vernissage season has started again..

             



After a few weeks absence due vacation and work, I am happy to be back on my blog!
In Vienna is still all the same - who is suprised?
But the vernissage - season has started again and all art fans and alcoholics should be glad.  
This youtube video shows me why I will always be set in a taxi after an vernissage but also why I became an art fan.  
For those who want to make it like my buddies, check out this vernnissagen Calendar:

http://alerieschuebbe.kunstmarkt.com/pageskal/wien/i226552_i228254_i228255_i228258_i228259_i228260_i228261_i228262_i225406_i225407_i225410_i224718_i225413_i225412_i225411/kalender_uebersicht.html 

However, caution forbade home!

Cafe Drechsler

With its central location on the Naschmarkt-area, Linke Wienzeile 22, the Cafe Drechsler attracts a diverse crowd of night clubbers, tourists and yuppies. Serving traditional Viennese cuisine and coffee like mostley in Vienna, the Drechsler stands out because they open 23 hours daily. So in the early hours this coffeeshop turns into a big after-hour place with sometimes famous dj's on the turntables and so it is more famous for its after-hours parties with the Viennese party scene as for the traditional history of the house.
Few years ago the legendary cafe was also stylishly new created by British designer Sir Terence Conran.
So I guess I will see you at the next afterhour!

www.cafedrechsler.at

Cirque Rouge

Yesterday I finally made it to one of the famous Cirque Rouge parties, and I can only recommend a visit.  
It's always a mixture of a secret 20s underground-bar and a naughty 50s Cabaret. The highlights are the fabulous burlesque numbers. The audience also put you into a bygone era. All are geared to different periods and the world of Burlesque, Pin-Ups, Cabaret, Dandy & Diva, bohemians, Glamour, Mafiosi, etc.
So the ladies sit down with accessories such as cigarette holders, feather boas, gloves, pearl necklace, stockings & tip into the limelight - the men with hats, suspenders, cuffs, pointed beards and side parting.
Even the location, the "rote bar" in the Volkstheater, underscores the retro athomsphere.

 

So don't miss the next Cirque Rouge!
http://www.cirque-rouge.com 

 

Restaurant Schilling

Serving the neighborhood since more than 90 years, this place is one of the most original “Wiener Gasthäuser” in the Burggasse 103, 7th district. Offering a wide variation of local brewery products, a nice choice of Austrian wine and the traditional Viennese kitchen like schnitzel, Backhendl and goulash are as they should be.
Experience a charming dinner in its original place till midnight.
www.schilling-wirt.at 

Rauminhalt

Best place for all Ikea haters and vintage lovers: Rauminhalt, located in the Schleifmühlgasse 13 (4th district), offers a great mix of mid-20th-century design furnishings.
The prices here are fair and the one-of-a-kind pieces are relatively affordable.
Aside from classic design pieces by the likes of Verner Panton and Arne Jacobsen, there is a large assortment of Scandinavian furniture from the ‘50s and plastic design furnishings from the late ‘60's.
Rauminhalt also organizes innovative exhibitions, like the recent Daniel Spoerri chair installation.

check it out: www.rauminhalt.com

 

Ken Hayakawa - Wien bei Nacht

 

Ken Hayakawa, born 1982 in Salzburg, spent a good part of his early childhood in Japan, the homeland of his mother. With six years he began playing the piano, but the career as a concert pianist remained unfinished. After a successful skating career, Ken Hayakawa again discovered his passion for music and is enjoying Austrians Electric Crowd with his DJ gigs! He already had his first publications on Vekton music, Frosty Minimal, flex records, Flash and many more. 
His current "club-hit" is Wien bei Nacht (Vienna by night)
 

check it out: http://www.myspace.com/kenhayakawa

Nude Visions

Let's start the new year with some art... 
The WestLicht gallery (Westbahnstraße 40, 7th district of Vienna) is worth a visit again:

The exhibition nude visions invites the observer on a journey through the collection of body images of the Münchner Stadtmuseum. More than 250 photographs, portfolios with printed nude studies, as well as central examples of the 700 tome stretching library of nudes from the 19th and 20th century are presented in seven chapters from their beginnings until the present day.

 

 

Check it out: http://www.westlicht.at/

 

Interview with: Nino aus Wien

23 years old Nino aus Wien (the Nino from Vienna) alias Nino Mandl, is a talented "indie-folk" singer from Vienna. With 15 he was in a gang, sniffing glue all day and stealing bicycles at night. But then he started to make music. In december 2008 he released his debut album "The Ocelot Show" with Problembär Records. In Frebruary 2009 he made the fifth place at the fm4 Protest Song Contest. Just six months after the praise heaped on debut "The Ocelot Show" Nino published in June 2009, his second album "Down in Albern" (down in silly), which he has handled with his usual charm and humor. The single, "Holidays" made it in the Austrian charts. With "Du Oasch" (you ashole) he coupled out a second single and video and had one of the biggest indie hits of 2009. Followed by "Down in Albern" in 2010.Nino collaborated in early 2010 with Urbs and Skero of Austria's Hip-Hop scene, and the second part of" Du Oasch ", "Immer no Oasch" (still ashole) arises and is published in March 2010. This year he was also nominated for the Amadeus Music Award as best alternative. At the moment he is working on his new album which appears in 2011.

