Welcome to We Love Budapest's weekly guide to the weekend: here's where to go, what to do, and who must not be missed.
FridayDansmusiq Presents: DJ Hell @ A38 Ship, 23:00
The last of the real DJ icons is back to present you his unique vision of electroclash and techno. After 30 years in the music and fashion industry, DJ Hell is still on fire with club bangers and remixes of the highest quality - the most important party of June!
An unequivocal industry visionary, DJ Hell's career has embodied and then transcended his many guises:
Anti-Superstar DJ, International DeeJay Gigolo Label Boss, GQ Man of the Year, Playboy, Jetsetter, Bon Viveur, Munich Machine, New York Muscle, etc... Seeing and envisioning – that is of enormous relevance to Hell. He managed to convey pure artistic prowess as well as pure style during his three-decade DJ career. The individual look, the do-it-yourself approach, the elitism. On Friday, he will hold a lecture about how electroclash and techno should be played. And the cold-hearted, industrial, but stylish interior design of A38 will fit perfectly to the mechanical rhythms and banging beats of Helmut Josef Geier. Let's rock the boat!Hamburger Days 2014 @ Millenáris, noon Worth the (over)weight, the Hungarian Hamburgers Masters step into the arena to prove that there is nothing like chowing down on a good burger.
20 - 22 of June (aka Hamburger Days) is the weekend when Millenáris will be filled to the brim with sizzling and toasting and grilling these artery-clogging delicacies that are so hard to live with or without. Competitors can enter in three categories: beef, extra, and vegetarian, so everyone will get their heart’s desire while eating their fill. This is not a day for the squeamish – Budapest's best hamburger chefs gather to show what they, and their burgers, are made of.Beat Dis - Revolt And Other Boring Things... Album Premiere Party, Lucrecia Protellor @ RoHAM Bar, 22.00 A truly unique Hungarian trip-hop/urban rock band will kick out the jams with a new album under their belt.
The finest Hungarian trip-hop/bass-rock band, Beat Dis, finally finished their fourth album, titled "Revolt And Other Things". Their concert at the art café/concert venue
RoHAM bar will be your first chance to hear the new songs and buy the new CD. Altough they no longer have Judie Jay and Alba Hyseni, Tamás Csigó is like a Hungarian version of Tricky or Jim Morrison, which is kinda enough reason to get interested about them. They are a real treat, mixing frustrated hip-hop with atmospheric rock 'n' roll, and Portishead-esque trip-hop with post-punk.Tesla.rar Garden 001 - The Rum Diaries @ Tesla.rar, 17.00 Usually a good weekend includes alcohol – but what happens if you get tired of the beer/schnapps/vodka routine? You try something different, like seven kinds of rum which can only be found at Tesla. Bottoms up!
Following his victory and death at the Battle of Trafalgar, Horatio Nelson's body was preserved in a cask of rum to be transportated back to England. However, upon arrival the cask was opened and found to be empty. The [pickled] body was removed and, upon inspection, it was discovered that the sailors had drilled a hole in the bottom of the cask and drank all the rum, hence the term "Nelson's blood" being used to describe rum. Tesla's pop-up rum bar offers seven kinds of rum (from Barbados to Nepal) that cannot be found in other clubs/bars – let's drink ourselves into an embalmed state!SaturdayDifferent Drum @ Gozsdu Manó Club, 23.00 Liquid drum 'n' bass is one of the most pleasant musical styles, and hundreds of DJs from DJ Marky to Calibre know it. This a party dedicated to this kind of drum 'n' bass.
focuses on
genuine drum'n'bass music that's not mainstream , with
classic tunes
also thrown into the mix. Different Drum focuses on
soulful, jazzier liquid drum'n'bass , but stronger, technoid slashers can also happen.
Ths week's lineup:
DJ Ren, Mentalien, and Markov. However, if your pulse is like an amen break all the time, the sunny bow bar of A38 turns into a soulful dnb party every Friday as a part of Friday At A38.Animal Bodies, Gustave Tiger, Evvolves, Küss Mich DJs @ Kontra Club, 21.00 Rock around the clock, – aka female-fronted bands from all around the world. They share the love of noise rock, pop hooks, memorable melodies, and weirdness.
Three bands, all female-fronted, with influences ranging from early coldwave to the bands of Captured Tracks.
What is similar about the three of them is that they will surely blow your mind.
Animal Bodies play noisy industrial/coldwave with noise-rock influences. Gustave Tiger sounds like they were one of the
bands with Captured Tracks, only a bit more innovative than them. Evvolves
play an interesting mix of
shoegaze and
noise rock
with
pop melodies
and
memorable hooks.
