GR80s at Onassis Stegi

17 February | Exhibition Hall -1 | 21:00 | Free admission

Remember the songs you used to listen to on repeat and dance the night away to them at an eclectic 80s party in the Onassis STEGI exhibition space in collaboration with six d.o.g.s. The Greek 80s wasn’t just disco and it wasn’t just Greek pop, either. It was New Wave, it was punk, and it was metal. The nation’s dance floors were awash with stilettos and carnations, but Greek teenagers were at home wearing out the play/rewind buttons on their cassette decks beneath Dark Wave posters and round their friends’ houses setting the synths alight. All that and the rest--rock, instrumental, metal, lyrics Greek and English--will provide the soundtrack for an evening every bit as eclectic as the decade it’s dedicated to. Ten disk jockeys with the Eighties in their blood will be manning the decks for 45 minutes each from 21:00 till dawn, covering a huge range of music, playing most of it on authentic vinyl. Songs produced in Greece between 1980 and 1989, some obvious but others that will surprise you, will revive the musical spirit of an era which has been loved, sung about and misunderstood like few others, Disk Jockeys: Vouno / Cult Invaders / Theodosis Michos / Mr. Z / Dimitris Papaioannou / Makis Papasimakopoulos / Elena Falirea / Fantastikoi Ichoi / Felizol.