We — KvT, Agente Costura, Dragons, Otolitos, and Stephen Doyle — did a tour in late September and early October 2018, through central Europe. Here’s how it went.
KvT · Stephen Doyle
September 22., 2018 · DAT Fest, State Studio, Berlin
KvT and Stephen played at the DAT Fest 2018, along with many other wonderful weirdos.
Agente Costura · Stephen Doyle · KvT
September 24., 2018 · Experimontag at Madame Claude, Berlin
We played at Experimontag, the regular Monday experimental music night at Madame Claude. Not many photos, sorry.
Then it was into the van for the trip to Leipzig.
KvT · Otolitos · Stephen Doyle
September 28., 2018 · Spelunke, Leipzig
We played at the Krachsalon night at Spelunke in Leipzig — a former factory building.
Some van-repacking the following morning, before leaving.
Then a quick drive to Lesecafé Odradek in Chemnitz.
KvT · Dragons · Stephen Doyle
September 29., 2018 · Lesecafé Odradek, Chemnitz
Some quick sightseeing the following morning.
Back in the van.
We took a quick stop in Strobl in Austria, and then on to Ljubljana.
Agente Costura · Otolitos · KvT · Stephen Doyle
October 1., 2018 · Prulček Bar, Ljubljana
Back in the van.
Agente Costura · Otolitos · KvT · Dragons + Stephen Doyle
October 2., 2018 · Szabadkikötő, Pécs
Then, after some border-crossing fun, we were in Subotica, Serbia.
Agente Costura · Otolitos · KvT · Dragons · Stephen Doyle
October 3., 2018 · Savremena Galerija Subotica
We played in five rooms, doing five overlapping sets.
Symbols and history peeking their noses in the following morning.
Time to get to Belgrade.
We arrived to Belgrade and went off to find Tito’s Yacht — the place where we were to play.
Otolitos · KvT · Dragons + Stephen Doyle
October 5., 2018 · Tito’s Yacht, Belgrade
Found it.
Formerly the yacht of Peter II, King of Yugoslavia, then Tito, then partially burned down in the aftermath of the Yugoslav Wars, now a newly-emerging space for alternative culture and autonomous living, under the name NNK. But everyone calls it Tito’s Yacht.
We played in three different spaces: Dragons + Stephen Doyle outdoors on the front deck, Otolitos and KvT in different spots inside.
Vladimir Opsenica also made a video giving some impressions of what was happening.
The following morning we had a short drive from Belgrade to Novi Sad.
Otolitos · KvT · Agente Costura · Stephen Doyle
October 6., 2018 · Kulturni Centar LAB, Novi Sad
There were kittens.
It took a while to soundcheck, and then we played three overlapping sets.
We left Novi Sad, had more border fun, a brief pit-stop in Kecskemét, and arrived in Budapest.
Otolitos · KvT · Agente Costura + Stephen Doyle
October 7., 2018 · Auróra, Budapest
After a rather unique night’s rest, we got up and headed for Prague.
Otolitos · KvT · Agente Costura + Stephen Doyle
October 8., 2018 · Hybernska, Prague
Next up: Opava, home of the wonderfully adventurous Bludný kámen, and the final event before going back to Berlin.
Otolitos · KvT · Agente Costura · Dragons + Stephen Doyle
October 9., 2018 · Bludný kámen, Opava
We had a day of driving to get back to Berlin, and then a recovery day before playing at Sentimental Punk #35 at Kotti-Shop.
Otolitos + KvT · Agente Costura + Stephen Doyle
October 11., 2018 · Sentimental Punk #35 at Kotti-Shop, Berlin
Sentimental Punk is a monthly series that always presents two live film soundtracks, both played to accompany the same film, which is shown twice. So, we played two combined sets.
The film shown was excerpts from two works from the late 1960s and early 1970s by Carolee Schneemann — Fuses (1967) and Plumb Line (1971) — both newly-digitised from VHS copies of the Super-8 originals.
And afterwards, we took photos, both digital and analogue, with the van.
And that was the tour.
Thanks to everyone who helped.
