2015-12-18 Slnko Spirit Festival / Nu Spirit Club, Bratislava, SK

After a long careful preparation, and rehearsing (also us, photographers), the show finally begun!

Maybe thanks to the special Slnko Spirit, people (not only bands) were not that shy to have their photos taken in front of our Slnko logo wall, and Nadja got a more than a hundred great photos:

1. From bands, the last to rehearse were the first to start. Richard Vávra aka Archívny Chlapec with the girls from Dobropić, sweet stuff.

Here they are again, in front of Nadja's camera:

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in different shades

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2. Then we got the girls again with Tu V Dome, in their only 2015 performance!

3. The leader of ceremonies, Pavol Remiáš AKA Lyrik did not only join Tu v Dome, but also the next artist, Katarzia.

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4. Next was Ozo again,with arguably the biggest band in the Slovak alternative, Korben Dallas

With Lukáš Fila on bass:

Juraj Benetin on lead vocal

and finally, Ozo Guttler on drums:

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5. Or is the greatest band of Slovak alternative, Longital, the driving force behind Slnko records?

6. And finally, the star of the night, Hviezda

with the longest arms in Slovak music


and a new drummer, Roman Lauko

And that's it folks! Or is it?

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2015-Dec-18 Slnko Spirit preparations / NuSpirit Club, Bratislava, SK

First off, our thanks to Daniel and Shina for inviting us and to Soňa, Alex and Katja for the organization from Slnko Records, Zuzka and Martin from NuSpirit Club, Harman for sound, Michal and Filip for the stage and all the others for their work to make the last Friday memorable not only for Slnko, but for all the fans of great music made in Slovakia and released here.

Since we got tons of materials from the evening as the official photographers, I would like to start with a little backstage presentation.

First, here's Longital (Dano, Shina and Marián Slávka)

Second, Tu V Dome rehearsing for their only show of the year.

Ozo approves!


And thirdly and lastly, here's Richard Vávra aka Archívny Chlapec, preparing with the girls from the Dobropić female supergroup (consisting of members of Zlokot and Tu V Dome)

While they were prepping up their show, we were prepping up our improptu photo studio for Slnko.

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To see, how the evening folded out, stay tuned here.

2015-Nov-25 Archívny Chlapec, James Harries, Živé Kvety / SNG Berlinka, Bratislava, SK

As other shows at Slovak National Gallery (and its great venue, Berlinka), this show was special.

It combined the songwriting powers of Slovak, Czech and UK musicians in a very organic way.

And lucky me with Nadja were there to bear witness. Now you can see it too.

First it started with Richard Vávra from Kúty, aka "Archívny chlapec", a very promising musician, who just released his first album album on Slnkorecords, called Zvery (Animals).

He is very humble and has a nice sense of humour


But he's also a haunting and powerful singer




Here he is supportin, James Harries, a songwriter currently residing in Prague:

You can see James Harries style and poetry in this piece of handwriting he left us that night

From 2015-11-25 Archívny chlapec, James Harries

And here is all that he played that night:

From 2015-11-25 Archívny chlapec, James Harries

And finally, here are Živé Kvety, an explosion of songwriting from Bratislava, that should not be a surprise to you here by now.

Here you can find the rest of the photos:

and the setlist

From 2015-11-25 Živé Kvety