What is POPKOMM? Is a music fair based in Berlin since 2004 (before it was held in Cologne). You can visit music and entertainment firms stands showing the new trends and all this stuff. Apart from that the best is that you can enjoy during 3 days a lot of gigs from very different kind of bands and musicians. I went just one night and it was very good! And a fourth night dedicated to dj’s. Not very known musicians and producers meet in a place, with a crowded and cheering audience, where they can evaluate the impact of the music in people and most of the times ends in good deals for bands and producers.
The festival is based in the Kulturbrauerei, kind of a very nice and refurbished big old factory in the middle of Prenzlauer Berg (the neighborhood I live) now used for cultural things, like painting schools, bars, discos, radios… it’s great! You have a lot of
bars and spaces where the bands play. And every stage is dedicated to a country. Well, we had a stage dedicated to Catalunya!! Amazing huh? I guess that the Generalitat (catalan regional government) had to pay a lot of money to be in a small stage in the main building of the festival.
I can say that I’ve never been in any catalan rock gig in Barcelona. And if someone would have told me that the first gig I will be in Berlin is from GOSSOS, I would’ve start laughing… but it was! Gossos! Honestly, I was not a big fan of this band, but they perform a very strong live gig, pretty good! Then if you are inside the complex you can change of place as you wish. We saw quite a lot of bands playing, a
nd the quality was impressive. I can say that some of them will be well known in a short future.
VOICST: I didn’t see them live, but a friend of mine told me that this Dutch band will be well known. I heard some songs and sounds very nice. Strong indie, good guitars, at least it was my feeling, although my music culture is not very spread.
And to show you that not everything I am doing in Berlin is drinking beer, eating Berliners and sometimes working, I will post some pics of the Berlin Marathon.
I didn’t know when I was there, but the winner broke the marathon world record, so it is a very important race!
For the ones that have already been in Berlin, the finish line was in Tiergarten, just after the Branderburger Tor, in the 17th of June Avenue (I think this is the name…). It was an amazing sunny day in Berlin. I went to the finish line 4,5 hours after the marathon started. The world record is in something like 2,5 hours.
It was very exiting and moving seeing all those people arriving after almost a life running. You could see they were happy! And not only very fitted girls and guys (yeah, you could see amazing bodies also :-P), but fat people, old people… I really thought that everybody can run a marathon! So, who’s coming with me next year?
The festival is based in the Kulturbrauerei, kind of a very nice and refurbished big old factory in the middle of Prenzlauer Berg (the neighborhood I live) now used for cultural things, like painting schools, bars, discos, radios… it’s great! You have a lot of
bars and spaces where the bands play. And every stage is dedicated to a country. Well, we had a stage dedicated to Catalunya!! Amazing huh? I guess that the Generalitat (catalan regional government) had to pay a lot of money to be in a small stage in the main building of the festival.I can say that I’ve never been in any catalan rock gig in Barcelona. And if someone would have told me that the first gig I will be in Berlin is from GOSSOS, I would’ve start laughing… but it was! Gossos! Honestly, I was not a big fan of this band, but they perform a very strong live gig, pretty good! Then if you are inside the complex you can change of place as you wish. We saw quite a lot of bands playing, a
nd the quality was impressive. I can say that some of them will be well known in a short future.VOICST: I didn’t see them live, but a friend of mine told me that this Dutch band will be well known. I heard some songs and sounds very nice. Strong indie, good guitars, at least it was my feeling, although my music culture is not very spread.
And to show you that not everything I am doing in Berlin is drinking beer, eating Berliners and sometimes working, I will post some pics of the Berlin Marathon.
I didn’t know when I was there, but the winner broke the marathon world record, so it is a very important race!For the ones that have already been in Berlin, the finish line was in Tiergarten, just after the Branderburger Tor, in the 17th of June Avenue (I think this is the name…). It was an amazing sunny day in Berlin. I went to the finish line 4,5 hours after the marathon started. The world record is in something like 2,5 hours.
It was very exiting and moving seeing all those people arriving after almost a life running. You could see they were happy! And not only very fitted girls and guys (yeah, you could see amazing bodies also :-P), but fat people, old people… I really thought that everybody can run a marathon! So, who’s coming with me next year?
