Background
The festival's first edition was a humble affair that presented the local rock and punk rock bands. It was organised by SubArt, a local cultural NGO, that already in 2010 set up a much more ambitious event that not only consisted of music concerts but was coupled with a skate session, various workshops, a fire performance. The concerts themselves were a curious international mix of extreme metal, klezmer, punk and ethno, and took place at Rock Bar Down Town. There, the festival was more or less held there until 2012, when Trainstation Squat was opened at a part of the festival moved there, with a similar thing happening two years later with another new venue called Layer's House being opened.
Programme
While the festival used to cater to harder musical genres like punk and metal, this orientation was soon redefined and also started encompassing reggae, hip hop, rock, jazz, techno and more. Some of the hosted musicians from abroad were Edo Maajka (BiH), Korai Trancemission (HU), Joke (FR), Repetitor (SR), Trankilesha (FR) and Kultur Shock (USA). Of the local ones, there were Demolition Group, Fake Orchestra, Raggalution, Vasko Atanasovski Trio, Red Five Point Star, Godscard, Dead Dildo Drome.
The additional programme consists of a plethora of activities. Besides the one mentioned above there is alo slacklining and yoga sessions, garage fairs, urban light shows, circus, cabaret, graffiti workshops and projects.
that is otherwise setting up its programme in Trainstation Squat.