The Synaesthesia Festival is entering its eighth year this year. After seven editions, the alternative festival will start on the weekend of November 10th and 11th in the KulturBrauerei Berlin.
The music event has been taking place in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg since 2015 – like last year, on the grounds around the cultural center and the KulturBrauerei with the Kesselhaus as the main venue. Now the first artists have been announced.
The headliner of this year’s Synaesthesia Festival is the French psych punk rock band La Femme. Other bands announced were Holy Wave, Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys and The Warlocks, who were already present at the first edition of the festival.
“La Femme has been on festival fans’ wish lists for years and we’re thrilled that we were able to convince them to come this year,” said festival founder and curator Alex Remzi.
Tickets for the Synaesthesia Festival Berlin
The Synaesthesia Festival is a non-profit festival dedicated to the presentation of eccentrically composed sounds, off the mainstream, and experimental live music and art in the heart of Berlin.
If you still want to get tickets for the event, you have to hurry. The cheaper early bird tickets are already sold out. Normal tickets are from 78.70 euros following link to have.
History of the Synaesthesia Festival
The festival emerged from the community around the 8MM Bar, which Alex Remzi founded in 2002 as a catchment area for music nerds. In recent years acts such as Spiritualized, Slowdive, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Horrors, Deerhunter, Black Lips, Stereolab and Krautrock legends Faust have been guests.
The first edition of the festival took place in 2015. The idea for this came to the founder and organizer Alex Remzi much earlier. As the owner of the 8MM Bar, he organized the first 8MM music label night in 2006. More than 300 visitors came to the event at the time. In the following ten years, Remzi organized countless concerts. This eventually culminated in 2015 with a three week string of shows and performances featuring independent bands such as The Warlocks, Crocodiles and The Lumerians. That was the birth of the Synaesthesia Festival.
In 2018 the festival moved to the KulturBrauerei. The organizers aim to make the music event better from year to year. Finally, in 2022, Remzi sold his shares in the 8MM Bar and donated the proceeds to found the festival as a non-profit limited liability company with the aim of promoting live music and an enduring, local music community.
What? Synaesthesia Festival VII Berlin
When? November 10 & 11, 2023
Where? KulturBrauerei Berlin