3-16 March

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oops we’re late!

HELLO AND WELCOME TO OUR SECOND TEST RUN!! For this outing, a gesture of humility: finding our limits! Which is to say that in our research this time, we’ve begun to realise both the sheer amount of interesting music stuff happening in this here town and that we’re not yet in a position to cover everything we find interesting – AND we’re starting to get a grip on on the online landscape round here as well, which means that in our next editions we will introduce you to some other cool websites and newsletters 🙂 Also – a reminder that you are absolutely welcome to contribute in whatever small, not small, or positively tiny ways – just shoot us a message @ robinhietz@fastmail.com or leave a comment here :)))

Before we get to the regular rice and peas of this newsletter, a few last and first chances. Ideally they would be more informative but in the chaotic spirit of Fasching (yes, it’s still Fasching!), I (Robin, who still wrote the bigger of this newsletter #joinus) have decided to prioritise planning a spontaneous and EXTREMELY LIMITED merry gathering that’s taking place TOMORROW EVENING that you won’t find out about on Instagram but of course yes you will find out about it here! Just scroll down a teeny bit!

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Just Announced

2hollis – flex – 26 march – 35€

Stereolab – WUK – 16 June – 45€

LAST CHANCE: two of Austria’s most significant electronic/experimental/… festivals

Donaufestival (2-4 and 9-11 May) should end its early bird sale any day now – not that it’s too grand a deal if you’re under 27 – but anyways the lineup is insane again, we will go into it another time when some of the biggest days might be sold out already!

Elevate is happening next Weekend (5-9 March to be exact) in Graz! Always good to have an excuse to go to Graz and this might be one of the best excuses on offer each year!

now for the real goods… (phew just in time so you don’t have to have a boring night tonight 😅)

2 March (Sun)

Rampage + Deep Cut

Venster99 ⏳
1090

3 March (Mon)

Madball + Speed + Guilt Trip + Death Before Dishonor + Lies!

Arena ☑️
1030
39€
metalcore lineup (mostly from the anglosphere) with a tinge of nu-metal thrown into it, not bad not bad

Monday Improvisers Session: Emilio Goroda / Barbora Tamaskova / hosted by Didi Kern

Celeste ⏳
1050
FREE
percussion / self-made instruments

4 March (Tue)

The Baboon Show + Bad Cop/Bad Cop + Blood Command

Arena ☑️
1030
35,50€
Socialist “punkrock’n’roll” from Sweden + support

Platypus: Fragil

echoraum ⏳
1150
10€/7€ discounted
Vienna modern music ensemble plays pieces by many composers: Detlev Müller-Siemens, Hungkai Wen, Toshio Hosokawa, and several other people I don’t know (which really doesn’t mean anything)

Enigmatic Serenades: Diamantista, Cochlea, Rudi Gier

Flucc ☑️
1020
10€VVK/15€AK
Really intriguing experimental electronics lineup. The headliner does black metal-inspired stuff that however also feels like being on an LSD trip and having gained electricity superpowers, among other things the evening will show a sound performance transforming the touch of an obduction into sound - in a decolonial (and I think vegan?) way - let’s go

5 March (Wed)

The Elks

Alte Schmiede ♿️
1010
FREE - entry 30’ before concert
Berlin-Vienna electroacoustic noise/improv quartet

Dirty Sound Magnet

Arena ☑️
1030
22,20€
Swiss psychrock duo, not bad at all

6 March (Thu)

1000mods + Stones + Swanmay

Arena ☑️
1030
30€
Stoner rock from Greece, Cyprus, aut

free music forum: Sophie Agnel + Joke Lanz

Celeste ⏳
1050
probs FREE
Prepped piano + turntables improv - would wanna go myself if wouldn’t be playing Disco Elysium that eve

7 March (Fri)

In memoriam Thomas Schmögner: Elisabeth Kirchner + Andrej Vesel

Alte Schmiede ♿️
1010
FREE - entry 30’ before concert
Piano + mezzosoprano duo premiering a song cycle of the recently deceased Vienna composer and church musician, and works by other composers

Bitov Terror + local acts + DJ Annabolika

Arena ☑️
1030
Donation based
Antifa solidarity show! Headlined by Bulgarian oi! punk band, incl. a talk about anti-fascism in Bulgaria

Kaja Farszky: Soundwalk and Video Performance

Echoraum, but meeting point: der Betrieb (Vogelweidplatz 13) ⏳
FREE
experimental percussion yeah!

