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Raising for the open-air season in Cologne. Also in the 22nd year, the Rheinische Convention Festival, with its mixture of industry congress (1,400 participants) and audience happening with around 30,000 visitors, set the agenda for current pop events.
Hot topic on the compact congress area in the Ehrenfeld district was the question “What’s next for the summer events?” Manifested in the panel “How Music Festivals Can Change the World”.
In conversation with panelist Mika Christofferson from the 200,000 fans festival in the Danish Roskilde, it became clear how much the live landscape is changing. This is due to increased requirements in the environmental and sustainability area. With great costs, the supply of green electricity or accessibility by train has improved with great costs. This has to be brought into a solid financial framework with partially exorbitant cross-stars.
Restrict rounds in the capital: Who will it hit?
At the same time, the audience is changing. Christoffersons is reminiscent of the show of Lil NAS X, which made the Roskilde Ground a widely mega show. Tendencies that are anticipated at the C/O pop. The generation change, it comes with power.
On the other hand, the fundamental development of young and avant-garde funding is under fire. It was read in the Berlin daily press and in the weekly magazine “Die Zeit” that the reduction rounds in the capital “Club Transmediale” (CTM) and the “pop culture” taking place in late summer continue to endanger their existence. So shortly before the abyss.
In Cologne, the situation would be far more solid, says C/O pop-co-boss Ralph Christoph. The mediating position between industry and “underground” would have taken a role model for new projects in other cities such as Stuttgart, Hanover or Nuremberg.
A lively mix that extends from the show case of the Universal Laboration Vertigo to the export office shows from France, Austria, Switzerland or Spain. At the latest after the pandemic, the C/O Pop consistently put on the offspring, according to the motto “You saw it here first!”
In the thick crowd with umbrellas in front of the coolest booth in the quarter
This also included the two sold -out concerts by rapper Apsilon in the local playhouse. Winner in the “Energy Flash” sector: The Kenyan world citizen Kabeaaushé, with a sweaty bouncy appearance in the Club Bahnhof Ehrenfeld (CBE) and the Swedish genre crusher Boko Yout in Art Theater. At the same place, the punk trio we hate to please you (two women, one man) turned all clichés of French pop music upside down.
In the proverbial “medium-sized club format”, which extended alli Neumann in Live Music Hall until Alli Neumann’s sold-out show, the C/O Pop was once again expected its reputation as a discoverer event shortly before the career.
Even if it rained about 36 hours of cats and dogs like in Woodstock at the start of the festival. Resourceful guests stood in the dense pulc with umbrellas in front of the coolest booth in the quarter. The sun then laughed again on the audience weekend. As I said, the cool mix does it.