www. bad bonn BONN KILBI Press Release Press BAD .ch 2.3.4. 6.16 Programme FELDERMELDER 2.6.16 PLAYS ERRATIC INSANLAR VISUALS BY (TUR) Turkish Folk Gets the Electronic SUPERMAFIA (CH) Treatment TY SEGALL & Industrial Heartbeat Saz-Supremacy, Muthafukka! Neon Lamp Rain Power to the People! THE MUGGERS (US) Overwhelmed Noise Lo-fi Prophet Excentric Workaholic Helter Skelter in the Garage FÖLLAKZOID (CHI) Andes-Trip s s s s (CH) BOREDOMS (JAP) Hypnotized by Fear Weird Japanese Noise Loop and loop it again until Apocalypse NOW! EYE and Yoshimi you get high Samuel Savenberg’s Anal Chocolate Roots That’s how Chilean Kraut superincumbent soundscapes tastes like JULIA HOLTER (US) KNÖPPEL (CH) High Precision Bedroom-Pop STANLEY BRINKS & Wichser Rock Vocoders and Euripides THE WAVE Vulgar Swiss German Lyrics and Madrigals, Musicals and A Sounds for Soccer-Fans Light Heart PICTURES & Olma Thrash FRESCHARD (D, F, UK) Crashing Campfire PAPAYA FUZZ (CH) OGOYA NENGO & Herman Dune-Memorial-Band Surfing La Sarine Forever THE DODO The Man and the Jewel and Eat That Fuzzy Yogurt, Bitch! WOMEN’S GROUP the Band Tcheu, C’est Sale! (KEN) THE Kenyan Ethno Grand Dame You’ve Never Heard Of PYRIT (CH) ZAPERLIPOPETTE What the Hell is Dodo? Shiny As Minerals (CH) Vocal Social Criticism – Lonely Milkyway Electronica Why so serious? all Drum, no Bass Probably the Next Xavier Dolan Pizza at Bad Bonn Movie Soundtrack Mathematics, Acrobatics HORIZON FAT WHITE ISOLATED LIQUIDE (CH) What’s That Distant Humming? FAMILY (UK) LINES (CH) Excremental Indie Swiss Hypno-Tekkno for Intellos Electronic Trips Through A Thin Pale Freaks Polyrhythm > 4-to-the-floor Kaleidoscope Gang of Five Of course you can dance to this! Oh Dear, I Dreamt I Melted GAIA (CH) SAUNA YOUTH (UK) Zeitgeist is Analogue The Brighton Art of Guitar Grinding Howling on the Dancefloor A LOVE FROM Feel Well Garage Punk Au weia! This is Gaia OUTER SPACE (UK) 1-2-3-sweat! (ANDREW WEATHERALL & SEAN JOHNSTON) Oasis of Slowness 122 BPM is enough DJ FETT (D) 6 hours of kosmische Disco SILVER FIRS (CH) No Kilbi no Fett Tribal Vibe No Fett no cry Africa in the Alps Don’t pray for Fett Shout and dance AXEL FLÓVENT JENNY HVAL (NOR) Bitter-sweet stories from Norway (ISL) Deconstructed Pop Acoustic Songs 3.6.16 Apocalypse girl Great Voice The Art of Simplicity FLOATING PISSED JEANS (US) Pennsylvanian Highspeed LA TÈNE (CH) POINTS (UK) Middle Ages R’n’B Guitar Work Symphony Sound System Swiss Arabian Pre-Roman Area Hardcore Punk With Beer Belly Poly-Multi-Rhythmic-Instrumental R’n’A The Future Jazz of London Noise and Superpower MINOR THE HOMESICK (NL) NO ZU (AUS) The Dutch Dreamboy Trio VICTORIES (UK) Rhythm Armada From Laptop Sounds to Slowdive Psychedelic Funk Rave Live Shoegazing Mogwai Repeat Until Madness Editors Garage Semi-Pop POWELL (UK) CATE LE BON (UK) STANLEY Attractive, Provocative Welsh Psych Castles Musical Architecture in Futuristic Kilbis very special Crab Day Show BRINKS & Landscapes Near & Far, formed in the Mouth FRESCHARD & Techno for Smart-Asses of the Pacific Ocean THE OLD TIME KANIKS (D, F, UK) PARQUET Crashing Campfire COURTS (US) LOTIC (US) Herman Dune-Memorial-Band The nervous Gang of New York Anarcho Sound-Collage-Electro The Man and the Jewel and Antsy Cowboys in Brooklyn Musical Deconstruction the Band Last Years Kilbi Missing Link to Let Berlin live up to the Hype! The Sleaford Mods SISTER IODINE (F) Insanity made in France Accurate Chaos 4.6.16 Protoplasmic Blast MANUEL TROLLER (CH) Uber Guitarist From Schnellertollermeier CAR SEAT From Hardcore-Jazz to Pop Music SAVAGES (UK) Collaborations With the Best Beauty in the Darkness HEADREST (US) Girls do better Post-Punk I’m A Backseat Banger This Bassline! Lo-Fi Bandcamp-Champ Drive Safe Mr. Melancholia KAMASI NINOS DU DIEB13 (A) WASHINGTON (US) BRASIL (ITA) Takeshi Fumimoto is from Austria Epic3 Psychotropic Batucada Get Mr. Kluppe into the Club! Saxploitation Ritmo Explosivo Con Carne If these aren’t pixels Washington from L.A. Celentano In Rio On Acid I am farbenblind. BEACH SLANG (US) CONTAINER (US) Heartbreak Rock for nasty UK-based Underground Electronica ASH RA TEMPEL Cheerleaders Noisy Lo-Fi Minimal feat. MANUEL GÖTTSCHING, Roll your socks down and dance Drum Patterns with SNES-Game- ARIEL PINK, OREN AMBARCHI & Ever worn a torn Petticoat? Sounds? Solid Plan! SHAGS CHAMBERLAIN (D, US, AUS) Psychedelia eats Krautrock Up-Pink haunted Revival METZ (CAN) DJ MARCELLE (NL) Reimagined and improvised Long mature Mess Own Style Beauty NoisyPostHC Dutch Dada Jockey Angry Maple Leaf With the flowers on the desk ATA KAK (GHA) Afro-House & DOLLKRAUT (NL) Seventies Space Age Disco Old-Skool-Rap Weirdo Glamour and Synthesizers STANLEY BRINKS & Ghanian Helium Sensation Analogue