INDIE POP DAYS BERLIN

Jonny Collins LIVE at Let`s kiss and make up

2012-01-29T10:17:00.000-08:00

Hi folks,

The New Year is kind of old already. It seems winter just started and covered Berlin with sugar colored snow and it makes us feel that summer is still far away.

We know it's been a long time we wrote something on our blog and people always ask us whether there will be another INDIE POP DAYS Festival in 2012.

And SURPRISE,SURPRISE: There will be INDIE POP DAYS 2012! We already started with the booking a few weeks ago and hopefully can tell you more about our plans in a few weeks!

Apart from the festival we still have our monthly club night at KING KONG KLUB. In February Jonny Collins of Modesty Blaise will DJ and play an acoustic set. So come around and don't miss his concert on the 17th.

Here he's inviting YOU:

Those were the Days

2011-09-01T12:10:00.000-07:00

Dear all,

the 2nd edition of Indie Pop Days are over now, isn't it sad? We guess everybody needs to get some rest now, because we had an extraordinary long and wonderful time with all of you at the Wasserturm Kreuzberg. But first we would like to thank all of our lovely Bands and DJs, they all did amazing and heartwarming performances! And we would like to send lots of hugs and kisses to our beautiful and kind audience! Thanks for coming, we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!

Thumbs up and a very big thanks to all of our dear friends and helpers* and to the Wasserturm-Team. Last but not least we'd love to say thanks to Aloha Surfsoda, taz, zitty and Byte.fm for all the support!

*Luise, Birgit, Karina, Matthias, Dirk & Dirk, Nina, Lina, Markus, Lukas, Remi, Nouriya, Andre, Theodora, Robin, Roman,Torsten, Jörg, Hari. THANK YOUUUUUU SO MUCH!!!

And now everybody can get nostalgic with this brilliant video by Nouriya. She filmed the whole weekend and she's great in editing, as you can see here, so stay excited about a little film about the Indie Pop Days coming up in the end of the year!

Indie Pop Days - Young Wrists from SpunkyDavis on Vimeo.

Joel Gibb at Indie Pop Days 2011

2011-08-26T06:30:00.000-07:00

Wow!

This is some great news we don't want to save from you!
Joel Gibb of The Hidden Cameras will join his compatriot Mark Woodpigeon tonight at his gig during the Indie Pop Days!

We are happy to have you, Joel and so much looking forward to tonight.

See you there!

Directed by Scott Cudmore

Produced by Geoff McLean

Zero days to go!

2011-08-26T05:26:00.000-07:00

It's TODAAAY!!!

Hi everyone,

even though we'll meet tonight there are a couple of things we want to let you know.
If you take a look at our premium edition schedule you can see we included every special treat we got for you during this festival.

Well, no. We didn't. There are a couple more things we have for you.

At first we thought some of you who travel a more or less long way to Berlin might want to stroll around in the city for a while. If you feel like doing that we have a list of recommendations regarding places, shops and fleamarkets we'd like to go to. Check it out! Those who live in Berlin are of course also allowed to take a look.

But let's get back to the festival!

As you know we asked a couple of fine DJs to come and work out some nice shifts at the turntables for you to have a sweet party. We are very much looking forward to Flemming (DK, Labrador Records), Luise and Sindyan on Friday, Natalie Stardust, Lea Posh!pop, Tim Gane (Stereolab), Alex Bechberger and the guys from Sonic Pop Allnighter on Saturday as well as Sleepyheadphone and Anders on Sunday.

And we have a special guest who will join us for an acoustic (hopefully) outdoor set: Rune Simonsen will perform a couple of songs from his solo-project lagoonbird.

Lagoonbird - Anniversary by Breaking Olympic Records

Usually he is the singer/guitarist in the band Washington. We are pretty excited about that and look forward to seeing him live!

There are so many bands to see and meet we are looking forward to.
And last but not least we are looking forward to meeting you.

See you in a few minutes at Wasserturm Kreuzberg! Wuuut!!

Presale: last chance today

2011-08-25T04:43:00.000-07:00

Hello hello,

this is not an ordinary Thursday, it's the last day of presale for the Indie Pop Days Festival this weekend which ALREADY STARTS TOMORROW (waah). So if you wanna make sure to get in, please make use of this opportunity before midnight since we won't accept any incoming payments after that time.

You can get tickets for Saturday and Sunday combined. In case you can only make it to one of these festival-days the only option is buying tickets at the box office, just like on Friday.

Make sure to be there on time if you don't have a ticket already because the Wasserturm Kreuzberg isn't the largest place in the world, as you might remember from last year.

The old game: good news vs bad news

2011-08-24T08:35:00.000-07:00

Hi you,

as we all know, weather is an idiot and never does what it's supposed to . If you don't believe us, please feel free to contact any farmer you like and be sure to get the same news over and over again in pretty colorful expressions.

Our advantage is we don't have much business with farming, which is why we can go inside and say: yeah, screw you, weather in general. And that is what we are going to do this weekend.

Since the weatherforecast can not exactly decide what we are going to have this weekend, we'll make sure everyone's having a good time and pretty much skip the outdoor-concert-part for safety's sake.

This means, on the sad face side, no sunny concerts, no blinking into the bright sun, but on the happy face side it means you can leave your wellies at home and have more space for extraordinary merch stuff, if you like, no walking around on muddy grounds and no danger of getting the sharp end of an umbrella in your eye while standing in a crowd and getting wet from rain.

We can live with that and it's not that we will never let you out of the Wasserturm Kreuzberg. There will still be music outside, brought to you by supergreat DJs or remix-artists, we are going to put some food outside in a tent and even though we let the bands play inside, we still pray for some sunlight because if the sun shines there is a surprise waiting for you outside on Sunday.

So, what do you say? We hope we didn't destroy your welly-outfit-plans and you can find something nice to wear. We are sure you will!

See you soo soon.

Who needs a telly, we're on the air!

2011-08-23T08:00:00.000-07:00

Hi folks,

these weeks are supercrazy exciting. We are feverishly looking forward to this weekend's INDIE POP DAYS!

And we are tremendously glad to be given the opportunity of talking about our festival with two radioshow-hosts! One of these two interviews already happened and has been recorded, but for the other one we are going to be live in the studio, so here's plenty of options for you listening to our slight babble talk and a couple of beautiful indiepop-tunes.

It was so so so nice of Kathy Twinem to have us for an interview and we are glad she dedicated a complete hour of air-time to our dear festival and the music we all are going to experience this weekend already. Kathy is host at byte.fm and you can listen to our interview this wednesday at 6 p.m. Tune in!

