Berlin’s House Of World Cultures has just announced a four-week music festival for next summer.
The title is “Goodbye United Kingdom – And Thank You For The Music!”
People are already speculating about the line-up; previously these summer festivals have featured acts like Asha Bhosle, Khaled, Mike Heron, Ernest Ranglin, Tinariwen and Amadou & Mariam. My guess is that it’ll all be tribute bands from the ads in the back pages of Mojo or Uncut… so we could have the music of The Smiths, The Jam, Genesis, Pink Floyd and er, The Beatles.
I’m pretty sure HKW will put on a good show, as you point out, there are people there clearly with esoteric and arcane tastes. Plus, it seems as if half of the 1980s Manchester music scene now lives here, so there’ll be no shortage of candidates…;)