1-15 April

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Quick and dirty one today…. I want to work on making things a bit more efficient and meaningful, happy to read any suggestions according to what criteria to narrow things down, if you see any way to make this newsletter more integrated with radical political practice, etcetc, as always, hit me up with ur thoughts and feelings and gig info xx

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Just Announced

18 April

Struma+Iodine: Slickback + Yao Bobby & Simon Grab + Adina Camhy + Chloé Ryo + Mursal (DJ) + S.verin (DJ) + Landa (DJ)

Flucc ☑️
1020
12€ early bird
God they just keep bringing such exciting ppl to Vienna. Crazy bass music from Kenya + Togolese rap +++

11 May

Blood Incantation + Minami Deutsch

Simm City ☑️
1110
40€
spacey prog death metal? anyways ppl were hyped about the album last year. and nice japanese/german krautrock support

12 June

Matmos + Support

Flucc ☑️
1020
VVK22€/AK25€
have barely listened myself but legendary legendary experimental duo

2 November

Ethel Cain

Gasometer 😦 ☑️
1030
46-52€

12 November

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard (Rave Set)

Gasometer :(( ☑️
1030
???€ (probs a bit more than we’d like)| presale password = eternalreturn. other rave shows and orchestra shows in Europe around that date – sign up to their newsletter to see

April’s fools! You thought you’d be informed about tonight’s shows in time! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

1 April (Tue)

punctum collective

echoraum 📶🅰️
1150
10€/7€ (cash only)
six-piece ensemble plays young or at least alive composers (G.F. Haas, D. Terranova, F. Stritter, Daniel Lercher, whose exhibition is also being vernissaged by this event, more names I don’t know because I wouldn’t know :( but I recognise the clarinettist from playing weird electroacoustic stuff in a basement, so yay!)

Enigmatic Serenades: Demetrio Cecchitelli + Astro Black + ZS ZS

Flucc ☑️
1020
10€VVK/15€AK
(description would still be cool)

2 April (Wed)

Die Nerven

Flucc ☑️
1020
32€VVK

[Salam Festival] Nour Soukhon “Beirut Birds”

Flucc ☑️
1020
FREE
AV performance working with field recordings, interview fragments; projections of Beirut cityscapes and bird migrations. Marks the beginning of Nour’s multi-month artist residency in Vienna

3 April (Thu)

Xenofox (Olaf Rupp & Rudi Fischerlehner)

Celeste ⏳
1050
15€/10€reduced
e-guitar + drums duo. they sound really really good, the organic alive sound i love so much from some improv music

Ghalia Benali

Theater Akzent ⏳
1040
26-34€
Tunisian-Belgian artist credited with defining contemporary Arabic music

Jairo Enrique Benitez Habib & Martja Alicja Kurzyca

Vekks ☑️
1120
Donation - 7€ recommended
Original compositions based on a documentary about street musicians that Habib made, “blending ethno-jazz with electronic nuances and a groove-filled style”, unclear if this involves a screening or nah

4 April (Fri)

LURCH + Portia & Das Freie Energie Band + DJ Cookiequeen

Arena ☑️
1030
20€VVK/AK tba
nice garagey psych-rock from vienna, another one of those instances where it feels awkward to point out it’s an all-femme band but it does feel worth pointing out in that scene

[Performance] Manshin by Hyeji Nam w/ sound by IDKlang, visuals by Klimentina Li

brut ✅ 💡
1200
14/18/22€ as you wish/can
Body+sound+”immersive athmospheres” performance referencing korean shamanism but also digital media, in collaboration with Vienna’s own dark millenial ravemaster IDKlang. Performances also on April 5 and 7

Kaufman/Schick/Brandlmayer + Alexander Babikov & Michael Moser

echoraum 📶🅰️
1150
10€/7€ (cash only)
improvised music: piano&turntables/sampler&percussion/drums // e-guitar/cello/electronics

FLUT x VLAN: Lea + Opicore + Reeno Reluv

Flucc ☑️
1020
FREE
Live Radio Show (=DJ sets)

[Salam Festival] Sahra Halgan

Flucc ☑️
1020
VVK24€/AK28€
Somali cultural activist and hero; apart from her music, credentials include being a nurse & singer at the independence war’s frontlines and opening her country’s first live music venue

Sam Irl & Patrick Pulsinger (live) + Kid Kodama b2b Lnkmn + Spumi Mike + Peletronic + Dzc. (DJs)

Flucc ☑️
1020
7€
“live set […] all about capturing the raw energy of live techno and house, with nothing but drum machines, an MPC sampler, analog synths, and dub effects”

[Salam Festival] Club: Abadir + Hiba Salameh + Alias Shay

Flucc ☑️
1020
VVK18€/AK20€
exciting-sounding DJs from Egypt/Berlin, Palestine, Tunisia, ..