Furthermore we are going to be live in the flux fm-studio thursday 6.10 p.m. It's worth tuning in because there is a chance of winning two times two tickets for the Indie Pop Days-weekend! Flux fm also invited Woodpigeon for an interview. They are going to be in the studio Friday afternoon, in case you are interested! Sorry Gilberto have also been invited by the lovely Radio 1 and will be interviewed Friday evening at 7.30 pm. This is something for everyone who can't make it to the festival at all (poor you) or will only miss the Friday (still: poor you!). And this is the last chance to win tickets for the Indie Pop Days 2011! Radio 1 is giving out two times two tickets for the weekend, too.

You can listen to both radiostations online and in case you are located in Berlin or Stuttgart it's also possible to receive motor.fm with your ordinary kitchen-radio.

Alright,
you'll hear from us!

Aww, one more week to go? Sorry, we can't wait anymore

2011-08-19T02:57:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone!

It's a week from now untill the Indie Pop Days Berlin 2011 start and we all meet. We expect our festival to be ridiculously great and very much look forward to meeting you and the bands.
Since we are not exactly the patient kind of people we decided to give you a tiny little taste of the Indie Pop Days already tomorrow.

So let's meet at the King Kong Klub in Berlin, Mitte (Brunnenstrasse 173) and enjoy good tunes, nice company, cool drinks and the pleasant anticipation towards Indie Pop Days!! We are not alone behind the turntables, some of the Sonic Pop Allnighter (Punk New Wave Sixties French Beat IndiePop) and Kostja (Lo-fi, Chillwave, Noise) are coming over to join us for a great night.

There is even a special treat, because you can get your weekend-festival-ticket for only 30 Euro instead of 32 Euro. And we will have some of our totebags with us for sale and for you to show off.

In case you already have been at the King Kong Klub you know the deal. Entrance is free as a bird, but there are two Euro extra on the first drink. That money is for the DJs and we are going to spend it well on even more records to play them to you!

We will be there from 10 p.m. on and probably stay there the whole night, so step by and say hello whenever you want!

See you all tomorrow!

Well, but when should I be there?

2011-08-15T10:52:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone,

it's done and we finally organised the timetable for our very dear Indie Pop Days Festival 2011. Stage-times may still shift a little, which is why we only announce which band is playing what day for now.

Friday (26th) doors at 7 p.m.

Der elegante Rest (GER)
Woodpigeon (CAN)
Television Keeps Us Apart (SWE)
Darren Hanlon (AUS)

Saturday (27th) doors at 2.30 p.m.
Sorry Gilberto (GER)
Young Wrists (ITA)
Nils Folke Valdemar (SWE)
Kristallin (GER)
Clay Hips (USA)
The Wave Pictures (UK)

Sunday (28th) doors at 2.30 p.m.
Sundae (ESP)
Our Blanket Skies (GER)
Amida (UK)
Pretend A Great Name (GER)
Soda Fountain Rag (NOR)
Wake The President (UK)

You might have recognized the two more changes there are.

Unfortunately Nikita from White Wishes moved back to Russia and can't get a visa for the time of our festival. This is just stupid and we are very unhappy, to say it in a nice way. Bureaucracy is a bitch, now we all know... Again... Their friends from Pretend A Great Name are going to fill White Wishes' slot and we are more than glad to have them.

Furthermore, we were sorry to hear that Electric Pop Group can't come due to health issues by one of the band members. It makes us sad to hear that not all of you are doing well. We hope for and wish all the best. Get well soon!!

So, now you know what band is going to play when, at least the date. As soon as we know the stage-time, we will pass that knowledge onto you!
See all of you sooo soon!!!

The new kid on the blog

2011-08-15T08:08:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone!

The festival is not far away, one can almost hear the first chords but still it's not too late for some good news! We happily received the message that Soda Fountain Rag can make it to our festival and will play a set.

Say Hi to Soda Fountain Rag!

Soda Fountain Rag's music is a great kind of lo-fi indie-pop, sugarsweet with supersmart, catchy one-liners, written and produced by Ragnhild Hogstad Jordahl. She's on her own in the studio but not alone on tour, that would probably not be so much fun, which is why she is being accompanied live by Anders Kaasen (guitar) and Stian Nyheim (bass). If you haven't already, give it a listen!

Here's a clip from Soda Fountain Rag's gig at last year's London Popfest.

Two weeks until Indie Pop Days Berlin!!!

2011-08-12T08:44:00.000-07:00

What to do with all this time on our hands? Well, that isn't exactly our problem these days. There are still one or two or three or eleven or even more things to do, before we are well prepared to welcome all of you who are going to join us for three days of puppy poppy perfect indie-music.

But some of you might want to have a little something to hold on to for the time being.
No problem at all!

You are probably already looking forward to Television Keeps Us Apart's gig, so do we. It's something special since they play their first show ever in Germany at our festival! In case you would like to rearrange your top-five-list of TKUA-songs, this is the opportunity. These nice people offer their latest EP for free download, which isn't a bad thing to do, right?

Compared to that our Soundcloud Mixtape is like a first date. Please just listen, don't touch! Sort of a weird comparison, but this friday is making us feel silly, so what the flip.

Thank you for reading!

Good night and good luck

It's all about the music

2011-08-08T09:35:00.000-07:00

Dear reader,

whew it's only a couple of days until the festival is due and we finally
- get to meet all you fine people again
- see a couple of our favorite bands on stage
- dance to the tunes of our DJ-Friends
- have that great weekend, we've waited for a long time!

That is going to be a blast. Do you agree or would you like another reason why you shouldn't miss the Indie Pop Days 2011? It's easy! Take a listen at our Soundcloud-Mixtape and hear for yourself! Every band that is listed, will be playing at the festival, in fact, at the festival there are going to be even more bands!

The first two smartypartys who find out what bands are missing, get one of our favorite INDIE POP DAYS BERLIN 2011 posters, just be quick and post them in the comments.

Here's a hint: it's not a vampire-band.

Good luck and see you all so soon!

Puschen Festival at Festsaal Kreuzberg Tonite: wuut wuut!

2011-08-04T06:03:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone,

you may have heard it already but it is still true: this very thursday and tomorrows friday Puschen Fest is on the plate! It's 18 Euro each day or 32 Euro for both days and there are going to play some splendid bands!
See for yourself:

Thursday:

Star Slinger

Y∆CHT

and

Washed Out

Friday:

Polvo

Oneida

Suuns

Chad van Gaalen

Where should I stay?

