Kraftwerk, Branko´s Bridge a Anna Calvi.
The two-day METRONOM festival with excellent organization took place in the Prague Exhibition Grounds. After Friday's offer, which included mainly Liam Gallagher and Morcheeba, several dozen performers appeared on the Holešovice stages to create Saturday's menu. On the CT Park Stage, British guitarist and singer Anna Calvi impressed with her concentrated delivery. The nearly 40-year-old brunette has released three albums, the latest of which is called Hunter and dates from last August. The darker colour of the dominant vocal and the urgent delivery accompany live, and therefore extended, versions of songs that are otherwise relatively standard in studio structure and duration. Anna Calvi delivered a compact, quality and intelligible performance.
Prague band Branko's Bridge (the name is a reference to the famous suicide bridge in Belgrade) prepared a pleasant surprise for their fans in the Radio Wave New Stage space. The four musicians, led by frontman Vojtěch Vácha, played the whole set at a high tempo and in a number of songs they showed unexpected rhythmic changes that gave drummer Daniel Král quite a hard time. The live bassist is visually a bit missing in the line-up, although the line with drums is acceptably held by keyboardist Jonáš Verner. In the words of one of the listeners, the repertoire shows influences of the Doors and Velvet Underground, but you can also hear hints of the sixties and early seventies. The band is energetic, energetic and the drive can be felt in their speech. A promising garage-style performance hints at the potential of this young line-up.
Shortly after another festival headliner, the UK's Primal Scream, legends of the electronic scene, Germany's Kraftwerk (translated as Elektrárna), take to the Metronom Stage. Hütter, Hillpert, Schmitz and Grieffenhagen are the current foursome, interpreting on stage the hits of the visionary Dusseldorf formation, which gives 1969 as the year of its formation. The character and atmosphere of the computer prehistoric era of punched labels comes right at the beginning, when the audience's greeting "Guten Abend" in digital dialect completes the austere modernist scene with four keyboard stands. After the opening Nummern, there are sounds such as Autobahn, Tour de France, Man Machine, Das Model, Radioactivity and We are the Robots. The show has a very multimedia character thanks to the 3D projection, for which you have to use the free special glasses. Virtually all of the compositions are accompanied by a wealth of video material of considerable retrospective quality. When after midnight the concert ends with the obligatory Music Non Stop and the musicians, or rather multimedia artists, gradually disappear from the stage according to the traditional plan, it is obvious that the culmination of the METRONOM festival has been a success. Expressed in binary code, that is, a one and a zero, again, a one.
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