STAGES A/LIVE present Thrax Punks at WE

Digital Premiere: 07.03.2021 at 21:00 (UTC+2)

STAGES A/LIVE goes to Thessaloniki for something a little more… punk. Thrax Punks will be bringing the WE stage to life, uniting all the world’s music on the Onassis Foundation YouTube Channel.

Photo: Alexandros Avramidis

On Sunday, March 7 at 21:00, Thrax Punks are coming to prime us in their very own style of music, which combines rock and punk with Greek folk songs and melodies. Their every live appearance goes beyond the limits of a “standard” rock concert, and this one on the Onassis Foundation YouTube Channel is no exception: set to make everyone dance, whether they enjoy endless headbanging inside smoke-filled underground venues, or like to attend marathon saint’s-day festivals that get all Greece going, especially in summer. Because, as Thrax Punks say themselves, music is a way of creating our own worlds to live in.

What do traditional carols from Thrace and the punk music scene have in common? Thrax Punks – with an effortless mastery that would make even the most seasoned bands jealous, and all the while making something that, until recently, seemed unheard of come across as the most natural thing in the world – have managed to combine Thracian lyres with electric guitars, establishing themselves to date as a case worthy of study in the contemporary Greek music scene. They draw their influences from Mode Plagal, Slipknot, Trypes (“Holes”), The Clash, and Rage Against the Machine, but also from legendary rebetiko (Greek blues) artists such as Markos Vamvakaris, Yiorgos Batis, and Spyros Peristeris. Armed with their gaidas (bagpipes), daoulis (davuls), bows, drums, and six-stringed instruments, they released their first self-titled full-length album in 2019, and a few years earlier christened their debut EP “Punkopanhgyropsychedeleia” (which roughly translates as “Punkfetepartypsychedelia”) – a name that also serves as a good description of what it is they do.

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Photo: Alexandros Avramidis

STAGES A/LIVE

STAGES A/LIVE is a series of concerts without audiences but with lots of music, hosted by the Onassis Foundation YouTube Channel. An alternative digital world tour featuring our favorite bands and artists, and everything we’ve experienced with them at legendary past lives held at landmark venues such as Gagarin 205, AN Club, and other music stages in Athens and Thessaloniki.

Until we can all be together again at a live concert, music will be bringing us closer, even though we’re far apart, helping us to relive memories and concerts shared with thousands of people – both friends and strangers – via our screens. Greece’s indie music stages were created to support young artists, and have supported yet more audiences with bands once unknown that went on to become legends, in no small part thanks to their performances at historic concert venues. Fuzzy memories that today spark nostalgia, and a need for these stages to pull through – places where we feel safe and full of energy.

In this difficult time for people working in the arts, the Onassis Foundation is actively supporting these spaces that, due to the pandemic, are close to shutting their doors for good. Stages drained of artists, of technicians, of audiences – and of life.

An old military warehouse in the city center, used to various ends over the years, has been converted into the WE concert space. This alternative urban multi-purpose venue, set inside one of Thessaloniki’s historic abandoned buildings, has to date hosted some of the most major artists active in the contemporary Greek rap, punk, and pop scenes. The WE multi-purpose venue opened its doors in early 2015 and, in just a few short months, managed to stake its place as one of the most important concert spaces in Thessaloniki. Hundreds of artists and groups have graced the WE stage. Anser, 12os Pithikos, Social Waste, Vevilos, Panx Romana, Pavlos Pavlidis, Giannis Aggelakas, Bloody Hawk, Warhaus, City of the Sun, Xατ Tρικ (Hat Trick), Vodka Juniors, Novel 729, Bad Movies, Psarantonis, Eisvoleas and others have all breathed life into this building on Tritis Septemvriou Avenue. Together with a new generation of artists, WE has managed to create countless memories in the minds of the city’s youth.

Credits:

Concept & Curation: Christos Sarris
Production Coordinators: Smaragda Dogani, Elena Choremi
Production: Onassis Stegi

THRAX PUNKS

Vaitsis Charakopidis (Jr): Gaida / Vocals
George Stavridis: Davul / Thracian Lyre / Vocals
Panos Gkinis: Electric Guitar / Vocals

Sound Engineer: Markos Koutsianas

WE

Location Manager: Athanasios Krezios
Art Direction: Giorgos Georgiadis
Electrician: Christos Giannakaris

Production Execution:
Production Manager & Coordination: Yotis Posporeli
Production Executive: Takis Giannakopoulos
Production Assistant: Christos Papanantsidis

Filming

Director – Camera: Christos Sarris
Director of Photography: Evan Maragkoudakis
Cameras: Dimitris Zivopoulos, Orfeas Kalafatis, Filippos Zamidis, Koralia Dogani
Recording: Themistoklis Dimitrakopoulos, Alexis Archontis
Mix: Themistoklis Dimitrakopoulos
Monitor Engineer: Kostas Kakoulidis
Stage/Backline Technicians: Savvas Christou, George Tachtsidis, Mimis Konstantinidis
Lighting Technician: Nikos Kechagias
Technical Support: Nikos Ntoulas
Editor: Tryfon Karatzinas
Colorist: Manthos Sardis
Photography: Alexandros Avramidis

Onassis Stegi

Technical Manager: Lefteris Karabilas
Technical Director & Project Support: Phil Hills
Production Coordinators: Smaragda Dogani, Elena Choremi

Director of Culture: Afroditi Panagiotakou
Deputy Director of Culture - Culture & Strategy Advisor: Dimitris Theodoropoulos
Communication & Marketing Manager: Dimitris Drivas
Campaign Manager: Kanella Psychogiou

Ηead of Content: Alexandros Roukoutakis
Social Media Manager: Vasilis Bibas
Copywriter: Margarita Grammatikou

Onassis Creative Studio
Head of Creative: Christos Sarris
Motion Graphics: Constantinos Chaidalis
Graphic Design:

Onassis Media Office: Vasso Vasilatou, Katerina Tamvaki