(dance and music) Oona Doherty: Specky Clark, A series of theatrical images

Festspielhaus St. Pölten ✅
3100 St. Pölten
36€
contemporary dance piece about the great-grandfather of northern Irish choreographer Oona Doherty with music by Lankum (Irish noisy, droney, powerful folk) and Jazz saxophonist Gavino Murgia

FLUT x VLAN Radio

Flucc ☑️
1020
FREE
Live radio show (= DJ sets p. sure), lineup tba. VLAN does interesting (weird) stuff

Alessandro Vicard & Franciszek Araszkiewicz / Gnigler & Schneider

Vekks ⏳
1120
7€ rec. (NOTAFLOF)
Probs electroacoustic, probs double bass, most likely improv, maybe together maybe separately? + local support

8 March (Sat)

hereandthere: Čistírna Day&Night Prague

Čistírna1906 Prague
28€
16-hour day and night rave in a historic 1906 water purification station. Basically no idea what the music is like but looks really cool, so if you happen to be in Prague, check it out?

Rhinoplasty (?)

Club-U ⏳
1040
FREE
Not sure if this is actually the next Rhinoplasty date but should be. Rhinoplasty is always a vibe!!

Her Night 2025: Mary Broadcast + Bruther + Bad Ida

Flucc ☑️
1020
15VVK/20AK
Talk + Gig format by Mary Broadcast, who herself does I’d say art pop with interesting field recording elements (at least on newest record), inviting fellow women on stage. Bad Ida does good soul music

Universo Diverso*: flauxpas + zey + Rakita + Who I why b2b Vegan Chicken

Flucc ☑️
1020
15€
FLINTAs only party w/ some drag shows :) we recognise some of the names so if our party taste is up ur alley this one should also not be too far off*

FKA Twigs Prague

Forum Karlin Prague
48€
FKA Twig’s first stop of the Eusexua tour, a pretty 90s club album

Official FKA Twigs Afterparty

Fuchs2 Prague
18€
Official afterparty of the FKA Twigs gig in Prague. Line-up features Transmisia, who’s a Slovakian DJ and plays mostly queer experimental hyperpoppy stuff, recommend

9 March (Sun)

Sonntag’sdisco w/ Kinky Muppet + Drehli Robnik

Flucc ☑️
1020
10€
This event series seems legendary although we’ve never been. Anyways Kinky Muppet are a nice smart “trio-core” local indie (?) band and Drehli Robnik DJs (“the mother of all humanized record players - highly likeable”)

10 March (Mon)

Silverstein + Thursday + The Callous Daoboys + Bloom

Arena ☑️
1030
50€ 😭
Emo/Post-Hardcore legacy act from Ontario + more

Keshavara

Arena ☑️
1030
22,50€
Relaxed German-Indian psych

Monday Improvisers Session: José Lencastre + Anna Defant + Matija Schellander / hosted by DD Kern

Celeste ⏳
1050
FREE
sax / piano / double bass

12 March (Wed)

Nexus / Sims in Sinn: Duo Stump-Linshalm

Alte Schmiede ✅
1010
free I think
Bass clarinet duo playing a piece written by 20 composers in a chain letter method; + Christian Steinbacher reading his texts

The Meffs + Meryl Streek

Arena ☑️
1030
22,50€
UK + IE punk. Meryl Streek impressed our test listeners (lol) with their emotionality, electronic-inclusive and melodic sound, storytelling, politics, …

Tonal Shift (+ unnanounced support)

Venster99 ⏳
1090
probably around 10
New local hardcore/metal act - sounding pretty sick already!

13 March (Thu)

The Hirsch Effekt

Arena ☑️
1030
27,50€
Prog trio from Germany

FREE FORMS

Celeste ⏳
1050
FREE im pretty sure lol
free-for-all improv session (“dancers, musicians, painters, poets”…)

Zoh Amba’s Bhakti Trio with Chris Corsano & Nick Dunston (US)

echoraum ⏳
1150
17€/20€
avant-garde noisy jazz on saxophone with bass and drums accompaniment

Struma + Iodine x EXILES

rhiz ⏳
1080
10€
Struma+Iodine teams up with an experimental music label from Budapest, there will be experimental electronic music, sounds installations and ambient-leaning soundscapes

15 March (Sat)

Country Club with ephemer, Amblio, Thao and others

Rhiz ⏳
1080
?
Latin club, metal riffs and break beats from the Vienna underground scene