The Crooked are a Toronto-based alternative rock band. Formed from four people with migration backgrounds, it was in Canada that they found each other and a common love for their particular brand of rock music. We talk to Neelesh, a Londoner who lived four years in Berlin as a musician and music journalist before relocating to…
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It’s down to the wire! Choose 2 of the last 4 songs and have your say in what Germany sings on 21.6!
I’m not going to rant, honest I’m not, but I mean really It’s the 21st Century, we’re an inch from fulfilling youthful fantasies like flying cars and people living on Mars; not to mention having our own handheld comm devices like on Star Trek back in the day, and all you hear when you turn…
We’d love to interview you for the FETE Berlin!
You’re young, you’re old, you play an instrument or you sing: alone, in a band, in a choir? Or you have a club, a bar, a bookshop – or a butchers? Only one thing really matters: that you’re doing something for the Fête de la Musique. Big gigs, small gigs, we don’t mind – we…
Europe-wide Singalong for the Fête de la Musique: But what should we sing?
On 20 June last year, people in Berlin’s Lustgarten were part of a Europe-wide Singalong flash mob. In Germany alone, spontaneous mass vocalising took place across a number of cities. Together we sang three well-known numbers, hymns to cohesion and our communal dream of sunshiny social utopia: Beethovens’ and Schiller’s “Ode to Joy”, John Lennon’s…
Voila! The matchmaking tool – stages and bands, everyone’s invited!
So many stages, so many musicians, what to do, what to do? Which is when we had our aha! Moment, the lightbulb went on (not like one of those energy-saving ones, oh no, one of the old ones, halogen, 100W, it came on like a bolt from God and it just didn’t go out). A…
Treptow-Köpenick chosen as district in focus for the Fête de la Musique 2019
Since 1995 the Fête de la Musique has been taking place each year in Berlin, on the 21st of June, the day that marks the beginning of summer. As of 2018, we choose a particular district each year as our ‘focus district’. Although the Fête has been going in Berlin for a while now, a…
All about the Fete – a look under the hood
The Fete de la Musique, now approaching its fortieth year, is of course a great big city-wide party, a time to just forget everything and have fun – playing music, listening to music, having music in the background, dancing, kicking back, you name it: it’s about having a good time. But it’s also true that…
Deadline to register as a stage is approaching fast – make sure you’re with us on the day!
Winter hasn’t quite let go of us yet; spring is waiting in the shadows; and still we know that before we can say, whoops that was quick! the summer will be in full swing and the longest day of the year – officially start of the summer, and of course the day when each year…
How the Fete de la Musqiue came about – and where it’s going from here
The Fete de la Musique came about as an idea in – you guessed it – France, in 1981. The story goes that Paris’s culture minister found out that every second young person played an instrument and he was struck by an idea – there should be at least one day each year when everyone…
Why don’t we do it in the street / a guest post by Noel Maurice, busking expert and expat
What better chance, they said, what better chance to put across that strange, small niche of knowledge that you managed to accrue while meaning to do something else entirely? Yes, it’s true that for most of my twenties and even a bit of my thirties I knew of course that I was about to be…