Festival Povaleč
7–9 August 2025
Program
I Love You Honey Bunny
ILYHB are a Prague indie-pop band with English lyrics that has been touring foreign festivals for some time. Their music balances between euphoria and melancholy, and the lyrics reflect social events. The way they create and think about music is essential. Although the band members reflect on how they are changing in their new album something remains: energetic guitars, aggressive synthesizers and distinctive melodies.
- 19:00 – 20:00, Áčko
Mat213
He wears his arrogance on his sleeve, with ironically self-parodying lyrics that hold up a mirror to today’s society, and a sound that fuses hyperpop, rap, and folk. His latest album Nesu Oheň—in his own words—is for people who sit on benches and drink just to get drunk. The fast tempo puts you in a trance, but if you really listen to the words, you will hear Mat213 reminiscing about the last beautiful summer, or raging against politicians for building cities that clearly aren’t made for people.
He’s a hyperpop outsider making music for people who don’t want to feel like people. A sad boy hiding his sensitivity and melancholy behind absurd, tragicomic lyrics—because admitting he is serious would probably just make him feel awkward.
- 22:35 – 23:35, Áčko
Space Love
Space Love is an intergalactic audiovisual romance created by VJ Aka47 and music producer VOODOO808. Fast beats, cybernetic vision and digital art and post-rave culture are the basis for an immersive, experimental show. Genres range between hyper-techno, punk, EBM or trance. Aggressive, raw yet emotive vocals are complemented by an underground, boundary-pushing psychedelically dreamy visual ethos rooted in club culture. This really needs to be seen.
- 00:30 – 01:30, Áčko
Holektiv: The Crows
ONE IS CRYING AND TWO IS LAUGHTER,
THREE ARE WEDDINGS, FOUR ARE BIRTHS,
FIVE IS SILVER, SIX IS GOLD AGAIN,
SEVEN SECRETS YOU DON'T TELL US,
EIGHT HEAVEN, NINE HELL
AND TEN SCARED OF THE DEVIL.
They live alongside us, just as they occupy their territories in the forests far from humans. Their colour, hunched attitude and love of carrion have helped them become a symbol of death. But they are also a symbol of birth. Crows as bearers of dreams and secrets.
A movement performance accompanied by live music on one object. The performance combines movement, live music and scenography. For this time in the fascinating setting of the theatron in the castle garden.
CREATING TEAM:
Concept and interpretation: Andrea Vykysalá, Karolína Křížková
Directorial collaboration: Eliška Brtnická
Scenography: Studio Herrmann & Coufal
Music: Terezie Kovalová
Costumes: Michaela Čapková
Lighting and sound: Daniel Kozlík
Production and PR: Andrea Vykysalá (Benková)
The project was supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, Prague City Hall, HAMU, the State Culture Fund of the Czech Republic, Cirqueon, Jatka78 and KD Mlejn
- 21:50 – 22:50, Zahrada
Madhouse Express
Psychedelic fuzz and raw rock’n’roll collide in the Prague quartet Madhouse Express, who, in just a few years, have cemented their place as an undeniable powerhouse in Czech psychedelia and the beating heart of the scene. Get ready for a mind-bending theremin solo!
- 20:50 – 21:50, Áčko
Už jsme doma
Music like the one played by UJD is hard to find anywhere else. It is wild in a punk way, urgent, yet the composition is complex and elaborate with timeless lyrics. The typical features are the trumpet sound, the incredible tempo and the live performances filled with intense energy and humor. This is perhaps the reason why the band as well as their audience don’t seem to get any older.
- 17:20 – 18:10, Áčko
Viktor Ori (SK)
The debut album LEPSIE NEBOLO NIKDY DOBRE NEBUDE (BETTER WAS NEVER GOOD IS NEVER GOING TO BE) is an honest and political statement of the times. The lead singer and guitarist of Shallov has traded English for Slovak, in which he touches on troubling, bleak and radical topics with even greater urgency and musical diversity. Musically, he has moved away from live drums and guitars and added piano, sampling or synths. The result is a combination of urgent epics in the form of radio pop songs along with the cynicism, unease and uncomfortable truthfulness of the lyrics.
foto Damian Hlavačka
- 00:15 – 01:10, Céčko
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ABOUT PovalEČ
Povaleč was founded in 2006. Over the many years of its existence, its core principle has remained unchanged: the festival is built on a group of friends who find joy in organizing it and want to share that joy with others. The main goal is to enrich the cultural life of Valeč, a beautiful village in the Karlovy Vary region. All of this is driven by a desire to do things a little differently — openly, non-commercially, and with respect for all possible forms of culture.