Magic from Holland Lost & Found FRESCHARD & THE OLD TIME KANIKS (D, F, UK) Crashing Campfire PROTOMARTYR (US) ODD BEHOLDER (CH) Herman Dune-Memorial-Band Existentially Post Punk Dreampop and Corn The Man and the Jewel and the Band Powerful Despair Stratosphere & Atmosphere Noisy Detroit Nights Music for Anti-Heroes CAKES DA AUGENWASSER (CH) THE CROW KILLA (US) Sad Eye Blues Parody of FLIES BACK TO THE All Killa no Filla Garage Punk SLoW-Fi retro FOREST (CH) Get your Gun, shoot the Cake! Schräghang-Noise Unswiss Behaviour Baked and Stoned, Pacifist Pensier à nous / Leodronant Editorial Do you love the Kilbi festival? The gates stand wide open. We For the romantic songwriter When did you fall in love? During oppose certain rules. The music JULIA HOLTER from Los Angeles, times of preparation, we even ask can be demanding. If you want to songs are more about feeling ourselves those questions. What enter and take part of it, you de- than understanding. She will feel started sometime back, or to be cide yourself. comfortable in our semi-wilder- exact in the year 1991 by mere ness, enjoying the peace and qui- chance, turned it into our own lit- et and we as listeners will enjoy tle festival, which we nurtured ATTENTION her music, so shut up! all those years. Time to dress up good old “aunty” Kilbi for anoth- It might sound like a misconcep- er year and for yet another dance. tion when the first concerts start FRIDAY Again like every year with new with sirens and hymns on thurs- bands and solo performers that day. The prelude will be a mix of The indie-rock generator is run- we trust. After months of nego- absurd, harmonious pop sounds ning on all cylinders, the music tiations with a lot of patience and uncomplicated folk plus meets the performance, experi- and hard work, the first steps are some African beats and dancing. ments are dancing along the gui- done, or at least the program has The great or small artists with tar necks, electronic jazz dom- been completed. Now it’s time long or short names will be ready inates the beats, cat und heat to raise the banners, with all the for us like ripe sweet bananas. beats from Australia. wondrous sounding names of artists from all nations. Some of Everything else than an emp- Slowdive’s Rachel Goswell, which are totally unknown, even ty promise is the diversity of this Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite and back home. People define places. young glamorous master of ga- Editor’s Justin and James Lockay Fearing only fear itself, we em- rage-psych-rock, TY SEGALL & are MINOR VICTORIES. Exactly brace new horizons. Kilbiland in THE MUGGERS. This wild young on the release date of their first sight! dog is a fuzzing god. Cosmic album, this Noise-Wave Super- synthesizers, mad grooves, eerie group will be playing under the We like pop. Yet every now and choruses mixed with zappaesque Kilbibogen. then pop needs a good spank- ingredients, turn into loud but ge- ing, every now and then we need nius power pop. The FAT WHITE FAMILY dissects to expose its guts, away from all pop history. With their psyche- the flashy, sparkly, shinny stuff. Are there any effective strate- delic garage-punk and their ruth- This exposé, this route takes us gies of refusal in pop-culture? less provocations. That’s their along deep chasms and narrow There has rarely been a group art. An art that radically want’s stony roads, away from the stan- that confronted this more than to shock and cross borders and dard, boring, wide-ass highways. the BOREDOMS. A first-class break down any form of estab- This festival isn’t meant for peo- cult-band from Osaka, Japan. We lishment. Given the frequen- ple like the Stepford Wifes. Even are expecting a spectacular show cy of changing band members robots would loose their program with elements of speedcore, dub, and managers, this anarchy that at the nearby lake, where you can punk and psychedelic biker-rock doesn’t even stop when their swim, maybe pad a local pike, and since recently world mu- own blood is spilt. Anyway fuck prank someone and eat what sic. All musical boundaries are Thatcher, let’s roll! your heart desires. pushed over. The FLOATING POINTS a.k.a the His debut “The Epic” is hailed as head-banging jumping flock. highly talented Sam Sheperd is a milestone in the history of mu- Their friendship got tighter, their obsessed with Avant-garde-Jazz, sic. It’s Jazz soaked with contra- music too. Bad Bonn awaits you. R’n’B, Techo and House. He cre- dictions like anger and warmth, ated a monstrous debut album it’s dark and triumphal. Before with ELAENIA, which was pro- releasing this masterpiece, the MORE duced in equal parts electronical- tenor-saxophone player KAMASI ly and non-electronically.