V-ROX Festival showcase at Colisium Music Week in St. Petersburg

Pacific musical storm on the banks of the Neva

On April 22 V-ROX Festival showcase will take place at St. Petersburg’s club Fish Fabrique as a part of Colisium Music Week. This is the first on-site show-case festival in Russia, before St. Petersburg V-ROX performances took place in the USA: at SXSW festival in Texas and in California at Culture Collide, as well as in South Korea’s Zandari Festa and in China at Midi Festival.

Pacific Musical Strom will include performances by the young ambassadors of V-ROX 2014 and 2015, the bands from the Far East, as well as special guests from Finland. Colisium and V-ROX Organizing Committees will also cooperatively choose 1 band that is ready to arrive on its own. For that, it is necessary to send an application form to colisiumvrox@2016.vrox.org before April 1. The application form includes: 1 paragraph of the text about the group, number of its members and reference to the city where the band is from, reference to band’s Internet resources, 1 song in .mp3 format, and a link to a video (1 video).

On April 22, at 20:00 at Fish Fabrique, St. Petersburg you will encounter perfect Pacific musical storm from V-ROX as a part of Colisium Music Week. Keep the right course in the sea of music!

Information

Colisium Music Week is an annual music showcase festival conducted in a globally popular “Music Week” format, at which during a few days at a number of different concert venues of St Petersburg ascending musicians of multiple music styles and directions will perform. As a part of the festival a large business conference that gathers key players and market experts will also be held.

Traditionally Colisium gathers representatives of the largest concert agencies, promoters, organizers of festivals and events, booking agency, management artists, musicians, distribution companies, music magazines, FM radio, TV channels, Internet portals, ticket agencies, record companies and studios, video production, concert venues, labels, designers and photographers, security agencies and insurance companies — all key members of the music industry from all over the world. Market professionals from Russia and the CIS countries, Europe, Asia, USA and England act as speakers at Colisium.

Fish Fabrique is one of the oldest underground clubs of St. Petersburg. The building, which houses the “Fishka” is a former squat, still inhabited by artists, musicians, writers and theater groups. There are a lot of workshops, galleries, rehearsal points there. Some details of the interior of the club were made by globally famous art group “Rechniki”. This is the factory kitchen of the St. Petersburg’s club culture.

In 2010, the oldest club of St. Petersburg officially opened a new, more spacious hall — Fabrique Nouvelle, which is located across the courtyard from the old premises and occupies the entire first floor of the famous address Pushkinskaya, 10. In the new hall, which operates on a daily basis from 18:00 to the last guest, extensive art program is provided: from performances of theatrical and musical groups — both from St. Petersburg and guests from near and far abroad, to the cinematic evenings and children’s matinees.