2011-08-03T03:19:00.000-07:00

Already bought the ticket but your Berlin based friends are all on holiday? Well, that is not such a big deal, since we thought about a couple of hostels, hotels and other options for the sleepy part during you stay in Berlin.

Have a look at our recommendations and feel free to comment anything you would like to add!

If you have any more questions just get in touch and we'll help you as much as we can.

23 days more, we are really looking forward to this!

When life gets at you...

2011-07-29T00:42:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone,

we were so sure everything was fixed but as it happens from time to time, we were not sure enough.

Let's start from the beginning. You might remember how excited we were to present Aberdeen to you. The band confirmed, they would like to play at the Indie Pop Days Festival 2011 and we were happy. But unfortunately there were some disagreements within the band, which is why we were told, there might be some problems, but none one couldn't solve.

It went from 'we are playing' to 'we are playing friday' to 'we are not sure we are going to make it' to 'we are coming!' to 'We can't make it'. And that was it... Whew, what a ride!

We are sorry to tell you, we truly are, but Aberdeen can not make it to our festival. In case you want to return the ticket you already bought, we are unhappy not to see you at the festival, but that's totally your decision and not a problem. Just get in touch with us and we'll send your money back!

On the bright side, we are working on finding another group of musicians who would like to come and play on stage of our festival. We can't say much more about it for now, but be sure that we will let you know as soon as we figured something out.

And let's all be reminded there are a whole bunch of other great bands, in fact someone of us counted 16, which is quite an okay amount of music to experience for two days, don't you think? Among them for example The Wave Pictures with their beautiful song Like a Drummer:

DJ-Set at INDIE POP DAYS FESTIVAL BERLIN

2011-07-27T15:22:00.000-07:00

Fellow readers,

we already told you what there is to know about the bands that are going to play at our festival this summer. You can see the complete list on the right side of this very fair page with links to every band.
But! There is even more to experience at our festival than live-bands! We are also going to DJ on this occasion and we are not going to be on our own behind the dj-tables.

We happily announce that Tim Gane from Stereolab is going to join us behind the turntables, so that is probably going to be a hat full of fun!

You might also know Tim Gane's djing colleague (or is it the other way around?) Alex Bechberger. They are a good team at the turntables, which they already proved at the broadcasting show Rock/Pop am Montag on reboot.fm. You can still listen to the great session by Tim Gane and Alex Bechberger. Alex's second guest at this session is Jeremy Novac.

So, that's the situation here: we've got the precious dj-team Let's kiss and make up and very special guest DJs on Friday and Alex Bechberger accompanied by Tim Gane on Saturday! How does that sound to you? Right, it sounds like a lot of fun. Put on your dancing shoes!

See you very soon, dear dancers.

Still need a summer soundtrack?

2011-07-24T03:29:00.000-07:00

Dear all,

first of all we would like to thank all the people at Down by the River for a beautiful day with lots of nice people, friends and lovely music everywhere. We had a really amazing day! Our favorite Bands were My Two Toms, Stranded Horse and of course Jeffrey Lewis & the Junkyard!

Now were much more looking forward to our own Festival, only 33 days to go! Wohoooo!

For today we are sooo in love with the Italian Duo Young Wrists and recommend you this as the perfect soundtrack for the last weeks of summer. You can download their new EP here for free.

And you just have to listen to the song July 1986 if you're into jingly-jangly lo-fi nostalgia. We are!

July 1986 by Indie Pop Days

Down by the River Festival 2011

2011-07-22T00:44:00.000-07:00

Dear music lovers,

Down by the River Festival is top of our list this weekend. We will be there on Saturday with our wellies, rain capes and polka-doted brolly. You see we are well prepared - Even if it rains!

Down by the River is located where? - yes, of course this festival is located very very close to the Spree. In the past years the organisers had chosen bar 25 for the All-dayer. As bar 25 had to close - unfortunately investors have other plans with this piece of land - Down by the River has found a new home at the Kater. It's opposite bar 25 on the river bank in Kreuzberg.

Wow!There are a lot of bands playing for a one day festival! They have two stages on that site but it's a limited capacity for both so you'll have to be there 30 minutes before to see your favourite band!

The Line-Up is too long to tell you about all the bands. So we just recommend you these few bands:

Stranded Horse play minimalistic songs à la Nick Drake on the kora, a traditional harp from West Africa. Or the Spongies - this band seems to be a "Surprise"-band as the festival website doesn't give any information about this Berlin band. But they already played a support for Grass Widow in Berlin some weeks ago. And we had fun!

Anti-Folk musician and comic book artist Jeffrey Lewis already played Down by the River in 2009. With his mixture of complex lyrics in "Sprechgesang" combined sometimes with noisy -raw punk attitudes we think the organisers have chosen a great headliner for this years festival!

So now it's up to you. Pack your stuff and join this lovely festival! You will find us there even if it rains...! But now we'll send lots of prayers to the weather gods!

Let's Dance And Make Up today!

2011-07-16T02:10:00.000-07:00

Hi all!

Are you at the Melt!Festival this weekend? It is sold out, so some of you are definitely going to be there, we assume. Well, we are staying in Berlin, weatherforecast doesn't look so good either, so why bother. Ah, right, Pulp are going to play... Well, then!

In case you are in town, too, why don't you come to our party at King Kong Klub this Saturday. If you want, it's no problem to play Pulp for us, either. Of course, it's not live, but we are nice, too!

Furthermore we have some great visuals for you, in case you get tired because of too much dancing. So come along and say hi!

Laters!
The DJ-Team Let's Kiss And Make Up

Thanks for stopping by!

2011-07-14T05:51:00.000-07:00

Dear reader and fleamarket-visitor,

we would like to thank all of you for coming out and finding us at the Mauerpark fleamarket. Who could have asked for more? The sun was shining perfectly, everyone was kind and we were super happy about the fact that everybody seemed to be very interested in our posters. We agree, they are very beautiful! Not only did we sell a bunch of posters but also a couple of tickets, so that went well!

We hope you had a great day, too and enjoyed our tunes and stuff! Here are some pictures of this beautiful event. These pictures were taken by Matthias Heiderich, all rights are reserved. In case you want to use them, please ask.

Guide to experience a great weekend in a couple of steps

2011-07-08T06:13:00.000-07:00

Phew, there is a lot going on these days. It's all about fashion and clothes and stuff at the moment, since there's this tiny little Berlin Fashion Week going on.