After them, Küss Mich DJs will play.Mental High'gene: Billa Qause, MaStuCa (Mango, Cadik, Dizko Stu), DJ Slow @ Instant, 22.00 If J Dilla changed your life too, or you are just a fan of abstract beats, old-school hip-hop, and funk, this is your night. A bunch of beatmakers at the same place.
Greek DJ and producer Billa Qause is the master of MPC and part of the Pad Trio together with J. Melik and Kill Emil. But apart from the old-school hip-hop flavors, he is also into absolutely abstract beats that will surely make you think of artists like J Dilla. If that's not enough, well, check out the cream of the Hungarian beatmaker scene – from Cadik and Modul aka Mango to Soulclap Budapest's DJ Slow, all for your head-nodding pleasure.Night Of The Museums 2014 @ Multiple Venues, 20:00 The name pretty much says it all: culture into the night. You just have to plan carefully to have time for all the places you want to visit with one single ticket.
Have a sleepover with history: spend the night at Budapest's museums and find out if the exhibitions really do come to life after hours. Museums open their doors to visitors until 2:30 am for this year's Night Of The Museums. Participating museums include famous museums and galleries, like the
Hungarian National Museum , the
Museum of Fine Arts , the
Budapest History Museum , the
House of Terror Museum , the
Hungarian National Gallery , the
and the
Hungarian Natural History Museum . Unique museums with quirky collections are also on the list, such as the
Hospital in the Rock Museum , the
Underground Railway Museum , the
Museum of Electrotechnics , the Postal Museum
and the
Museum of Transport . There are more than 1,000 programs offered, all of which can be visited with the same single ticket; including bus transfers between main venues.SundaySilverstein, Shell Beach @ Dürer Kert, 19:00 Emotionally powerful post-hardcore from two bands. Heavy guitar riffs, even heavier breakdowns, lines to shout with thousands of other fans.
Formed in 2000 in Burlington, Silverstein has become as close to a household name as you can get in the post-hardcore scene. After five full length albums, three EPs, a live album, a mini album, and numerous 7” singles and collections, Silverstein has sold more than a million albums worldwide. The lineup has remained largely the same over their 12 years on the scene and features Shane Told (vocals), Paul Koehler (drums), Josh Bradford (guitar), Billy Hamilton (bass), and Paul-Marc Rousseau (guitar). This time they are touring with their newest album, titled "This Is How The Wind Shifts".
Kovary @ Holdudvar, 23:00 The classic David Bowie song goes like 'put on your red shoes and dance the filter disco' – or is it just us who see the world in a different light after some sexy and funky DJ set, filled with disco classics?
Kőváry Péter (aka Kovary) is a hyperactive talent for sure. Apart from playing in Neo, he is a talented DJ, a good producer and a vinyl fetishist. As a DJ, he fancies the soulful funk and disco of the seventies and the French house of the nineties – but sometimes wanders into deep house and nu-disco territories. He shares the turntables with the biggest names like Yuksek or 2manyDJs, and all his remixes are wicked dancefloor bombs. Be warned: it's not a night where you can just sit and relax.Beer Festival At Józsefváros @ Mikszáth Kálmán Square, noon Hungarian artisanal beer, well-known Czech favorites, dessert beers, and, of course, ciders! The festival will also focus on fruit-fueled beers – the fruit of the festival will be sour cherry.
Good beer and festivals with free entry are both always popular, and the Józsefváros Beer Festival has both. It would take an hour (or a long lunch break) to list every brewery that will participate in the festival, including flavorful fermenters from Japan to Hungary. The focus is not on countries or similar nonsense, but on the sour cherry, so this will be a festival with the largest number of different kinds of cherry-flavored beers.VasARTnap #04 @ Pótkulcs, 19:00 A trip into the rushed mind of Eraserhead, Nurse With Wounds, and Alejandro Jodorowski through free jazz, cold industrial noises, and a special black-and-white exhibition.
The pictures of Richárd Petrikovics are inspired by the films of David Lynch and
Rorschach tests: a dive into the minds of individuals, into hidden fears and surreal dreams. The soundtrack will be provided by four very special live acts: Skogn will play ambient with some glitch-y IDM influences; Kinzo Is Here is like the unholy child of Enduser and Venetian Snares aka reggae/breakcore/IDM/chainsaw massacre; Kontrast is about mixing free jazz with ambient-drone soundscapes; and during the set of Zefyr, everything can happen.
