Popfest Wien: Opening night with the atmosphere of the end of the world and the party – Culture Vienna

This year's curators, music journalist Katharina Seidler and Nino Mandl, aka Der Nino from Vienna, performed outdoors on the outdoor stage in front of Karlskirche's newcomers and young, not very young heroes. The first one definitely includes the Dives founded in 2016, whose group name could be understood as an involuntary reference to prevailing weather conditions. The cool trio of women celebrated with two guitars and garage rock drums between the wooden room ("Roof") and the suspicious pop melody ("Shrimp").

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There was not enough time for a very cool song because of the delay caused by the cloudburst. "Drinking Paradise" – not too inappropriate for a send-off from the festival. The fears that have been nominated for the Amadeus FM4 Dives Award this year should complete their appearance in front of a vacated space, dissipated quickly. Still in the declining rain, the previously fast crowd like lightning, no matter where they dared, returned to the floating scene.

At the latest in the second act, the area was busy anyway. After all, local Weltschmerz heroes of Naked Lunch first gave Popfest the honor. "It's the first group we agreed on in the first game," said Der Nino, of Vienna, wearing no-frills sunglbades, which gave an overview of the conservatives' work. . Carinthia Men's Day preached in their song "Hiroshima Dreaming", "Oh the rain is coming down to bring back the blue sky". A request that has long been heard. Naked Lunch served a cheap selection of his sad and beautiful work of "So Sad" to "It's the Sun" to "Military of the Heart". This clbadic was performed with singer Eva Jantschitsch vulgo Gustav, who invited Naked Lunch for three songs as reinforcement on stage

Mavi Phoenix in the first part of the evening

The first part of the younger generation: Hauptact at the opening night was the Linzerin Mavi Phoenix. The 22-year-old has transformed the space, filled up to the most remote corners, into a great outdoor dance floor in a very short time. There is no doubt that the pop, electronic and hip-hop music of the rapper, presented in recent weeks at the Primavera Festival in Barcelona and at the Danish Festival Roskilde, is also international.

Die junge Artist, whose brand is the voice changed by Autotune, recalled that she had already been produced at Popfest in 2016 – "on fire of some kind of energy drink" while Voodoo Jürgens was playing on the big stage. At that time, she had thought "Oida, cool, I want to play once on this stage". She thought it would only be two years later.

Mavi Phoenix had more than 40 minutes to play due to the delayed schedule, hits like "Cock", "Yellow" and finally "Aventura" – "even though they were turn off "- came out anyway. Item 23.00 was finished. Those still in the concert mood could visit the indoor playgrounds, such as the Vienna Museum and the TU Prechtlsaal, where Paul Plut and Crush were among the most successful

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Frame of the pile test. On the floating stage, there is a Kreisky and Ash My Love on the program today, with Jack Jack, Kreiml & Samurai and EsRAP on the program. Inside, among other things, make music. the neo-folk singer Alicia Edelweiss and the pluralist style Sir Tralala

Sunday will be the first to offer a lyrical afternoon with the new Karlsgarten location at the Kunsthalle and – a traditional line in the Karlskirche. There is u.a. Yes, to discover the panic singer Andreas Spechtl from 23 hours as the last act of this year's Popfest issue.

Incidentally, the rain ponchos were not yet to be packed after the happy time of yesterday. According to forecasts, at least Friday, renewed storms are not excluded.