The first edition of SpaceFest! will be held in Gdansk on 9-10 December.
SpaceFest! in 2011 will comprise of workshops for professional musicians ran by Ray Dickaty (ex-Spiritualized) and Karol Schwarz (KSAS, Prawatt), concerts, meetings with artists and a competition for young bands.
Over 10 shoegaze, space-rock and alternative bands will play gigs on 9-10 December, among them White Noise Sound (UK), Ścianka (PL), Jaime Harding (UK) and Simon Scott (UK). The performance by Pure Phase Ensemble – the collective of 15 musicians playing songs composed during the workshop will be a high point of the festival.
SpaceFest! teaser
WHITE NOISE SOUND – SUNSET
FUKA LATA
NASIONO (SHOEGAZE) ALL STARS – I NEVER WANNA FEEL LIKE
I Never Wanna Feel Like is a song based on Spiritualized Pure Phase Tones for DJs. It was recorded last year by Nasiono Shoegaze All Stars – a collective of local musicians from Tricity. For the purpose of SpaceFest! workshop we are extending the group and invite British and Polish musicians to join us: Ray Dickaty (ex-Spiritualized), Jaime Harding (Marion), Piotr Pawlak (Kury), Wojciech Jachna (Contemporary Noise Sextet) among the others. The collective renamed to Pure Phase Ensemble will play together on 10th December 2011 at SpaceFest!
general:
Karol Schwarz
+48 791 150 105
love@spacefest.pl
for press:
Natalia Taranta
+48 500 178 857
press@spacefest.pl
Press info (with hi-res photos):
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