But there is more to experience than the runwayshows and high-class invitation-only-superduper whatever-events, let me tell you! For example there's the Moderummel at Rummelsburger Bucht. The magic is going to happen from Friday afternoon 3 p.m. until the last guest has left the beach! You can experience fashion, there is also going to be a runwayshow and a fashionmarket with young designers presenting their ideas of fashion. Chances are high to find a nice piece of fine cloth-art, but save some money for the bar and, of course, the rest of the weekend.

There are a whole bunch of opportunities on how to spend your Saturday. Let's say, you've had enough of the troubles and need a quiet, peaceful day. Well, in case the weather is friendly, why don't you make a trip to the Wannsee or hop on your bike for a ride through Brandenburg. Go by S-Bahn as far out of the city as you can and then find out on your own, where the street leads you to. A card as a safety-backup is a good idea and nothing to be ashamed of! In case you are more the type of person who never gets enough of the excitement, Berlin always has to offer, go and check out Berlin Wedding Dress #6 but make sure not to get an consuming-overkill since there is this very dear fleamarket with some pretty nice and cool persons waiting for you to step by (already told you about). Saturday night? Well, do I have to remind you that the open-air cinema-season has started?

Sunday is going to be a very nice day! After a walk at the Mauerpark fleamarket in Prenzlauer Berg and a couple of hours in the sun, join us at the Volksbühne for the Abschlusskonzert with Esben & the Witch, Deerhoof and Tu Fawning.Better hurry up and buy a ticket before it's sold out.

Did you already have plans or better ideas than ours? Let us know!
However, have a great weekend. We'll meet at the fleamarket, don't we?

Fleamarkets are fun, everybody knows that!

2011-07-07T04:33:00.000-07:00

Especially when there are so many nice things to find like at the Mauerpark on Sundays. This time a visit is going to be even more worthy to consider, because some of us will be selling awesome stuff. There are going to be a couple of nice dresses, some rare vinyl to buy and as a special treat we have our new INDIE POP DAYS bags for you to purchase.

That's all? Nope.
We also have a special offer for everyone who buys a ticket at our fleamarket-stand. Come visit us and get your INDIE POP DAYS Festival weekend-ticket for just 30 Euro each!

Well, that sounds great, but how would i recognize you, one might think. And we have the solution to that, too. In case you can't see us right away, just follow the sound of our portable record-player!

Usually we are not a jukebox, but if you want to recommend one of your favorite tunes on vinyl, why don't you bring it and we can listen to it together. Or suggest them in the comments so we can figure out if we already own the record and there won't be any need for you to carry it all the way there!

The fleamarket starts at around 10 a.m. and lasts until 6 p.m. We are very much looking forward to meeting you there and hope you find some nice things among our stuff and/or at the rest of the market! But even if you don't do the live-karaoke is worth a visit and a tune.

So let's all hope for nice weather and meet at the Mauerparkmarkt!

Some good news, some not-so-good news

2011-07-02T04:47:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone,

today we need to announce something that made us sort of unhappy but it has to get out.
Unfortunately Je Suis Animal can't come to this year's Indie Pop Days. We know they were really looking forward to playing at our beloved festival but due to personal problems they just can't make it. We will think of you, members of Je Suis Animal. Maybe another time!
Until then there are still their albums we can listen to.

So that was the sad part of the story. The happy part is that we found another band we are very happy to announce: they call themselves Sundae and make adorable Indiepop/Shoegaze en Español! Even if not everyone of us aces at Spanish we still like to listen to their tunes and are happy to welcome Sundae to Indie Pop Days!

You might want to find out for yourself if you like Sundae, too. Even though we are pretty sure about it, you can download a couple of songs at Sundae's homepage!
We are curious what you think, so feel free, as always, to leave a comment!

Hope to hear from you!
Have a nice weekend.

Tickets

2011-06-25T05:52:00.000-07:00

Finally the pre-sale is starting. There is a chance to buy a weekend-ticket on our blog. You can pre-order a ticket combining Saturday and Sunday exclusively from us for 32€. Orders are possible via Paypal. Please leave your full name, we'll write down your name on the "prepaid list" once you've ordered a ticket. This also means you have to bring your ID or passport to Wasserturm so we can be sure we're handing out tickets to the right person.

If you're not sure yet if you can go to both days you can buy tickets at the door on Saturday and Sunday for the particular day. Friday evening you can get tickets at the Wasserturm only.

Concert-Alert: Papercuts and Our Blanket Skies tomorrow!

2011-06-24T05:45:00.000-07:00

Hi to our adorable readers,

this weekend includes an opportunity for all of you! And by saying 'an' we mean two.
We are pretty glad to tell you that Papercuts are going to play their european tour's final show in Berlin. The concert has been booked by Puschen, who always know really great and interesting bands so who would want to miss that? Right. Nobody.

Let's get to the practical facts. The concert is going to happen

tomorrow, Saturday evening
at the Comet Club in Kreuzberg
and it's going to be really cool.

Papercuts

You might want to be on time (9 pm), because the second opportunity is also quite a treat! Our blanket skies is going to perform a couple of songs and as we all know he will be playing at our Indie Pop Days Festival, too.

It is going to be super duper, that's what we are betting on. And if you miss Our Blanket Skies, well, don't be too sad, because he will be playing again. It's just that every show is unique, but one can't always make it on time, eh?

We hope to see you at the concert.
Nonetheless, whatever you do, have a marvellous weekend with lots of stuff you like!

Last but definitely not least: Young Wrists, Television Keeps Us Apart & Woodpigeon

2011-06-16T10:39:00.000-07:00

Hi fellow followers,

the time has come to announce that we are through with booking. We are happy about the confirmations we received and really look forward to the festival with every single band that is going to play. Hopefully (we are 99% sure) you like them, too. Tell us, what do you think about the last four bands we proudly announce today?

Let's start this last round with Young Wrists, a lo-fi-duo from Italy. Alberto and Letizia make nice 80ies synthie- lo-fi-pop and on their second album wasted youth they actually also sing about this century, or to be more precise, about one specific event that took place in June 1986.

Young Wrists / July 1986 from Enrico Boccioletti on Vimeo.

What event might that have been? We are still wondering. Maybe there is a chance to find out more about this when we meet in person, because Young Wrists are going to play at the Indie Pop Days Festival as well, which is benissimo!

Young Wrists

If you wanted to visit the next band you'd have to move much more north, so it's a good thing they are also playing in Berlin, way more comfy! It's a pleasure for us to host Television keeps us apart from Stockholm, Sweden. Check out their website and download the fabulous album 'A Slight Change Of Light' for free.

