| on 23-06-2008 13:44
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 Picture the scene: You’re strolling down the street, beer in one hand, an Abrasive Wheels baseline pulsing through your ears, it’s a sunny weekday, everyone else has to work but you, live feels fuckin’ A. And then something jams, a pain in your brain, you feel like you’re being pulled in a direction you don’t want to go…because you are, your Mohawk is trapped in a tram door and it hurts like hell. This is how the Czech punk scene are collectively feeling as Antifest has been wrenched from their studded claws.
Specialising in Czech and Slovak bands alongside featured foreign groups it became a stalwart on the European punk calendar from its location in Svojšice, Cz. But after 13 successful years, confusion in booking bands and rumoured splits with its organizers Agency 92 have left the fest dead in the water. Its reputation was enhanced by the organizers’ commitment to donating its profits to various charities and orphanages. For grieving punks a nip over the border to the Back to Future or Citadel fest in Germany may cure your aching hearts. Antifest touched many hearts in its short life of just over a decade and will be remembered fondly as the festival that smashed instruments, ran riot and swilled beer with an admirable public conscience. Punk is dead, long live punk.
Antifest, festival, b. 1994 Nový Bydžov d. 2007 Svojšice u Přelouče.
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