i know its far too late by now, but the elevate festival took place this last weekend in graz and - as always - it was a wonderful weekend... and it will be coming back next year for sure!
so it is a 4 days festival combining electronic music, digital media and up-to-date political issues. besides the sonic seduces you'll get to see and hear incredible people talk on stage, like percy schmeiser the nobelprice winner or get first hand tips and tricks from musicians and visualists, how to do the first steps in music or visuals.
it has been really well-rounded 4 days of new influences and people... there is always a very special atmosphere around the city while such festivals take place. graz as a very artistic not too arty-farty, its decent and for this rather small city pretty impressive though. so suddenly the city gets international - usually this happens only during the holiday, when the city is packed with tourists... but now in autumn its rather quiet and it got pretty cold as well the last last days, very typical austrian autumn weather, rainy, cloudy, grey and cold...
but it didn't keep festival people from elevating! ;)
first two days have been free of entrance fee. wednesday we saw amazing bands. locals started off first was mimu, a great sort of 'one-girl-show', she took us through loves funeral with stunning melodies, vioce and visuals.
second was another local act, more a poppy electronic music, followed by the fuckbuttons. music-wise complete other direction but really great, very noisy and freaked out - very cool!
felix kubin completed the evening with an undanceable set and clara moto another local act finished the night!