Television keeps us apart

Speaking of new albums. Woodpigeon (from Calgary, Alberta in Canada) released a new album called Fra Le Nuvole, which they are going to present to us live in concert at the Indie Pop Days. You can stream one of the albums they released last year on their homepage, they also have a ABBA-cover as youtube-clip, which we very much appreciate, since some of us are deeply in love with the ABBA-sound. Yeah well, sue us! Just kidding, please don't! There are a couple of nice vids at their homepage, we chose this to present their sound, in case you haven't heard of Woodpigeon before.

So that should be it regarding the booking! We will get back to you next week for more information about the presale, (hopefully) final changes and lifesavingly essential facts regarding your life'n'leisuretime in Berlin.

Have a great time, everyone and check in again, soon.

Whew! So much is new

2011-06-09T09:31:00.000-07:00

Hi Fans,

what's going on outside?
Suddenly everyone is happy happy yeah yeah sweaty sweaty. We became quite fond of this state of mind and recommend enjoying the weather as long as it lasts.
Further things we started enjoying a lot lately:
- eating asparagus with tiny new potatoes and lemonsauce
- putting strawberries in a glas of sparkling wine
- biking around with our favorite tunes in ear
- hanging around with friends outside wherever we are.
Yay, summer, we like you!

But let's get to the topic. Even though we love hanging around and want to be in the warm sunlight all the time, we don't forget our duties and continue working on the booking list for our highlight (hopefully yours, too) of this fantastic summer, the marvellous Indie Pop Days Berlin! To be honest, that is a fun duty so we like doing what we do anyway.

We are glad to announce that Nils Folke Valdemar happily agreed to play at our festival. For those of you who don't know his music containing songs "of goliaths, of fear, of birds, of the night, of youth, of you, of himself" check out his homepage where you can download a couple of his albums.

He releases his records on his own and wants you to listen to them in first line, not pay for them to make him rich. We think that's a nice attitude. And we like his personal lyrics, his charming melodies and how he plays the guitar. So that's going to be another show you really shouldn't miss!

Do you know WeePOP! records? You probably do, like us. WeePOP! records is this nice label where 'Allo Darlin' in 2007, at that time named 'The Darlings', released their first EP "The Photo". WeePOP! records usually release EPs and mini-albums in a limited number of copies. It makes us glad to have another band from the WeePOP! records at this year's festival. We are talking about Amida, their awesome mixture of great styles and suggest you listen to their songs on your own if you aren't already familiar with their albums, because we are not in the mood for genre- or namedropping. All we can say is it's fun listening to Amida and we already started practicing our funky dancemoves for their show to impress you with great choreographies. So we are definitely going to be at the dancefloor during Amidas set and hope to meet you there!

Darren Hanlon is sort of an expert for beautiful things. He has been working as a solo artist since 1999, before that he was a member of the Simpletons, and contributed backing guitar and keyboards for the Lucksmiths, the Dearhunters, and Mick Thomas. Hanlon also founded his own music label called flippin yeah industries when his former label Candle Records shut down.

He is not only known for adorable music videos (you can watch them all on myspace/youtube and it's worth it!) where he mostly works together with director Natalie van den Dungen, he is also popular for getting along nicely with any kind of audience . Hanlon always seeks the dialogue with the public and is not afraid to tell personal stuff in a witty way, so that's another thing to look forward to regarding Indie Pop Days Berlin!

Are there any questions? Until now we introduced almost every band we invited to play at our festival and still there are more great gigs to announce. For today this should do. We are out!

Have a really great afternoon and enjoy whatever you do!

With a little help..

2011-06-02T03:38:00.000-07:00

Aloha Surfsoda, taz. die tageszeitung, Zitty and ByteFM we're able to organise our festival.
The team behind Indie Pop Days is very happy to have those four as supporters for this year. A lot would not be possible without them.

We have Aloha Surfsoda helping us, a supertasty lemonade with a tropical flavour that will be sold at Wasserturm Kreuzberg.
Then there is the famous independent newspaper taz. die tageszeitung who's supporting us and moreover the always up-to-date and hugely comprehensive Berlin magazine Zitty.
Last not but least ByteFM, Germany's most innovative and diverse web radio is one of our partners, too.

A big thank you to all of them!

Update! Music and stuff.

2011-05-19T09:21:00.000-07:00

Hey admired reader and festival-friends!

We hope you have a nice week so far and enjoy this strange weather. Regarding the weather: we, the festival creators and bloggers, are all based in Berlin. So how is the weather at your place and where are you making your living at the moment? Seems a silly question but we would like to know, especially if there is a vibrating twee-scene at your place. And we are sure you would like to know more about the bands that are going to be our entertaining guests. The confirmations are getting more and more, in fact we are almost done with the booking. But there is still enough time for surprises and changes. For now we can say the following:

You might know 'Der elegante Rest' if you are in to bands like Ja, Panik because Der elegante Rest were the opening act for them a while ago. It's like a group of mods who got the blues, one might think while listening to their almost orchestral songs. They just got it. Thoughtful lyrics (in german though), nice rhythm skills and this shy kind of wit we all are so keen on. Der elegante Rest was founded in Leipzig five years ago. Enough time to gain some experience on stage and in the studio. We are happy to welcome them and look forward to their performance!

Our Blanket Skies have this song written by Matthias F. Brasch, whose project it is, wrote on his own and it's about to thank people for their help. It has the fitting title 'I thank you' and we would like to say thank you, too. Because not only do Our Blanket Skies play music that reminds us of the famous musician Beirut from time to time, the lack of drums, kind and melancholic arrangements but also happy ukulele- or as Matthias F. Brasch would call it ukulilli- sounds are a pretty nice way to put it. Our Blanket Skies, especially Matthias, have also been part of the team that brought the second edition of the Berlin Melodica Festival to us this year, which happened in the Görlitzer Park and gave everyone a great time! This to say we are glad to meet you again in August at our very own little festival, Our Blanket Skies!

Well, that should be it for today. We are considering going to Ty Segalls show at West Germany in Kreuzberg tonight. But we are not sure because Andrew Jacksoon Jihad is also going to play music tonight. For Free! That's a tough one. What would our readers do?

Have a marvellous time anyway!

Summer in sight, great bands too!

2011-05-05T04:48:00.000-07:00

Dear friends, fans and lovers,

as spring rolls on and May greets us with the insight that transition still does exist the festival is taking shape bit by bit, actually great bit by even greater bit. Those familiar with Berlin trivia might know that the 1st of May is a day of celebration and rejoicing. We did no less and cheered our new line-up confirmations.

