The first edition of the music and city culture festival Station Narva will take place in the easternmost Estonia are the grandmasters of nocturnal pop Echo & the Bunnymen and the cerebral electronic music producer Actress, both from the UK.
The festival is powered by Telia and supported by the Narva City, the Nordic Council of Ministers’ Office in Estor DIGIX.
Station Narva 2018 Festival Passes will be available for purchase on Tuesday, 3rd July at 10 am through the Piletilevi ticket platform. The first 200 passes can be bought for only 29 euros.
This first edition of Station Narva will be held in the surprising diamond in the rough that is the city of Narva in North-Eastern Estonia’s capital Tallinn and 130 kilometres from St. Petersburg.
The live music hotspots of the festival will be the Kreenholm Manufacturing Company and the cultural hacktivists’ headquarters Art Club Ro-Ro. The multiple stages of the main venue will be set in the grand industrial architecture complex of Kreenholm island, that was once home ton spinning mill.
Keywords ‘grand’ and ‘majestic’ are also suitable for the legendary Echo & the Bunnymen whose dark, swirling fusion of gloom and theatrical psychedelia is bound to McCulloch.
Actress (real name Darren J. Cunningham), the creato a parallel world‘ LP, he has released a collaboration album with the London Contemporary Orchestra (LCO) on Ninja Tune entitled ‘LAGEOS’.
Kreenholm will also embrace the gender-and-genus-bending industrial pop by Gazelle Twin, the moniker for British performance artist and producer Elizabeth Bernholz. In 2017, she released the tribalism-and-fascism-exploring “Kingdom Come,” based on the eponymous book by J.G. Ballard, and she’s already gearing up toral,” during Station Narva.
Swedish singer-songwriter Jenny Wilson, who has collaborated with the likes of The Knife and Robyn, will perform songs from her latest unflinchingly honest full-length “Exorcism.” St Petersburg’s Shortparis will offer the audience a thrilling ride on the dark side with their spastic dance grooves and falsettomobile Club) will play their irresistible hoodlum-hymns. With reverb pedals plugged in and amps turned all the way up, the Finnish shoegazers Joensuu 1685 are readying for their global comeback; also from Finland comes the grime and dubstep mixing hip-hop star View.
Estonian music scene will be represented by the hip-hop unit Eksponatika Klan, Narva’s finest rapper Propazha, and an acoustic kitchen-style gig by local troubadours Tam i Tut.
Besides the main musical frenzy, the whole city will come alive with sights, sounds and interactions – from art activities in Narva Art Residency together meal at the long table with a backdrop of the picturesque River Narva and the silhouette of the Ivangorod Fortress over the borderline.
Station Narva’s info desk along with DIGIX Games Café will be open in the main atrium of Narva College of the University of Tartu from 20th to 23rd September. The full programme of Station Narva 2018 and new performers will be announced during July and August.
The pre-sale of Station Narva 2018 Festival Passes begins on Tuesday, 3rd July at 10 am at Piletilevi web shop and sales points across Estonia. The first 200 passes will be available for only 29 euros. Next round of passes will cost 39 euros. Single Day Tickets can be purchased from September.
Station Narva is organised by Shiftworks OÜ (previously Musiccase) — the team behind international music showcase festival Tallinn Music Week — in cooperation with representatives from Narva: Narva Gate Ltd, Art Club Ro-Ro, Narva College of the University of Tartu, Narva Art Residency, festival BAZAR, Comedy Estonia, Lamperey Festival, and NGO Uus Sild.
Station Narva 2018 is part of the Estor DIGIX.
In cooperation with TheNordics.com, Station Narva aims to show how Nordic thinking and Nordic values characterised by common ideas and values like openness, trust, and new ways of thinking, sustainability, and equality can work across borders, cultures and generations.
2018 marks 100 years since the founding of the Republic of Estonia. For more information on centenary events, please visit EV100.ee.