Zapp Galura + Glut

Rhiz ♿️
1080
???€ (only AK)
absurdist proggy punk rock?

Christian Reiner & Martin Siewert

Volkstheater Rote Bar ☑️
1070
19€

5 April (Sat)

Halal Factory: Salma Zahore + Sanadrilla + Zighi + Toqa b2b Youseff Motus +.ZaghreeDJ b2b Modi

Ankerbrotfabrik ☑️
1100
20€VVK
Queer arab club extravaganza. Lärmletter-certified

Zençir + Terrea

Brunnenpassage ☑️
1160
pay as you can

[Performance] Manshin by Hyeji Nam w/ IDKlang, visuals Klimentina Li

brut ✅💡
1200
14/18/22€ as you wish/can
see 4/4

[via schalltaucherin] rubenis + manner + arn + poigner

Cafe Henriette ⏳
1200
donation (rec. 10-20€)
contemporary solo guitar

[via schalltaucherin] ko·ax

Cafe Mocca Gersthof ⏳
1180
FREE
contemporary jazz

Rhinoplasty 18th Birthday! Feat. Esti.D, Peter Puenktlich, …

Club-U ⏳
1040
FREE
iconic queer pop clubbing as always, but this time even specialler we figure

TechnoLOT x Alwin Soundsystem x Shenron: Bergblume + Derryl Danston + Moosquint + Pulp Kitchen + Sarah Allen + Scetta + Scooped + Skofiasko

Das LOT ✅
1100
5-15€ as you can, 10+ if possible
In DJ Skofiasko’s own words: “With their selfbuilt soundsystem, Alwin bring UK dubstep right into vienna. Come party with us and support the OG dubstep culture!”

Magdebored + Knigge+Crust + Forced Fem Farm Animals

EKH ⏳
1100
probs pay what you want
hardcore punk etc :)

Luis Ake

Flucc ☑️
1020
25€

sugar slip: ZEL.ζ + Elsa + more tba

Flucc ☑️
1020
8€<00:00>12€
all-femme DJ collective that we’ve never vistited but really want to celebrating their 2nd anniversary w/ international guests

[via schalltaucherin] e3 ensemble: eine ballettoper mit clemens sainitzer

Theater am Werk Oswaldgasse ☑️
1120
24€ or less with diverse reductions
also on April 10; other sold-out days

John Dorr + Delfina Cheb

Vekks ☑️
1120
Donation - 7€ recommended

Blanche Biau + Elektrokohle + Terz Nervosa

Venster99 ⏳
1090
Pay what you want
Dark Wave etc. from Zurich, Berlin, Vienna

6 April (Sun)

Sonntag’sdisco: Björk Haider (live) + Drehli Robnik (DJ)

Flucc ☑️
1020
10€
Björk Haider. Nuff said… (“noise industrial impro”)

(Matinee) Yunchan Lim plays Bach’s Goldberg Variations

Konzerthaus (Großer Saal) ☑️
1030
28-62€ (remaining tickets for <30y/o: 15€ 30’ before showing)

Sportrecords: Jonny5 + Fergy53

WUK ☑️
1090
30€
idk I felt bad arbitrarily excluding the one Deutschrap thing I stumbled on, who knows?

7 April (Mon)

pageninetynine + unable to fully embrace this happiness

Arena ☑️
1030
20€VVK
Virgina US hardcore punk on v. rare EU visit + local support

[Performance] Manshin by Hyeji Nam w/ IDKlang, visuals Klimentina Li

brut ✅💡
1200
14/18/22€ as you wish/can
see 4/4

La Rappresentante Di Lista

Flucc ☑️
1020
23€VVK
Italians combining electronic pop, theatralic rock and italian cantautori

8 April (Tue)

Hellscape + Placid + Morbide

Venster99 ⏳
1090
???€

9 April (Wed)

life is beautiful + Andreas Raser + Rovan

Flucc ☑️
1020
16€VVK
we told you! A&A bringing the heat as ever, namely, this time, 8-piece London “gesamtkunstwerk” life is beautiful, outsider dream-pop duo Andreas Raser and a DJ set by “dead mall researcher” Rovan. Those are all just words tho, just come by if u like experimental musick

Ryan O’Reilly + Jadea Kelly

Rhiz ♿️
1080
12€ early bird/16,50€VVK/??€AK
singer-songwriter

Mick Harvey + Amanda Acevedo + “local string quartet”

Volkstheater Rote Bar ☑️
1070
25€
(OG Nick Cave collaborator)

10 April (Thu)

The Flying Luttenbachers

Chelsea ⏳
1080
VVK23€/AK26€
“seminal punk jazz/brutal prog/no wave band”

Strandhase +. Trio Kuluri

Das LOT ✅
1100
16€ VVK

Lorenzo Abattoir · Andreas Sahl Andersen · Bassano Bonelli Bassano · Kjell Bjørgeengen / Aimée Theriot / Ingar Zach · Conny Zenk

echoraum 📶🅰️
1150
10€/7€ (cash only)
sorry it’s too much information you have to read it yourself but it’s a cool-looking experimental lineup

