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!
♥
4/28/2011
4/21/2011
Who would have guessed that!
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
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
4/20/2011
4/13/2011
Let's dance and make up
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!
4/06/2011
First Band Confirmations!
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.
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.
3/25/2011
Thank god it's friday
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!
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!
3/19/2011
It is on again...
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!
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!
9/08/2010
Indie Pop Days Pictures are on!
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?)
9/06/2010
Bye Bye Love
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!
9/04/2010
The festival's on!
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!
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!
9/03/2010
Indie Pop Days starts...
...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
9/01/2010
If Rain..
.. 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
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
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