The Avantgarde Festival in Schiphorst near Hamburg is the biggest live event for
experimental music in west Europe. Apart from bands playing live gigs - some of them are seldom seen on stage - the festival is also a platform for installations, film screenings and performances.
***** " ..it was like three days UTOPIA ! ... "
(Chris CUTLER talking to Charles HAYWARD about avantgarde festival 2005)"
matinee starts at 10am
MOKSHA MEDICINE SOUND SYSTEM (usa)
BRIAN MITCHELL/CHAD POPPLE (usa)
KOMISSAR HJULER und MAMA BAER (flensburg)
AMNIAT (hamburg)
STAHL QUARTETT (dresden)
Samba und Capoeira (lübeck)
ELECTRIX GARDEN ( sandesneben/schnega)
soiree starts at 7pm
BLACK CARROT (market harborough)
FAUST (f,a,uk,irl)
DACH ( bucarest,london)
NAD SPIRO (madrid)
THE GRAND ERECTOR (london)
13TH MONKEY (lueneburg)
SUNDAY juli 6th:
matinee opens at 1pm
LABORKESTER (nijmegen)
PLATFORM 5 (london)
SAMESSINA (sandesneben/trittau)
KAKAWAKA (berlin)
PIERRE CHEVALIER/REGINAL TRIGAUX (b/f)
GEOFF LEIGH (hasting)
IVAN BELLOCK (paris)
DACH (bucarest/london)
The KOSMISCHE Djs (london)
The following Film-makers, Sound-makers and Paint-makers will perform and instal during the three days at random times:
Elena Golovnina (moscow)
Rachael Tyrell (london)
Geraldine Swayne (london)
Ronny Waernes (bodo)
Adriano Lanzi (rome)
Mark Aitken and the Polkadotsonraindrops (london)
Julien Perrin (paris)
Gugu Flux (schnega)
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