BERLIN POST PUNK! A feminist band*s happening keeps on!

The green T-shirt with the slogan ‘Girls invented punk, not England’ worn by Kim Gordon is surely one of the most memorable outfits in music history. And this slogan is true: the revolutionary and disruptive power of punk should rightly also be called feminist. No other music scene had so many FLINTA people involved, and the entire new wave scene that developed from it has an impressive number of FLINTA artists and bands who took their music in any direction they wanted, sometimes incredibly far away from any rock cliché.

Featured on the timeline: OKRA & L.i.T.

Dark, gritty and always with a touch of humour, the post-punk band OKRA translates the alienation of our present day into a new language:
German-Turkish (Almanci) vocals recount out-of-body experiences in post-migrant society, waiting at the citizens’ office, the experience of childbirth, or Instagram. In doing so, they evoke early feminist punk and NDW bands of the 1970s, such as Malaria or x-mal Deutschland.
On this ride through the ghost train of patriarchy, humour plays just as much a role as the constant search for new means of musical expression.

OKRA are releasing their demo tape ‘Can’ this year on the Leipzig-based label Splitter Records.

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Lost in Transition found their niche in Berlin almost by chance.
Quirky, cheeky, unique with an electronic edge: obscure punk.

Transitions on stage define L.I.T.’s musically fragmented character. A reality we cannot escape: nothing is permanent, everything is in flux.

Doors open at 8:30.

This is sound salon @gruenersalon.berlin!
Curated by Pia H

sound salon is financially supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.