Which are...

the legendary Wave Pictures!

The Berlin-friendly David Tattersall, Franic Rozycki and Jonny Helm are the cream of the crop of everything labelled Modern Folk/Singer-Songwriter/ETC. Trust us, they are awesome. The Wave Pictures got the whole package: the wit, the unique and amiable singing voice, the heartbreaking melodies, brilliant lyrics and last but not least guitar solos that leave you feel entertained instead of embarrassed.
It might not come as a surprise that with this talent they've already released several albums but would you have guessed a total of 13 plus EPs, singles and miscellaneous stuff? This is insane!
You basically HAVE to come to Indie Pop Days to hear songs from the band's latest album "Beer in the Breakers" (released this Monday) and a round-up of their secret hits. This is one of them:

Next on our list is the charming duo Clay Hips, also known as Andrew and Kenji (Ex-The Fairways!).

They sure know how to handle a bit of Simon & Garfunkel smoothness without falling into the cheese pot. So it was to be expected that many mourned their disappearance from the world of pop when they moved to different parts of the globe. But! now the boys are back to sing you those bittersweet songs even Lazy Line Painter Jane would hop on the bus for. Keep an eye out, you might see her in the crowd.

To complete today's good news let us tell you you'll get the chance to witness members of a dying breed: Marsh Marigold's Kristallin! a stunning pop band born and raised and living in Germany.

Breaking hearts and beer bottles since 1998 Kristallin know how to entertain and enchant. The band is doing an excellent job showing love for their idols' ramshackle and frisky kind of pop (The Wedding Present, Primal Scream and all that) and blending in their very own charm. We recommend checking out their brilliantly written biography!

Give them bands a listen and try to come up with reasons not to attend Indie Pop Days.
Can you think of any? We told you so.

Who else will be there?

2011-04-28T10:22:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone!

We hope you had some nice leisure-time during Easter holiday and enjoyed tasty, addictable chocolate in silly shapes + great company. We did, in case you are curious! And we are going to repeat the latter at our very own festival in August. Want proof? Look who is going to join us!

Let's start with a kind and awesome band from Scotland. We are talking about Wake The President, a fantastic twee/cs86-band, very inspired by the old stories only a town like Glasgow knows (wanna look at some nice pictures? there!). Erik and Bjorn Sandberg, the founding members, aren't just witty storytellers with a sense for melody and that soft spot in your heart, they are also the heart and the brain of Say Dirty Records. Last year they released their album 'You can't change that boy' and we look forward to seeing them on our stage performing for you.

Watch this video:

Do you like what you hear/see? Are you familiar with these songs?

There is another band who positively "rsvp'ed" to our invitation and we are more than happy to have them around. White Wishes' members are originally from St. Petersburg, but live in Berlin for now. Their melancholic popsongs make us want to hug someone and then: dance! So that is going to be a quiet, shy, extraordinarily great blast to have them around for our festival.

What do you think? At which time of the day would you like to see White Wishes? On a, hopefully, sunny afternoon or in the cozy light of the dawning night? Let us know!

Anything missing? Well, there are still a lot of bands coming up, don't worry. Last but not least for today we proudly announce that The Electric Pop Group are joining us for the Indie Pop Days. The Band is touring around Europe at the moment, as you can see on their facebook-page, and it is great they can make it to Berlin for this specific indie-pop-weekend. The Electric Pop Group is a Gothenburg-based band, signed by Matinée Recordings since last year.
Do you think you could like it, when you look at this lose collection of pictures?
We also found a live-video with crappy sound but well, what can you do!

What do you hear, what do you say?
We say, let's go outside, grab a bite and have a drink in the evening sun!
Work will still be there tomorrow.

Thank you for reading and we hope to see you around soon!
♥

Who would have guessed that!

2011-04-21T08:09:00.000-07:00

Hello beloved reader,

at first we would like to thank you for your suggestions and ideas. They really inspired us and we heard about a couple of bands we already knew though, some of them we even had in mind for the festival, too, and some of them not but, considered requesting them. So that went well!
We are happy about this fact because it proved to us that a couple of people share our taste in music. That is comforting for us doing a festival, that would be a liiittle expensive, if we were the only ones who are interested in the bands that are going to play.

Speaking of bands that are going to play. There is another reason why we are excited to quite an extend.
It is no longer just rumor that Aberdeen are going to play at our very dear festival! We think it is a huge honor since the band split up twice already (1995, when Sarah Records shut down, and then again 2005, after the member's interest for other projects grew), to host this formidable band! Aberdeen announced a reunion-show at The San Francisco Pop Fest on 05/26/2011. There are no more shows planned for now. Except one gig in Berlin at the INDIE POP DAYS FESTIVAL! yay!!

We think this is a good reason to attend the festival as a guest, even if it is only for seeing one of the three bands from the US that were signed to Sarah Records. Check here if you already have rsvp'ed on facebook in case you are attending! And check back on this blog again soon, since we have a lot more pretty good news!

Yours sincerely.
The Indie Pop Festival Girls

Say hi to our new baby

2011-04-20T13:28:00.000-07:00

We ♥ it!

Design by Roman Bittner/Apfel Zet

Let's dance and make up

2011-04-13T10:38:00.000-07:00

Hello out there,

We know you're all curious about the line-up for this years Indie Pop Days. But before we will announce the latest confirmations, there will be a Let's kiss and make up party at King Kong Klub on Friday night. Not that bad, huh?

This time we are very happy to welcome Kostja as our guest DJ! He'll bring you loooot's of fine lo-fi-tunes, chillwave dreams and some noise action as well. And we give you a terrific selection of Indiepop, 80s Jangle Pop, Twee, Folk and even some sing-and-dance-alongs to start in another weekend of (hopefully) sunny days!

First Band Confirmations!

2011-04-06T04:50:00.000-07:00

Hello everybody,

the time has come: we received the first confirmations and are very happy to welcome the following bands:
- Sorry Gilberto: listen to their music or read about the band's album Oh Memory. What we like about Sorry Gilberto is, how the lyrics silently but insistently enrole a sometimes clear, sometimes blurry picture.
- Je suis Animal: you might know their single 'hotel electrique' if you are around sometimes during our dj-sets. It is a song we really like to play! Check here if you do. We are glad they can make it!
- White Wishes are also joining our beautiful festival. It is this kind of music that makes us dance. We are looking forward to do so and hope you will all join us!

