The Metronome Prague Competition is heading to the capital once more. From June 20 to 22, Prague will change into the scene of a music competition the place greater than seventy artists will carry out. Along with live shows, guests can look ahead to an accompanying program within the type of stay podcasts, meals for every type of diners, and artwork within the space of the renovated Exhibition Middle. “We would like the viewers to remove greater than a video from the live performance,” says competition organizer David Gaydečka.
The largest attraction of the competition Metronome is, in line with organizer David Gaydečka, the consolation of an enormous metropolis. It’s a metropolis competition going down in Prague. “Our audiences should not on the lookout for the adrenaline rush that traditional tenting festivals present, however reasonably for leisure,” he says. Guests can thus reap the benefits of different points of interest that the capital metropolis has to supply, whatever the ecological nature related to the course of the competition. “We use the town’s infrastructure, we do not construct a campus someplace within the countryside, and we encourage guests to make use of the town’s public transport,” he continues.
Among the many highlights of this yr’s program is the celebration of Michal Kocáb’s seventies, which can take the type of an enormous present along with the Prague choice. “I like to recommend the efficiency of the German group MEUTE to everybody. They mix classical brass with techno,” provides Gaydečka. The spotlight, nonetheless, is Saturday’s efficiency by British singer Raye, who received a report variety of music awards on the Brit Awards this spring, the place she was nominated for seven awards and took residence six of them.
Based on the American and British press, she is aiming for the place of Adele or Amy Winehouse. Three months after this unprecedented success, she’s going to arrive in Prague, the place an hour-long live performance awaits her. “We’re working with Drive Leisure, who know their approach across the music trade. As well as, we flew to London proper after the Brit Awards and attended her sold-out live performance on the O2 area. We knew straight away that we needed her on Metronome,” explains Gaydečka.
Past music
This yr’s theme is Past Music. Based on Gaydečka, because of this guests will likely be nearer to the music than ever earlier than and can expertise occasions that might not occur elsewhere, which have the type of not solely an inventive connection, but additionally an intergenerational one. The singer Aiko, who represented us at Eurovision this yr, will carry out on the competition along with the Bristol band Kosheen.
After twenty-five profession years, they may look again in a particular present 25 years of Kosheen, which after an intensive UK and Australian tour within the Czech Republic will solely be seen at Metronome Prague. The quantity twenty-five can also be one of many the explanation why Kosheen selected the singer Aiko. She was born within the yr the band began. “A present to all guests will likely be a spectacular birthday gentle present, which can finish Thursday’s program on the primary stage with all its splendor,” factors out Gaydečka.
Kosheen PHOTO: Alina Harmash / With permission
PHOTO: Alina Harmash / With permission
Along with music, guests can look ahead to in style podcasts that they’ll take heed to stay. Amongst them are the podcast My youngsters from the station 2020 by Jan Bicana, Fakta X, Nový svět or Čestmír Strakatý. Kristina Kratochvilová will deal with the subject of the way forward for music and can put together a collection of interviews to which she’s going to invite visitors from the music area day by day. It should thus hyperlink to the themes of braveness and the long run, which will likely be mirrored in each part of the competition program this yr. This yr’s premiere is the pop-up gallery Met Gallery, the place main Czech artists will exhibit their works and which can even embrace an experiment within the type of sculptures that will likely be created on the spot utilizing a 3D printer.
In earlier years, audiences might go to the Metronome for 4 days. This yr, this system is shortened to 3, as a result of the organizers didn’t obtain a grant from the Ministry of Tradition, which makes it a situation. “We want public establishments to worth cultural actions extra, which aren’t simply leisure, however have some optimistic financial affect. In the identical approach that hockey was supported, tradition needs to be supported,” explains Gaydečka.
Up to now, Gaydečka collaborated with famend artists, together with Sting and Nick Cave. “Everybody asks me what these stars’ calls for are, however I all the time should disappoint them. For instance, Sting needed tea with ginger and lemon. He focused on singing it properly,” he recollects. There may be actually no scarcity of fascinating conferences on the competition. Final yr, members of the Maroon 5 band took half as spectators, and so they met President Petr Pavlo within the auditorium. “We needed to persuade the band members that it actually was Mr. President. They requested us how it’s doable that somebody so cool is the president,” he says.
