok0 → read more

The Dutch portal Festileaks has published the results of the Festival Awards poll. Thanks to your votes as well, Pohoda won in the "Sustainability" category with an average score of 8.97 (out of ten). In addition, Pohoda ranked among the TOP 10 European festivals in four other categories. Our accompanying programme was rated with an 8.90 score as the fourth best. We ranked fifth in the Best Food & Drinks (8.29) and Logistic (7.95) categories. The atmosphere of the festival ranked sixth in Europe in the portal poll with an 8.90 score. Thank you very much to all the voters. → read more

“Such a large and such an attentive listening crowd have never gathered below the second biggest stage at Pohoda before. And we all witnessed an evening that will be long remembered,” wrote Oliver Rehák from Denník N. after the concert of Bolo nás jedenásť at Pohoda 2019. The best album of our history, according to many, was performed live for the very first time in history at Pohoda 2017. During this year, Peter Lipa, Juraj Benetin, Lyrik, Zuzana Kronerová and Yael Shoshana Cohen (Lola Marsh’s singer) joined “the traditional singing line-up”. You can enjoy the atmosphere of this special concert on our YouTube channel in this video: https://youtu.be/JT80zDyvE-Y → read more

Our graphic designer and curator Tereza Maco also travelled out to get festival inspirations and check interesting music. These days she’s at the Zandari Festa Conference and Festival in Seoul, South Korea. Which acts from the festival programme she shouldn’t miss? Write your tips in the comment section below or on the webparty forum on our website. The list of the artists can be viewed here: http://zandarifesta.com/artist/ → read more

Our colleagues Suzanne and Monika are leaving for to the showcase festival Waves Vienna today. Monika is also part of a panel discussion on "Women in Live Music Production". In the evening they will hit the clubs to look for interesting artists who could perform at Pohoda 2020. Which acts from the festival programme they shouldn’t miss? Write your tips here or on the webparty forum on our website. The list of the artists can be viewed here: www.wavesvienna.com/line-up → read more

An experimental electro-pop phenomenon from Malaysia – The Venopian Solitude also played within Pohoda acoustic session. The band has performed at Sonar, Fusion and Montreal RBMA festivals. Ten years ago, it was a solo project of an extremely productive artist performing under the pseudonym Suiko Takahara. At first she released a huge amount of her work on the website thesixtyone (approximately one EP per week), later on Bandcamp and Youtube. There she got the attention of people and media from various parts of the world (she was praised by Red Bull and Time Out, for example) thanks to her unconventional melodies and original choice of instrumentation. https://youtu.be/twcEKVscFnM → read more