But what about you? We would love to read what you think about the bands, did you know them before? Do you like the music? Are there any other bands you think could possibly play at Indie Pop Days? Don't be shy, let us know! Just leave a comment below this post.

Thank you!
Laterz.

Thank god it's friday

2011-03-25T08:15:00.000-07:00

Dear reader,

if you're happy about the weekend clap your hands (clap clap).
But oh no! It's still not time for Indie Pop Days. That is a bummer, but please don't be sad.

We thought about good ideas for things cool kids would like to do at this weekend and are well-prepared to come up with a couple of ideas!
Only condition is: you are in Berlin at the moment.

At first you might want to paint your nails in a nice color. Spring is just around the corner so why don't you choose something bright like yellow or apricot. Another option could be a dark green. While doing this or something completely different look at the homepage of metronomy. They are going to release their new album soon and you can already download the ridiculously fancy single 'she wants' + look at the stylish video to 'the look'. Nice Nice Nice!!

So, your nails are dried and you are prepared to go out? Well, take a look at Matthias Heiderichs pictures in Friedrichshain. He is celebrating a vernissage today at Spot Galery and would definitely be happy to see you! Maybe you remember him, he shot a lot of beautiful photos at last year's Indie Pop Days Festival.

There will still be time enough to visit a nice concert after that. That is going to be a tough decision between the Cut Up Festival at
NBI or Agent Side Grinder at Levee (Ex-Bang Bang Club). In case you can't decide at all, maybe you want to go to multilayerladen and find out what anarchic performance poetry is.

Whatever you do, we hope you have a nice weekend and enjoy yourself as well as your company. Watch out, next week is going to be exciting, since we already have our first band confirmations for the festival!!

P.S.: spring starts!

It is on again...

2011-03-19T08:16:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone!

It has been a while since the last entry at this very fair blog of ours, but don't think we were only hanging around on couches all day! Quite the opposite, we can say, as you were able to see on our facebook-page.

But now we have decided to revive this blog since not every single person is or wants to be on facebook. Here we go: there will officially be a second Indie Pop Days Festival in Berlin 2011! Mark the dates August 26th to 28th in your calendars, because you are hopefully going to be busy listening to some fine music with us on that specific weekend!

Last year we moved a bit from location to location (the adorable multilayerladen on friday, saturday we were at the wasserturm, just like sunday), this will not happen again, since we decided to stay at the beautiful Wasserturm in Kreuzberg for the whole weekend. Also we were able to find a real stage for the outdoor-gigs, so rain won't be a problem again.
(for those who unhappily missed it last year, we were forced to reschedule a couple of stage-times due to unfriendly weather-conditions because we couldn't let the people play outside. It was a bummer, but in the end everything worked out fine. Still, this year we are prepared for almost everything!)

We have a whole bunch of great ideas for the second Indie Pop Days Festival and are already excited about having you around again for a great weekend. But we have to wait. Until then we will keep busy booking great bands for concerts, djing on several occasions or doing other nice stuff.

We are going to tell you about everything here, so why don't you check in from time to time and keep yourself up to date? There are some interesting things going on, we promise!

Now have a sunny saturday!

Indie Pop Days Pictures are on!

2010-09-08T08:00:00.000-07:00

Thanks so much to our dear photographer Matthias Heiderich!

(By the way the pictures on the wall at Multilayerladen are part of his current exhibition, cool huh?)

Bye Bye Love

2010-09-06T14:46:00.000-07:00

by Matthias Heiderich

Buhuuu Indie Pop Days are already over! Beautiful memories and lots of pictures (coming soon here) are all what's left for us. But oh yeah we'd like to give you big hugs and kisses! Thanks for coming, dancing, singing and clapping - it was an ace weekend for all of us and a great experience of course. We hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did. And we'd like to thank all of the lovely Bands and DJs, you all did amazing and heartwarming performances! And last but not least thumbs up for all the people at Multilayerladen, Wasserturm & Golgatha and thanks to Märkisches Landbrot, Wostok and Rote Raupe.de for the support of our first ever Festival!

The festival's on!

2010-09-04T02:51:00.000-07:00

Indie Pop Days started with a blast at Multilayerladen yesterday! The place was packed! Thanks everyone for coming. We loved Bart Cumming's performance, Stars In Coma and parts of them playing songs by their side projects was awesome AND to top that Renée from Liechtenstein gave a spontaneous solo set. So in a nutshell that was a great night!

We let the fun continue today: we have Lucky Soul, The Felt Tips, Pocketbooks, The Sunny Street, Labrador, Le Man Avec Les Lunettes and Still Corners playing from 3:30pm! Doors open around 3pm.
Later the party will move to Golgatha (after midnight) at Viktoria Park. Don't miss it!

Indie Pop Days starts...

2010-09-03T09:35:00.000-07:00

...tonight at Multilayerladen! Woohooo!

And we have bad and good news for you.

The bad one: due to illness Entertainment for the Braindead canceled her show, we are very sad about that! Get well soon Julia!

But lucky you, here comes the good news for today: Renée from beloved Liechtenstein will do a solo show! We are very happy to have her live at Multilayerladen and we hope you'll appreciate this line-up change as much as we do!

The Doors will open a bit later as announct: 9pm

See you there!

Love from Let's kiss and and make up

If Rain..

2010-09-01T05:20:00.000-07:00

.. should come in sight on Saturday we're going to chase it away. So far the weather forecast is looking good. 17°C, a bit cloudy and a 85 percent chance of no rain whatever that means. Let's just hope we will stay dry.
We changed the times on Saturday again, have a look here for an updated schedule and here for an updated booklet.
You have three and a half hours left to pre-order your weekend ticket! You better should if you want to get in on Sunday to see Allo Darlin', Ray Rumours and The Embassy amongst others! Get your ticket here.

A recommendation for everyone who's into graphic design, typography and books: Motto's Art Book Fair "Unter dem Motto 2010" presenting 70+ publishers from all over the world will take place on September 3rd to 5th on Skalitzerstraße 68. If you have time left between waking up and the festival afternoons and evenings, go there!

Can't wait to see everyone!
The fab four from Let's fish and fake frogs

It's a booklet!

2010-08-30T13:02:00.000-07:00

Hi again,

pretending it's still yesterday evening here is the booklet I was talking about in the last post! It's eight pages full of information in a lovely shade of beige. Everyone who finds that colour in our poster gets a cookie. Part of it is the running order for Friday, Saturday and Sunday which you can have a look at and download from here.
Only two more days until the pre-sale is over! Better get your ticket for the weekend as space for your feet is limited inside Wasserturm. If you should have any more questions write us a mail to indiepopdays@gmail.com!

