Invisible Cities

"It is pointless trying to decide whether a city is to be classified among the happy or the unhappy. It makes no sense to divide cities into these two species, but rather into another two: those that through the years and the changes continue to give their form to desires, and those in which desires either erase the city or are erased by it."

 -Italo Calvino, ''Invisible Cities''

An excerpt from the Band-Aid On A Bullet Wound CD booklet. 

Engraving by the amazing Linen (as every engraving in this booklet)




 

2 chaotic days indeed!

Friday and Saturday was way more than we expected. 
Sometimes when you wait for something so much, anxiety plays weird tricks on you and you don't know what to expect. 
For example, some thoughts we had during the setting of Friday gig at StuΔio, were ranging between the cops storming the place and the PA system bursting into fire. 
Fortunately, none of this happened during both days.
So, Friday night at StuΔio. 
Calf started the gig, in an already packed place. 20 minutes of psychotic riffing and drumming and insane growls. Calf haven't played a gig for about 6 years and what was happening was important. 
State of Loss played afterwards, in their second ever gig. They were amazing. A mix of energetic punk, emotive post hardcore and grimy noise rock. A true ode to 90s. 
Juju Bruju closed this great evening. Their set was pure bliss. Spoken word to screams and mathy rhythms to destructive noisy climaxes. 
That was day one.

Next day, Ypoga K94.
Anxiety has been driven away from the excitement of last night. 
Face Repeat marked the beginning and they set the atmosphere with their angular riffs and soul piercing growls. 
We played afterwards, and we had a really great time. It felt so good for us to play again in this basement. 
Kalpa were next and they were fucking huge. Maybe the best gig we've ever seen them play. Huge.
Living Under Drones were to end these beautiful 2days. Loud and intense as always, with Begotten playing in the background, they killed it.

That's a quick review of the past few days. It's difficult to put into words all the process, the feelings and the outcome of this thing. 
If you want something so bad, you insist and you make it happen. 

And that 2 days was all about that. 











 


2 Days of DIY Chaos

The 4th and 5th of April represent everything we stand for as a band. People meeting, co-organizing concerts, expressing themselves freely, screaming, shouting, making noise against this world that wants everything a product ready to be bought. 

StuΔio & YpogaK94 unite their common need of organizing anti-hierarchical and anti-commercialized concerts, to put up 2 days of experimental and noisy music.

First day is taking place at the basement of StuΔio, with State of Loss (from Patras and Athens), Juju Bruju (from Thessaloniki) and Calf (from Karditsa and Athens). 

Second day is going to take place at Ypoga K94, where we're going to play with Face Repeat (from Athens), Kalpa (from Athens and Karditsa) and Living Under Drones (from Athens). 

We're really looking forward to these days so we can play again with our dear friends and meet new ones. 

DIY music and concerts is what keep us alive and kicking in this city and we have to support them with all our powers. 

Links for the two music groups
StuΔio (Text in English) 
Ypoga K94 (Text in English)




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