Originally written by TheBoyDeadly · 14 May 2008
Floating up the Danube comes news of Bratislava’s Wilsonic festival, billed as “central and eastern Europe’s celebration of cutting edge, adventurous and forward thinking music”.
Usually of course this sort of PR bunkum results in a bill disfigured by the likes of The Automatic and The Hoosiers, with someone like, I dunno, Hercules & Love Affair thrown in as a token nod towards the dance fraternity, but the Wilsonic bill genuinely excites by rendering DrownedinSound ignorant.
And being made to feel ignorant is one of the best things to be.
The names we can pull out from the bill - Skream, Apparat Band, Fennesz, Flying Lotus, Kelly Poland… but really it’d pay just to list the bill in its totality.
Friday the 6th of June SkreamApparat BandFenneszChristian Prommer’s Drum LessonDani SicilianoDeadbeatNôzeIsobutanePetr DrkulaDublicateB.FleischmannSoap&SkinSonorityBatcha de MentalLitwinenkoMatoa2562BeardymanAndrea SartoriTRGMujuiceJeff MilliganMike ShannonLaurine Frost vs. ColdfishChris PlasticNeil LandstrummdOPCraquetone
Saturday the 7th of June BonoboDJ KentaroIndy & WichVarious ProductionFlying LotusLittle DragonClarkGreen RoomMidi LidiModré HoryNovikaKelley PolarCold-Boy-KlanGalunSkillerTom WilsonAuditory Ossicles1000 NamesPiotr BejnarRaz OharaWojtek UrbanskiEddy RamichQuestablistsTom WielandVec
Wilsonic takes place at Tysovo Nabrezie, Bratislava, Slovakia from the 6th ‘til the 7th of June. Tickets cost 550 Slovak korunas, which approximately converts to the ridiculous price of £13.80, (thirteen pounds and eighty pence).