This did not dampen the party mood. In the evening, Parov Stelar caused a stir as headliner with a home game. For the first time in front of a large audience, he and his band presented a new program. On the Ahoi! Pop Summer Stage, Deichkind caused an enormous rush.
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“Everything that is successful will also attract envious people and opponents”
Stelar had taken on the task with “great joy, but also great nervousness”. “Playing at home has a very special flavor. You have to be able to cope with it,” he said. Ultimately, of course, anticipation prevailed: yesterday he could still hear the Kings Of Leon up to his home on Linz’s Pöstlingberg. “Nice, tomorrow I’m going down there to work,” was his reaction. He praised the event: “Linz has more than earned a festival like this. Linz is a technology city, what could be better than a festival like this? I think it still needs a bit of work to get everyone interested. If not everyone likes it: everything that is successful will also attract envious people and opponents.”
He surprised everyone with numerous unreleased songs between the hits. “It was important to me to go down a completely different path for once,” he explained this step. “I asked myself: what is important at the moment? The live business is still a little different from the digital madness that is currently flying around our ears. So I thought, fine, then I’ll just give priority to this live, organic business.” In any case, Stelar put on a mega show with visuals and light: “People pay a lot of money for a ticket, they want something in return and they deserve it.” Of course, there was also dancing to well-known material such as “The Heat Is On”, sung by Elena Karafizi. A brass section provided casual swing, and hymn-like melodies alternated with thumping basses.
Visual stimuli are not in short supply
Visual stimuli were not in short supply at Deichkind either. Interest in the Hamburg hip-hop and electropunk formation was so great that access to the packed area was ultimately prohibited. The police set up an additional cordon in front of the barriers. Deichkind started with “99 Bierkanister” and everyone obeyed the order “Attention, all hands up”. As usual, there were loud costumes, moving stage elements and weird choreographies to songs like “Wutboy” (with confetti cannons), “Porzellan und Elefant” (announcement: “Look how different we are, but we’re all here anyway”) and later in the set “Arbeit nervt”. To “Bentley” they rode on a huge Gucci bag – in a costume that (coincidentally?) was reminiscent of Kanye West’s latest outfits. There was no lack of criticism of capitalism, nor of political statements: During “Bon Voyage,” the actors slid on swivel chairs with the message “Fuck AFD” written on the backrests. At the end, the crowd shouted: “Remmidemmi!”
Before that, Hozier had offered an intense, harmonious concert experience on the main stage, including a political speech. Performing between hip-hip, rock music and electro swing doesn’t seem to be a problem for the Irishman. “We are a nine-person band, including me,” the 34-year-old confirmed backstage. “My music moves between rock and folk and sometimes gospel. There are rock songs on the new album.” Hozier announced a set “with high energy” and “songs to chill out to in between” – and kept his word. Naturally, “Take Me To Church”, which topped the charts in Austria almost exactly ten years ago, received the most intense audience reaction.
Performing the hit live again and again is no effort: “Nobody would listen to songs that you released ten years ago over and over again at home. But performing it live is different because you interact with the audience. Feeling the joy in the audience is part of the whole experience of performing on stage. It renews your own enjoyment of the song when you see the people’s reaction.” Hozier has developed his sound over the years, as his current album “Unreal Unearth” underlines. “That happens of course,” he stressed. “Of course people have certain expectations. But the question is: am I boring myself? Am I excited about it?”
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White jacket and music from the heart
The guest appearance by Benjamin Clementine was also strong. He came on stage in a white jacket and didn’t really fit in with the atmosphere. But the Mercury Prize winner had his audience completely under control with music that came not from a genre but simply from the heart. Soul, pop, poetry and avant-garde – it didn’t matter: whether with a band (including a huge drum kit) or alone at the grand piano, it was an outstanding performance. Gossip couldn’t seamlessly follow on from this force of nature. Front woman Beth Ditto sang with a lot of “Real Power”, the title of the current album, repeatedly sought contact with the audience and was routinely accompanied by her band. But it was only as the show went on that the music became more dynamic. Ditto, however, insisted that they were sick.
So many fans wanted to see a maniac on the loop machine on the Ahoi! Pop Summer Stage that the area was cordoned off during his performance. Dressed only in pants, Marc Rebillet let the bass rumble and the beats get people dancing in his shrill one-man show. But the performance artist, musician and comedian from Dallas can also do something different: he sang gospel a cappella in between. At the same venue, Anaïs had introduced herself at the start with a wonderful voice and light-hearted pop songs. Roy Bianco & The Abbrunzati Boys were responsible for lots of fun and Italo flair. “We promise that people at our concerts can leave their problems with their jacket at the cloakroom when it’s not as hot as it is today, of course, and surrender to the whirlwind of pop music in peace, joy and friendship,” they said in an APA interview. Basically, they see themselves “in the tradition of good, old German-language pop music.” In this context, Roy Bianco mentioned Udo Jürgens and Vicky Leandros, who “packed a certain kind of dignity into their hits, sometimes even a social critique – in contrast to this Mallorca sell-out, as we know it from Ballermann.”
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“It’s fucking hot out there”
There was also room for refreshing indie rock: Leoniden let the guitars and fat basses do the talking on the main stage in the afternoon, coupled with an understanding of a good hook line. “It’s fucking hot out there,” was how Flip from Texta, who invited Attwenger and others to join them for a lively session at their home game, summed up the weather. Shaded spots, especially those cooled with spray water, were just as sought after as free fans and straw hats.
Tomorrow, KIZ, Kraftklub and Ikkimel will be performing. Nina Chuba is also in the pipeline. On Sunday, the festival will reach its grand finale with headliners Sam Smith and the Libertines.
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