September isn't far away at a-all!
Love,
Let's kiss and make up

Countdown!

2010-08-28T04:01:00.000-07:00

Dear friends,
as always time has passed so quickly and it's no more than 5 days until Let's kiss and make up INDIE POP DAYS kick off, can you believe it! We've heard a lot of friends from UK, Sweden, Spain and even Greece are coming to the festival which is amazing. We are very much looking forward to see all of you! Remember if you want a weekend ticket for a reduced price make your order until Wednesday 6pm because after that we'll be busy preparing everything for the festival and won't check Paypal anymore.
If there's a band on the line-up you haven't heard of yet, have a look at our newly updated Band site with infos, pictures and links! If you still haven't booked a hostel or want to know how to get to the venues look here.
Be sure to check our blog tomorrow evening because there will be a booklet with everything important you have and want to know for you to download!
For all the Berlin people reading this tonight is your last chance to catch a Let's kiss and make up DJ Set before the festival. We're djing at EX!T Turbonacht taking place at Ritter Butzke (Ritterstraße 24 between U Moritzplatz & U Prinzenstraße).
See you tonight or next weekend! We're so excited!

I've got pictures of ...

2010-08-05T04:28:00.000-07:00

We want to give you a glimpse of where our fabulous festival will take place.
On Friday we'll start early at Multilayerladen

On Saturday and Sunday the fun will go on here at Wasserturm Kreuzberg

And Saturday night it will be hard for you to leave this place, Golgatha:

But sleep is overrated anyway!

Photos by courtesy of Matthias Heiderich

Cats, sponsors and party plans!

2010-08-05T03:15:00.001-07:00

We've got news! There's going to be a very special appearance by The Cat's Miaow's Bart Cummings at Multilayerladen on Friday! Huzzah, this weekend will start off with an indiepop legend coming over all the way from Down Under.

After lots of contact lists that confused everyone, numerous attempts to write serious and persuasive sounding e-mails and many telephone calls we found two very nice companies who are supporting INDIE POP DAYS. It's the organic and fairtrade bakery Märkisches Landbrot that makes the best rye bread in whole Berlin and Wostok, a new organic soft drink inspired by "Baikal" formerly THE soft drink of the Soviet Union. We are more than happy to have them as supporters as we like their products a lot. You will be able to buy some lemonade at INDIE POP DAYS and maybe even bread with your tofu bratwurst!

Check out their websites: Märkisches Landbrot & Wostok

More News! We found a place for the party on Saturday. After Lucky Soul's set we'll stay at Wasserturm until 1 am and after that me and you and all the other popkids we know will head over to Golgatha and dance until the early morning hours. DJs soon to be announced! Golgatha is a very special venue because it's surrounded by the beautiful Viktoria Park and located at the foot of Kreuzberg - the legendary urban mountain. It's only a 10 minutes walk away from Wasserturm but we will make sure you'll find it by putting up signs. And if you're feeling adventurous or romantic OR even both you can walk up the hill and enjoy a fabulous view over Berlin at night.

That's it for now, only 5 weeks more to go!

Henry Rollins might not dance but we will!

Allo Darlin' - Henry Rollins Don't Dance

Tickets!

2010-07-20T21:22:00.001-07:00

Finally we have some ticket information for you:

Friday evening you can get tickets for 8€ each at Multilayerladen only. You will get to know from when on the club will be open this evening. In any case be early that day because tickets are limited.

Tickets for Saturday and Sunday will cost 17€ each.

Special: you can pre-order a ticket combining Saturday and Sunday exclusively from us for 30€ + 1€ charges making it 31€. Orders are possible via Paypal. Please leave your full name, we'll write down your name on the "prepaid list" once you've ordered a ticket. This also means you have to bring your ID or passport to Wasserturm so we can be sure we're handing out tickets to the right person.

If you're not sure yet if you can go to both days you can buy your ticket at the door on Saturday and Sunday. Tickets will be 17€ each.

Get your ticket here!

If you have any question write to us at indiepopdays@gmail.com
We're looking forward to see you! September's not so far away, is it?

Line-Up, Poster etc. etc.

2010-07-06T16:41:00.001-07:00

You haven't heard from us in two weeks because we were busy getting the line-up ready. We were thinking about announcing the bands bit by bit but what's anticipation in portions good for when you can have all the excitement at once!
So here they are, the bands that will make you hope september wasn't a two months time away.

You already know Lucky Soul will come over from the UK to give you indie pop bliss on Saturday - two more acts will head over to the mainland for Indie Pop Days:

The amazing RAY RUMOURS, our secret favourite at last year's Indietracks, and the dazzling group of people that is ALLO DARLIN'!
Ray Rumours formerly of the legendary Electrelane will definitely be a refresher on Sunday afternoon with her folky, uplifting songs about roadtrips and being honest with yourself while Allo Darlin' make the crowd dance for sure with their debut album that's a contender for best indie pop album 2010.

If this wasn't enough we have yet another headliner to announce. There's an awful lot of bands coming from Sweden (oh really) and these guys are at any rate one of the best dancy indie pop outfits hailing from Gothenburg. We're talking about..
THE EMBASSY!
Yes, you heard right! We're very happy to have them coming over for an exclusive show.

If you think indie pop in Germany is dead you apparently haven't heard of MIKROFISCH. They are more into listening to Scottish synth pop bands than making up but we share the liking of social interaction as both their hit song and our name wants to encourage people to kiss.

Still there are more bands hand-picked at dawn to be served to you on the first weekend of September: Berlin folk darlings FALK & DIE WIESE, Cologne based ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE BRAINDEAD, the lovely STARS IN COMA and to make INDIE POP DAYS a totally European event we give you Spanish punk popsters ZIPPER.

Let's kiss and make up is more than thrilled to have all these bands play! Now have a look at the wonderful poster Roman at Apfel Zet made for us - soon to be pasted all over Berlin!

Ticket infos are coming soon.

A festival is born

2010-06-24T07:24:00.000-07:00

We at Let's kiss and make up are more than happy to make it official: our first festival is going to happen in September. Get yourself prepared for some of our favourite bands from Indiepop, Jangle and Folk! The line-up is almost ready and we'll announce new bands soon.

In the meantime enjoy this dancefloor gem by Lucky Soul. With so much soul and glam and pop in one song Lucky Soul make sure you're going to move your feet!

Lucky Soul - Woah Billy! from Ruffa Lane on Vimeo.