 
Where do you get all the motivation to make music?:
 
Motivation? Everywhere! I probably have much to say, so I write songs about everything what is going on in my mind.

Many of your pieces are melancholy and slow. Like your own emotions?:
 
I never wanted to make party music. Maybe there are also influences when you hear yourself more sorrowful music. I'm not necessarily a very sad person, I'm almost an optimist.There are even songs wich are quite happy like "Holidays", and the funny thing is,  I was very sad when I wrote it.

Is making music work for you, like a fulltime job?:

 Of course. You have to consider and to write. But most of the time consists of waiting. You have to wait a lot. So maybe like a part time job mixed with a fulltime determination.


Will you also sing in English, for the international market?:

Well my German is much better then my English. In "Holidays" and "Du Oasch" I have English words like "holidays" or "bitch", since I am a little bit more hip-hop-like. But I also have some entirley English songs, only no one knows because they published only a small part of the whole. Until now...


Do you want to be played on mainstream radiostations like Ö3?

I would not mind, but I believe that my published things are not so suitable and fit more on FM4. Perhaps at some point what fits, but I do not put on it. Skero is now on Ö3 and Bunny Lake as well. That happens.

Would you describe yourself as indie or mainstream?:

 I have read that in Vienna too much "indie" is going on. And that "indie" is the new pop for Austrians. Maybe its just that more indie-songs are played on mainstream radiostations. These typical Ö3 things are quite short-lived. This is not so satisfactory in the long run. Perhaps a change comes along, and we are the new superstars in Austria.


What does your family say about your music?:
 
I think they like it. Probably because it's heard in the radio.

So youre grandmother has to listen indie FM4 now?:
 
No, but there's a funny story. I gave my grandmother my CD "Down in Albern". A couple of songs are very strange. Even the first song, there is such a noise. And my grandmother thought her CD player was broken, and has thrown it away.
 
Especially since your Amadeus Music Award nominations you are well known. How does the success feel and are you getting recognized on the street?:

Great and strange, but recognized on the street? Absolutely not! 


When can we expect a new album from you?:
  
We will publish something this week, but no album. I think the album will come in spring 2011.



check it out: http://www.myspace.com/ninoshouseband
 

Ogris Debris

Two Viennese guys conquer, with their somewhat synthy blend of techno and house, the dance floors of international clubs. They already toured in Japan and Europe, and the last hit Miezekatze is played up and down from BBC DJ Gilles Peterson and Austrians FM4. They also been nominated for the Amadeus-music-award in the Electronic / Dance category. Ogris Debris alias Gregor Ladenhauf and Daniel Kohlmaigner have first met seven years ago. As a band, they started in 2005 and since then they wear on stage.
The first release of the two was in December 2008, with the 12 inch G-Thong / Hide Open at the GermanCompost Records, followed a year later with the 12 inch Raid the Itch. Both songs were the first club hits of the duo.
The influences in their music knows no boundaries, ranging from funk to rock, jazz, hip hop and electronica. They get the inspiration from bands like Autechre, Aphex Twin, Nine Inch Nails and legends like Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, Michael Jackson and Prince.
Ogris Debris also like to quote the electrical pioneer Karlheinz Stockhausen, who claimed that a real electronic has to vibrate at least once a week to be dancing under the disco ball and so show us always a little bit of humor as well.

check it out: http://www.ogrisdebris.com/

 

Cabaret Fledermaus

Thursday and Sunday are exactly not the most popular days to party in Vienna. No clue where to go? Then off to the legendary cabaret Fledermaus, in the Spiegelgasse 2 in the first district of Vienna.  
Great 60s sound and indie hits, a cool atmosphere, a well-mixed young and hip audience and of course lots of 60s freaks guarantee an unforgettable night of partying!

So every thursday:

FREAK IN
INDIE vs WILD BEAT FREAK!
Top DJs play from a brilliant set with special rarities from the 60's mixed with wild mercilessly independet new sounds!  
DJ DEE DEE & DJ ELK, known by many FREAK events, always play special worship songs from his record collection.
The entry is €5 and  €2 Admission for the FREAK IN tickets (always available inside Cabaret Fledermaus). 

and every sunday:
 
FREAK OUT! - THE TRIP IN THE 60's & 70's
The wild party with the 60's FLOWER POWER and the hits of the DOORS, STONES, BEATLES, WHO, SMALL FACES and the iconic rock sounds of Led Zeppelin, Cream and Jethro Tull!
Entry €5 and €2 - Admission for the FREAK OUT tickets.

 

have fun and check it out: http://www.fledermaus.at/