This gig was organized in solidarity to and for the financial aid of the arrested for the clashes that took place at student’s march in March 8th on Athens. Unfortunately I arrived late at the place so I completely missed Incognita Sperans and half of the Μαύρακόρντα [Mavrakornta]’s set. It’s hard to describe the music style that they play. It’s a mix of rock, punk, traditional greek music and more with social and political lyrics. The sound of Ωχρά Σπειροχαίτη [Ohra Speiroheti] is very similar and both bands gave nice sets. I am not going to focus on the music side of the event because I think that the cause was more important. It was co-organized by a big number of collectives in order to get as much people as possible. It took place in an open space, in the centre of the city in a place and time that there were many passers by which were informed about the event’s cause and flyers were handed out and there were boxes for the financial contribution of the arrested ones. The attendance was pretty good, a lot of people showed up. During the gig there were many references from the bands about issues like the arrests, police brutality and the army and the crowd shouted slogans against the state, the army and in solidarity to the many people that are kept in prisons, hostages from the state. The event finished at midnight that there was a lot of people stayed and hang out for many more hours.
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