Pippa + Tauchen

Flucc ☑️
1020
14,20€VVK
Local Indie Pop :)

Euroteuro + Su Yono

Kollektiv Kaorle ⏳
1160
10-25€

Pygmalion Ensemble (dir. Raphaël Pichon) plays Bach’s Johannespassion

Konzerthaus (Großer Saal) ☑️
1030
49-92€ 😵‍💫 (remaining tickets for <30y/o: 15€ 30’ before showing)
good reminder that I wanted to do a Bach passion listening session around easter. Stay tuned, it’s gonna be cheaper haha

Klangforum Wien (dir. Sylvain Cambreling) play Manoury and Boulez

Konzerthaus (Mozart-Saal) ☑️
1030
37-55€ (remaining tickets 15€ for the youngsters but it looks to sell out soon)
yay let’s pretend I know anything about (modern) classical whoppeeeee :))

[via schalltaucherin] alex kranabetter + gischt

ORF Radiokulturhaus ✅
1030
22€
experimental electronics + trumpeting

Nitsch

Rhiz ♿️
1080
25€
Ex-Franz-Ferdinand-Songwriter moves to Berlin, meets Graz artist, now makes slow synthy pop paying respect to a legendary now-closed bar in Graz

[via schalltaucherin] e3 ensemble: eine ballettoper mit clemens sainitzer

Theater am Werk Oswaldgasse ☑️
1120
24€ or less with diverse reductions
also on April 5; other sold-out days

Free Forms

Vekks ☑️
1120
Donation - 7€ recommended
free-for-all improv session (“dancers, musicians, painters, poets”…)

11 April (Fri)

IV and the Strange Band

Arena ☑️
1030
28€VVK/AK tba
IV = Hank William’s great-great-grandson

glupsk + die Ballonmädchen

Vekks ☑️
1120
Donation - 7€ recommended
Icelandic trio, with a practice ranging “from making obscure electronic live-sets to being a experimental rock band with influences from doom-metal, no-wave and noise”; with local support duo exploring the sounds + textures of balloons

[Gillian Carter + Indoctrinate + Discure]((more details via hc4tl)

Venster99 ⏳
1090
???€
Florida “free fall between post-hardcore, blackened noise, punk, metal, and screamo” + local hardcore support

12 April (Sat)

KMAT + GxUxTxSx + Paradox of Tolerance + A Guy named Lou

4lthangrund Wien ☑️
1090
???€
punky stuff

Mother’s Cake + Lucy Dreams

Arena ☑️
1030
30€VVK/36€AK
My harpsichord teacher’s favourite Austrian psych-funk-rock band coming from Tirol to celebrate their newest album. They do slap, and even have some (some!!) RATM DNA I would argue (another band that my harpsichord teacher introduced me to)

Die Böslinge + Generation Breakdown

Chelsea ⏳
1080
VVK15€/AK18€
“Austrias longest-serving punk band” + support

Good Morning Jazzwomen Book Launch + Trio ANJALI (Annette Giesriegl + Jasna Jovićević + Elisabeth Harnik)

echoraum 📶🅰️
1150
10€/7€ (cash only)
˜free jazz trio, including the author of the book being presented

The Jackob Sister f2f Sabu! + Paul Mile f2f BRX + Destroyer f2f Lazershroom + Krawallbarbie f2f Who is Ela¿ + Turing f2f Vanessa Sa

Flucc ☑️
1020
15€ now/18€ later
“Face 2 Face” DJ format featuring headliners from German collective Sachsentrance

Super Sushi Tokio

Kaleidoskop ⏳
1050
should be cheap or free

Togo & Delivery + Steve Loren & The Fizzers

Rhiz ♿️
1080
??€AK

More is More + Desolat + Bug

Venster99 ⏳
1090
Pay as you wish/can
2sax+2drumkit impro-noise! with noise rock-y supports

Engin

WUK ☑️
1090
30€
“Neuerfindung deutsch-türkischer Popmusik”

13 April (Sun)

Sonntag’sdisco: Topsy Turvy (live) + Drehli Robnik (DJ)

Flucc ☑️
1020
10€
St. Pölten’s best rock band? Inspired by US surf bands; cool London bands; being cool girls in a good band

Rhiz ♿️🅰️
1080
15€AK
“Emoviolence Matinee” (from 16h on) with international established acts + local newcomers

14 April (Mon)

Arbeit am Schmäh: Esemble REIHE

Alte Schmiede ♿️
1010
FREE - entry 30’ before concert
Playing pieces by Otto Zykan (“bekannt für Polemik und Skandale”), Elfi Aichinger, Michael Mautner, Mayako Kubo, Maria Gstättner