DBE4…THE LINE-UP IS ALL SET UP

If we take a quick look at the calendar you can see that there are more than 277 days to go until DBE4… so you might think there's plenty of time left. In reality, we've been working hard in the last month to set the line-up, book flights and sort out other financial and logistic details. Up until now we know for sure that DBE 4 will present the friends and supporters of the Underground Spirit with 16 bands from 10 countries, from which 2 have already been to Romania but in 2012 they will be joining us with fresh materials and a different line-up. We had diverse scenarios in mind, and a few rehearsals already took place, but we finally chose the bands who we think will resonate with the DBE atmosphere. We also took into account their willingness to join the DBE family next summer. There will be no headliners, no opening acts… we're just going to sit back and enjoy the time with friends from around the world, who are coming to support the cause and to share with other guests their own unique, original, interesting experiences. 

DonisArt wants to offer on the 17th and 18th of August 2012 in Alba Iulia something more than your average festival. DBE strives to be a sincere expression of the beautiful souls who are willing to spend a weekend between the walls of this fascinating fortress, alongside musicians who will mingle with fans, will talk to them and will enjoy a Beautiful normal, relaxing and friendly Atmosphere! 

In the following days, we will visit our friends from RYMA, who already brought to our attention the fact that for the past weeks they have been working hard to make the place better than it was last year. We're curious ourselves to see what surprises our hosts have in stored for us. 

We will be back with details soon!

The DonisArt team

14th of November 2011

DBE 4… a new ritual! 

Dark Bombastic Evening was born from the wish of supporting similar musical styles belonging to bands that respect and promote the Underground Spirit qualitatively and unconditionally. If the first edition was a Special Evening in December 2009, in The Silver Church club, the second one was held in Kulturhaus, for two days, one year later. In this year’s summer, DBE became an outdoor festival, between the walls of Alba Iulia citadel.  

In 2012, in the third weekend from August, DBE platform will once again halt in the friendly RYMA location, from that miraculous, yet unknown fortress… for a new meeting with friends, for a new ritual! 

We, DonisArt, read and listened every suggestions of those who wished to expressed their opinions about a possible DBE 4 line-up. Some will be content for they will find names mentioned by them, others will be happy to also discover bands we propose… and others, unfortunately, will be less attracted by the soon to be announced line-up and won’t join the DBE expression… As I already mentioned, we don’t want to repeat year by year the same experiences, we don’t put in mind to remain anchored in certain musical styles… beautiful people with interesting music exist in every style, we just have to discover them… and unchaining by energies and breaking away from the grey everyday will remain the only landmarks we will accept to be repetitive!  

Still, we will invite bands that have already been to DBE, if they will have something new and particular to show us, to assure a continuity of this (yet) unique musical concept in Romania… But we will always bring bands for the first time too, less known, even completely unknown ones that we consider to have something special to share! After all, that’s what we like, to support quality Underground… we appreciate, respect and love these “headliners”, but it’s not our aim to integrate them in the DBE platform, in this frail and discreetly balanced concept, where there are no headliners or opening bands! 

We looked at the calendar and there are 295 more days… we have plenty of time! We established and basically agreed upon the attending bands, we just have to decide in the next days if there will be 7 or 8 expressions per night… We speak about musician friends from over 10 countries, probably not only from Europe. 

We will return with details… 

How was DBE 3? The whole recording of the 12 concerts can be viewed here:

www.darkbombasticevening.com 

As for the atmosphere from the weekend a couple of months ago from Alba Iulia, a reliving of what happened can we seen here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1s94Z15XbQ 

The DonisArt team

27October 2011