Concert at Pol’and’Rock Festivalpreviously known as the Woodstock stop, for many bands it is a dream come true and a serious step in a musical career. Every year, Polish and foreign groups report to the elimination to fight for a performance on the stage in Czaplinek.
The submitted teams were evaluated by the jury composed of: Jurek Owsiak, Piotr “Dziki” Chancewicz, Andrzej Puczyński, Tomasz “Kasprol” Kasprzyk, Bartłomiej Stolarek, Bartosz Chodorowski, Adrian Barański, Agata Ryszkiewicz, Gatida Grzegorz Dasa-Biała.
A total of 852 applications were submitted to the competition, including 740 from Poland and 112 from abroad, including the USA, Great Britain, Germany, Spain, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Italy, Greek, France, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Belarus, but also from Thailand, Australia, Argentina, Tunisia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Iraq.
“In applications for elimination, as every year, we observe an incredibly wide species spectrum – from punk, alternative rock and metal, to trance, electronic and klezmer folk music” – the organizers said in April.
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This year, elimination concerts live took place on June 7-8 at the “Browar B” Culture Center in Włocławek.
By decision, the winning jury 12 bands are: Nanga, Cheap Tobacco, Junon Kyanon, Lor, Danda, Bibobit, The Bad Tales and Strange Spring.
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“Congratulations! And we are looking forward to these concerts,” the organizers wrote. There was also a lot of delight on the part of Internet users. “Congratulations on what they got, what they failed, I wish you the best, because you were all great. It was a good musical weekend”, “great congratulations to all winners” – they commented.
On the other hand, there were voices of dissatisfaction that there was no band representing “heavier” music and that among the winners a group appeared that already performed at Pol’and’Rock. “Cheap Tobacco is playing nice. They played in 2021. Although we all know what this festival looked like, but to give two chances of the same band with so many applications is not in my opinion not Hello” – wrote one of the followers.
The band himself decided to answer the allegations. “We honestly agree with you! However, there was such a strong feeling that we played on the pandemic edition, and that it was still beautiful, but seriously we wanted to feel this atmosphere of an open festival, without restrictions, and therefore we tried to report for four years. This year we succeeded and seriously we are very happy about it – can it look different, maybe so For various festivals, it was often with this qualification – you often have to do it and do not give up.