From 8th to 17th September | 22.30
Tuesday 13th September | Alchemical Wedding
LA PELANDA | ZONA ESTERNA

music

Wow

Bad Peace – Radio Holiday 

a project of Francesca Cuttica and Leonardo Cabiddu
in collaboration with Reb
a production of Short Theatre

www.42records.it/wow 

Many newlyweds spend their first days as a couple away from their city, maybe in some exotic place, isolated from the rest of the world. A kind of self-imposed exile to re-establish a new unit. However in 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono decide to spend their honeymoon for a week in a bed of the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam, and then to Queen Elizabeth Hotel Montreal, to promote ‘peace in bed’, with the intent to do something to ‘change the world’, in what is known to history as ‘Bed-in for Peace’. Well, we are neither John Lennon or Yoko Ono, we are in no luxury hotel, and we’re not married. We put a bed in the common area of the festival and an intimate object in a public scene in order to let the situation open. On the scene there are a radio, a series of concerts, the couple interviews, video projections, etc. The shape is laboratory and experimental in order to make conclusions not predictable. In the period of the festival, the radio will accompany daily the spectators, introducing shows, interviewing guests of the festival, deepening themes and content. Every day, for half an hour, there will be a performative part, with bed concerts, interviews, video projections. On September the 14th , the performance will be extended to Dopofestival, with live concerts and DJ Set.

BIOGRAPHY

“WOW” began as a garage band lo- fi, in Rome in 2009, the meeting of China and Leo, over the years, and through collaborations and exchanges with musicians of Rome east / Borgata Boredom and some French expatriates Great Triple Alliance International de l’Est, to a reactivation of the golden age of Italian music – from Mina, Milva, Patti Pravo, Tenco, Lazarev, Morricone, Ciampi, but also Bechi, Nilla Pizzi, Buti, Trovajoli … – but always maintaining this attitude of the first, immediate and amateur: punk. Love is their first 33 laps in Italian, which was released in January 2015, the independent label 42Records.