A series of concerts featuring acts of delicate honesty, ironic lightness and funky energy. In the Club of the Republic, we celebrate love and all its aspects by means of music every Friday. A host of different musicians, bands and formations from the Viennese and the international scenes makes up a rich kaleidoscope of musical soundscapes.
23.5 Love Is a Verb An evening by Malika Fankha
Lan Rex
Rojin Sharafi
ÆNGLIf silence is oppression, music can be resistance. And resistance – as much as love – is an act of will. Will implies choice. We choose to love. To nurture our own and each other’s growth. Let’s amplify all the brave voices and the sounds that insist on connection when division seems inevitable. This evening fans out a multifaceted terrain ranging from electroacoustic cartographies to spheric vocals and queerfeminist pop as an homage to the transformative power of our lived experience as receptive, sensuous beings.
30.5 Love Hört An evening by Dalia Ahmed (FM4)
MTASA
Suprise guest (tba on 23 May)
Enesi M.
RakitaWe are celebrating the plurality of Vienna’s sounds and people: from Reggaeton and Metal White Voice with Enesi M. via Rakita’s mix of ‘hard dance’ and ‘SOFTcore’ to current Nigerian, West African and South African club sounds with Hip Hop, RnB and Soul from MTASA and the strong sounds of a surprise guest who is yet to be revealed. We are celebrating in the spirit of the Republic of Love: loving ourselves, the community and the artistic creativity of Black women.
6.6 No Love Lost An evening by sch:cht x Never at Home
ELSA
Teresa Rotschopf
Michael Stark
ELIS NOA
Farce
DJ EbhardyTwo driving forces in Vienna’s scene see the potential of transience and invite us to explore artistic grey zones. How does the volatility of the moment shape the collective and the way in which we address each other? Never at Home residents show off their work during studio sessions while the exhibition My Body Is A Temple negotiates post-natural body images in the digital era. In the festival hub, ELIS NOA opens the night with haunting songs about staying and letting go, then Farce deconstructs the boundaries of hyper-pop and electronics before DJ Ebhardy makes the night resonate. No Love Lost remains an implicit promise – an approximation of the transient in music, in art and in spaces.
8.30pm – 10pm: Never at home Studios
10pm – 2am: Clubraum13.6 Love Is Here To Stay An evening by Zelda Weber (Radio Superfly)
AUNTY
Zelda Weber
DJ UmeRaw. Real. Full of heart. On 13 June, the festival hub club space will turn into a meeting point for everyone who feels rather than functions. Tanja Peinsipp is well known for her unique voice and powerful fronting with Spitting Ibex and Mary Jane’s Soundgarden. With AUNTY she honours us with her solo project live debut. Zelda Weber & The Rosettes deliver edgy soul with songs from their debut album Crude as well as maybe some unpublished surprises, and DJ Ume will set the dance floor alight. Music as a peace movement, groove as a signpost, love as an answer. Ego trips are out – Love Is Here To Stay!
20.6 Love Is a Song
Lissie Rettenwander
Romantic Slivo and the Burning Hearts
Engelsharfen+TeufelsgeigenThe Club of the Republic of Love’s final concert evening is dedicated to love songs: trashy, fragile, pathetic, embarrassing and utterly over the top. It begins with voice artist and experimental zither virtuoso Lissie Rettenwander with love songs from her youth, accompanied by crashing electric guitar and current commentary. Then Robert Slivovsky from 5/8erln in Ehren appears in his alter ego guise as Romantic Slivo and the Burning Hearts and lasciviously lilts his way through sore hearts and madness with a high calibre band. The evening closes with the DJ collective Engelsharfen+Teufelsgeigen who look into more recent musical history for love songs and – spoiler alert! – hit gold at the most unexpected places: from sentimental ballads to hardcore ... Love. Love. Love.
