NEW NAMES & DAYSCHEDULE ONLINE

From Friday February 9 to Sunday February 11 2024, the multidisciplinary Grauzone festival will take place in The Hague. Today, the organization reveals twenty new names, including a.o. Legowelt, Ghostwoman, Grandmas House, Slow Crush, and a program curated by the record label Ritmo Fatale. On Friday, December 8, the daily schedule will be announced, and a limited number of day tickets will be available for purchase.

New names in a nutshell:
Cate Hortl - CLT DRP - Curses DJ set - Die Verlierer - Dlina Volny - Dj Belaria - Dj Kimmah - Dj Mayo - Drahla - Ġenn - Ghostwoman - Kendal x Quatuor Zaïde plays John Carpenter - Legowelt DJ set + Legowelt - live score for animation film: Ambient Trip Commander - Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys - Mary Bell - Mouissie - Mvtant - Plexi Stad - Slow Crush - Sophia Djebel Rose - Staatseinde
Full line up here

A festival in The Hague wouldn't be complete without local talents. Legowelt will play an exciting home game with a DJ set and live set as part of his debut film 'Ambient Trip Commander.' Also noteworthy is EBM-Italo hero Kendal, who takes the stage with a classical quartet and strings, paying tribute to synth wizard John Carpenter. Additionally, as the label head of Ritmo Fatale, he curates his own program during Grauzone. From Canada, Ghostwoman brings reverb-drenched psych guitars into a warm analog sound world. Their recently released album 'Hindsight is 50/50,' with nods to The Gun Club, has received widespread acclaim.

From the UK, Drahla presents unadulterated post-punk with unpredictable art-rock. After a three-year hiatus, they've released a new album that made a significant impact; Robert Smith of The Cure is a fan. Also from England, Grandmas House, a full-female trio that previously toured as the support act for Idles, now brings their surfy post-punk to The Hague. Fans of Slowdive shouldn't miss the Belgian shoegaze band Slow Crush.

Grauzone introduces several acts for the first time in the Netherlands this year, including the lively post-punk band Plexi Stad from Antwerp, feminist punk band cenn from the UK ("a sisterhood of psychedelic textures"), and the Berlin-based Die Verlierer. The latter has been playing their gritty and uncompromising punk sound to sold-out venues in Germany and is now set to conquer Grauzone. Gothic artpop comes from Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys, reminiscent of Grauzone favorites like Savages, Emma Ruth Rundle, and Chelsea Wolfe. The genre-transcending trio CLT DRP, with their non-apologetic yet playful approach, has received praise from BBC Radio 1 & 6, KEXP, and Kerrang.

Grauzone also welcomes several DJs, including the emerging talents Belaria from Paris, Mouissie and Kimmah from Rotterdam, Mayo from Amsterdam, and Curses from Berlin, who, in addition to his live set, takes the stage again for a DJ set.