DONAUFESTIVAL IN KREMS
Donaufestival is a festival for advanced pop music, theatre, film and performances in the Lower Austrian town Krems. The festival significantly changed its artistic orientation in 2005, when the “new” Donaufestival started with Tomas Zierhofer-Kin as artistic director. Since then it takes place annually on two or three weekends in spring, presenting and celebrating the most relevant popcultural movements. 2008’s motto is “Angst. Obsession. Beauty.”, which gives space to noisy avant-garde-pop acts like Liars, The Go-Team and Health as well as to numerous queer artists like The Hidden Cameras, Scott Matthew and Xiu Xiu. Contrary to all those common summer festivals music is only a part of the Donaufestival, as there are performances, film screenings and exclusive commissioned works shown on several locations all over Krems. Apart from the Donaufestival, Krems is rather known as a destination for tourists than for its popcultural scene. It is situated right by the river Danube and in the because of its beautiful landscape very popular Wachau region. Krems is particularly famous for its vine-yards located picturesquely on the hills ascending from the Danube (the town even has its own viniculture college) and the Old Town with its narrow cobblestone lanes. The city of Krems dates back more than 1000 years as first settlements of Germans and Slavs were documented in 995. Apart from tourism Krems is known as a place for trade fairs and industry, has a University specialising only in post-graduate-studies and is home of the biggest penal institution in Austria. With almost 30.000 inhabitants Krems is the fifth biggest town in Lower Austria, which is the province around Vienna.
Recent Session(s) at this location
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Former Ghosts
Apart from the Donaufestival, the small town of Krems isn’t really a popcultural hotspot. Well, there are quite a lot of students, but their presence doesn’t really show in the daily (and nightly) life of Krems. So, even though we are exploring the city together with the US-based electronic synth-pop band Former Ghosts – Freddy Rupperts new project, after he has already performed as „This Song Is A Mess But So Am I“ – for one...more ...
July 18th, 2010 - (1 Comments) -
Melvins
Everybody despised Melvin. Among the staff of a Thriftway grocery store in the state of Washington he was the most-hated clerk and came to doubtful fame after Buzz “King Buzzo” Osborne – who also worked there as a clerk – and his bandmates considered him to be ridiculous enough to have their band Melvins named after him. The story of the Melvins is a story of frazzling music genres and listening habits by regularly including the un...more ...
June 15th, 2008 - (2 Comments) -
Members Of Xiu Xiu And Tortoise
Devin Hoff takes the last sip of his red wine and puts the glass down on the grass. The bassist of the Californian experimental pop band Xiu Xiu stands together with his bandmate Ches Smith and Jeff Parker, guitarist of the highly influential postrock band Tortoise from Chicago in what looks like the middle of nowhere, with nothing except fishermen, leisure cyclists and a railway bridge around. Not only the location is uncommon for our session...more ...
June 8th, 2008 - (1 Comments) -
Die Goldenen Zitronen
Playing a show in a church must be a strange thing to do for a punk band, because a sacred building is normally no place for outspoken political beliefs. The “Zitronen”, as fans fondly call the band from Hamburg, however, have developed beyond just singing politically left-wing slogans to three-chord punk music within the 24 years of their existence as a band. Since the album “Das bißchen Totschlag”, which was released in 1994, they have inclu...more ...
May 4th, 2008 - (2 Comments) -
Scott Matthew
For those who encountered the New York-based artist Scott Matthew for the first time in the movie “Shortbus” where he appears as a musician contributing to the film’s soundtrack, he could be remembered as “the sensitive looking guy with the poignant voice and the bawdy smile”. When we meet good-humoured Scott in rainy Krems, he gives us a full-bearded, endearing smile. In the tourbus on the way to the Old Town Matthew starts playing on his uku...more ...
April 27th, 2008 - (4 Comments)
