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2030/11/29 Klagenfurt - Austria @Innenhof-Kultur 19:00
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Animals, sex and rock'n'roll

... is the name of the new entertaining reading concert program by NOVI SAD together with the poet prince Christian Schwetz.

NOVI SAD have released twelve (!) music albums since 1990, which have been highly praised by international music critics. The recordings have been released on renowned labels such as Extraplatte, Schallter and Lindo and are available worldwide on all popular streaming platforms via Hoanzl and Rough Trade.

The current album "Wunderschönes Tier" is based exclusively on texts from the new book of the same name by Christian Schwetz (Edition Libica), who has a firm place in the Austrian underground literature scene. The songs are about "madmen", "flying ships", "fever knives", "possibilities" and of course "beautiful animals". We lie "the blue sky", "love nothing" (but really love it) and want "sex for sex". "It's possible" that it will be "almost something".

Publications by Christian Schwetz

2010 "Between Bread and Games"; short stories; Testudoverlag

2011: "Traanbeck's State of Emergency"; novel; Arovell-Verlag

2014: "Mails & Love"; novel; Arovell publishing house

2016: "In the beginning was the A"; collection of texts; Edition Libica

2021: "Wunderschönes Tier"; collection of texts; Edition Libica

as well as in various anthologies and magazines.

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Past

2025/05/29 Vienna @club1019
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What can a band do when they find out just before a concert that their bass player is unable to play due to a serious hospitalisation? Cancel the concert, or try something completely different. NOVI SAD opted for the second option and changed their programme. Calmer songs now take centre stage, as do musically narrated stories to transport the audience into fantastic new worlds. They sing about a god called Barbara, wasp love, truths, blown up ATMs, Coke Zero and Zero Max. New Viennese song flickers through, a little folk, but always varied and with surprises, because NOVI SAD are like that. Since it's hard to have a rocking boom without bass, this time NOVI SAD switch from main act to support act for the great RIVER TYNE!

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2025/02/15 Vienna - Österreich @Café Carina
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The last NOVI SAD concert at Café Carina was also covered by ORF. Maybe it will be ARTE or CNN this time?

But no bomb threats this time, please!

NOVI SAD will serve Café Carina perfectly with innovative underground music - a mixture of schnapps (dirty riffs), American Ice-Tea (catchy refrains), Sex on the Beach (rhythm changes and interruptions - er "breaks" of course), absinthe (suggestive melodies) and bizarre lyrics. All performed by the band's charismatic singer Lilian.

For FALTER, NOVI SAD are "the grand masters of the intimate pop song" and for Concerto "the spearhead of the Austrian independent scene".

Come and multiply!

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2024/12/21 Vienna - Austria @Werkl im Goethehof
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The Christmas special of “Animals - Sex - and Rock'n'Roll” in the Werkl deals with the truth (an important message at X-mas), the granddog (for lack of a grandchild), wasp love, God of course (spoiler: God is a merchant named Barbara) and that basically everything doesn't matter anyway.

And there is much more, and anyway!

“Animals - Sex - and Rock'n'Roll”, the reading concert by NOVI SAD together with the poet prince Fjodor C. Schwetz is great, but the Christmas special is even better. You have to see it!

Admission: free donation for the music-making angels - thank you!

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2024/11/20 Vienna - Austria @CHELSEA
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NOVI SAD are among the pioneers of the Viennese independent music scene. The young charismatic singer Lilian presents the new concert programme with the band for the first time (world premiere!). Chamber beat with rhythm changes and breaks, powerful, sensitive and melodic, as NOVI SAD has been known for many years. Further gigs abroad are already planned.

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2024/06/29 Benguela @Daaram
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Novi Sad live at the Benguela Music Festival!

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2023/10/21 Eisenstein close to Türnitz @Julius-Seitner-Hütte
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Underground in the mountain hut. Plus good food and drink. Definitely the event of the year - but only for those who are prepared to go a little way. Break on through to the other side!

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2023/09/03 Vienna @Volksstimmefest
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We are looking forward to performing at the most beautiful public festival in Vienna:
3.9.2023 - Volksstimmefest at 18:45 on the Jura Soyfer stage.

Free admission!

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2023/04/14 Vienna - Austria @WUK Projektraum
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NOVI SAD are the pioneers of the Viennese independent scene (Wiener Zeitung), the grand masters of intimate pop song at its best (Walter Gröbchen), and at the same time the best of all bands not sufficiently appreciated so far (Concerto). Live they are a stunner anyway. Lilian Grof's soulful voice brings the warming cement to the band's complex music, which oscillates crossover between rock, minimal, chanson, indie folk and noise, between calm and dynamic.
The music magazine Austrovinyl tried to put it this way: "If you like Element of Crime, you will also like the Viennese band Novi Sad". We mean: NOVI SAD are leaping away from Element of Crime, are more lively, more unpredictable, but still full of poetry!
Current albums: Best OFF and Wunderschönes Tier (monkey/Schallter/Rough Trade)
WUK project room: 14.4.2023
Admission: 15,00

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2022/12/16 Siebensterngasse 31, 1070 Vienna @7*
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NOVI SAD, the Viennese indie pioneers (WIENER ZEITUNG) and grand masters of the intimate pop song (FALTER), have released their eleventh album "Wunderschönes Tier" after the pandemic break, and as an encore also added the "Best/OFF" (double vinyl; SCHALLTER/monkey/rough trade): "... a gift from the cloud-covered Viennese music sky ..." writes Der HAUBENTAUCHER.

"This best of all hitherto underappreciated bands ..." (CONCERTO) will take the 7* audience on a trip into their unique experimental universe of indie folk, rock, soul and jazz sounds, art or pop song on 16.12. Get in and let go - the journey begins!

Admission: €12 (for which you get a free Christmas present from NOVI SAD).

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2022/05/29 Vienna @SUPERSENSE/Dogenhof
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3x WORLD PREMIERE
NOVI SAD are changeable and always on the verge of something new. The "grand masters of the intimate pop song" (Falter) mix elements from indie folk, rock, chanson, jazz, noise and chinn-boom in an independent and style-conscious way. This sometimes tender and lyrical, sometimes expressive and experimental music has been immortalised in 10 critically acclaimed albums so far.
On 29.5 we celebrate a 3-FOLD PREMIERE with NOVI SAD at SUPERSENSE: first we present the new double vinyl "BEST OFF" (SCHALLTER/monkey), a selected show of works from the sovereign offside of these pioneers of independent Austrian rock music.
Secondly, NOVI SAD present the regular eleventh album "Wunderschönes Tier", which was created between the lockdowns and released in autumn 2021, and which, according to music critic Bruno Jaschke, is a "time-typical borderline walk between surrealism, a touch of madness, existential insecurity, dissatisfaction and admonishing inklings of lost feelings of life" in the orbit "of the more than respectable NOVI SAD catalogue of works".
And thirdly, it is the first NOVI SAD concert with the beguiling timbre of the new singer Lilian Grof. A world premiere!
Come and open your ears!

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Animals, sex and rock'n'roll

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